1500p Necrons with allies

Hey,
I was looking for an army and I always wanted to go Necrons but I never really saw them and an awesome army, but now its the 6Th edition and i think they got a buff. I am eager to use allies and I saw that I had 4 choices for Necrons: grey knights (look AWESOME) but I think an elite army with a very elite army as allies does not work that well,  tau, I am a huge fan of tau and i have been (half) collecting them for a few years(a bit here a bit there), orks another awesome army, or lastly chaos space marines. I was wondering what would be the best to work together with Necrons, I am thinking orks due to there massive number. But then i also would love the idea of having a big unit of plague marines just standing there, bullets bouncing off of them... so any ideas?

I my self am going for necrons now. I've loved the fellows from the early days, but now just found a group that also likes 40k, so I'm much into the business.

Allies..hmmh..I would go for Chaos Space Marines..(have 'em 'cause of Dark Vengence box..2 exactly. XP ) only missing the book, but have to see how to work it through.

Dont really know did the necrons get a buff or not.. :/ havent seen the other books or if have I dont remember. ^^ but I got the newest and love it..got so many ideas of lists and such.

So, my opinnion is: Go for Chaos Space Marines as Allies.

Necrons got a massive buff.

Their codex is really good, plus they are the only codex with Flyers as DTs.


The only thing is, allies really arn't worth it unless you are above the 2k range. Simply because you have to spend a fair amount of points just to get a legal allied force, plus your main force, before you can get to the good stuff.

You are basically getting 2 HQs and 3 troops before you get anything else in your army.

In most codices, thats going to be over half your army even in the 1500-2k range.

Grey Knights get my vote. If you absolutely HAVE to ally.
Mainly because they're the only faction besides Blood Angels to have a fluff established ally-type connection with the necrons (Necrons supplied GKs with tesaract labyrinths).

Also because GKs and Necrons are considered the two top tier armies in 40k, and beardy people who care about the ridiculous concept of "tier" will throw a fit.