Hypercrypt Legion + Hand of the Dynasty: A 3-DP Necrons Combo

At a 2,000-point Strike Force game you have 3 DP. Hypercrypt Legion costs 2 DP and Hand of the Dynasty costs 1 DP, using exactly 3 DP.

The crucial legality check is the Unique Tag rule: no two detachments may share a tag. Hypercrypt Legion carries HYPERCRYPT; Hand of the Dynasty carries DYNASTY. Different tags, so the pairing is legal. (For contrast, you could not pair Hand of the Dynasty with Awakened Dynasty — both DYNASTY — nor Hypercrypt Legion with The Phaeron's Armoury — both HYPERCRYPT.) This is a 2,000-point combo; at 1,000 points you only have 2 DP.

Under 11th edition's army-building rules, each detachment grants an army-wide rule, and your army can use both detachments' stratagems plus a shared enhancement pool. So a single Warrior or Immortal block can benefit from both engines:

• Hand of the Dynasty's Hypermotility Protocols makes your Warriors and Immortals fast — Assault weapons and advance-and-act, so they push onto objectives and still shoot and score.
• Hypercrypt Legion's Hyperphasing lets you pull those same non-engaged units off the table at the end of the opponent's turn and drop them back where they're needed (especially with Osteoclave Fulcrum granting Deep Strike).

One detachment makes the infantry fast on the ground; the other makes it teleport across the board. Together your battleline is almost impossible to pin down.

Hypercrypt Legion's weakness is scoring bodies. Its tricks are brilliant, but a teleport shell still needs cheap, resilient units to actually hold objectives — and Hyperphasing was nerfed in June 2026, so you can't reposition your whole army. Hand of the Dynasty fixes that for just 1 DP: it turns your Warriors and Immortals into fast, action-capable objective-grabbers that don't rely on the Hyperphasing budget to get where they're going.

Conversely, Hand of the Dynasty alone is a bit one-note; the Hypercrypt shell adds the board control, deep strike and late-game flexibility to reposition those troops onto the objectives that decide the game. You get reach and staying power.

Run Hypercrypt Legion + Hand of the Dynasty when you want a mobile, objective-focused Necron list that grinds out the scoring game rather than an alpha-strike or a big-model list. It's forgiving and flexible — a strong all-rounder.

Alternatives for the 1-DP support slot on a Hypercrypt core (mind the HYPERCRYPT tag — no Phaeron's Armoury):

• Hypercrypt Legion + Skyshroud Spearhead — add a deep-striking Tomb Blade strike wing for more ranged pressure instead of ground-pounding infantry.

Or build the combo around a different core: an Annihilation Legion or Awakened Dynasty-adjacent shell if you want more raw damage — though remember a 3-DP detachment like Awakened Dynasty can't take a support at all.