Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

I agree with Shasori. Even the CC units by and large have some sort of rangediness.

What I'm having trouble seeing with the destroyers is why you'd want to use an FA slot for a jump infantry with the maximum of 3 wounds and 6 shots per turn. Especially when Destroyers feels like a sort of...shooty unit.

Yep. Is there any possibility i.e. Destroyer Overlord or special character which is allowing Destroyers moving to also Elites or increase size from 1-3 to 1-5 or smthn?

P.S. LOL I'm from China ^^

Actually, didnt think about that. You never know there could be one, good thinking Kelvan!

Thanks Yakface for all the information we've been waiting so long for.
Think i'm going to buy a couple of immortals this time around (way too expensive in the last codex). I really love the lychguard with shields too, they look brilliant.
Shame they nerfed living metal though, my brother's vindicar will rip me a new one now

Necrons previously lacked CC units, now they have some introduced to join the ranged units as well as adding to them as well. Just because more of the new units are CC it just represents previously there was a glut of ranged stuff in there.

So Destroyer Lords still have a place and i can use my Pariah models as these Lord/Cryptek units supposedly. That's a relief.

Praxiss wrote:So Destroyer Lords still have a place and i can use my Pariah models as these Lord/Cryptek units supposedly. That's a relief.

You could use the Pariahs as Lycheguard as well.

Seems rather hard to kill, as I have a lot of trouble with Necron Warrior spam.

I can see masses of scarabs combined with long range multi-shot weaponry going very well (except against daemons). Maybe a c'tan can make a unit easier to hit in combat too.

I don’t remember seeing any template weapons though. I may have missed it, that'd make my wish list perfect.

I suppose if 6th edition would reintroduce percentages per FOC section instead of slots, destroyers would make some more sense...

Updated the first post with all info Yakface provided the last few pages.

obsidianaura wrote:I can see masses of scarabs combined with long range multi-shot weaponry going very well (except against daemons). Maybe a c'tan can make a unit easier to hit in combat too.

I don’t remember seeing any template weapons though. I may have missed it, that'd make my wish list perfect.

I believe the Heat Ray weapon is a template (or a melta), I think the only unit that has it is the triach stalker MC thing

Hi fellow dakkites...Yakface thanks for all this info.

Have you got any information about any new battleforce? (really sorry if you have already covered that)

Is there going to be one? Any info about when, it's cost, what it could include?

Judging by the amount of New Users posting in this forum, I can see this going 'extremely' well for GW. even better than the DE launch!

Cheers for the constant info Yak

Slothy wrote:Have you got any information about any new battleforce? (really sorry if you have already covered that)

The info some people have is the WD and the Codex. Battleforces nowadays are released at least half a year after the major release, so we don't have any info on that. But it certainly will change with all the new plastics around.

The Decapitator wrote:Judging by the amount of New Users posting in this forum, I can see this going 'extremely' well for GW. even better than the DE launch!

Seems like GW's new marketing approach works ... wait!
Delete that: GW is still searching for the damn b****** who cause this enthusiasm and fire him

God, I can't seem to calm down about all of this. It's on my mind all the time.
Especially some of the statlines. How do you guys suppose the C'tan Shards and Lord / Cryptek / Overlord 'lines will look like?

Well, posting actual statlines breaches the rules of this forum. So keep some excitement for the actual release of the Codex.

Ah, I understand that... Still, it's hard to contain all this excitement!

Slothy wrote:Hi fellow dakkites...Yakface thanks for all this info.
Have you got any information about any new battleforce? (really sorry if you have already covered that)
Is there going to be one? Any info about when, it's cost, what it could include?

What Kroot said basically.

I would expect something like:
- 10x Necron Warriors
- 5x Immortals
- 8x Scarab Swarms
- 1x Destroyer

Judging by how DE Battleforce changed after update...
And I wouldn't expect it to have any transport.

Kroothawk wrote:
Seems like GW's new marketing approach works ... wait!
Delete that: GW is still searching for the damn b****** who cause this enthusiasm and fire him

The timing, quality and amount of the "rumours" that have been "leaked" has me firmly convinced that this was a deliberate marketing ploy orchestrated by GW which actually raises my opinion of them a little bit.

Herr Dexter wrote:

Slothy wrote:Hi fellow dakkites...Yakface thanks for all this info.
Have you got any information about any new battleforce? (really sorry if you have already covered that)
Is there going to be one? Any info about when, it's cost, what it could include?

What Kroot said basically.

I would expect something like:
- 10x Necron Warriors
- 5x Immortals
- 8x Scarab Swarms
- 1x Destroyer

Judging by how DE Battleforce changed after update...
And I wouldn't expect it to have any transport.

The Dar Eldar one has a Raider in, which is a transport is it not?

Does anyone know what the max. number of models per warrior squad will be?

Used to be 20, but with max. transport capacity now in at 15, I'm guessing 15 models in a squad.

Can anyone please confirm this or let me know what it will be?

Conrad Turner wrote:Does anyone know what the max. number of models per warrior squad will be?

Used to be 20, but with max. transport capacity now in at 15, I'm guessing 15 models in a squad.

Can anyone please confirm this or let me know what it will be?

• Warriors: 5-20

First post, on the First page.

Thanks Yak for all these great details. I had a few moments of pure panic until you posted the revision of Destroyer weapons to assault.

I know actual points values etc breach forum rules but is it possible to post it in code i.e. X costs two warriors and a warsycthe under the current codex price scheme?

PhantomViper wrote:

Kroothawk wrote:
Seems like GW's new marketing approach works ... wait!
Delete that: GW is still searching for the damn b****** who cause this enthusiasm and fire him

The timing, quality and amount of the "rumours" that have been "leaked" has me firmly convinced that this was a deliberate marketing ploy orchestrated by GW which actually raises my opinion of them a little bit.

I sincerely doubt a planned leak. Why drive all your buyers to a website with content dedicated equally to your competitors and at the same time disrupt your distributors who don't have access to product information to meet demand for pre orders.

GW had the same problem with Ogres. If they can't control their content than they need to adjust policies. Seems like they just need to kick up the announcents by a week so it drops at the same time White Dwarf leaves the printers.

I'm much annoyed that warscythes don't ignore invulnerable saves. That was huge and very cool for the old codex. I'd assumed the necron dex would see an end to th/ss spam - it appears that I was mistaken.

Sasori wrote:

Praxiss wrote:So Destroyer Lords still have a place and i can use my Pariah models as these Lord/Cryptek units supposedly. That's a relief.

You could use the Pariahs as Lycheguard as well.

I only ever got round to getting 3 of them. :(

kestral wrote:I'm much annoyed that warscythes don't ignore invulnerable saves. That was huge and very cool for the old codex. I'd assumed the necron dex would see an end to th/ss spam - it appears that I was mistaken.

I wondered about this myself, have we definately heard that they are dropping the ignore invulnerable saves thing? Would be a great shame.

Overall im well Buzzed for the release planned out my purchases so far, not a good month for my paycheck!

Does anyone know if you pre-order to a GW store before release, on release will they be waiting there?

Sasori wrote:

Conrad Turner wrote:Does anyone know what the max. number of models per warrior squad will be?

Used to be 20, but with max. transport capacity now in at 15, I'm guessing 15 models in a squad.

Can anyone please confirm this or let me know what it will be?

• Warriors: 5-20

First post, on the First page.

Thanks Sasori. Means I don't waste time as I am re-painting my 'Crons at the moment so now don't have to paint some twice.

Still leaves me wondering what to do with the extra models the transport can't take though - 5 'crons running behind, or take 2 10 'cron transports