Fairly Solid Necron Rumors - (updated 5/5 with new stuff)

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**Scarey Nerd**

darkslife wrote:Make portals 85 pts each, deepstrike before game, can not move, will allow up to 15 models disembark each turn, large models count as 2.

Not tied to a unit, necrons within 18" can also be teleported to portal, counting as disembarking a vehicle that has moved 12". May not be used when in hand to hand combat.

Armour 13 all round, living metal. No weapons.

If they blow up all your portals in 1st turn you should have placed them better.

BAM, I just created a fluffy, useful portal, difficult, but not impossible to destroy, costed at a level where taking too many will hurt you points wise, but taking 2/3 in a 1500 point game is worthwhile.

^THIS. I designed something similar when I heard about the transports, except mine were 100 points each, only AV12 but let you portal units out of any situation, including CC. Call them Necron Obelisks like from DoW, and there's a unit that fits "existing" fluff (I have many problems with fluff from the video games, but thats a astory for another day) and isn't too OP.

**FalkorsRaiders**

darkslife wrote:Make portals 85 pts each, deepstrike before game, can not move, will allow up to 15 models disembark each turn, large models count as 2.

Not tied to a unit, necrons within 18" can also be teleported to portal, counting as disembarking a vehicle that has moved 12". May not be used when in hand to hand combat.

Armour 13 all round, living metal. No weapons.

If they blow up all your portals in 1st turn you should have placed them better.

BAM, I just created a fluffy, useful portal, difficult, but not impossible to destroy, costed at a level where taking too many will hurt you points wise, but taking 2/3 in a 1500 point game is worthwhile.

This is a good idea. I honestly think the point cost should be lower, maybe at 75 points, mostly because things like drop pods can be 35 points. Of course, drop pods can't teleport things 18'' away, but at least they have weapons. Well, this is mostly my opinion from a Necron player stand point, so I'd be fine with it exactly like above.

For the portals on the transports, I think it will be similar to the monolith portal we have now, just with the added "no teleporting out of close combat" and maybe the limitation of how many models can come out of it each turn.

**The Grundel**

So should we be loading up on the current battleforces or are the basic troops getting a redesign? Surely with all the detailed information on rules available someone out there knows what is to be expected.

**Brother SRM**

The Grundel wrote:So should we be loading up on the current battleforces or are the basic troops getting a redesign? Surely with all the detailed information on rules available someone out there knows what is to be expected.

General consensus is that basic troops and Monoliths are going to be relatively unchanged. Load up on battleforces.

**RaptorsTalon**

I haven't read the whole therad, so this may have been mentioned but, when is the ETA of this new necron book?

**angelshade00**

RaptorsTallon wrote:I haven't read the whole therad, so this may have been mentioned but, when is the ETA of this new necron book?

So far everyone more or less agrees on August. GW willing, we will not be left wanting...

**RaptorsTalon**

Thanks

**cyberscape7**

Well according to rumours on BoLS Sisters are getting a WD update in August and necrons are being moved to November.
If this is true

"I've had it, with these mother- push backs, for this mother- codex"_ Samuel L Jacksons response to this rumour

**Anvildude**

I'm betting it's gonna come on 11 11 11, like everything else this year. Just 'cause.

**lowmanjason**

I swear, if Necrons get pushed back by another marine/marine ally army, I am going smash all 4000 points of my Necrons, poop on them, take a pic and send it to GW because thats all GW thinks about Necrons in the the first place...

**Ascalam**

Dibs on the expensive models before you do this, as stripping them afterwards would be nasty..

**Scarey Nerd**

lowmanjason wrote:I swear, if Necrons get pushed back by another marine/marine ally army, I am going smash all 4000 points of my Necrons, poop on them, take a pic and send it to GW because thats all GW thinks about Necrons in the the first place...

They don't think Necrons are poop. They don't think of them at all. They never happened. And what are these "squats" people speak of? Neither "species" existed. In the grimdarkness of 40K, there are only mahreens.

**FalkorsRaiders**

Necrons are marine allies. Have you not seen the photos of a space marine and a necron being all buddy-buddy and giving each other a high-five? Anyways, I think we'll see a Necron release this year. If it wasn't for GW's new genius marketing decisions, we'd know by now if Necrons were coming out, but oh well.

**King Pariah**

lowmanjason wrote:I swear, if Necrons get pushed back by another marine/marine ally army, I am going smash all 4000 points of my Necrons, poop on them, take a pic and send it to GW because thats all GW thinks about Necrons in the the first place...

Send some of them my way before the shat. I could use em.

**Kurgash**

I'm enjoying my new Skorne army paid for with the money I saved in hopes of the Necrons release. GW can kiss it for all I care, when the update comes I'll be happy but not at all amused at how long it had to take.

**angelshade00**

If they @#$%^& dare push it back further, especially for yet another marine & friends army, I'm just quitting the game. Honest. At least at Warhammer Fantasy there is a relative balance. Orcs & Goblins forever!

**tiekwando**

angelshade00 wrote:If they @#$%^& dare push it back further, especially for yet another marine & friends army, I'm just quitting the game. Honest. At least at Warhammer Fantasy there is a relative balance. Orcs & Goblins forever!

Well now that 8th is out. Kinda hard to argue 7th was balanced as daemons were, well basically better than everyone else at just about everything. But if you mean they are balanced as in they support almost every army equally and don't have 1000 codex: something imperium or more likely genetically altered super soilders, then yeah you are right.

**Goliath**

angelshade00 wrote:If they @#$%^& dare push it back further, especially for yet another marine & friends army, I'm just quitting the game. Honest. At least at Warhammer Fantasy there is a relative balance. Orcs & Goblins forever!

Yep, they're delaying the release of a codex that they haven't announced yet, with the only information we have regarding it being rumours.

Really?

**tiekwando**

{Your not a necron player are you traitor?!?! We have been waiting for a long time

}

{sarcasm brackets}

**Bulkoth**

If August rolls around and we don't get a new Necron codex and they haven't announced Necrons due to their new stone walling policy I won't know what to spend the cash I've been saving on. I really can't understand the logic of not generating hype pre-release.

I'm just glad there are finally some alternative games worth looking into but I'd love to stay in the 40k universe if GW doesnt drive me completely away.

**tetrisphreak**

I've picked up Warmachine lately as a wonderful game system to keep me occupied leading up to this supposed codex release. I suggest others do the same - time flies when you're having fun, after all.

**angelshade00**

tiekwando wrote:
angelshade00 wrote:If they @#$%^& dare push it back further, especially for yet another marine & friends army, I'm just quitting the game. Honest. At least at Warhammer Fantasy there is a relative balance. Orcs & Goblins forever!

Well now that 8th is out. Kinda hard to argue 7th was balanced as daemons were, well basically better than everyone else at just about everything. But if you mean they are balanced as in they support almost every army equally and don't have 1000 codex: something imperium or more likely genetically altered super soilders, then yeah you are right.

That is exactly what I meant. Sure, from time to time an army might come out overpowered, but at least they support all armies more or less equally. Is it so freaking hard to do so at 40k as well?

Goliath wrote:
angelshade00 wrote:If they @#$%^& dare push it back further, especially for yet another marine & friends army, I'm just quitting the game. Honest. At least at Warhammer Fantasy there is a relative balance. Orcs & Goblins forever!

Yep, they're delaying the release of a codex that they haven't announced yet, with the only information we have regarding it being rumours.

Really?

You do have a point, but even as far as rumors go, I'd much rather hear rumors of a non-marine army, than for yet another marine codex. I mean, why so much fixation on the marines? Ok they are kind of like the signature army of 40k (or whatever you care to call them) but give me a break, for the sake of balanced gaming, and prioritize!
{then again I forget- GW DOES prioritize, Marines above everything else right?

}

**Marthike**

I don't care if sisters of battle or necrons get released because I want BOTH.

I have some necron models unbuilt and no sisters of battle and I doubt necrons are getting changed (remodeled)

SO yeah I am super happy about both

**lowmanjason**

Goliath wrote:
Yep, they're delaying the release of a codex that they haven't announced yet, with the only information we have regarding it being rumours.
Really?

I don't think you realise how long Necron players have been waiting for an update. I have literaly seen the same army get 2 updates before the Necrons even got a new model.

**Kevin949**

I've only been playing for a couple years now and I'm PINING for an update. Heck, even an FAQ update would have been awesome (before the rumor-mill started up).

**Leviathan010**

I am unable to buy any necrons from any of my local store due to them not getting any stock and my online store seems to have removed necrons as an army :/ maybe update soon or there getting removed from the game

**angelshade00**

lowmanjason wrote:
Goliath wrote:
Yep, they're delaying the release of a codex that they haven't announced yet, with the only information we have regarding it being rumours.
Really?

I don't think you realise how long Necron players have been waiting for an update. I have literaly seen the same army get 2 updates before the Necrons even got a new model.

Said it all...

**ph34r**

lowmanjason wrote:I don't think you realise how long Necron players have been waiting for an update. I have literaly seen the same army get 2 updates before the Necrons even got a new model.

welcome to the GW back burner club. Current occupants SoB and crons, previous residents orks and dark eldar. Honestly you don't have it as bad as orks had it rules wise, nor as bad as DE time wise.

**nosferatu1001**

Assuming the marine - non-marine pattern continues, the next race should be Xenos - meaning Necrons or possibly Tau Empire.

**angelshade00**

Still, doesn't that annoy anyone else? Marine-non marine? There are like several hundred chapters in the codex astartes, why not make a separate codex for each of those, and once a year remember that there are other races out there in the cosmos except for the SM. Yeah, that'd be good.

Sorry for the ranting, everyone...