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Wasn't there a moon-shaped vehicle for Necrons in epic scale? I think a crescent-design would be apt for any fliers the army might get...would tie into rumors mentioning a vehicle named after "french breakfast bread".

tetrisphreak wrote:Wasn't there a moon-shaped vehicle for Necrons in epic scale? I think a crescent-design would be apt for any fliers the army might get...would tie into rumors mentioning a vehicle named after "french breakfast bread".

I don't know about Necrons in Epic scale, but if you look at their BFG stuff you can definitely see a crescent design.

Kanluwen wrote:

tetrisphreak wrote:Wasn't there a moon-shaped vehicle for Necrons in epic scale? I think a crescent-design would be apt for any fliers the army might get...would tie into rumors mentioning a vehicle named after "french breakfast bread".

I don't know about Necrons in Epic scale, but if you look at their BFG stuff you can definitely see a crescent design.

Yeah, BFG... Not Epic. Thanks!

Well, considering the recent trend of giving everyone a flyer, we might as well see something from BFG.

Cleansing Flame is similar to this rule in that (against nids) it will hit the entire unit and causes autowounds. From what Yackface stated it also seams that the wounds happen during CC and therefore count toward wound resolution.

Do note: Yackface never mentioned that the SC has to be alive or not for the power to work...so this is up in the air.

On one hand, against Nids, Purifiers have to pass a psychic power on a 3D6 thanks to SITW -- at LDR 9 that is below 50%... on top of rolling a 4+ to see if the power goes off. So that is around a 20% chance of suceeding vs a 50% with the Necron SC (assuming WS 3+ and more than 1 attack).

On the otherhand, CF is a unit special ability, rather than a unique character's special ability; so you're likely to run into multiples in an army list. In addition, Cleansing Flame happens before any blows are landed...where as, the Necron's special ability happens after blows are landed...so at least nids will be able to strike back against Necrons.

Too little info, so at this point I am only concerned.

CthuluIsSpy wrote:Well, considering the recent trend of giving everyone a flyer, we might as well see something from BFG.

Well, considering the recent trend of giving everyone a flyer, we will not see anything from BFG.

Seriously, the smallest stuff in BFG is equivalent to superheavy flyers.

Kanluwen wrote:

CthuluIsSpy wrote:Well, considering the recent trend of giving everyone a flyer, we might as well see something from BFG.

Well, considering the recent trend of giving everyone a flyer, we will not see anything from BFG.

Seriously, the smallest stuff in BFG is equivalent to superheavy flyers.

That having been said i think the model influence will be there, a smaller croissant shaped vehicle, to butter the opponent's army to death. Magnifique!

tetrisphreak wrote:

Kanluwen wrote:

CthuluIsSpy wrote:Well, considering the recent trend of giving everyone a flyer, we might as well see something from BFG.

Well, considering the recent trend of giving everyone a flyer, we will not see anything from BFG.

Seriously, the smallest stuff in BFG is equivalent to superheavy flyers.

That having been said i think the model influence will be there, a smaller croissant shaped vehicle, to butter the opponent's army to death. Magnifique!

Every time you say "croissant" I envision Necrons flying around in something like what I am posting as a spoiler. The color is even right!


But I don't know about flyers for Necrons. They seem more like the "lumbering" vehicle type rather than "zipping" vehicle type, if that makes sense.

Necron vehicles should feel solid. Movement is effortless but slow. Unstoppable.

There really isn't a need for speed when you can phase in/out any time you need to.

Kanluwen wrote:

CthuluIsSpy wrote:Well, considering the recent trend of giving everyone a flyer, we might as well see something from BFG.

Well, considering the recent trend of giving everyone a flyer, we will not see anything from BFG.

Seriously, the smallest stuff in BFG is equivalent to superheavy flyers.

I didn't mean that. I meant something that looks like it's from BFG.
Lol, if necrons were to actually get a BFG unit in a normal game, the amount of cheese will be so massive that you could build monument out of it.
Dedicated to Matt Ward, of course


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Medium of Death wrote:Necron vehicles should feel solid. Movement is effortless but slow. Unstoppable.

There really isn't a need for speed when you can phase in/out any time you need to.

Not necessarily. Their space ships are capable of FLT travel, and are fairly maneuverable.

Well, the Dirge class is the smallest model, but I presume in the BFG fluff there are small fighters/interceptors/bombers that could forfill a flyer role in 40k. If not, you bet they will have invented one and it will rock!

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCats.jsp?catId=cat490025a&rootCatGameStyle=

I will paint cheesy thin mustaches on all my necron warriors and model them with berets.

Unfortunately at the start of every battle they will run away.

Sir Harry Flashman, VC wrote:Well, the Dirge class is the smallest model, but I presume in the BFG fluff there are small fighters/interceptors/bombers that could forfill a flyer role in 40k. If not, you bet they will have invented one and it will rock!

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/armySubUnitCats.jsp?catId=cat490025a&rootCatGameStyle=

Oh hell yeah! I love the necron ships in BFG. They remind me a bit of the Goa'uld from stargate...but more awesome.

Just did a quick GW check and the following models/units are listed as "no Longer available" on the website (everything else not mentioned is available to purchase):


Warriors
Flayed Ones
Tomb Spyders
Pariahs
Wraiths

So a warrior re-sprue with new colored rods could be in the initial wave, along with plastic tomb spider kits and possibly plastic wraith kits....the pariahs (crypteks?) and flayed ones will probably be re released as Finecast models, boo on that one.

Supposition. Purely supposition.

More likely, it will be Warriors being repackaged into the new style of boxes.

Kanluwen wrote:More likely, it will be Warriors being repackaged into the new style of boxes.

That's what I'm expecting, too. If it's plastic, it will stay the same - same sprue, everything, just with repackaging to increase the price.

tetrisphreak wrote:I will paint cheesy thin mustaches on all my necron warriors and model them with berets.

Unfortunately at the start of every battle they will run away.

Bwahahahaha... Thats a Zing attack right there...

(in an outrageous french accent) "I wave my metal parts at you, you silly Spess K-nnnnnnighets"

WarlordRob117 wrote:

tetrisphreak wrote:I will paint cheesy thin mustaches on all my necron warriors and model them with berets.

Unfortunately at the start of every battle they will run away.

Bwahahahaha... Thats a Zing attack right there...

(in an outrageous french accent) "I wave my metal parts at you, you silly Spess K-nnnnnnighets"

"Your mother was an Ork, and your father smelt like Eldar Panties!"

I just wish they would put us out of our misery already...

Mighty Simo wrote:I just wish they would put us out of our misery already...

That can be arranged... GAUSS FLAYER TO THE FACE SERIES... MOVE!!!

"Now go ewey, or I will gauss you a second time"

Sounds fun

Hmm... this rumour makes me feel disspointed. Firstly, sounds like that Matt Ward is making new codex and secondly, necrons may become cheesy army. Only thing that cools me is that xenos armies can never be as good as unbeatable spashe muhreens.
Lol...

Jone96 wrote:Hmm... this rumour makes me feel disspointed. Firstly, sounds like that Matt Ward is making new codex and secondly, necrons may become cheesy army. Only thing that cools me is that xenos armies can never be as good as unbeatable spashe muhreens.
Lol...

Space Marines aren't unbeatable. They're very, very beatable. Not as beatable as Necrons are now, but then again most toddlers aren't. They may become a cheesy army, they may somehow become a worse army than they are already. We won't know until there's a new codex on the shelf.

Please tell me that Matt Ward isn't writing this codex????????

The rumor goes that Mat Ward contributed heavily to this book. Let's please don't turn this into a Mat Ward Hate Fest, which I will be obliged to lock.

Brother SRM wrote:

Jone96 wrote:Hmm... this rumour makes me feel disspointed. Firstly, sounds like that Matt Ward is making new codex and secondly, necrons may become cheesy army. Only thing that cools me is that xenos armies can never be as good as unbeatable spashe muhreens.
Lol...

Space Marines aren't unbeatable. They're very, very beatable. Not as beatable as Necrons are now, but then again most toddlers aren't. They may become a cheesy army, they may somehow become a worse army than they are already. We won't know until there's a new codex on the shelf.

But thats whats killing everyone... its not having to wait... its having to wait in vain... and I agree that Space marines are very beatable, but Tzeentch better be blessing your dice roles... otherwise those "GO, GO POWER-ARMOR" saves are gonna rule the day...

I hate cheez-whiz

He is.

Sorry about that.

We can pray for a miracle. Sometimes it happens If it does happen that he manages to make a fun decently powerful (but not OP) and balanced codex with decent fluff that retains the lovecraftian vibe of the current fluff i'll attend church more often

Ruleswise it's likely to be ok-ish, if a bit wierd, with some bizarre and pointless gimmicks and a couple of units that no-one would touch with a 10 ft pole. That's pretty standard codex fare from any of the codex authors, though he is more prone to some of the odder ones.

Fluffwise... yeah ..about that..


We can hope it'll be good. I'm hoping as best i can

Here is an amazing concept, follow me on this and see where it goes. You can take the new models, take the new rules and, here is the hard part, take this part of your mind, called creativity I believe, and make-your-own-stories for your new models following the new rules. :GASP: It's magic!

Kurgash wrote:Here is an amazing concept, follow me on this and see where it goes. You can take the new models, take the new rules and, here is the hard part, take this part of your mind, called creativity I believe, and make-your-own-stories for your new models following the new rules. :GASP: It's magic!

Thats not magical....


THIS IS MAGICAL!!!!

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