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Sasori wrote:At least that change in fluff should please all the people who talked about how Necrons should teleporting in the battle.

Yep! I'm quite happy with this flaw to be honest. Though I also hope it reduces the cost somewhat

haroon wrote:The "Eldritch Lance" does not have the lance special rule does it?

Nope.

Regarding the fluff....

Just been flicking through my codex and a lot of the writing/fluff in there is written from the imperiums point of view. So it would make sense that they would not know the correct back story or composition of the Necron race as a whole.

I think it makes sense that it is only now, when the fully sentient necrons are waking up, do we get an accurate back story.

Remember that a few will probably be leaving to join other units. Really like it. Do the destroyer lords get honor guard or just the overlords. Looks like necrons should help mess up the Meta a bit or at least I hope they do.

I'm a big fan of the direction the fluff went and I like most of the new kits. It does kill me that we took such a huge points reduction accross the board, using the rough guestimates Yak has posted my 2800 points of painted necrons are probably going to barely scrape by as a legal 1500 army :(

The big killer is that the Lords, monos, destroyers and warriors all took big hits and I was sticking to them since I knew the metal stuff would get a rework (I hate working with metal).

I was hoping to get a bunch of awesome new kits but I guess you just might get what you wish for... and it seems like it'll cost me

oh well, atleast I'll have new shiny death bots.

Leth wrote:Remember that a few will probably be leaving to join other units. Really like it. Do the destroyer lords get honor guard or just the overlords. Looks like necrons should help mess up the Meta a bit or at least I hope they do.

My understanding is the the destroyer body is an option on the Overlord... so they would be able to take a Royal Court.

I'm wondering if lords from the court can take Destroyer bodies, based off initial rumors I think a destroyer lord with warsythe and res orb in a pack of Wraiths could be a nice little deathstar

Just to clarify, this codex was written with 6th edition in mind wasn't it? If thats the case then I understand the odd rules a bit more. Like destroyers with PE; maybe in 6th it will let you re-roll all hits (shoot & assault), and maybe combat will be a bit more forgiving for the units (looking at you warriors) who are a bit pathetic in it.
Oh and as a side note; from what we've heard, anyone got any ideas on a general tactic they're goin to use for their cron armies? Thanks

Aldaris wrote:

haroon wrote:The "Eldritch Lance" does not have the lance special rule does it?

Nope.

Good there is only 3 armies with lances.

necrons with lances wouldn't make sense.

Farmer wrote:

Aldaris wrote:

haroon wrote:The "Eldritch Lance" does not have the lance special rule does it?

Nope.

Good there is only 3 armies with lances.

necrons with lances wouldn't make sense.

Yea that would be as crazy as tyranids and blood angels having lances... err wait.

Farmer wrote:

Aldaris wrote:

haroon wrote:The "Eldritch Lance" does not have the lance special rule does it?

Nope.

Good there is only 3 armies with lances.

necrons with lances wouldn't make sense.

3 armies with lances? Where did you get that from?

Eldar, Dark Eldar and...?

CthuluIsSpy wrote:

Farmer wrote:

Aldaris wrote:

haroon wrote:The "Eldritch Lance" does not have the lance special rule does it?

Nope.

Good there is only 3 armies with lances.

necrons with lances wouldn't make sense.

3 armies with lances? Where did you get that from?

Eldar, Dark Eldar and...?

Tyranid Zoanthropes

Rented Tritium wrote:

CthuluIsSpy wrote:

Farmer wrote:

Aldaris wrote:

haroon wrote:The "Eldritch Lance" does not have the lance special rule does it?

Nope.

Good there is only 3 armies with lances.

necrons with lances wouldn't make sense.

3 armies with lances? Where did you get that from?

Eldar, Dark Eldar and...?

Tyranid Zoanthropes

They have a lance attack? Makes sense I guess. It is a rather powerful blast of Psi-energy.

so do blood angels, its called blood lance

haroon wrote:so do blood angels, its called blood lance

Wait, so if Blood Angels and Tyranids get lance attacks, and they are arguably less advanced than Necrons, then how come Necrons don't get lances? I want to troll land raiders

GWChlemsford posted on their Twitter account a link to an event on their Facebook account called, "They'll be back--- Necron Release Party" on November 5th. The Facebook event page has since been removed.

Not really news, but someone messed up.

*Edit: Damn... I wish I could tpye.

haroon wrote:so do blood angels, its called blood lance

This reminds me. I haven't really noticed a BloodX BloodY BloodZ or WolfA WolfB type naming in this codex based on the early reports from Yakface. Sure, there are some weapon categories that are repeated, such as Tesla and Gauss, but at least in me estimation it does not feeld as gratuitous as some previous codexs. Perhaps this is fortunate consequence of having a group approach to the writing and development.

Also, I was reviewing the rumored 6th edition rules. No deviation for deep striking models more than 18" away from enemy troops. Maybe deep striking the Monolith won't be so bad, especially if you can nominate the arrival time as also suggested in those rumors. The Deathmarks could potentially use every second would to determine which model suffered a wound. Handy for picking apart Long Fang squads perhaps. And the superfast troop transport that would be hit on a 6+ by BS 3 troops, well, thats a bit better.

Of course the 6th ed rumors could be total bunk, but when compared to the Necron rules, some things seem to make a lot more sense.

CthuluIsSpy wrote:

haroon wrote:so do blood angels, its called blood lance

Wait, so if Blood Angels and Tyranids get lance attacks, and they are arguably less advanced than Necrons, then how come Necrons don't get lances? I want to troll land raiders

That's what scarab swarms are for :>

Drachii wrote:

CthuluIsSpy wrote:

haroon wrote:so do blood angels, its called blood lance

Wait, so if Blood Angels and Tyranids get lance attacks, and they are arguably less advanced than Necrons, then how come Necrons don't get lances? I want to troll land raiders

That's what scarab swarms are for :>

Lol, good point

Regarding the Tomb Blades. Yakface said they are essentially warriors riding jetbikes. Kind of reminds me of the old destroyer models....

Praxiss wrote:Regarding the Tomb Blades. Yakface said they are essentially warriors riding jetbikes. Kind of reminds me of the old destroyer models....

Oh god...don't tell me it's a necron warrior on a eldar jetbike.

Though this would be pretty badass

Anpu-adom wrote:GWChlemsford posted on their Twitter account a like to an even on their Facebook account called, "They'll be back--- Necron Release Party" on November 5th. The Facebook event page has since been removed.

Not really news, but someone messed up.

Somebody is being dragged off to the resin foundries to toil until a carcinogenic death frees them from the crippling agony of servitude.

i dont like them.. they have lost the monochrome feeling of the necrons.. i would have been more happy with only a new codex.. no new minis.. GW dissapoints me.. again..

Joske De Veteraan wrote:i dont like them.. they have lost the monochrome feeling of the necrons.. i would have been more happy with only a new codex.. no new minis.. GW dissapoints me.. again..

...You realize they could always be painted monochrome, right?

The 'new' rules for the Night Scythe make me wonder if they're going to reword the Monolith portal so that you don't have to nominate at the beginning of the game which units are entering play that way.
Blow up my transport? Alright, they'll enter over here instead if over there.

Joske De Veteraan wrote:i dont like them.. they have lost the monochrome feeling of the necrons.. i would have been more happy with only a new codex.. no new minis.. GW dissapoints me.. again..

well then just keep playing with your old codex.....


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so is everything going up on pre-order tomorrow? or monday?

Joske De Veteraan wrote:i dont like them.. they have lost the monochrome feeling of the necrons.. i would have been more happy with only a new codex.. no new minis.. GW dissapoints me.. again..

I felt like this too. However, if you like the old fluff/look you can keep that going. I'll be kit bashing the hell out of these new Necron boxes.

No headdresses or overly colourful bits.

Metallic robot death.

I'm thinking the immortal/death mark box will be the perfect source for cryptek heads and then kitbash them with a box of praetorians...

Sir Harry Flashman, VC wrote:I'm thinking the immortal/death mark box will be the perfect source for cryptek heads and then kitbash them with a box of praetorians...

Well, they do come in a box of 5.

You can have 5 Crypteks per court.

...This means you can basically field an entire army without having to get finecast.

Yak do the different cryptek "schools" have different looking weapons? Like several cast arms.