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You forgot something tiekwando. if they spawn a scarab, a few more things come to my mind:
positive: +1 to all cover saves, they have the stealth special rule (but im not sure if small target goes across for an extra +1), an extra 3 wounds, the scarab being toughness 6, and therefore not vulnerable to instant death, making the squad a unit, therefore meaning only half the unit needs to be in cover (small scarabs ftw), not sure if you ignore cover from the scarab rule though.
negative: vulnerable to blasts, taking 2 wounds instead of one isnt that bad, lose Move through cover, so instead of rolling 3 dice and picking the highest, you get 2 (oh no). big deal. any other negatives anyone can point out?

i can, the scarabs are not immune to ID as you are just using the majority toughness or in this case the highest to wound, it doesn't change the scarabs toughness 3 to 6. but as a positive the only time you lose move through cover is when you're assaulting as the scarab is a jetbike for movement and even then i belive they just take dangerous to assault into cover

The other biggest loss is that once in assault the scarab can be instant killed, which can cause a lot of fearless wounds.

DarkStarSabre wrote:

SkaerKrow wrote:Name me a single book that doesn't have some internal balance issues, or "why even take these" units.

I've yet to see anything a blatantly useless as the Pyrovore. Really.

Space Pope???

Vespids?

Flayed ones?

Techmarines?

Flayed Ones? Wait, that was said... oh well, maybe they'll be more useful in the new codex.

techmarines are okay.

I have never understoof what the whoel problem is with the 'Lith.

"Oh no, my melta wont kill it right away! no fair"

get over it. Use a krak Missile, or a lascannon. They are not impossible to kill by any stretch of the imagination.

i for one hope they keep 'liths the same and maybe tweak Living Metal to work like the armour on the stormraven. Immune to melta but can still be chain-fisted.

Krak missiles don't actually do anything to a lith other than immobilzing and reducing the d6 attack. Melta's work fine; you just need a 6 on your pen

The Red Shirt in my Store says there will be more Storms of Magic stuff in August.

rockerbikie wrote:The Red Shirt in my Store says there will be more Storms of Magic stuff in August.

Two things are quite interesting about that bit of information. First, it contradicts the topic of this thread! Isn't conflicting information fun? Second, they still have red shirts there in Australia? In the US, all employees were switched to black shirts when GW made the move to 1-man shops at 35 hours per week. For all those people who didn't like the way Ernie Baker ran things in the US, Tom Kirby has proved it could get a whole lot tougher on the customers and the employees.

So is there actually any [recent] news preventing this thread from being locked?

Hmm well there was the spyder, and how it will be probably larger. And then we got off topic

Just Dave wrote:So is there actually any [recent] news preventing this thread from being locked?

The Necron flyer.

Really? I can't believe GW would say not to order something.

ChaosLordSam wrote:Really? I can't believe GW would say not to order something.

What are you talking about?

He may be responding to the fact that some stores have shelves that are empty of necrons

My store literally has 3 items. A battleforce box, a monolith, and a single destroyer. Because they haven't been bought yet. They've been there for about 6-9 months now (i can't remember exactly when). No more stock is getting shipped unless it is ordered in. And since i'm the only one who plays necrons...

Sorry for the bump, but I went to my GW store yesterday and I asked the guy working in the store while I built some bezerkers have GW said anything about they're not sending anymore necrons because I heard theirs a new codex coming and they've said they're stopping orders of Necrons?

He said "Nope, They don't tell me anything but you're right. I haven't seen necrons being ordered in for quite a while now..."
And I had a quick glance on the shelve for what they had they only had a Battleforce box, Monolith and a box of Necron Warriors and I think a box of Destoryers on the shelf and a couple copies of the codex.

So yeah, I can see something happening soon x3

If it really does happen in august then this will be one of the best kept secrets for GW in a while lol.

Check out the new scarabs!



Or should I say the old ones?

Really really old ones.

I would love to have 30 odd bases of those, but the cost would be obscene even for GW

MittinsKittens wrote:Sorry for the bump, but I went to my GW store yesterday and I asked the guy working in the store while I built some bezerkers have GW said anything about they're not sending anymore necrons because I heard theirs a new codex coming and they've said they're stopping orders of Necrons?

He said "Nope, They don't tell me anything but you're right. I haven't seen necrons being ordered in for quite a while now..."
And I had a quick glance on the shelve for what they had they only had a Battleforce box, Monolith and a box of Necron Warriors and I think a box of Destoryers on the shelf and a couple copies of the codex.

So yeah, I can see something happening soon x3

Or it could be because all the metals went Direct Only - same as every other army and Necrons had a quite limited range of plastics anyway.

The only thing supporting the idea of a coming 'new' release is the absence of any sort of Necron finecast - same with the Sisters of Battle and Ogres - implying they're holding those off til they come out.

DarkStarSabre wrote:
The only thing supporting the idea of a coming 'new' release is the absence of any sort of Necron finecast - same with the Sisters of Battle and Ogres - implying they're holding those off til they come out.

And this is a very strong hint IMO. They'd miss quite some sales without reason if there wasn't something coming up. Cause when I walk into my local store and see some nice model I can rarely withstand the temptation to take one or two home. But right now I don't buy any Necrons cause I wait for the new codex and I don't order any stuff from GW cause I am lazy and hate to wait for orders to arrive.

DarkStarSabre wrote:Or it could be because all the metals went Direct Only - same as every other army...

Actually, there are some models that can't even be ordered from GW anymore such as the Wraiths. This suggests that new models are pending and GW is willing to wait for the Necron release date. Given GW's desire to sell models, this seems to suggest that the date is less than six months out.

They put dark eldar on direct only for years.. "Soon" could mean "whenever we get around to it" in regards to a new codex

Breotan wrote:Actually, there are some models that can't even be ordered from GW anymore such as the Wraiths.

Wraiths can still be ordered.

August - Vampire Counts 2nd
September - Special release
October - Ogres
November - Necrons
December - Nothing new/significant

^ This is (still) the expected release schedule for the rest of the year. Maybe some small items here and there.

TBD wrote:
August - Vampire Counts 2nd
September - Special release
October - Ogres
November - Necrons
December - Nothing new/significant
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