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Hah, now if you could only get him a 2+ armour save, he'd hands-down be the most durable character in the game.

Good thing about Destroyers = jump infantry, Necron destroyer lords can join units with impunity, right? Jump infantry can join normal infantry, right?

I suppose so. Plus Destroyers now get preferred enemy on everyone! So re-rolls to hit for your D.Lord. Just a shame it doens't carry over to shooting as well (yet).

One day, Praxiss, one day. Those jerks at Radioshack said I was mad when I told them my plans for creating a race of robotic killers! Well who's MAD NOW? AH HAH HAH HAH HAH

lol.

I might have to consider the ship to store option if I'm unlikely to see my order for a week otherwise. Loving all the new models, but am really looking forward to the new wraiths, hopefully in the second wave. It's the codex my 6K of current crons are desperate for though.

I wonder if there are going to be alot of wargear options?

The stuff i'm getting upon release will probably be:

-Codex (duh)
-Overlord (love the model and my only current lord is a destroyer one)
-Immortals
-Lychguard (maybe, gotta see how my bank account is doing by that time, silly college books)

Praxiss wrote:I suppose so. Plus Destroyers now get preferred enemy on everyone! So re-rolls to hit for your D.Lord. Just a shame it doens't carry over to shooting as well (yet).

The question is, is that Preferred enemy worth sacrificing an Invul save for? Esp when you can take the Command Barge for the Lord? In my opinion now, it isn't. My opinion may change with the Overall points cost though, of course.


I'm rather curious what weapon the Stormlord is armed with. It looks like a Staff of light, but who knows.

Indeed. I'm assumign the Command Barge can be used for any IC so you coudl put the StormLord in one if you want. That would be cool as well.

Dammit, this shopping list is getting longer by the minute!

Praxiss wrote:Indeed. I'm assumign the Command Barge can be used for any IC so you coudl put the StormLord in one if you want. That would be cool as well.

Dammit, this shopping list is getting longer by the minute!

Yak's post on the front page said can be used for Any of the Lord models, but not the two that are Crypteks in the Fluff (Szeras and Orikian) So the Stormlord can defiantly nab one!

I really need to see the command barge point cost, before I make any judgements, but it sounds quite awesome. Being able to drop your unkillable Warscythe lord, into a group of marines, would be quite awesome. The Sweep Attacks sound great as well, since hitting at strength 7 on the Rear armor is giving you a very good chance to pop most vehicles. Need the point cost though!

Definitely going to buy the Praetorians, a barge of each kind and the book. If warrior costs make it effective enough I will just field the 70+ odd warriors in a tide of just gaunted faces and overwhelm the enemy. Zap Branigan taught me how to use my army!

Kurgash wrote:Definitely going to buy the Praetorians, a barge of each kind and the book. If warrior costs make it effective enough I will just field the 70+ odd warriors in a tide of just gaunted faces and overwhelm the enemy. Zap Branigan taught me how to use my army!

You'll lose the first time you come across an IG army. They will just max out your pre-set kill limit, and presto, no more Necrons.

Omegus wrote:

Kurgash wrote:Definitely going to buy the Praetorians, a barge of each kind and the book. If warrior costs make it effective enough I will just field the 70+ odd warriors in a tide of just gaunted faces and overwhelm the enemy. Zap Branigan taught me how to use my army!

You'll lose the first time you come across an IG army. They will just max out your pre-set kill limit, and presto, no more Necrons.

But phase out doesn't exist anymore...

Omegus wrote:

Kurgash wrote:Definitely going to buy the Praetorians, a barge of each kind and the book. If warrior costs make it effective enough I will just field the 70+ odd warriors in a tide of just gaunted faces and overwhelm the enemy. Zap Branigan taught me how to use my army!

You'll lose the first time you come across an IG army. They will just max out your pre-set kill limit, and presto, no more Necrons.

Are you referring to Phase out? because that's gone.

Indeed. I was all ready to pre-order to codex today but now it appears it wont be up until next week. /sigh

I just had a thought about the command barge, what if you put Trazyn in one and used the sweep attacks to try and get his weapons ability off. Just a thought, probably wouldn't work due to how it's written, will just have to wait.

Ok, here's my buying list

-Command Barge (not too impressed with the support variant...a bit meh)

-New Immortals (Boo yah Tesla Carbines!)

-Lychguard

-Doomsday Ark (after I find out how to fix those upside down flayers, of course)

Sir Harry Flashman, VC wrote:I might have to consider the ship to store option if I'm unlikely to see my order for a week otherwise. Loving all the new models, but am really looking forward to the new wraiths, hopefully in the second wave. It's the codex my 6K of current crons are desperate for though.

Just keep in mind that you 6k points of Necrons will drop fit nicely into a 1500 point game after the codex.

I think that I'll be going to my FLGS and pre-order a White Dwarf.
I'll probably just pick up the codex.
Oh, if I only had more money!

Sasori wrote:

Omegus wrote:

Kurgash wrote:Definitely going to buy the Praetorians, a barge of each kind and the book. If warrior costs make it effective enough I will just field the 70+ odd warriors in a tide of just gaunted faces and overwhelm the enemy. Zap Branigan taught me how to use my army!

You'll lose the first time you come across an IG army. They will just max out your pre-set kill limit, and presto, no more Necrons.

Are you referring to Phase out? because that's gone.

He's talking about feeding my Necrons guardsmen until they hit their predetermined kill limit. Jokes on him though as the kill limit is set to -1 so they'd actually have to create a guardsman!

JohnnoM wrote:dont think you get deathmarks with the immortals?

I assume it's a Multi Part Kit allowing you to build 5 Immortals OR 5 Deahthmarks...
They seem to share same bodies - only heads, hands and weapons differ.
I don't think they will be more than 5 bodies per box, but if you use normal warrior bodies (I have many spare) you can make some Deathmarks from bitz.

asimo77 wrote:Anyone else find it funny that of all the races in 40k Necrons have a suprisingly good shot at being named the most honourable, agreeable, and dare I say good? All thanks to those Praetorians.

There is a still a large difference between chaotic evil and lawful evil. Both are still evil, but you can figure out who fits under what.

Shopping list:

Codex
Lychguard
Storm lord
Pretaorians, to be used as crypteks or overlords

Agamemnon2 wrote:It amuses me that people are crying that Necrons don't have any good antitank firepower. Has the notion of armies having actual weaknesses ever even occurred to your addle-coved imaginings? Clearly not.

And that potential cover is TERRIBLE. Someone should photoshop it into a Manowar album.

Featuring the hit single "Trading with the Imperium all day, rocking all night"!

I'm truly more curious about the warriors and the immortals at this point. I love the idea of the immortals getting tesla carbines. Do the warriors have anything else besides gauss rifles? Do we have the different stat lines on the weapons yet? I know the immortals base gun is now rapid fire but is it still S5 AP4 and what the heck is a guass blaster?

'heart of fire skin, skin of steel' sounds like a Trivium song.

All jokes aside, it took 2500 points to fill 2K under the new price regime when I played the other day.

I wrote my old 1500pt list, not knowing what the destroyer's cost reduction is, it came to 800pts. Good grief.

Dr. Delorean wrote:I wrote my old 1500pt list, not knowing what the destroyer's cost reduction is, it came to 800pts. Good grief.

I had to double check all my figures as I couldn't believe 2K could pay that many crons!

Having not officially announced anything means that a customer at my LGS just bought the old codex yesterday. I hope he sends gw an angry letter in two weeks when he sees the new one on the shelf
I noticed it was missing and asked the manager ( who only cares about comics and bodybuilding) where it went. He had no idea necrons were coming since gw hasn't told him anything yet and he hangs out in creepy old gyms and not online, he at least has plausible deniability. This is why the "super secret" policy sucks.

Balor wrote:I'm truly more curious about the warriors and the immortals at this point. I love the idea of the immortals getting tesla carbines. Do the warriors have anything else besides gauss rifles? Do we have the different stat lines on the weapons yet? I know the immortals base gun is now rapid fire but is it still S5 AP4 and what the heck is a guass blaster?

The Gauss Blaster is the Immortal Gun. It's still Strength 5 AP 4, but is now rapid fire. Still has the Gauss special rule.
The Tesla Carbine is Strength 5 AP - Assault 1 With the Tesla Special rule
The Gauss Flayer (Warriors) is Still strength 4 A 5 Rapid fire, with the Gauss Special rule.

gotta say im not too hot on all these special characters and their rules... i much prefer the generic character with options to a pre-packaged harbinger of awesome sauce.
in my gaming group we regard all special chars as cheese and never use them, and quite honestly i cant see the ones in the necron dex changing that...