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Yeah, the whole bronze, silver, gold, platinum Lord thing makes me think of them like they're Visa or Mastercards or something.

I want a Necron Lord made from one of the hardest metals (if not THE hardest metal) known to man: Diamond.

I do like the idea of naming some of the chars though. They are made of people, after all.

dude diamond isn;t a metal

Uranium and Plutonium Lords FTW!
But yeah, I want to see Necron warriors becoming a bit more interesting. I actually like the current tomb spyder, but I'd love to see necrons get a non monolith vehicle.

My biggest complaint was the lack of vehicles for Necrons. I'm a bit of a treadhead and the fact that the brick was their only vehicle was a real drag for me.

They should have more defensive vehicles - I'm thinking turrets, etc that cannot move. These should be in reserves and can deep-strike in to the table, fulfilling both the "Planet-Defense" and "OMG it came from nowhere" parts of the fluff.

Jester wrote:I want a Necron Lord made from one of the hardest metals (if not THE hardest metal) known to man

Dragonforce?

Jester wrote:I want a Necron Lord made from one of the hardest metals (if not THE hardest metal) known to man

YEah,
IronMaiden...
~'seventh 'cron of the seventh 'cron!'~


PaniC...

What's the half-life of a Plutonium Necron Lord?

BYE

Lord PAWNZ!!!

The next step would be liquid metal necrons, then send one back in time to kill the emperor.

is herald their new go to word? I'm looking forward to skull taker herald of khorne vs the herald of the storm, galactus must be approaching!

I gotcha all beat. My new Necron Umber-Lord will be Warlord High Priest Unobtanium!

Jester wrote:I want a Necron Lord made from one of the hardest metals (if not THE hardest metal) known to man: Diamond.

Dude. Everybody knows the hardest metal is death metal. Blacker than the blackest black. Times infinity.

Now I don't know if I'll make a Wall-E Iron Warrior Lord or a Wall-E Necron Lord.

Maybe I'll make the Necron Lord look like Number Five instead.

"The next step would be liquid metal necrons, then send one back in time to kill the emperor."


hahahaha, that was a good one!

Then Kyle Reese the greatest spaze marine of the future (bald and screaming of course) is sent back in time to battle him to the death while protecting the young Emperor!

The Dreadnote wrote:

Jester wrote:I want a Necron Lord made from one of the hardest metals (if not THE hardest metal) known to man

Dragonforce?

I like the way you think.

Reecius wrote:
"The next step would be liquid metal necrons, then send one back in time to kill the emperor."


hahahaha, that was a good one!

Then Kyle Reese the greatest spaze marine of the future (bald and screaming of course) is sent back in time to battle him to the death while protecting the young Emperor!

But Reese, Sergeant Tech-Com DN38416 would have had to tenderly make it with the Space Emperor's mother.

I bet you'd need a team of Carnifexii or a starcruiser to pull free of that yoni.

"Uranium and Plutonium Lords FTW!"

Actually thats not a bad idea, they could have like a "Radioactive" Special rule that makes nearby enemies take toughness tests or suffer a wound. And hey, if you wanted to make Crons overpowered make it so the lord conveys that ability to all necron models in the list. That would kick rectal openings!

Ratbarf wrote:"Uranium and Plutonium Lords FTW!"

Actually thats not a bad idea, they could have like a "Radioactive" Special rule that makes nearby enemies take toughness tests or suffer a wound. And hey, if you wanted to make Crons overpowered make it so the lord conveys that ability to all necron models in the list. That would kick rectal openings!

yeah,
you people need to stop saying that 'cons should get nurgles abilities!!!
give them FNP =
make the T5 =
and now give them nurgles rot.... man get some fresh ideas... not nurgles smelliest.

PAnic...

I thought nurgles rot only gave them a single strength 3 hit?

The problem is that they're both Undead MEQs. So overlap is bound to happen.

Not to mention We'll Be Back was the original Feel No Pain, so if anything you're stealing Our ideas!

40kenthusiast wrote:Changes I'm hoping for include:

Remove current Phase Out rule (incompatible with 5th edition mission objectives)

I agree it needs to be removed. (It is a poorly written rule that leads to arguments). But it's in no way incompatible with 5th edition mission objectives. It sounds like you're making up reasons to get rid of it.

40kenthusiast wrote:
Re-institute Phase Out in a better way (units that route phase out?)

I agree 100%. There is talk that they'll remove phase out. I think that's a big mistake and a lost opprotunity to make the Necrons unique. Orks have a unique morale method. Necrons could do something similar. For instance, make them Fearless for as long as there is at least one other model of the same type on the board. It could then be subject to a rule similar to "last man standing" to represent the unit phasing out.

40kenthusiast wrote:
Make the Necron rule include Stubborn, so that Defensive Crons can return.

No! Since when are Necrons stubborn or show any emotion other than hatred? Necrons are fearless.

40kenthusiast wrote:
Improve Necron CC units (wraiths/pariahs/tomb spyders/flayed ones)

Necrons do need a boost in the close combat department.

40kenthusiast wrote:
Weaken Necron anti-infantry shooting (immortals/destroyers)

I'd be fine with that if the points cost went down too.

40kenthusiast wrote:
Improve Necron anti-tank (I know, an odd request, but 5th necessitates it)

I agree! Tons of glancing hits on the new damage table aren't very impressive. I think they need Rending to be honest. It always seemed strange that a weapon that can rip things apart down to the atomic level was so powerfull that it could tear through meters of tank armor... yet not strong enough to go through personal armor or flesh and bone. Rending is a nice synthesis or game mechanics.


~Logic

This actually doesn't surprise me.

We get yet another MEQ release while there are non-MEQs that still need work

But Necrons can be done quickly and cheaply, with hardly any thought.

Yay.

Not.

Yipppeeee! Now that I gave away my crons they get reworked :(.

BTW I vote for Lord XP, Lord Vista and Lord ME as the new Lords of the apocalypsis.

M.

Miguelsan wrote:BTW I vote for Lord XP, Lord Vista and Lord ME as the new Lords of the apocalypsis.

Nah, you don't want Lord Vista - it slows your army way down...

At least Vista isn't half as bad as ME, that one keeps seizing up at the most inopportune moments. I was this close to winning that battle and that mother had to stop on me!

I know that Fearless has been a subject of contention for Necron fans, but the description of the 'cron warriors states that while they show/have no emotion, they do make sound tactical decisions, allowing them to regroup and retreat (according to normal morale rules). Perhaps if the Fearless rule was optional for Necrons, allowing them to use it or not based on the advantages of the situation, it would work better? Or an alternate morale system for Necrons...

The deep-striking stationary turrets have been discussed on another thread... "Obelisks" I think they were called. Also allowed 'crons within a certain distance to Teleport through them as a Monolith would, giving them an "extra" WBB roll. A kind of mini-lith...

Stelek wrote:So we'll see names like:

Cheddar Master 101
Swiss Riddler 200

Man, that's some original !

Don't forget:

"Trash-Can" Jones.

Eric

Rumors brought to the community by Warseer's Brimstone and MoonlightSonata

~Interesting if true, and these would seem to dovetail nicely with the last set of Necron rumors we heard several months ago. A Q2 release slot seems odd unless there is some issue with mini or codex development with several of the other codices which are older (Wolves and Dark Eldar mainly). Still I would applaud the move if only to rid the game of the wonkiness and arguments that We'll Be Back can generate. As usual, Caveat emptor folks.

So the recent block of 40k releases looks like this:
- Codex: Chaos Space Marines (Daemons are really a WFB release)
- WD Blood Angels
- 5th Edition Rulebook
- Assault on Black Reach (new Marine plastics, with "free" Orks)
- Codex: Space Marines

And then moving forward its:
- WD Space Wolves
- Codex: Necrons

IMO, a full year of MEQ-only releases seems to be just a little bit excessive.


But, at least we're going to get Imperial Guard next year. I'm looking forward to that!


Tho if they decide to redo Black Templars before then, I'm going to strangle somebody...