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Samus_aran115 wrote:There was something about it that really sucked, I just forgot It's a nice model though, for sure.

I'm not sure, for what it costed it was pretty good looking on paper.

Kurgash wrote:

Samus_aran115 wrote:There was something about it that really sucked, I just forgot It's a nice model though, for sure.

I'm not sure, for what it costed it was pretty good looking on paper.

I remember thinking something about it when it came out... Ah, it's guns. Yeah. It's guns could be better for it's 4 BS, IMO

Probably that it's a Heavy Support choice so no Monoliths for you. =P

Also, first post. =) (Actually from Finland, not Denmark. I'm just an exchange student right now.)

I believe Necrons are offically the oldest codex in active use. Orks and DE were of similar age if I remember right. It'll be a happy day when I can break mine out again.

Automata wrote:Probably that it's a Heavy Support choice so no Monoliths for you. =P

Also, first post. =) (Actually from Finland, not Denmark. I'm just an exchange student right now.)

Welcome to dakka great way to start with a Necron thread because 'You'll be back!'

AlexHolker wrote:

Mad4Minis wrote:Any pics...or just someone claiming to have seen them?

Someone claiming to have seen them.

Ah, so completely worthless then. Bummer.

AlexHolker wrote:It seems unlikely, given the weight of Grey Knights rumours (tons, including sightings of the new TAGKs) compared to that for the Necrons (next to none).

Rumours we have seen, just confirmation is what we lack, not surprising as the release is more than 6 months away.

23rd September by Stickmonkey over at Warseer:

Well kids, I managed to get a few rumors from my sources that seem worthwhile to post. Same caveats as always.

Tau and Necrons are still a long way off, so no one go off the deep end in excitement. I have done what vetting I can on these, but it is way too early to not have loads of salt on hand. (...)

Necrons
All Immortal based models being redone. Because Destroyers, Lords, etc. were supposedly based on the immortal "chassis" and that has been redone "bigger", its a cascade effect. However, skimmer body base not expect to change.

Immortals possible move to Troops choice.

New Elite options

Pariahs no longer 0-1

Additional C'Tan

plastic Tomb Spyder box to make TS or variant.

New fast attack MC

Pylon may make codex as heavy option

You will find a collection of older rumours here:

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=274318

As I have always said, Crons are a potential cash cow.

1.) Easy as hell to paint
2.) Easy to learn
3.) Used to be very forgiving army, great for new players
4.) Used to be also a very good army, great for vets and as a second army
5.) Cool background, nice looking models
6.) Cheapest army to build buying everything new

I always used to recommend crons as a first army and wanted to make one as a secondary army as they would be so easy to paint and collect.

GW needs to make them competitive again and they will sell well. Pitch them as the cheap, easy army to collect that is also good on the table and tons of people will snatch them up.

Reecius wrote:As I have always said, Crons are a potential cash cow.

1.) Easy as hell to paint
2.) Easy to learn
3.) Used to be very forgiving army, great for new players
4.) Used to be also a very good army, great for vets and as a second army
5.) Cool background, nice looking models
6.) Cheapest army to build buying everything new

I always used to recommend crons as a first army and wanted to make one as a secondary army as they would be so easy to paint and collect.

GW needs to make them competitive again and they will sell well. Pitch them as the cheap, easy army to collect that is also good on the table and tons of people will snatch them up.

Not to mention how incredibly fragile the guns, arms, and legs are making it scary to buy used if you want to paint them or want all future models you acquire to fit in with your army.

I stopped buying used models years ago. Not worth the hassle of cleaning them. I would rather buy stuff new and not worry about and defects, etc. One thing about GW, their customer service is excellent. Anytime I have had a problem with their product, they take care of it immediately.

Reecius wrote: GW, their customer service...

their what now?

obsidianaura wrote:Why can there not be two races released at the same time really?

It's not like they really need to put money into promoting it?

They'd get more money that way.

Although I guess its really just as fast as the books and/or sculpts are made. So maybe its possible for a team to overtake each other if there's a problem on one side.

*shrug* I don't know what goes on in GW really

There are only 100 pages in WD for advertising. The new army gets like 75, everything else gets 20, and then there's a painting or "tactics" article for 3 pages and Jervis gets 2 for Standard Bearer.

I thought this was common knowledge?

@Gothgar
No joke man, their customer service is outstanding. Maybe other people have had different experiences than I have, but any time I have had any issues with their product, they have taken care of it immediately.

I've looked at the past releases of codex's and noticed that there are three books that have yet to be updated since 3rd Edition:Necrons, DeamonHunters and Witch Hunters, so its a very good chance that any of these three books will be next to get an update. I'm personally hoping for Witch Hunters but I'd be very interested to see what changes they make to the Necron's if that is the next book to come out, I hope they nerf the Warscythe a little, losing 3 Wolfguard in Terminator armor because they don't even get an invulnerable save sucks lol

HarleyDude01 wrote:I've looked at the past releases of codex's and noticed that there are three books that have yet to be updated since 3rd Edition:Necrons, DeamonHunters and Witch Hunters, so its a very good chance that any of these three books will be next to get an update. I'm personally hoping for Witch Hunters but I'd be very interested to see what changes they make to the Necron's if that is the next book to come out, I hope they nerf the Warscythe a little, losing 3 Wolfguard in Terminator armor because they don't even get an invulnerable save sucks lol

From what i understand most consider Necrons to already be nerfed compared to the armies that have 5th ed updates already. As far as the warscythe goes...I love it, except for the fact that the Lords warscythe doesnt get the ranged attack the Pariahs does...that needs to be corrected.

I highly doubt this, all signs currently point to GK. Necrons would be a HUGE project but definetly should be done, just like dark eldar the codex is currently waaaaaaay outdated would have to be completly rebuilt instead of just updated.

I don't agree. I was told about this 3 months ago where my report was greeted with scorn; the Necrons would be coming January 2011.

The staff member I spoke to stated he had seen some of the new work and finished models, some on larger bases, Immortals.

A few more weeks and we'll know for sure.

Reecius wrote:@Gothgar
No joke man, their customer service is outstanding. Maybe other people have had different experiences than I have, but any time I have had any issues with their product, they have taken care of it immediately.

Many times yes. Customer Service is something they've got down pat.

Aduro wrote:

Reecius wrote:@Gothgar
No joke man, their customer service is outstanding. Maybe other people have had different experiences than I have, but any time I have had any issues with their product, they have taken care of it immediately.

Many times yes. Customer Service is something they've got down pat.

Indeed. I've had a few great experiances with getting replacement/missing pieces from sets I've bought. Stuff was shipped quickly at no charge.

Why can there not be two races released at the same time really?

Cash flow, GW's and ours. Releases are timed so that they don't compete with each other. Too many new things in one month means something's going to sit on shelves as customers make a choice as to which to spend their monthly toy budget upon. GW stages their releases to capture a steady cash flow each month without having to compete with themselves for those "shiny new object" dollars and pounds their customers are willing to spend each month.

Aduro wrote:

Reecius wrote:@Gothgar
No joke man, their customer service is outstanding. Maybe other people have had different experiences than I have, but any time I have had any issues with their product, they have taken care of it immediately.

Many times yes. Customer Service is something they've got down pat.

I agree with this, my necron codex I bought from another non-GW hobby store started to fall apart after like 1 month, maybe 2, of ownership. I take good care of my stuff too so it wasn't man-handled and it was always in my carrying case when not in use. Anyway, the glue/binding that held the pages to the spine started to fail and pages were falling out, I was at my FLGS and told them about it and showed them and the condition the book was in, they gave me a new one on the spot even though I didn't even buy it from them. That's service, if you ask me.

Also to note, my friends 5th edition rulebook is doing the same thing with the pages looking like they're going to start falling out.

Reecius wrote:@Gothgar
No joke man, their customer service is outstanding. Maybe other people have had different experiences than I have, but any time I have had any issues with their product, they have taken care of it immediately.

+1 on many occasions they've not hesitated to replace products that have fallen apart or were mispackaged. Just off the top of my head, I know they've sent me:

-a box of horrors because of one of the arms not matching
-a box of banshees because it had a Legion of Damned Legionnaire in it rather than one of the banshees
-2 different Tyranid codices when they fell apart
- a new lictor because the blister had two right legs

And that's just what I can think of sitting at my desk at work.

Oh, and they sent me a Dark Eldar codex that I cancelled the pre-order for. When I received it, I called them and said if they'd send me a SASE, that I would gladly ship it back to them. "Keep it," they said.

camcam_HALO wrote:I was told today by my store owner that his GW rep said that the next codex will be Necrons. I can't confirm it with any proof, but I figured I might as well pass it along. I thought it was going to be Daemon Hunters. I don't play either army, but both need a new dex.

Anyways, please don't flame me. If I posted in the wrong section, I am sorry.

Aw, and now your stores' GW sales rep gets his ass fired!!)

It's just another "Redshirt Rumor". If it was official, no one would actually be talking about it. Those that do, get fired.

Elmodiddly wrote:I don't agree. I was told about this 3 months ago where my report was greeted with scorn; the Necrons would be coming January 2011.

The staff member I spoke to stated he had seen some of the new work and finished models, some on larger bases, Immortals.

A few more weeks and we'll know for sure.

Or you read the official "incoming" article two months ago where GW confirmed that in January we will see a second wave Skaven

yep their customer service is great.

In recent memory... my wfb starter set didn't have any horse bases, they sent em right out to me.

Got a necron battleforce that was missing 3 sprues worth of green rods, so they sent me a whole box of warriors. Now I can use the extra warriors for some flayed one conversions instead of buying metals

Got a russ a while back and one of the frames was all bent up and warped like it melted in someone's car in the summer, so they sent me a whole new tank.. I used the other parts that were good to build a 2nd turret with a different gun, and had other bitz to mess around with.

rdlb wrote:Yes!! That would be awesome!! But it needs salt...

Done



Don't believe a thing those guys say. If nercons are next and this is true, then we might have to listen to a few things they say for once, otherwise it's back to "Hey a (color)shirt said this to me, can you believe it HAW HAW HAW"

Kroothawk wrote:

AlexHolker wrote:It seems unlikely, given the weight of Grey Knights rumours (tons, including sightings of the new TAGKs) compared to that for the Necrons (next to none).

Rumours we have seen, just confirmation is what we lack, not surprising as the release is more than 6 months away.

23rd September by Stickmonkey over at Warseer:

Well kids, I managed to get a few rumors from my sources that seem worthwhile to post. Same caveats as always.

Tau and Necrons are still a long way off, so no one go off the deep end in excitement. I have done what vetting I can on these, but it is way too early to not have loads of salt on hand. (...)

Necrons
All Immortal based models being redone. Because Destroyers, Lords, etc. were supposedly based on the immortal "chassis" and that has been redone "bigger", its a cascade effect. However, skimmer body base not expect to change.

Immortals possible move to Troops choice.

New Elite options

Pariahs no longer 0-1

Additional C'Tan

plastic Tomb Spyder box to make TS or variant.

New fast attack MC

Pylon may make codex as heavy option

You will find a collection of older rumours here:

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=274318

Sorry to quote this so long after the fact....But new c'tan? How the feth is that even possible? I thought it was well established that there are only like four c'tan left Void dragon, nightbringer, deciever and the other one are basically it...

But it's possible that that old fluff was retconned. Idk.

Maybe a couple of the C'tan put on some Barry White.....

By new C'tan they mean that players would be able to take the Void Dragon or the Outsider. But this dosen't make much sense in that the Void Dragon is trapped on Mars and recent fluff (rulebook) has shifted away from the C'tan and more in favor of individual Necron Lords.

BUT I think it would be possible to make a new C'tan unless the machinery used to make the originals was destroyed by the remaining 4.

Anyway I can't wait for the new Necron dex. I've slowly been collecting a Necron army on the side for the last few years in anticipation of the day that the new dex would come out. The only things I haven't bought are wraiths, flayed ones, pariahs and C'tan. Of course half of those can be converted from warriors.

But I hope the rumor is true, I've got so tired of waiting I've started making up my own units

Anyone else wanna bet that the Tomb Stalker will be in the new dex just like the Pirhana and Skyray was for Tau.

Tomb stalker As fast attack MC would be awesome.