Do Necrons ever slip on ice, get stuck to frozen surfaces?

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**fallinq**

pm713 wrote:
fallinq wrote:
RedCommander wrote:
The answer is definitely yes!

From the Imperial Infantrymen's Uplifting Primer (some warzone with Necrons edition):

Necron skeletal soldiers, apart from being brittle in construction and prone to mechanical failure, are poorly adapted to a wide variety of weather conditions. In snow they frequently slip due to lack of traction and their metal bodies have even been known to stick to the ice! A hearty shove from one of the Emperor's Finest in such conditions is usually enough to send one these so called "warriors" sprawling!

I want to know what that says about Eldar and Tyranids now.

The actual published version (Damocles Gulf, which focuses on Tau for obvious reasons) does briefly mention Eldar.

Apparently aside from being cowardly, they use archaic, barely functioning equipment.

**Kid_Kyoto**

Things like the Uplifiting Primer and the Regimental Standard remind me why I love this game/universe.

That and blue super marines named the Ultramarines of course.

Jokes so embedded you can't even see them anymore.

**CthuluIsSpy**

Aaranis wrote:
Aren't Necrons' bodies made of swarms of nanoscarabs, like big molecules clamped together ? I'd assume then that their "skin" can just shapeshift a little to allow a grip on ice, and to prevent stickiness to apply to their bodies, as the scarabs would just move out or something.

No, whilst they do supposedly have nanoscarabs, their bodies are not made from them. Living Metal / Necrodermis appears to be a highly advanced and adaptible alloy of necrontyr invention. Since it is described as mutable, its likely that necrons can adapt their bodies to fit the situation.