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Would a C'Tan's Drain Life ability stop Commisar Yarrick from coming back to life? Exact word of the text: "A C'Tan's close combat attacks drain the life energy from its opponents. Any model reduced to 0 wounds by a C'Tan will not regenerate or recover because of bionics, nartheciums, exsanguinators or any other similar wargear."

I think it wouldn't, because Iron Will rule isn't a piece of wargear, it's a special rule so it wouldn't be disallowed.

Seems to be the case from the decription in the necron codex ...

I agree that it isn't wargear specifically, but it's still a regeneration/recovery.

It asks for wargear though, so Yarrik (or any other model getting back up due to non-wargear rules) is allowed to tell C'tan the he'll be back.

Well, this makes me hate Comissar Yarrick even more than I did previously. His willpower is so strong that he can look the literal incarnation of Death in the eye, a being so powerful that it could unmake the stars and warp time and space like a tapestry, and after it drains him of his life essence and reducing him to a husk, he gets back up.

Cheers, Cruddace!

Ever looked at his model? Seems like has been reduced to a husk twice.

Yup, Yarrick is a special rule just like St. Celestine from the WH codex. He will get back up, just as she will descend anew from the heavens in a pillar of light.

Scarey Nerd wrote:Well, this makes me hate Comissar Yarrick even more than I did previously. His willpower is so strong that he can look the literal incarnation of Death in the eye, a being so powerful that it could unmake the stars and warp time and space like a tapestry, and after it drains him of his life essence and reducing him to a husk, he gets back up.

Cheers, Cruddace!

Well that's GW fluff and rules working against each other as they do. Besides, what's wrong with Yarrick in the first place?

CommissarCandlestick wrote:

Scarey Nerd wrote:Well, this makes me hate Comissar Yarrick even more than I did previously. His willpower is so strong that he can look the literal incarnation of Death in the eye, a being so powerful that it could unmake the stars and warp time and space like a tapestry, and after it drains him of his life essence and reducing him to a husk, he gets back up.

Cheers, Cruddace!

Well that's GW fluff and rules working against each other as they do. Besides, what's wrong with Yarrick in the first place?

I play Necrons. My weaponry strips away the nuclear force between your atoms and draws your dissociated particles towards the gun. But oh no, he's really manly, he can get back up on a roll that is better than my warrior's chance to get up when my entire army is based around it. If they had given him improved bionics or something then fine, I can live with that, he's got something mechanical to help him survive. But Iron Will? Seriously?

Scarey Nerd wrote:

CommissarCandlestick wrote:

Scarey Nerd wrote:Well, this makes me hate Comissar Yarrick even more than I did previously. His willpower is so strong that he can look the literal incarnation of Death in the eye, a being so powerful that it could unmake the stars and warp time and space like a tapestry, and after it drains him of his life essence and reducing him to a husk, he gets back up.

Cheers, Cruddace!

Well that's GW fluff and rules working against each other as they do. Besides, what's wrong with Yarrick in the first place?

I play Necrons. My weaponry strips away the nuclear force between your atoms and draws your dissociated particles towards the gun. But oh no, he's really manly, he can get back up on a roll that is better than my warrior's chance to get up when my entire army is based around it. If they had given him improved bionics or something then fine, I can live with that, he's got something mechanical to help him survive. But Iron Will? Seriously?

And your whole army is made up of "living metal" You tell me which sounds more ridiculous.

DODcrazy wrote:

Scarey Nerd wrote:

CommissarCandlestick wrote:

Scarey Nerd wrote:Well, this makes me hate Comissar Yarrick even more than I did previously. His willpower is so strong that he can look the literal incarnation of Death in the eye, a being so powerful that it could unmake the stars and warp time and space like a tapestry, and after it drains him of his life essence and reducing him to a husk, he gets back up.

Cheers, Cruddace!

Well that's GW fluff and rules working against each other as they do. Besides, what's wrong with Yarrick in the first place?

I play Necrons. My weaponry strips away the nuclear force between your atoms and draws your dissociated particles towards the gun. But oh no, he's really manly, he can get back up on a roll that is better than my warrior's chance to get up when my entire army is based around it. If they had given him improved bionics or something then fine, I can live with that, he's got something mechanical to help him survive. But Iron Will? Seriously?

And your whole army is made up of "living metal" You tell me which sounds more ridiculous.

The Yarrick thing.

I understand your point, but Living Metal isn't actually that hard to imagine, watch Terminator 2, then think of the idea of life-forms that are titanium based rather than carbon or something like that.

He was stomped to mush by Ghazghkull Thrakka, a 10 Feet Ork kompletely clad in solid sheets of steel, twice! And he got back up, by Iron Will. Yarrik is a hero, heros survive anything with "nothing but a flesh wound".

Jidmah wrote:He was stomped to mush by Ghazghkull Thrakka, a 10 Feet Ork kompletely clad in solid sheets of steel, twice! And he got back up, by Iron Will. Yarrik is a hero, heros survive anything with "nothing but a flesh wound".

Especially Heroes of the Imperium, seeing as GW doesn't like their xenos scum counterparts!

Which is why we Dark Eldar just shoot him with a Shattershard and remove him from play, cause there is no getting back up if your not there!!

It's affectionately known at my FLGS as the

'he shrugs off damage like an old overcoat' rule.

And yes, it does tend to be the Imperium who get the 'well I can anyway' type of rules on coming back.

That said the necron codex gets a lot of 'cover, what cover? Oh, this is cover for you?? Let me phase through that cover ...'

(which is AWESOME when someone unused to Necrons hides everyone in cover and the nightbringer or a wratihwing (or both ) drift right through it )

Jidmah wrote:He was stomped to mush by Ghazghkull Thrakka, a 10 Feet Ork kompletely clad in solid sheets of steel, twice! And he got back up, by Iron Will. Yarrik is a hero, heros survive anything with "nothing but a flesh wound".

Just like the black knight from the holy grail

Scarey Nerd wrote:

CommissarCandlestick wrote:

Scarey Nerd wrote:Well, this makes me hate Comissar Yarrick even more than I did previously. His willpower is so strong that he can look the literal incarnation of Death in the eye, a being so powerful that it could unmake the stars and warp time and space like a tapestry, and after it drains him of his life essence and reducing him to a husk, he gets back up.

Cheers, Cruddace!

Well that's GW fluff and rules working against each other as they do. Besides, what's wrong with Yarrick in the first place?

I play Necrons. My weaponry strips away the nuclear force between your atoms and draws your dissociated particles towards the gun. But oh no, he's really manly, he can get back up on a roll that is better than my warrior's chance to get up when my entire army is based around it. If they had given him improved bionics or something then fine, I can live with that, he's got something mechanical to help him survive. But Iron Will? Seriously?

Yes. My army's basic weapon is a 75 caliber rapid fire armor piercing grenade launcher gyrojet. We have monomolecular chainsaws, guns that fuse your tank's plating together to blast through it, and gloves that magically make us twice as strong.

Absolutely nothing makes sense in 40k. Deal with it, or play Flames of War.

Your Friend Doctor Robert wrote:

Scarey Nerd wrote:

CommissarCandlestick wrote:

Scarey Nerd wrote:Well, this makes me hate Comissar Yarrick even more than I did previously. His willpower is so strong that he can look the literal incarnation of Death in the eye, a being so powerful that it could unmake the stars and warp time and space like a tapestry, and after it drains him of his life essence and reducing him to a husk, he gets back up.

Cheers, Cruddace!

Well that's GW fluff and rules working against each other as they do. Besides, what's wrong with Yarrick in the first place?

I play Necrons. My weaponry strips away the nuclear force between your atoms and draws your dissociated particles towards the gun. But oh no, he's really manly, he can get back up on a roll that is better than my warrior's chance to get up when my entire army is based around it. If they had given him improved bionics or something then fine, I can live with that, he's got something mechanical to help him survive. But Iron Will? Seriously?

Yes. My army's basic weapon is a 75 caliber rapid fire armor piercing grenade launcher gyrojet. We have monomolecular chainsaws, guns that fuse your tank's plating together to blast through it, and gloves that magically make us twice as strong.

Absolutely nothing makes sense in 40k. Deal with it, or play Flames of War.

My army is elves, in space, that are Dark....

MY basic weapon fires tiny splinters that poison you to death in seconds, beams of nonlight that are captured from suns that no longer shine and cause retinal burns from just looking at them, and flames that just make you go poof. I have sniper rifles that turn you to glass, women in almost no clothing that you just can't kill, and drugged up freaks riding hovering skateboards and flying bikes with blades on them. I have things that look at Commisar Yarrick and make sure that he has no idea which way is up, let alone how to get there!

Galador wrote:

Your Friend Doctor Robert wrote:

Scarey Nerd wrote:

CommissarCandlestick wrote:

Scarey Nerd wrote:Well, this makes me hate Comissar Yarrick even more than I did previously. His willpower is so strong that he can look the literal incarnation of Death in the eye, a being so powerful that it could unmake the stars and warp time and space like a tapestry, and after it drains him of his life essence and reducing him to a husk, he gets back up.

Cheers, Cruddace!

Well that's GW fluff and rules working against each other as they do. Besides, what's wrong with Yarrick in the first place?

I play Necrons. My weaponry strips away the nuclear force between your atoms and draws your dissociated particles towards the gun. But oh no, he's really manly, he can get back up on a roll that is better than my warrior's chance to get up when my entire army is based around it. If they had given him improved bionics or something then fine, I can live with that, he's got something mechanical to help him survive. But Iron Will? Seriously?

Yes. My army's basic weapon is a 75 caliber rapid fire armor piercing grenade launcher gyrojet. We have monomolecular chainsaws, guns that fuse your tank's plating together to blast through it, and gloves that magically make us twice as strong.

Absolutely nothing makes sense in 40k. Deal with it, or play Flames of War.

My army is elves, in space, that are Dark....

MY basic weapon fires tiny splinters that poison you to death in seconds, beams of nonlight that are captured from suns that no longer shine and cause retinal burns from just looking at them, and flames that just make you go poof. I have sniper rifles that turn you to glass, women in almost no clothing that you just can't kill, and drugged up freaks riding hovering skateboards and flying bikes with blades on them. I have things that look at Commisar Yarrick and make sure that he has no idea which way is up, let alone how to get there!

My basic weapon fires mini missiles that explode once they are inside you ripping you limb From limb but wait...
I GET BACK UP EVEN THOUGH I HAVE NO ARMS LEFT!!

Mah basick weapun smashs yar 'ead!

Jidmah wrote:Mah basick weapun smashs yar 'ead!

Except for wyches, cause we laugh at you as we dance and prance around in CC and frustrate you till you die from a brain embolism!!!

An den anutha' boy dakkas you ded.

Any non-wargear abilities to come back to life would still come into effect.

jab4962 wrote:Any non-wargear abilities to come back to life would still come into effect.

??? From what?? a longer post on that or a quote from whom you were refering to would have been good here.

Yarrik is the grandson of Chuck Norris. Ofc hes rockhard, and that is with his blood "thinned" out :p

My weapon is a 3rd generation round-house kick that kicks you so hard that you cease to exist!

Galador wrote:

jab4962 wrote:Any non-wargear abilities to come back to life would still come into effect.

??? From what?? a longer post on that or a quote from whom you were refering to would have been good here.

The original post, I imagine. Just a thought though.