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So based on what i read through my codex and a few pages of the big rulebook, in every story about necrons its just one army getting completely wiped out without killing one. So is it me or can the necrons literally not be killed in the story of 40k? cant they just take over the universe?

Yes.
Blow up all the tomb worlds and you're set...
Easier said than done you may say but since the Nercons are all asleep as you really have to do is walk through walls and be really quiet.
Oddly enough that is actuially easier than fighting them...

Lol the tomb stalkers would catch ya, being quiet doesn't do much against them.

Defiler37 wrote:Lol the tomb stalkers would catch ya, being quiet doesn't do much against them.

How about magnets? I have yet to find a sci-fi robot that is not immune to the effects of magnets or a DOS attack.

Defiler37 wrote:So based on what i read through my codex and a few pages of the big rulebook, in every story about necrons its just one army getting completely wiped out without killing one. So is it me or can the necrons literally not be killed in the story of 40k? cant they just take over the universe?

I think you'll find that the codex for every army makes them sound like the most unstoppable force in the universe.

GangstaMuffin24 wrote:

Defiler37 wrote:So based on what i read through my codex and a few pages of the big rulebook, in every story about necrons its just one army getting completely wiped out without killing one. So is it me or can the necrons literally not be killed in the story of 40k? cant they just take over the universe?

I think you'll find that all of the codex for every army makes them sound like the most unstoppable force in the universe.

Touche good sir


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Asherian Command wrote:

Defiler37 wrote:Lol the tomb stalkers would catch ya, being quiet doesn't do much against them.

How about magnets? I have yet to find a sci-fi robot that is not immune to the effects of magnets or a DOS attack.

Hahaha believe me you would NOT want to bring a necron even CLOSER to you with a magnet, and whats a DOS?

Isn't in one of the meq codices marines are so powerful that they send a single marine to make sure a planet is okay. The point is an army's patron codex is inevitably only going to talk about its victories, and maybe if your lucky in xenos codices, you can find one or two losses.

Michael Bay proposes a computer virus. Better hope the C'tan don't use Macs though.

Harriticus wrote:Michael Bay proposes a computer virus. Better hope the C'tan don't use Macs though.

Micheal Bay proposes explosions. A lot of them.

Gavo wrote:

Harriticus wrote:Michael Bay proposes a computer virus. Better hope the C'tan don't use Macs though.

Micheal Bay proposes explosions. A lot of them.

GangstaMuffin24 wrote:
I think you'll find that the codex for every army makes them sound like the most unstoppable force in the universe.

That's true, and you have people that only read codex for their race...

But to the point... If Necrons all woke up in the same time... let's just say that there will be a lot of casualties for everybody. But in the end they will lose, because there is no way that Chaos Gods or Tyranids will let them to scour their main sorce of food. And it's a very hard job stooping the Orks or exterminating them - so good luck to dead ones if they ever wake up in mass.


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Defiler37 wrote:And whats a DOS?

You don't know that?

You use Windows OS right? Dos is last version of console Windows, it's very much like the first few black Windows you see when you start your PC.
He suggest that we attack the Necrons with Windows OS and that they will just crash because of it

Get a laptop, and then find a code to drop their shields...

Then hijack a monolith and fly it to the mothership, with an underslung vortex missile

Well in the end the easiest way to kill or the necron race would be to simply blow up all the planets that they are sleeping on...much easir said than done lol First off we dont know all the planets that their on, perhaps even terra?!? duh duh duh!!! And some of the planets that they are on are inhabited already so you blowing it up would be harder to do.
The other reason it is hard to do is b/c in order for you to find what planet they are on youd pretty much have to wake them up! then you risk losing another planet to them. Ya necrons are pretty ba, a very big looming threat that has the potential to do some real damage.
But does anyone know if they can fly through space? I dont think I have ever read about them doing space travel

FDISK will save us all!
But i think that all the Necrons waking up at the same time would lead to some interesting allies coming together. And the Orks were designed to fight the Necrons, I think perhaps they might slow them down. Especially if someone _told_ them about what was happening. The fight of their lives and the most fun EVAR!

Its my theory that if you over whelm the Necrons enough, and then destroy the tomb world, then they'll have no where to Phase Out too...

darkcloud92 wrote:
But does anyone know if they can fly through space? I dont think I have ever read about them doing space travel

Man... few their ship can own entire Imperial fleet.
But, they only have few of them....

What about EMP guns???

What about EMP shielding? It does exist you know

The really ancient rules had them be able to project an EMP field that shut down other tech. I'd love to see that resurge

If they can be stopped depends heavily on what else wakes up beneath their tombs, and how many tombworlds there actually are. As of right now, it would require many times overwhelming their forces on each and every tombworld to take them out, giving the Necrons no further place to Phase Out to. Would this be possible in practice though? Highly unlikely as ech race is to preoccupied with the other ones to give focus to exterminating the Necron threat that one would need to give. Another issue that arises is with the C'tan which can be killed by three things, the Blackstone Fortresses, the Talismans of Vaul, and other C'tan. Chaos has the Fortresses, the Deceiver banished or removed the Talismans, and the C'tan are unlikely to kill eachother at first as they can use the others to achieve power quicker. The only army that really has a shot and killing them, and always sort of has, has been chaos. The C'tan cannot fathom nor use their powers to effect it and so is their largest Achilles heel. While this does not kill off the Necrons themselves, it would remove the C'tan from the equation, who are the ones that prove the most beneficial to the Necrons

Azure wrote:If they can be stopped depends heavily on what else wakes up beneath their tombs, and how many tombworlds there actually are. As of right now, it would require many times overwhelming their forces on each and every tombworld to take them out, giving the Necrons no further place to Phase Out to. Would this be possible in practice though? Highly unlikely as ech race is to preoccupied with the other ones to give focus to exterminating the Necron threat that one would need to give. Another issue that arises is with the C'tan which can be killed by three things, the Blackstone Fortresses, the Talismans of Vaul, and other C'tan. Chaos has the Fortresses, the Deceiver banished or removed the Talismans, and the C'tan are unlikely to kill eachother at first as they can use the others to achieve power quicker. The only army that really has a shot and killing them, and always sort of has, has been chaos. The C'tan cannot fathom nor use their powers to effect it and so is their largest Achilles heel. While this does not kill off the Necrons themselves, it would remove the C'tan from the equation, who are the ones that prove the most beneficial to the Necrons

It's no matter how many tombs world there are... Even if they all awake they would be defeated. Even they cannot stand against all of the galaxy's races. Not to mention Chaos Gods, Imperium special forces and endless tides of Green skins...


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Ascalam wrote:What about EMP shielding? It does exist you know

The really ancient rules had them be able to project an EMP field that shut down other tech. I'd love to see that resurge

Tau have destroyed entire Necron fleet using EMP torpedoes...

The really ancient rules had them be able to project an EMP field that shut down other tech. I'd love to see that resurge

Tau have destroyed entire Necron fleet using EMP torpedoes...

Source. Give us the source of this complete bs. The Tau destroying an entire Necron Fleet with EMP torpedoes? Where in the name of Jesus M.f Christ did you find that?

No, they cannot be stopped.

They already took over the galaxy once and only gave it up voluntarily. There's no reason to think they couldn't do it again, especially now that the opposition is even less competitive.

Fortunately, I have a cunning plan. Listen up.
The plan consists of the following: use a ridiculously large magnet to suck all the 'crons into a single place then detonate some vortex weaponry, thus destroying the necrons in their entirety. It MIGHT work.
Alternatively, we could just recycle the tin men to make lots of sentient bean cans.
Takes saving the planet to a whole new level!

I would think Exterminatus would do the job.

The full return of the Necrons would be the end of Warhammer 40K.

They are a race that waged a War against the Old Ones and only were stopped when the Enslaver Plague stole all their victims.

Considering the length of the Webways and technology behind them being so high end it stumped the Emperor... It is very unlikely anything in the galaxy would stand a chance in hell.

Orkz were beaten down to small colonies when the Eldar were at full might, so we can count them out.

Nids try to avoid large numbers of Crons due to lack of Biomass, so we can rule that out too...

Chaos would try, but the Crons aren't going to succumb to Chaos and the Crons would eventually seal off the Warp.

As it stands right now, Necrons are shown as a slumbering force of unknown power that were set to be the original winners of Warhammer, until some critters from the Warp beat their enemies before they could.


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Praxiss wrote:I would think Exterminatus would do the job.

Talking about a race that has ships equipped with guns that can fire with the power of a star.

By Necron standards, an Exterminatus is primitive and a futile attempt at stopping them.

Edit: I hate Necrons with a passion and don't want to diss on other cool races, but given the fluff on them, it is hard to believe anything could stand against the full might of them. They are an Empire millions upon millions of years older than the Emperor, the Orkz and perhaps even Chaos. They didn't get that way by being scrubs.

Ehhh i dont think crons are as powerful as some of the fluff makes them out to be. There are some accounts of necron ships being destroyed by eldar ships and what not. Personally i think if the crons did come back in full force that the eldar would be the saving grace since they do know alot about them and how to defeat them. However it would bring every eldar possible into the fight and i think at the end of it both the crons and eldar would basically be extinct.

Ah, i as thinking how would you take out a Tomb Worls. Forgot about the ships.


Yeah, the IoM is screwed. With that in mind....



Yay Necrons!!

I for one support our new Necron overlords...

Ascalam wrote:Get a laptop, and then find a code to drop their shields...

Then hijack a monolith and fly it to the mothership, with an underslung vortex missile

Independence day!

But id say everyone is boned if they all wake up at once...

If the Deceiver succeeds in uniting the remaining C'tan once more as he has been trying to, sending ships to Mars for example, after infiltrating the Imperium to discover the Void Dragon. Then the universe is in trouble again. C'tan are hungry and the Necrons chefs are eager to serve them their long overdue meal.