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What are you guys making yours into? Which do you think is more useful?

I'm just getting back into 40k after a long hiatus, and I don't know what the general response is to using one as the other. They are too expensive to get stuck with something not as useful as the other, and too different to magnetize.

Wondering if it wouldn't be acceptable to "counts as" in most circles.

If you magnetise it in the right places it would probably be able to be both.

You are missing the part where I just said you can't.

It isn't a weapon difference, the entire vehicle is the opposite shape and you have either a canon or group of warriors.

There's a couple threads here that give a reason why one is better than the other, but I'm a bit tired so I can't say with a 100% certainty which one it was.

Pretty sure it was the cheaper of the two point wise, but don't quote me on that.

That's just the thing, I wasn't referring to just the weapons and Necrons.

Looking at the sprue the main difference is one is made upside down and has a cannon placed where the Necrons would go. It also reveals something nice about the design.





Simply pin the control section onto the main body with some copper rod. Magnetise the warriors to the horseshoe section, cannon as well. The cannon gets aditional copper rods for stability which can be placed into the holes drilled for the horseshoe section while it is in transport mode. The main difference is there will be 2-3 small holes behind the necrons as it doesn't just go upsidedown, it gets raised as well. Sort of try to have them in either this pattern . . or as a triangle so it doesn't flip over by itself. You're also after rods thicker than what you'd use for infantry and to go relatively deep into it so it can stay together during game.

Not Magnetizable Eh Watch This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT8uNkD1Q0I&feature=feedlik

Is there much point in taking the transport Ark over a Night Scythe? Aside from the former having a model, obviously.

Why don't you just buy 5?

OK I obviously can see why you can't order 5 unless you make really good money and don't care. So this is the choice do you want a powerful cannon or the ability to move a lot of troops in and have reanimation abilities? Ultimately that is for you to decide if you have a monolith then go for gusto build the cannon :-). If not I would build the ark and then save up for either another one or the monolith. Each one is as different as a rhino/predator respectively speaking. Good luck and either choice is a good one.

I'm going with Doomsdak Ark. Dat Doomsday Cannon is sex.

There are problems with each vehicle:

Ghost Ark.

Night Scythe is much much better in just about every way.
The repair function of the Ark isn't that great.
It only carries Necrons and attached IC, lords and crypteks.

Doomsday Ark.

It only takes 1 weapon destroyed result to cripple this thing.
It's Open Topped.
When moving, it's range is only 24".
It needs to make it's points back on it's first turn.
It's a very large model and hiding it is a pain in the arse.

Trust me on this... Take the Night Scythe for transport and leave the HS section be. It's not got a great number of things in it TBH. Monolith Spam is still strong though and taking a Doomsday Ark with 2 Monoliths is very viable.

doomsday ark, I want a gun platform and I really don't want to get closer to the enemy if they have cc units.

wondering if anyone would complain about magnetizing only the back part, so you would flip it in 10 seconds rather than four minutes. The canon may not be attached, but the shape would be instantly recognizable as a Doomsday Ark.

Puscifer wrote:

Doomsday Ark.

It only takes 1 weapon destroyed result to cripple this thing.
It's Open Topped.
When moving, it's range is only 24".
It needs to make it's points back on it's first turn.
It's a very large model and hiding it is a pain in the arse.

Nope. Tomb Spyders

Nightsbane wrote:wondering if anyone would complain about magnetizing only the back part, so you would flip it in 10 seconds rather than four minutes. The canon may not be attached, but the shape would be instantly recognizable as a Doomsday Ark.

At least worth trying.... it would only take 10 USD in magnets to do the full magnetization.