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Seeing as the current rules for the Pylon, an effective yet rare Necron vehicle, are over 5 years old, I thought I'd try to bring them more in-line with the current Necron Codex.

Pylon - 200 Points
Super Heavy Vehicle (Immobile)
Structure Points: 2
Armour - F14 S14 R14

Equipment
- Gauss Flux Array
- Living Metal

Gauss Flux Array may be upgraded to a Voltaic Caster for +50pts

Gauss Flux Array: R18" S4, Ap5, Heavy D6*, Gauss
Voltaic Caster: R18" S5, Ap-, Heavy D6*, Haywire.
*Fires D6 shots at every enemy unit within range. Each Weapon Destroyed result reduces the number of shots by one, to a minimum of one.

May take one of the following upgrades.
- Gauss Obliterator +150pts
- Tesla Annhilator + 100pts
- Eternity Sphere + 50pts
- Null Field +50pts

- Gauss Obliterator: R120" SD, Ap2, Heavy 4, Destroyer, AA Mount
- Tesla Annihilator: R48" S8, Ap-, Ordinance 1, 10" Blast, Arc (measured from edge of blast).
- Eternity Sphere: Treated as an Eternity Gate (see Monolith entry) with a range of 6" anywhere from the Pylon. May be used by any number of units per turn.
- Null Field: All units within 12" treat their Leadership value of 7, unless it would normally be less than that. Any Psyker attempting to use a power within 12" suffers Perils of the Warp on any double-result of their Psychic Test, instead of a double-1 or double-6.

Special Rules
- Deep Strike (pushes models out of the way, just like the previous Monolith.)


Any thoughts? Hopefully this can get a bit more interest in quite a rare unit, giving it more of a support role in a Necron army.

No comments?

Well, a 4 shot destroyer weapon is simply too much. Especially for 350. And since only one weapon option is destroyer, that is the only one that matters currently.

So against a horde army for example, a S8 Tesla weapon with a theoretical 16" area of effect doesn't appeal to you at all?

Nope, not at all. This is because as this is an apoc unit, you need to compare it to apoc threats. If you want ways to deal with hordes, the new codex has such options, and they are cheaper than 300 points.

What the codex does not have in abundance is quality long range firepower. 2 arks clock in at 350 for 2 s9 ap 1 large blasts. Your pylon is much tougher (much much tougher) than 2 arks by apoc standards, and gets more range, 4 shots to 2, and destroyer in place of s9 ap1. So tougher and deadlier for the same cost. Plus fabing up a pylon is miles cheaper than shelling out for 2 more arks.

Valkyrie wrote:- Null Field: All units within 12" treat their Leadership value of 7, unless it would normally be less than that. Any Psyker attempting to use a power within 12" suffers Perils of the Warp on any double-result of their Psychic Test, instead of a double-1 or double-6.

I'd change this to 24in and take away its Ld 7 thing-I'm guessing your basing that off the old pariah, and its reduction in Ld was a separate rule from the psychic abomination.- just my 2¢.