Necron Warriors, Crypteks, Lords, and Ghost Arks

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**Yad**

tetrisphreak wrote:Alright so as of right now it's almost 2-to-1 in favor of this tactic, with the rest being against or unsure (I was one of the unsure votes, hence why I created the thread).

So far I've seen vocalized the argument for - The unit isn't dead, it was a warrior unit (albeit with 1 lord or cryptek or what have you) so therefore is a legal target RAW for the Ghost ark.

What bugs me about the use of this rule, however, isn't lined out directly in the rules but rather a correlation. If the last warrior being removed from play, removes all RP tokens (and thus any chance for a reanimation protocol), shouldn't it then also prohibit the repair barge rule from doing essentially the same thing? Again, that argument isn't spelled out in RAW but it gives me pause before trying this combo on an opponent in-game.

I think I see what you're getting at there. That the complete removal of all RP counters for a given unit of Warriors should signal the complete removal/destruction of that unit. Because of that the Barge ought not to be able to 'bring back' Warrior models.I don't think that the Cryptek and BRB rules support that though. By reading through the Cryptek unit entry it's obvious that he's not an Independent Character. It is also obvious that the Necron Warrior unit is never officially designated as a Retinue when joined by a Lord or Cryptek. In addition, a Cryptek model is not treated as an upgrade to a Necron unit. I don't think we have any choice but to accept that the Barge can generate d3 Warriors if all that's left in the unit is a Lord/Cryptek.

-Yad