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What the flying feth is a Transcendant C'tan? I assume it's a bunch of C'tan shards thrown together, but I don't know. Is it's statline comparable to a Primarch? Can someone answer these questions?

It's a fully powered C'tan, I guess?

I'm assuming it's when enough of the shards are in close proximity that it resembles something like the power of an actual C'tan.

According to the book it is 12-100+ shards combined, and is usually contained within a Tessaract Vault.

i too am interested in what exactly the transcendant shard does

well, its huge, so that must equal awesome, plus the model is pretty sweet. Im going to assume its going to shoot wicked laser beams or some super death ray

Basically, it is an amped-up C'tan Shard. It is flagged as a gargantuan creature (so it can;t be IDed, Stomp attacks, etc) and like the smaller shards, you gotta buy some upgrades for it. I can't give points, but the upgrades are:

It must take one of these:
Storm of Heavenly Fire - at the end of every move phase, place a large blast on the model, all models hit take an S6 AP3 hit

Seismic Shockwave - Stomp attacks (d3 templates in melee) use the large blast instead of small

Transliminal Stride- Instead of moving normally, the model makes an 18" jump. Everything that is jumped through takes an S D hit


And it must take two weapons from the following list:
Sky of Falling Stars - S7 AP3, Apocalyptic Barrage 6

Transdimensional Maelstrom - S9 AP2, 10" blast

Wave of Withering - S D, AP 1 Hellstorm template

Antimatter Meteor - 15" template, if you are 0-5 inches away from the center S10 AP1, 6-10 inches S8 AP3, 11-15 inches S6 AP5

Seismic Assault - S8, AP3, 6d6 shots

the c'tan in the middle of the tesseract arc, the tentacly thing counts as a garg creature when its out on its own?

seems kind of small for a garg creature...

Good to see GW handing out the S: D stuff like candy!

Wait, no it's not :(

 DarthSpader wrote:
the c'tan in the middle of the tesseract arc, the tentacly thing counts as a garg creature when its out on its own?

Yup. It's essentially a mini gargantuan.

i thought a gargantuan creature....had to be ....like....migger then a monstrus creature. this thing looks barley bigger then saint celestine, or even a crisis suit.

wow.

Anyone else see the model and immediately think Watchmen's Doctor Manhattan? Imagine it blue.

i kind of got a "venom" or "carnage" impression off it. paint it red and black...model it with an open mouth full of fangs...

It's T9 with 3+ armor and 4+ invul. I think this is okay to say and to ask the following question because everything in 40k is made or broke by points cost & we won't mention that. Just how many wounds does this thing have?

A transcendant C'tan on foot with all three of the most expensive upgrades clocks in at just shy of 4.5 Monoliths. It also has 2 more wounds than a normal C'tan (but it also has FNP).

I like that it doesn't have to be the size of a Monolith to be powerful.

I'm considering hijacking the rules for my Sisters for a "Transcended Living Saint" or something. Since I don't have big things or formations of my own, I'll steal!

 DarthSpader wrote:
i thought a gargantuan creature....had to be ....like....migger then a monstrus creature. this thing looks barley bigger then saint celestine, or even a crisis suit.

wow.

Well, remember that it's essentially a big piece of a lesser deity. It doesn't necessarily need to be gargantuan to have gargantuan capabilities.

I wonder if someone could run up some rules for a similar thing consisting of the shards that make up the Avatar's of Khaine, just for sheer destructive purposes.

Must. HAVE!

I'm curious if the dual kit for the Obelisk/Tesseract Vault can be opened and closed on it's own function allowing you to pull this guy out if you run it as the closed Obelisk.

 CrashCanuck wrote:
I'm curious if the dual kit for the Obelisk/Tesseract Vault can be opened and closed on it's own function allowing you to pull this guy out if you run it as the closed Obelisk.

If I ever get my hands on one, I'll be hell bent to figure out a way.

As sold, no, they can't - the two kits use several of the same components in radically different ways.

If I can find one of these being sold on ebay alone (without giant vehicle) I'm so going to pick one up as an ally to my GK, even have a justification in fluff "look what the Ordo Xenos gave us"

 Maelstrom808 wrote:

 DarthSpader wrote:
i thought a gargantuan creature....had to be ....like....migger then a monstrus creature. this thing looks barley bigger then saint celestine, or even a crisis suit.

wow.

Well, remember that it's essentially a big piece of a lesser deity. It doesn't necessarily need to be gargantuan to have gargantuan capabilities.

It's not the size that matters, it's how you use it

I don't know why people keep comparing this C'tan to Dr. Manhattan. They look nothing alike except for . . . a humanoid figure and a very generic pose?

Anyway, I really want to get this model separately on eBay. Even though I don't plan to field the Obelisk, I am dead set on collecting every single C'tan model GW plans to release - even if they're dependent on another absurdly priced unit to be used I can just field a crappy proxy.

@curran12

Those abilities are so bad ass. Do you know if the Obelisk is required on the roster to use the C'tan? If you could tell me that'd be superb. Thanks!

Its a seperate formation, the Transcendent C'tan is fielded separately on its own.

Woo hoo! Thanks a lot!

Can't wait to see the info page for this maniac . . .

Hopefully it does not suffer the same fate as the rest of the Ctan's being unable to actually reach combat...

I see it has an 18" move power though which you'd think will be an auto take.

I have one on order and ill see if I can get a pick or two of size comparison just to see how big it is. I have also heard the monolith cant be used both ways but ill give it a crack anyway!

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 Maelstrom808 wrote:

 DarthSpader wrote:
i thought a gargantuan creature....had to be ....like....migger then a monstrus creature. this thing looks barley bigger then saint celestine, or even a crisis suit.

wow.

Well, remember that it's essentially a big piece of a lesser deity. It doesn't necessarily need to be gargantuan to have gargantuan capabilities.

It's not the size that matters, it's how you use it

That and it warps the fabric of reality around it. Visually it may be only the size of a particularly large human, but it could have the kinetic effects of Godzilla stomping around.