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I started toying with crons about 6 months ago. Having finished all my warriors and immortals and with the new codex out I could finally figure what direction I wanted to go.
I knew old codex lords were good to take for the rez orbs to make your warriors hard to kill. But with the changes I'm trying to see a reason to take them.
the rez orbs now just let you re roll failed RP and are one use only
with the new reclamation legion giving everything +1 to RP Imean struggling to find a reason why I would take a lord or a cryptek.
Can anyone familiar with the new dex point out if I'm missing something

Cryptek gives +1 to RP as standard now. You would take one if you want to run a CAD or some other detachment/formation that doesn't give +1 to RP through some special rule.

I see a use for crypteks but not regular lords.

Cheap HQ, so if you just wanted to add a unit to another army as an ally he'd be the cheapest "HQ tax".

Other than that, they are kinda worthless.

Because a FNP4+ that you can reroll if you lose too many models is quite awesome.

Because when you are running squads of 20 necron warriors, and you should be now... if all 20 of them are nuked in a round... you get

10 of them back on Res Protocols (4+), another 5 back from your re-roll and 2 more from your ghost ark...

Your loss of 20 warriors just became a loss of 3 warriors

260 point loss turns into a 39 point loss, and you will get them back next round

Yeah, Lords are completely worthless.

Want a cheap HQ? Crypteks will buff your troops at base cost for only 15 points more, whilst the Lord will do nothing.

Want a combat HQ? You'll need some upgrades to make him effective, and one of the most obvious is to buff up to a Overlord.