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Has anyone but me noticed that the Trancendant Ctan shard is only a few points more than a normal Ctan shard...and brings SO MUCH more to the table?

I mean, it has a 48 inch, 2 shot, assault, strength D, AP1, weapon, with precision shots....apocalyptic barrages....
What reason is there not to take them? They have invuln saves, and toughness enough to stay alive.
2-3 of these things make all your riptide/wraithknight/Imperial Knight/Dredknight/Land Raider problems go away in a round or two of shooting...
What is the downside? I couldn't tell you, i'm probably overlooking something, but you could, if you didn't care too much about unbound, run 3 comfortably in 1850 points, and still have troops to score aplenty.

Thoughts? I'd like to hear them... I kinda hope i'm wrong.

You are. Re read the rules on the powers. All the C'Tan get them and the range is much shorter if it's not the vault

Whew. Missed the part about the vault.
Thank god.

Plus, the whole "pick target THEN random powers" kinda kills it for me. (other way around and I wouldn't have so much of a problem).
With Nightbringer you've at least got other useful things to fall back on. With the T.C'tan? Wow, difficult terrain bubble. Watch out.

A difficult terrain bubble -- and a Strength higher than any MC in the game other than a Wraithknight. Which I am pretty sure he will beat in combat.

In fact, I'm pretty sure the T-C'tan will beat any MC in the game in CC. (So will the Nightbringer though.)

Alcibiades wrote:
A difficult terrain bubble -- and a Strength higher than any MC in the game other than a Wraithknight. Which I am pretty sure he will beat in combat.

In fact, I'm pretty sure the T-C'tan will beat any MC in the game in CC. (So will the Nightbringer though.)

Probably depends on what powers a DP of Nurgle or Tzeentch rolls but other than that yes i agree.

People tend to forget that the t-ctan can do more than the bubble, it can also deep strike, which on a slow moving short ranged model is pretty important.

imho, I prefer the Deciver over Nightbringer or T-Ctan though yet to gain experence playing Necron. The Grand illusion can be very tricky.

Id been wondering if there was a strong advantage of one ctan over the others. So it's definitely not the transcendent?

 Ol'Dirty wrote:
Id been wondering if there was a strong advantage of one ctan over the others. So it's definitely not the transcendent?

They do different things, so it depends on what you are using them for. One unit having a strong unqualified advantage over another similarly-priced unit would be very bad game design. (Like Wraiths and T. Praetorians in the last codex for instance, which were more or less the same unit but one was better.)