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Nids have and had more personality than crons did.

 Furyou Miko wrote:

 King Pariah wrote:
GW released in a white dwarf shortly after ward's codex dropped a statement which made abundantly clear that all C'tan were shattered. The exception was the Flayed C'tan being the only one that was shattered so hard that he was ethereal dust in the wind.

90% certain the criminal statement about Wraiths was from the codex or some old literature BL doesn't print anymore.

Wasn't in the codex, got that in front of me. There wasn't any Necron BL literature from that era - the closest was their appearance in the Cain books, which I mentioned.

You're right, not in the codex. So I started combing the web and while I haven't found thee source, a couple of sites state that in fluff, it is speculated that The Wraiths were Necrontyr murderers and psychopaths.

https://hippiefreakeater.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/necron-summary/
http://www.thefullwiki.org/Necrontyr_%28Warhammer_40%2C000%29#wikipedia_Fast_Attack

and the ever questionable:

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Wraith

So definitely not a figment of my imagination and the second source has a list of references from which it may have originated from. I need some sleep so I'll probably try digging into it tomorrow.

I'd like to add that the current flayed one models are bad, but the old ones are horrendous. I dare the supporters to post the pics side by side.

They both look awful, but at least the new ones look bad in HD.

Nope, you are wrong. The new ones have the worse design. The posing is bad, the skin looks too thick and more like cloth, they have little detail, and the piggy backing dead guy is just silly.
The old ones, despite their age, have quite a big of detail and no silly crap. The posing is a bit stiff, but they are made of metal, and at least they aren't being fabulous.
I just can't take the new ones seriously.


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 Melissia wrote:
Nids have and had more personality than crons did.

How so? Do you mean the genestealer cults? Old Necrons had cults as well, you just didn't see them that often.
Do you mean the little personality that the Hive Tyrants have? In the 3rd book, and also in Xenobiology, it is said that Necron lords also have a personality.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:

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Nope, you are wrong. The new ones have the worse design. The posing is bad, the skin looks too thick and more like cloth, they have little detail, and the piggy backing dead guy is just silly.
The old ones, despite their age, have quite a big of detail and no silly crap. The posing is a bit stiff, but they are made of metal, and at least they aren't being fabulous.
I just can't take the new ones seriously.

But just look at them! All draped in their pretty pretty Princess ribbons!
heh heh.

Oh god the old Flayed ones Models are totally baller.
Fething horrifying. I love it. Way better than the new ones.

That said, I hate this petition, it seems whiny and contrived.
It doesn't recommend any real solutions other than "bring back 3rd edition" and seems to take issue with formations and modern 40K as a whole.
Half of it's complaints aren't even Necron specific.
So let's fix rather than just complain.

My recommendation as a compromise is thus:
C'tan remain mostly in power of necrons galaxy wide.
Some C'tan are broken/imprisoned or left the galaxy post-war in heaven.
This would leave Nightbringer and Deciever as shards.
Silent King self-exiled/returned and established Sautekh and a few other Dynasties against the will of the remaining C'tan.
All that remains to be done is shrink down the number of dynasties to a few sectors of the galaxy.

And buff the monolith somehow cause the petition seems to do some pissing and moaning about that.

The monolith doesn't need buffing. Vehicles need buffing.

 krodarklorr wrote:
The monolith doesn't need buffing. Vehicles need buffing.

True, but even as vehicles go, the monolith is kind of weak.
Its a vehicle that wants you to deep strike it, but you can't because it will either mishap due to its size, or get melta'd.
The 3rd ed book solved that problem by having rules that negated those drawbacks, thus making it usable in its intended role.
For some reason, GW decided that those rules weren't necessary. Probably to force necron players to buy new vehicles.