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Hi everyone,

Have some ideas for Ork-looted-Necron models.

Any thoughts on how they might (believe) they would get past the self destruct and homing-teleport stuff?

Thanks

Taking things from unawakened tombs seems to work (eg. Deus Ex Mechanicus).

Using phase-blocking technology (eg. Device Epsilon from Hellforged, or Gauss Jammers)

Alternatively, grabbing Necron weapons before they can self repair (eg. 'Da Necron Rayd' in Gorkamorka Gubbinz #1).

Or sometimes Necrons just don't/delay phase out (eg. Victory of the Succubae Gates from Damnation Crusade part 3).

No system is going to have a 100% success rate so between the vast number of necrons "killed" while fighting a WAAAGH!! there is bound to be a few that don't return or self destruct (perhaps they hit the device or vehicle in such as way that it broke whatever part that controls those functions). Perhaps the Ork's collective psychic will and belief can disrupt some of those anti theft systems from working every time.

40k is a setting about countless numbers of battles being waged on countless worlds across the galaxy with countless numbers of people/xenos/machines/daemons/etc dying in each battle. Anything and everything can happen when you have an entire galaxy in constant battle. This is especially true with the Orks which basically are the comic relief of the setting and can bend reality to fit their absurd logic. Hell you could say that some clever lootas/commandos/loota-kommandos disguised themselves as trash cans pretending to be Necrons so they could walk into a tomb and steal a vehicle or some Necron weapons.

If they get a necron corpse they're likely to disassemble it to melt it and build things. As far as the monolith and vehicules, they will tear everything shiny off and bend what remains to put a powerful gun in it.

At least i'd do that if i were an ork

Ok - appreciate the confirmations. Our Orks really like the green glowy stuff Necrons use - going to try to squeeze it out of them....

Ork waugh psychic powers also interfering...because they think it will?

Ere we go Ere we go!

I always thought it would be cool if orks discovered a necron crystal refinery and started using the jagged crystals to mimic what they have seen the necrons use. May have a bit of a ratmen vibe but I figure it's the best way orks could incorporate necron tech.

Putting on Ork "thinking cap".

Necrons are not that bad because they like green too.
Green glowing stuff is always a good thing right?

Use Ork wierdboy to make the stuff work: he glows green too!
Big Mek gets hold of a few crystals, do some "modificasions" and gets a wierdboy to lay hands on it for a bit, warp-vomit on it would be better!

Hmm... gate to teleport Necrons, what if you move the other end to raw warp?
Or just locate it at "the drops" and see a bunch of squig insanity.
Not too different from the Shock Attack Gun.

So, if you collect a whole bunch of scarabs (good fun for the grots!) and put them in an armored box... zap it with a Necron gun and let them out on your enemy = fun?

The boyz in the Kult of Speed always wanted "Tomb Blades", a Big Mek has an "idea".

Oh, a mad doc and a mek boy get together and graft some necron body parts to Orks... stick a big glowy gem backpack on them and fire up some necron weapons.

Fun stuff.

Could do a "counts as" necron army using modified Orks since they think anything using green cannot be all that bad.

Don't come near the pyramid, it is evil.
Let some humans dig up the good stuff, convince the humans to give it to you.


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Don't try to loot the tin boys them not staying dead gives issues.

By being properly Orky.

If an Ork believes he can loot it enough, and if he has enough of his Boyz around to help, there's nothing he can't loot.

(I'm not even joking; this is part of the power of the gestalt psychic field that is the WAAAGH!, which all Orks project)

Come now the orks was made by the Brainboyz to defeat the Tinmenz so of course we can lootz the tinny's stuffz..

 oldzoggy wrote:
Don't come near the pyramid, it is evil.
Let some humans dig up the good stuff, convince the humans to give it to you.

I hope by "convince" you mean smash their face in.

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Don't try to loot the tin boys them not staying dead gives issues.

Them cron boyz is best cause when you run outta tin gitz to smash they get back up for another go. Also anything can be looted if your orky enough.

Can't remember if it was the Ork codex or previous Necron codex but one dynasty bribed an Ork warboss with 100 doomsday barges. The Orks buggered off well chuffed but the first time they used the 'modified' barges they anhialated themselves and the system they were invading. Necrons can be kunnin' too.

 NoiseMarine with Tinnitus wrote:
Can't remember if it was the Ork codex or previous Necron codex but one dynasty bribed an Ork warboss with 100 doomsday barges. The Orks buggered off well chuffed but the first time they used the 'modified' barges they anhialated themselves and the system they were invading. Necrons can be kunnin' too.

It was the previous necron codex but you're misremembering it a little bit. The orks did go off and had their fun but they got curious about how the arks worked. One containment breach later and the orks and the world they were on became solar dust.

Quite right you are King Pariah. Been a while since I read it.

 Lord Damocles wrote:
Alternatively, grabbing Necron weapons before they can self repair (eg. 'Da Necron Rayd' in Gorkamorka Gubbinz #1).

I'm coming to this a bit late I know but Da Necron Rayd ain't canonical at all. I assume that matters in this particular subforum but if not ignore me

GW always maintain "there is no canon" - every version of everything happend in some way.

Besides which, I'm not sure what the problem is with the Gubbinz scenario? It's a GW publication, and it's not out of character.

There are examples of necrons not phasing out at death due to lucky damage - in Hammer & Anvil, for example, (most of) a necron skull is found, which alerts the people sent to reconsecrate Sanctuary 101 as to what happened.

Just saying 'it's not canon' isn't an argument for something not being canon.

No, it's not, I just felt like going into detail might be a bit patronising. Damned if you do and damned if you don't I guess

The reason it's non-canonical (but not necessarily out of character) is simply because it wasn't written by GW. It was written by a fan of Gorkamorka, one Andrew Mcaleer.

I'm no expert on canonicity but I was under the impression that the equivalent of fan fiction isn't generally regarded as canon.

It was published by GW in one of their own publications (alongside material which first appeared in White Dwarf).

By the logic that 'GW didn't write it therefore it isn't canon', you'd have to strike out most(?) Specialist Games material, chunks of material from White Dwarf (for example Sherman Bishop's material on Tyranids), and large amounts of material (again, most?) published by Black Library (because the individual authors aren't 'GW'), and all licenced material.

I was trying to provide a bit of extra info on a fairly obscure source, I'm sorry that it wasn't welcome. If you feel it's canon then fair enough. I disagree.

 Talizvar wrote:
Putting on Ork "thinking cap".The boyz in the Kult of Speed always wanted "Tomb Blades", a Big Mek has an "idea"

I can just imagine this...

Honestly, if anyone can loot a Necron vehicle, it'd be the Orks. If anyone's got phase-blocking technology it'd have been the Old Ones, and they'd have left it in the Mekboys' arsenal just in case.

 Flamekebab wrote:
I was trying to provide a bit of extra info on a fairly obscure source, I'm sorry that it wasn't welcome. If you feel it's canon then fair enough. I disagree.

There is no canon in 40k, this isn't Star Wars.

Got a source on that

 AnomanderRake wrote:
Honestly, if anyone can loot a Necron vehicle, it'd be the Orks. If anyone's got phase-blocking technology it'd have been the Old Ones, and they'd have left it in the Mekboys' arsenal just in case.

And the Mekboy would have no clue he was even using it.