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Well, they put a destroyer body on top of the walker. But that IDs that character and two bodyguards I pointed out on the FB group

EDIT* they could be some form of cryptek that repairs warriors

New scarabs by the looks of it. Which I think is nice.

And dual wielding Pariahs?

torblind wrote:
New scarabs by the looks of it. Which I think is nice.

And dual wielding Pariahs?

Those are the 3 legged destroyers we've seen. They have giant axe or dual axes.

Body guards seem to have cryptek heads and jet engine bodies. Curious.


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 nintura wrote:

torblind wrote:
New scarabs by the looks of it. Which I think is nice.

And dual wielding Pariahs?

Those are the 3 legged destroyers we've seen. They have giant axe or dual axes.

You'd think there wasn't any CC niche left to fill after wraiths, lychguard, praetorians and flayed ones. And scarabs.

I'm really not a fan of the new look.
They're making them too human. Tomb Kings in space.
Bring back the lovecraftian cosmic horror!

That dude standing with the scarabs. It'd be nice if that was intentional and he's a canoptek character

Or perhaps that tripod with destroyer-body-for-head is an awesome rewamped Spyder.


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What about the claw guy in top, Imotekh? Edit: Ah no that's the tripod thingy we've seen in detail.

I love this new look! Totally on board.

 Blndmage wrote:
I'm really not a fan of the new look.
They're making them too human. Tomb Kings in space.
Bring back the lovecraftian cosmic horror!

I have no idea what could give you the impression that the new models are more human than the old ones. The new walkers are right out of War of the Worlds.

The warriors are only minor changes to their previous designs - mostly in the heads and the power rods on the guns. Otherwise its the same design they've had since they've gone plastic.

Not seen this posted here yet.

New monolith, new heavy destroyer, what looks like a big winged c'tan (New nightbringer?), silent king chillin in the background.

Here is a break down of the boxset units:

30 bases total shown

17 Warriors with mixed weapons (right unit is cut off so may be a full 10man)

3 Crabby Stabbies (CC Destroyers, yes?) with a Crabby Stabby Daddy and a floaty scarab

1 Immortal support character

1 Walker Construct

1 Overlord

2 Swarmy Scarab swarms

1 Cryptek with 2 retinue

 Tauris_Blazestar wrote:
Here is a break down of the boxset units:

30 bases total shown

17 Warriors with mixed weapons (right unit is cut off so may be a full 10man)

3 Crabby Stabbies (CC Destroyers, yes?) with a Crabby Stabby Daddy and a floaty scarab

1 Immortal support character

1 Walker Construct

1 Overlord

2 Swarmy Scarab swarms

1 Cryptek with 2 retinue

I'm so happy with this, beyond my wildest expectations of what we'd be getting. Loving the look of everything, especially the stabby destroyers and weird war of the worlds thingys.

I started a general discussion thread if anyone wants to head there so we don't spam up the tactics thread: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/788624.page

I'm not sure I like the three armed lord.
How does it fight? I don't understand how it can move its gun arm into firing position without the sword arm getting in the way.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
I'm not sure I like the three armed lord.
How does it fight? I don't understand how it can move its gun arm into firing position without the sword arm getting in the way.

Really ? We get a ton of new models, a new codex, new general rules, and thats what you think about ??

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
I'm not sure I like the three armed lord.
How does it fight? I don't understand how it can move its gun arm into firing position without the sword arm getting in the way.

That's the sort of thing you can't take issue with in 40k

 Sasori wrote:
I started a general discussion thread if anyone wants to head there so we don't spam up the tactics thread: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/788624.page

This is Necrons general. Discussing tactics is useless anyway when there are few tournaments because of corona and 9th + PA dropping soon. Now let's get back on the topic of discussing leaked images of models we don't know any rules for. I agree with some of the other posters that the new direction isn't great. I just wanted more HQs to choose from, but the tall walker is pretty cool as far as I can see with the blurry images and I'm a sucker for the pokémon C'tan so I'll have to get the new Silent King.

 p5freak wrote:

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
I'm not sure I like the three armed lord.
How does it fight? I don't understand how it can move its gun arm into firing position without the sword arm getting in the way.

Really ? We get a ton of new models, a new codex, new general rules, and thats what you think about ??

Yes, I do appreciate we get new models and a codex. That doesn't mean I can't critique the new models.
If the arm was coming out the back or had its own socket instead of apparently sharing it with the sword arm it would look better, imo.
Still looks more necron and better than the 5th ed vehicles though.

I do like the Skorpekh destroyers. I don't find the 3 legged look too egregious, although four legs probably would have looked better.

I'm guessing from the guy in the bottom left of that picture that there will be a new destroyer/heavy destroyer kit. I'm guessing the destroyer lord goes bye bye and is replaced with that three-legged dude. What happens to flayed ones? The most logical thing would be to add an alternate build to the warriors kit. They need to be plastic and come in groups of 10.

The front corner of the front monolith has two melee models which are probably flayed ones, or something in a kit with them - no flesh has people in other threads doubting they are FO...

 Egyptian Space Zombie wrote:
I'm guessing from the guy in the bottom left of that picture that there will be a new destroyer/heavy destroyer kit. I'm guessing the destroyer lord goes bye bye and is replaced with that three-legged dude. What happens to flayed ones? The most logical thing would be to add an alternate build to the warriors kit. They need to be plastic and come in groups of 10.

If destroyer lord goes away to be replaced by 3 legged he better get good buffs to compensate for the nerf the 3 legs are

tneva82 wrote:

 Egyptian Space Zombie wrote:
I'm guessing from the guy in the bottom left of that picture that there will be a new destroyer/heavy destroyer kit. I'm guessing the destroyer lord goes bye bye and is replaced with that three-legged dude. What happens to flayed ones? The most logical thing would be to add an alternate build to the warriors kit. They need to be plastic and come in groups of 10.

If destroyer lord goes away to be replaced by 3 legged he better get good buffs to compensate for the nerf the 3 legs are

Unless the three legged version is just as fast as the flying version and has some jumping rule to simulate flight.
The Skorpekh looked pretty agile in the trailer, so maybe Daddy Skorpekh is just as fast.

I doubt it's got fly keyword which is if anything going to go up in importance in 9th by the look of it. There's difference between jumping and flying.

Hopefully with the new codex they actually make the obelisk viable, I know the monolith isn't great but the obelisk is such a weak vehicle for us.
You pay the points for a lord of war that struggles to kill anything with a half decent save so it'll be interesting to see if they have modified the Tesla weaponry on it
maybe haywire type rule as its it an electrical based attack or make the gravity pulse able to affect all unit types as gravity pulse should affect land units aswell but its smaller area that you have to specify. I know they haven't said anything about it but thought I'd point out another weak unit in our codex

 Aza'Gorod wrote:
Hopefully with the new codex they actually make the obelisk viable, I know the monolith isn't great but the obelisk is such a weak vehicle for us.
You pay the points for a lord of war that struggles to kill anything with a half decent save so it'll be interesting to see if they have modified the Tesla weaponry on it maybe haywire type rule as its it an electrical based attack or make the gravity pulse able to affect all unit types as gravity pulse should affect land units aswell but its smaller area that you have to specify. I know they haven't said anything about it but thought I'd point out another weak unit in our codex

The obelisk was voted worst unit in the game, beating out the monolith, servitors and a wide variety of other terrible models.

I for one would love to see a point reduction on the Seraptek, so it can fit in a list more comfortably, based on its fragile nature.

Well, going just by what we know for sure, I'm thinking how it effects existing necron rules and tactics.

We know for certain that warriors get a new weapon option that is shorter ranged but more effective in that range. We can guess it might get more shots that a gauss flayer. We don't know if it will have different S, AP or Dam.

Even if it just gets more shots it means the VoD, the deceiver, night scythes and monoliths become better because anything that gets the gauss reaper warriors in range will now be more effective. Likewise MWBD is now more powerful than before.


Nephrekh's ability to make a longer advance move will be more effective if these weapons, which we can assume but aren't sure of yet, are assault 2.


Of course if they are"just" assault 2 and have the same stats otherwise as flayers they're no better than flayers at 12" so it's quite possible they will have something else to be an improvement. extra ap? A new special rule? Possible.


So just one change, a new warrior gun that is more effective at shorter range, affects anything that improves shooting or speeds up warrior movement to get them close enough to use it.

And that's just one small bit of what's coming. Thins are already looking good for the necrons.

What we really need is more resilience so we can effectively *use* the weapons we bring to the table.

Right so GW just had their live Q&A today going over some of the new stuff for the new edition. One of the biggest things I took away is the overhaul to the Command Point system. As it is now you have to fill out detachments to unlock additional CP. What the live Q&A went over is CP pools will be based on the size of the game e.g. 1000pts, 2000pts and everyone will start with the same amount of CP. We've always been starved for CP during 8th, I feel this alone will go a long way for list building and what options we have to bring to the table.

 Tauris_Blazestar wrote:
Right so GW just had their live Q&A today going over some of the new stuff for the new edition. One of the biggest things I took away is the overhaul to the Command Point system. As it is now you have to fill out detachments to unlock additional CP. What the live Q&A went over is CP pools will be based on the size of the game e.g. 1000pts, 2000pts and everyone will start with the same amount of CP. We've always been starved for CP during 8th, I feel this alone will go a long way for list building and what options we have to bring to the table.

This was already revealed on saturday. But yeh that's nice help. Might have to pay for extra detachments to mix dynasties(not sure on that. Different codexes for sure) though.


Another big one is modifiers are capped at +1/-1 and you always hit on 6's. No more +2 to hit so MWBD+sautekh stratagem to get 4+ tesla(assuming tesla isn't unmodified 6's in new codex to begin with)

Monsters will shoot out of melee just like tanks so maybe it's actually vehicle/monster keyword thing?

Hiding in 2nd floor is no protection from monsters/vehicles anymore. The big walker will kill stuff on 2nd floor in melee.

In fairness, we were starved for CP because our Troops are sub-par as of Late Stage 8th Ed.

I would have loved to bring large Brigades of troops supplemented by other detachments/units--but that wasn't competitively viable in any reasonable way.