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I can't see anything in the launch box that I don't want, with the possible exception of the price tag. With all of the models and the core book it's probably going to be over 200 USD, which will be a half or two thirds of what the box would cost if you bought each thing individually. I better start buttering up my wife now...

 Grimgold wrote:
I can't see anything in the launch box that I don't want, with the possible exception of the price tag. With all of the models and the core book it's probably going to be over 200 USD, which will be a half or two thirds of what the box would cost if you bought each thing individually. I better start buttering up my wife now...

They do mention that the box will have a savings of over 50% if you were to buy the models individually. Being limited release doesn't help though. I'm sure like every other set, that certain models are going to be locked into the boxset for a while.

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:

Warrior sprues have enough weapons to give everyone either the flayer or reaper

What gave you that impression?
The new warriors in the box have some of both, but nothing to indicate they have ALL of both.

Whether they carry their traditional gauss flayers or the shorter-ranged but harder-hitting gauss reapers, phalanxes of Warriors are the inexorable mainstay of any Necron legion. Indomitus contains twenty of these fantastic new models, a fresh take on the classic Necron complete with pitted and scarred armour and plenty of battle damage from one-too-many reanimations!

Voss wrote:

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:

Warrior sprues have enough weapons to give everyone either the flayer or reaper

What gave you that impression?
The new warriors in the box have some of both, but nothing to indicate they have ALL of both.

Whether they carry their traditional gauss flayers or the shorter-ranged but harder-hitting gauss reapers, phalanxes of Warriors are the inexorable mainstay of any Necron legion. Indomitus contains twenty of these fantastic new models, a fresh take on the classic Necron complete with pitted and scarred armour and plenty of battle damage from one-too-many reanimations!

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The sprue pic are out there show 10 flayers and 10 of the new guns for the 19 bodys.

Voss wrote:

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:

Warrior sprues have enough weapons to give everyone either the flayer or reaper

What gave you that impression?
The new warriors in the box have some of both, but nothing to indicate they have ALL of both.

Whether they carry their traditional gauss flayers or the shorter-ranged but harder-hitting gauss reapers, phalanxes of Warriors are the inexorable mainstay of any Necron legion. Indomitus contains twenty of these fantastic new models, a fresh take on the classic Necron complete with pitted and scarred armour and plenty of battle damage from one-too-many reanimations!

You can see the sprue pics on BoLS. There are ten of each weapon on the Warrior sprue.

I think I can say that I'm very interested to know how the army will work, but I'm finding a lot of the models to be a bit dissapointing.

My only concern is how modifiable the sculpts are, but I personally think they'll all look great in my scheme

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:
My only concern is how modifiable the sculpts are, but I personally think they'll all look great in my scheme

I've got a gut feeling the Mono-pose warriors are going to be the regular kit. They come with all the weapon options and Scarabs.

Necrons have never really had pose-able warriors. From the totally fixed pose of the metal ones (which if I recall right were all one part); through to the plastics they are all pretty mono-pose. With the current once about the only choice if you have is if they hold their guns against their chest or raised up from it.

The only benefit is right now you can make them with the guns off - paint them and then attach the guns which makes it easier to get to the chest and guts of the warrior and the back of the gun. One hopes that the new ones will emulate this construction option easily.

 Overread wrote:
The only benefit is right now you can make them with the guns off - paint them and then attach the guns which makes it easier to get to the chest and guts of the warrior and the back of the gun. One hopes that the new ones will emulate this construction option easily.

Depending on how the arms attach on the push-fit models, you may be able to just rotate them up to paint the torso and then rotate them back down when you're done (see Peachy's tutorial for The Wurmspat where he does something similar with the Retchling).

 Sasori wrote:

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:
My only concern is how modifiable the sculpts are, but I personally think they'll all look great in my scheme

I've got a gut feeling the Mono-pose warriors are going to be the regular kit. They come with all the weapon options and Scarabs.

They did say in the stream they had certain head options if you didnt want to have them all look banged up. My main concern is the characters/Skorpekh, I think of my 9 characters, there's maybe 6 or so that come from either Overlord model, so hopefully with a bit of cutting and swapping here and there they'll come out ace.

I think I'm going to check out those sprue pics

I'm just stoked the warrior head are attached to the sprue via their chin instead of their cheeks.

I like the designs.

Clearly taken inspiration from Jes Goodwin's destroyer sketch form 2 decades ago

 Grimgold wrote:
I'm just stoked the warrior head are attached to the sprue via their chin instead of their cheeks.

Right you are, glorious.

And that artwork is ace, makes the... Lohkhuhst, feel cooler imo

New Necrons are gorgeous. VERY alien in design and concept overall and really helps separate more from other Xenos designs. More rules info would be most wanted though.

 Grimgold wrote:
I'm just stoked the warrior head are attached to the sprue via their chin instead of their cheeks.

God yes. That was the worst part.

No head should ever be sprued by the cheek!

Yet it seems for what I can only assume are necessary reason, every sprue has at least one ‘utter sod’ of a channel involved.

Slayer-Fan123 wrote:
New Necrons are gorgeous. VERY alien in design and concept overall and really helps separate more from other Xenos designs. More rules info would be most wanted though.

Yeah I agree, the better quality pictures were nice, but a few rule wouldn't have gone amiss

Suspect it’ll be pre-order soon, and we’ll see rules previews then.

I've seen a few people saying that the cryptothralls are an elite. I can see them being elite but I also hope they are an upgrade to buy alongside your cryptek similar to say tau gun drones. It seems silly having an elite slot be taken up by guys who live literally just to guard your cryptek

 Aza'Gorod wrote:
I've seen a few people saying that the cryptothralls are an elite. I can see them being elite but I also hope they are an upgrade to buy alongside your cryptek similar to say tau gun drones. It seems silly having an elite slot be taken up by guys who live literally just to guard your cryptek

Could be both? An Elite slot on their own, but ‘free’ if you’ve a Cryptek?

That is probably whats going to happen, drukhari beasts dont take a slot if theres a beastmaster in your list so its happened before. Im sure there are other examples out there.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 Aza'Gorod wrote:
I've seen a few people saying that the cryptothralls are an elite. I can see them being elite but I also hope they are an upgrade to buy alongside your cryptek similar to say tau gun drones. It seems silly having an elite slot be taken up by guys who live literally just to guard your cryptek

Could be both? An Elite slot on their own, but ‘free’ if you’ve a Cryptek?

I hope so.

I also hope a lot of the new units go to the Elite slot. Our Fast Attack slot is already so crowded, we don't need anything else there!

 Sasori wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 Aza'Gorod wrote:
I've seen a few people saying that the cryptothralls are an elite. I can see them being elite but I also hope they are an upgrade to buy alongside your cryptek similar to say tau gun drones. It seems silly having an elite slot be taken up by guys who live literally just to guard your cryptek

Could be both? An Elite slot on their own, but ‘free’ if you’ve a Cryptek?

I hope so.

I also hope a lot of the new units go to the Elite slot. Our Fast Attack slot is already so crowded, we don't need anything else there!

Yeah our fast attack slot doesnt really need anything else adding to it. From the new units they've revealed I cant see anything else being added there. I am curious as to what slot the reanimator is going to fall into

 Aza'Gorod wrote:

 Sasori wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 Aza'Gorod wrote:
I've seen a few people saying that the cryptothralls are an elite. I can see them being elite but I also hope they are an upgrade to buy alongside your cryptek similar to say tau gun drones. It seems silly having an elite slot be taken up by guys who live literally just to guard your cryptek

Could be both? An Elite slot on their own, but ‘free’ if you’ve a Cryptek?

I hope so.

I also hope a lot of the new units go to the Elite slot. Our Fast Attack slot is already so crowded, we don't need anything else there!

Yeah our fast attack slot doesnt really need anything else adding to it. From the new units they've revealed I cant see anything else being added there. I am curious as to what slot the reanimator is going to fall into

I personally think it'll fall into Elites. If you look at the current non-FW canoptek units we have the scarabs, wraiths, and sptder. 2 FA, 1 HS. Between the Reanimator and Doomstalker I think it'llbe an Elite and HS respectively.

Now all we're missing is canoptek troops and HQ

From the latest GW post it looks like we will be getting some more info on the new models throughout the week. I know I'm not the only person to say this but really hoping for some new rules

 Aza'Gorod wrote:
From the latest GW post it looks like we will be getting some more info on the new models throughout the week. I know I'm not the only person to say this but really hoping for some new rules

Agreed, not only am I excited for the new stuff, but I'm curious as to how the current rules will change, if they do.

Also praying the Overlord gets the stats it deserves

I wonder if the necron lord gets squatted. There's a lot of new HQs, but no update on the lord. It's by far the oldest and crappiest sculpt in the range. I like the new HQs have more variety than just many random dudes holding staves or scythes.

 Egyptian Space Zombie wrote:
I wonder if the necron lord gets squatted. There's a lot of new HQs, but no update on the lord. It's by far the oldest and crappiest sculpt in the range. I like the new HQs have more variety than just many random dudes holding staves or scythes.

I expect any generic Finecast models- I.E. the Overlord, Old Lord, Cryptek will all get squatted.

I don't know if the Lord as an entry in the dex is getting squatted, since most people can use their spare overlords as lords.

I am beginning to get concerned that regular Gauss Cannon destroyers may be getting squatted though. It looks like the new Heavy Destroyer has, speculated, an anti-tank weapon and an anti infantry weapon.


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Here are some of the models in the traditional scheme. I prefer this color scheme, though I do like the bronze one as well.

 Sasori wrote:

 Egyptian Space Zombie wrote:
I wonder if the necron lord gets squatted. There's a lot of new HQs, but no update on the lord. It's by far the oldest and crappiest sculpt in the range. I like the new HQs have more variety than just many random dudes holding staves or scythes.

I expect any generic Finecast models- I.E. the Overlord, Old Lord, Cryptek will all get squatted.

I don't know if the Lord as an entry in the dex is getting squatted, since most people can use their spare overlords as lords.

I am beginning to get concerned that regular Gauss Cannon destroyers may be getting squatted though. It looks like the new Heavy Destroyer has, speculated, an anti-tank weapon and an anti infantry weapon.

I could see the entry disappearing and people just using old lords as another overlord. I could see the Royal Warden as taking over as the cheaper buffing HQ option. That's a good point about the destroyers. They've been in a weird spot for a while once tomb blades came out, because you had two pretty similar units. It's also a unit that most people have a bunch of already. If they up the points and base size on em, they suddenly become quite different. Good thing I have 24 destroyers in my army from 7th .