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Since the Plasmancer, Overlord and Lord are all HQ's I'm going to assume he's an Elite.

 Bosskelot wrote:
Since the Plasmancer, Overlord and Lord are all HQ's I'm going to assume he's an Elite.

That's.. interesting I guess. Probably nice for us?

torblind wrote:

 Bosskelot wrote:
Since the Plasmancer, Overlord and Lord are all HQ's I'm going to assume he's an Elite.

That's.. interesting I guess. Probably nice for us?

We are not a HQ intensive faction, but with the new detachement mecanics, we will probably play with one Patrol or Battalion. That's a maximum of 3 HQ choices. But if i'm totally honest, it would probably be the plasmancer i would drop first. Maybe we don't have all the rules and possiblities, but i find him rather weak. The Thralls could be good, but better suited to somebody like Szeras.

torblind wrote:

 Bosskelot wrote:
Since the Plasmancer, Overlord and Lord are all HQ's I'm going to assume he's an Elite.

That's.. interesting I guess. Probably nice for us?

Yeah, if the leaked costs are true he's only about 10 pts cheaper than an overlord, I'd prefer him to be elite. Our HQ slot is already pretty crowded and we don't use our elites a lot.

Plasmancer is a HQ, you can see the skull poking out from behind the post-it in this picture

https://imgur.com/bDB9MMp

IanVanCheese wrote:
Plasmancer is a HQ, you can see the skull poking out from behind the post-it in this picture

https://imgur.com/bDB9MMp

Yeah, I think we're all talking about the Royal Warden. I can't make that one out.

 Sasori wrote:

IanVanCheese wrote:
Plasmancer is a HQ, you can see the skull poking out from behind the post-it in this picture

https://imgur.com/bDB9MMp

Yeah, I think we're all talking about the Royal Warden. I can't make that one out.

Yeah just caught up and realised my mistake.

You can match up the flavour text in the top right with that of the Overlord, which means he comes after the overlord in the booklet. That makes me think HQ, since it goes HQ, troops, elites.

So 4 HQs in the box for us, which is weird.

Hoping for some kind of royal court rule that means extra HQs don't take up slots, otherwise our HQ slots are looking busy now.

IanVanCheese wrote:

 Sasori wrote:

IanVanCheese wrote:
Plasmancer is a HQ, you can see the skull poking out from behind the post-it in this picture

https://imgur.com/bDB9MMp

Yeah, I think we're all talking about the Royal Warden. I can't make that one out.

Yeah just caught up and realised my mistake.

You can match up the flavour text in the top right with that of the Overlord, which means he comes after the overlord in the booklet. That makes me think HQ, since it goes HQ, troops, elites.

So 4 HQs in the box for us, which is weird.

Hoping for some kind of royal court rule that means extra HQs don't take up slots, otherwise our HQ slots are looking busy now.

That would be cool. It may key off the Noble Keyword on the Overlord or something.

A return of the royal court might be nice. That was 5th ed rule that I thought was cool, despite the dynasty aspect.

How much is the Indomitus Box? Might have to split it with someone.
Does it come with one rule book or two? Because if there's one some negotiation might be in order. I guess we can just donate it to the FLGS and I buy my own copy of the BRB.

Yeah it'd be cool. Also a strat like that GSC one, so if you have an ovelord as warlord, you can give a cryptek and a warden an additional warlord trait. Something like that would be spicy.

As things stand, I think it's looking like we might have to consider Battalion and Patrol, just eat the 2CP cost to get more HQ slots.

We're still gonna be too expensive to field a brigade outside of weird lists, unless RP changes make it so we don't need max sized squads.


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 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
How much is the Indomitus Box? Might have to split it with someone.
Does it come with one rule book or two? Because if there's one some negotiation might be in order. I guess we can just donate it to the FLGS and I buy my own copy of the BRB.

No price yet, but rumour is £120 rrp (so £96 at third party sellers). One rulebook per box. I'm getting a full box for me and then buying another necron half off someone.

 CthuluIsSpy wrote:
A return of the royal court might be nice. That was 5th ed rule that I thought was cool, despite the dynasty aspect.

How much is the Indomitus Box? Might have to split it with someone.
Does it come with one rule book or two? Because if there's one some negotiation might be in order. I guess we can just donate it to the FLGS and I buy my own copy of the BRB.

There is a bunch of prices floating around right now. I've seen 200 USD, 240 USD, and 290 USD.

I think we will get an official price this Sunday.

IanVanCheese wrote:
Yeah it'd be cool. Also a strat like that GSC one, so if you have an ovelord as warlord, you can give a cryptek and a warden an additional warlord trait. Something like that would be spicy.

As things stand, I think it's looking like we might have to consider Battalion and Patrol, just eat the 2CP cost to get more HQ slots.

We're still gonna be too expensive to field a brigade outside of weird lists, unless RP changes make it so we don't need max sized squads.

Now that would be awesome.

Still holding out hope that Lords are still a thing and not being replaced by Wardens


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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/07/02/free-core-rules-new-models-sighted/

NECRON TERRAIN

According to the article they're durable, and can shoot? But if a Cryptek is nearby you can teleport models around

 Kharne the Befriender wrote:

IanVanCheese wrote:
Yeah it'd be cool. Also a strat like that GSC one, so if you have an ovelord as warlord, you can give a cryptek and a warden an additional warlord trait. Something like that would be spicy.

As things stand, I think it's looking like we might have to consider Battalion and Patrol, just eat the 2CP cost to get more HQ slots.

We're still gonna be too expensive to field a brigade outside of weird lists, unless RP changes make it so we don't need max sized squads.

Now that would be awesome.

Still holding out hope that Lords are still a thing and not being replaced by Wardens


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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/07/02/free-core-rules-new-models-sighted/

NECRON TERRAIN

According to the article they're durable, and can shoot? But if a Cryptek is nearby you can teleport models around

Utterly gorgeous models (and by the looks of it, three come as one unit). Translocation protocols sounds like exactly what we need - a way to zip around to where we need to be.

These look so much better than in the pictures..

Beautiful, depending on their point costs I could see taking them in a Fortification network.

Could make for some nasty objective grabbing. Might even help warriors with Gauss Reapers

Also, at the bottom of the article it says there'll be more reveals saturday, hopefully that means more than datasheets

Nice, perhaps an additional way to pull units out of CC too

I think reading it it’s the Terrain Piece that relocates, rather than relocating units?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I think reading it it’s the Terrain Piece that relocates, rather than relocating units?

I don't think that makes sense. I'd put my money on it helping units move around the board, just like the monolith used to be able to do.

The thing about the Plasmancer is with his Cryptek keyword, he could actually have some kind of bonus towards RP that isn't listed in his datasheet but is listed in the new RP mechanics.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I think reading it it’s the Terrain Piece that relocates, rather than relocating units?

The way it is written that's what it sounds like.

I would imagine there is a good chance their wording is off and it teleports units around.

 Sasori wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I think reading it it’s the Terrain Piece that relocates, rather than relocating units?

The way it is written that's what it sounds like.

I would imagine there is a good chance their wording is off and it teleports units around.

Or the wording is correct, and it buffs units and teleports around so it can continue to buff units.

Voss wrote:

 Sasori wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I think reading it it’s the Terrain Piece that relocates, rather than relocating units?

The way it is written that's what it sounds like.

I would imagine there is a good chance their wording is off and it teleports units around.

Or the wording is correct, and it buffs units and teleports around so it can continue to buff units.

Could be as well, but that just seems a bit awkward.

What, that it would do what they said it would?

Terrain providing bonuses within a certain radius is pretty normal for army terrain pieces. Being able to move it forward as your army advances is just sensible for a faction with lots of teleportation science.

* Orders a third TTCombat Cyber Tower *

Voss wrote:
What, that it would do what they said it would?

Terrain providing bonuses within a certain radius is pretty normal for army terrain pieces. Being able to move it forward as your army advances is just sensible for a faction with lots of teleportation science.

No, I think teleporting the terrain around the table instead of Necron units would be much more awkward.

New paints for those who want to do the Szarekhan Dynasty scheme...



Personally I'm looing forward to the Tesseract Glow Technical paint.

 Bosskelot wrote:
The thing about the Plasmancer is with his Cryptek keyword, he could actually have some kind of bonus towards RP that isn't listed in his datasheet but is listed in the new RP mechanics.

Possibly, but since it may just be so the Cryptothralls can work with either this guy or the regular Crypteks. I think we'll more likely see the old Crypteks being the unit buffing guys and these guys as a bit more offensive.

The Warden being an HQ is a bit weird and annoying as Necrons are now one of the few factions that don't get mini characters in their Elite slots. Would have been nice to have the Warden fit there. I wonder if this is a case of GW not quite grasping the subtleties of some of the changes they've made.

Please can they reveal RP this Saturday. Its the thing we need to know most of all

 Aza'Gorod wrote:
Please can they reveal RP this Saturday. Its the thing we need to know most of all

That most likely won't be changed until the new codex is released.


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Noticed in the pic of the Convergence of Dominion that the Cryptothralls are some big bois...