Clowning: Could C'Tan shards get an army of renown? What would be the troop choice?

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**Manchild 1984**

I don't know the lore of C'Tan shards enough to say if there is a maximum.

how bout

HQ: Nightbringer

Troop1: 3 Transcendents

Troop2: 3 Transcendents

**Lord Damocles**

Necrons wouldn't allow C'tan shards to act independently of their control.

**vict0988**

Manchild 1984 wrote:
I don't know the lore of C'Tan shards enough to say if there is a maximum.

how bout

HQ: Nightbringer

Troop1: 3 Transcendents

Troop2: 3 Transcendents

"You can include a maximum of one C'TAN SHARD model in each NECRONS Detachment in your army." - Codex Necrons

It'd make much more sense to have an army of renown to represent a C'tan Shard that has taken control of a Dynasty rather than an army of renown that lets you spam C'tan Shards.

**Insectum7**

Lord Damocles wrote:
Necrons wouldn't allow C'tan shards to act independently of their control.

Aren't there some that are loose and up to shennanigans? As well as still dominating some Tomb worlds?

**solkan**

Insectum7 wrote:
Lord Damocles wrote:
Necrons wouldn't allow C'tan shards to act independently of their control.
Aren't there some that are loose and up to shennanigans? As well as still dominating some Tomb worlds?

There's basically two problems:
1. In the old fluff, C'tan would essentially rather eat each other than work together. They'd basically need animosity rules or something similar, if there were more than one in a force.

2. In the new fluff, if you had a C'tan fragment that broke free or managed to start dominating some tomb worlds, it would have to be bigger and more powerful than the codex fragments.

**Wyldhunt**

Clearly the troop choice would be chaos marines based on the events of the [REDACTED] novel.

**Sasori**

No, this would almost never happen. There is not enough models and it makes zero sense lore wise.

Necrons are going to get an Army of renown, but I can bet anything it's going to be destroyer based when it comes around.

**Blndmage**

As much as I wish for an all canoptek army, and our Star Gods back in rule where they belong (all praise The Outsider, may the be freed soon), you're probably right.

**wuestenfux**

Well, one could consider an army of Canoptek creatures bolstered by C'tan.
But the variety of Canoptek units is rather limited.

**Manchild 1984**

too bad. Maybe ill find someone for a nonsense TTS game.

**Lance845**

Transcendent shard are also not the weaker ones. They are more powerful. Nightbeinging was an elite. The T shard was a LoW.

T shards have devourered other shards and become powerful amalgamations. Thats why they are not any specific c'tan.

**Manchild 1984**

Lance845 wrote:
Transcendent shard are also not the weaker ones. They are more powerful. Nightbeinging was an elite. The T shard was a LoW.

T shards have devourered other shards and become powerful amalgamations. Thats why they are not any specific c'tan.

so thats a mistake in the codex then. Because they are the cheapest.