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Ok under new rules apparently canoptek constructs are limited to BS 4. (But apparently spess muhreens who are millions of years technologically inferior to necrons have have an automated bunker with a BS of 3... ) so the monolith shouldn't be a construct but a piloted vehicle.

I've just never seen a pilot for the monolith or where one would go. I guess he could board it via the portal and climb up into a seat.

I'd always seen a monolith as a huge AI automated combat unit. Now I'm not sure.

I'm painting mine slowly and frustratingly, having to deal with issues the original owner and assembler left me. I painted the front panel and just had a thought as I painted the necron head on it. What if that's not a symbol? What if that head is the pilot? It might be that some vehicles don't require a full body pilot or have room for one, so the pilot just has his head separated and plugged into the vehicle.

'Only by punching through the armoured shell to the vital systems and crew within can there be any hope of ending its threat.'
Codex: Necrons (5th ed.), pg.47

Ok, that's one statement it has a crew. I guess one necron counts as a crew.

 Matt Swain wrote:
Ok under new rules apparently canoptek constructs are limited to BS 4.

I really, really hope it's a sign broken, unfluffy stat inflation of Tau and Eldar is finally gone and their weaker units go back to skill 4/5 they used to have back in time when either army still had weaknesses before they went through 4 massive inflation phases in a row...

And for the record, yes, DW knights are comically stupid too and should be nerf-slammed in supplement