Necron codex next

[manrogue]

Thought we had a Necron thread going but couldn't spot it, new codex is due up for pre-order next week-

[manrogue]

Supposed to be similar to the Grey knight release, ie no new units, codex update

[manrogue]

From Archibald_TK on Warseer

Re: Necron Rumours Mk.II
Necrons have a whole new way to build an army! The Decurion. It's both opening a lot of options and restrictive at the same time, as weird as it sounds. You can use it instead of normal FoC if you want. also keep in mind that it's the usual me reading the WD super fast when I have the time so there may be mistakes:

You basically can chose a base formation that includes all of your basic units.
It must contain: - 1 Overlord (or Zandrek, Anraky, Trazyn or a Barge), 2 units of Warriors, 1 of Immortal and 1 of Tomb Blades.
You lose Objectives Secured, Overlord and all units from this formation within 12" reroll 1 to Protocols, and two fluffy but not usually useful rules: Move through Cover and Relentless (in case you really want to charge with your Warriors/Immortals after shooting =/, which is funny because even in the WD they realize it's the only use).
You can add 6 units of Warriors, 3 of Immortals, 2 Lychguards, 2 Tomb Blades if I remember correctly and 3 Monoliths.
No reroll on the Warlord table for it, probably because it's not really a normal detachment.

Once done you can add a Royal court formation: 1 Overlord (same as previously except it can be the Stormlord now), up to 3 Cryptek and up to 3 Lords.

Then, you can add up to 10 of the available formations, which are all about a theme, in any number if I've read it right, (which I'll be able to confirm later today) so you can go full Destroyer if you want for example:
- One is 1 Destroyer Lord, 3 units of Destroyer, and can add 1 unit of Heavy Destroyers (Ohhhhhhhhh, they are no longer Destroyer upgrades?).
- One allow you to add a Nightbringer Shard, Deceiver Shard, ACtan or Vault. (Ohhhhhhhh, they refer to the shards by their name!)
- One is 2 Annihilation Barge and a Doomsday Ark
- I think there is one with an Obelisk and 2 Monoliths.
- One is 1 Spyder, 1 unit of Wraiths, 1 of Scarabs
- 1 Stalker and 2 Praetorians
- 1 unit of Deathmarks (yup, just 1 if I remember right)
- 1 unit of Flayed Ones
- One is up to 4 Doom Scythes (remember folks, I go from memory so I may be messing up numbers)
And so on, I have no idea if these formations can be taken outside of the Decurion, as I didn't have enough time to read in detail. Also I'm pretty sure that there are no Night Scythes and Ghost Arks formations, thus they shall still be dedicated transports I suppose.

Also I do not expect anything else for the Necrons as the end of the WD refer for the following week to "Dance of Death".

EDIT-
Apparently Necrons are not repackaged? So the same models may have different bases depending if they come from individual boxes or the new battleforce?

Link: http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread...ost7362138

Is it just me or does this seem a really convulted way to build a army?

[jaqenhgar]

Yep, also with no new units it really doesn't sound worth investing £30 in a new codex, probably will keep playing with the current dex if ppl don't mind.

[aprilmanha]

Yep, also with no new units it really doesn't sound worth investing £30 in a new codex, probably will keep playing with the current dex if ppl don't mind.

Sounds good Unless they nerfed MSS

[manrogue]

This looks to be more interesting


Source http://descansodelescriba.blogspot.de/20...al-de.html

[Embolden]

I notice a few things... Trancendent C'tan oh dear!

Shard of Nightbringer, Shard of Deceiver - were taken out of the old codex

and 1 unit of heavy destroyers - were part of the destroyer entry in the last codex after being a Heavy Support option in the previous codex.

[manrogue]

Apparently Tranny C'tan has been nerfed, something about rolling a D6 to see what he does. We will see in a couple of months.

Noticed the destroyers thing myself, looks like could be split entries in this codex.

Looks like they are trying to introduce a formation based way of list creation.

[jaqenhgar]

I really hope they make triarch praetorians worth taking

[Embolden]

Oh and another thing... Obelisk? Same category as the Monolith, I would seriously hate this way of list building...