They’re legal for matched play, narrative play and open play, but as they will no longer be receiving points updates in the future, you won’t be able to use them in most competitive events. So, whether you want to keep fielding your Whirlwind Hyperios, Death Korps Grenadier Squads, or your Wasp Assault Walkers, you can find their rules here. Once the models are ready to be painted, the first step is to work out what’s getting a metallic treatment, and which parts of the model are “Canoptek stuff” and get the green stone treatment. Here there are distinct design differences to the last segment of the legs that fit the latter, so that’s where I decided to make the split. My recipe for energy weapons is also a modified version of the same. Alongside detailed lore covering the history of the dynasties, galleries of their miniatures, 47 datasheets, and Crusade rules, there are five full Detachments – each with unique Enhancements and Stratagems – that exemplify the way these immortal alien androids do battle. With their newfound forces the Necrons conquered the galaxy. The Old Ones may have been masters of the immaterium but the C’Tan were the masters of the material realm. They harvested whole populations at will, feeding on them one after another, but never sated. As they dominated the galaxy, the C’Tan began to fight amongst themselves, feeding on each other until only a few remained.

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The Nihilakh dynasty are visually notable for combining teal and gold/bronze coloring on their armor. Most notably, Trazyn originally hails from this dynasty, and the studio paint job for Orikan the diviner also follows this color scheme. Like the others, it’s full of army-specific datasheets, rules, and bespoke Crusade content for the Death Guard, the vile,disgustingly resilient sons of the dread Daemon Primarch Mortarion. Necrons are a formidable force on the tabletop, incredibly durable thanks to all-round good saves, and the faction’s unique Re-animation Protocol rules. They benefit from largely good shooting – if only at shorter ranges compared with other shooty armies – but also surprisingly good melee, in the form of the new Skorpekh Destroyers, plus a number of decent buff characters, such as the Technomancer and Chronomancer.Mike: A pretty standard swarm unit for the time… until you gave them disruption fields and proceeded to glance as many vehicles as you could! I often quite enjoy this step in a scheme, when the most time consuming parts are done and you get the opportunity to just do a flurry of small highlights all over the place and see lots of impact from little effort. Prior to releasing the new T’au Empire book, GW published a string ofreveals outlining much improved subfaction rules for the six different T’au Septs, as well as totally reworked rules for the Mont’ka and Kauyon Tactical Philosophies; Crusade narrative rules including options for something called ‘diplomacy’; and an array of terrifyingly up-powered ranged weaponry(with accompanying Relics) that, by all accounts, are Making T’au Shooting Scary Again. Employ this Stratagem when you need a late-game objective grab. It’s also great for eliciting a real double-take from your opponent. Yes, that unit was right there, and now it isn’t, where’s it going to be next? Wargear Stratagems

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Third edge highlight: Stonewall Grey and plus 10% or so Temple Guard Blue was done as the final edge highlight on most of the body, focusing on the top edges and sharpest corners and covering less area that the last one. This mix was also painted over most of the face, leaving the recesses as the previous layer. It was also used to paint the emblem, edges of wires and gauss coils, and squiggled along the sides and top of the gauss tube as the first layer of the energy effect. This means when building a list a Necron player had to seriously consider Phase Out a threat if they wanted to load up on heavy hitting units. One could argue that the mechanic led to the rise of the very boring Phalanx army (which spammed basically just Warriors with a Monolith as support) but the army wasn’t even particularly good… especially with Rhino Rush and an Assault-heavy meta.Edge highlight with pure Citadel Deepkin Flesh. On character models you can go even further, and add in a little Citadel White Scar to the Deepkin Flesh to do reflex highlights.

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TheChirurgeon: The Monolith was the lone Necron “Transport,” and was immediately the toughest unit in the game when it was released. It was very, very hard to kill. Overall I’m very happy with the Necron lads I’ve finished up to this point, and I’m eager to paint the rest of the box! Mike: They were absolute powerhouses and the first time we saw ‘god’ level (not just Greater Daemon) stats in 40k. They ignored all saves & terrain, S9+ and T8, 4+ invulnerables, and had options to leave Close Combat. Their special abilities were good and also gave the two units some character. Their two weaknesses were sniper weapons and their incredibly high points costs. TheChirurgeon: Yeah As cool as the concept of being immune to psykers was, there just weren’t enough of them and they weren’t good enough to justify that as a reason to bring the unit. Even an Eldar army only had a couple of psykers. Even today, that particular struggle continues. On top of that, while conceptually cool, these guys had rough models and ultimately I think their eventual replacements – the Lychguard – are much better. Immortals The Gathering Storm I and Shield of Baal campaign books from late 7th edition both feature Necrons in key roles working with the Imperium to protect key worlds from threats that they’d rather not deal with themselves. In Gather Storm, Trazyn works with Cawl and Imperial forces to stop Abaddon and in Shield of Baal Anrakyr works with the Blood Angels and the Mephrit dynasty to fend off a Tyranid invasion.

TheChirurgeon: It’s worth noting that the original Flayed Ones weren’t defective, messed-up Necrons (there was no fluff about the Necrons destroying C’Tan at this point, the reason for there being so few was that they most ate each other). Instead, they were just fast, deadly Necrons who scouted ahead and wore their victims’ skin to sow confusion and fear. Warriors