Games Workshop - Warhammer 40,000 - Necrons Canoptek Doomstalker

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You’ve got your hands on some core characters and troops, now where do you go? Necrons have a number of different angles to play and some of them are quite competitive. Let’s discuss a couple possible options among many that are available and how you might branch into them. Discard any tokens that can’t buy whole models. In our example, we discard our one remaining token.

After both sides have deployed, but before you have determined who will have the first turn, you must assign a different one of the command protocols below to each of the first five battle rounds, and note this down secretly on your army roster. You Have Some of the Toughest Units in the Game: Fully buffed Lychguard and Warrior units are exceptionally tough to kill, while some of your higher-end Characters like C’tan shards, Szeras and Catacomb Command Barges with the Sempiternal Weave die harder than the vast majority of stuff in their weight class.Discounts on some decent units – Warriors and Illuminor Szeras dropped a good amount, making them more valuable, Imotekh got a small discount just as he became more valuable, one-of Ophydians are even more attractive at 100pts, and a few of the bigger toys like Monoliths and The Silent King are attractively priced. Annihilation Barge • Catacomb Command Barge • Doomsday Ark • Ghost Ark • Tesseract Ark • Tomb Blade • Monolith ( Doomsday Monolith) • Megalith • Obelisk • Tesseract Vault • Dias of Dominion and Triarchal Menhirs • Triarch Stalker Dimensional Translocation: A generic rule for all units that can deep strike in the reinforcement step. It’s the standard 9″ distance, and it’s nice to see it codified centrally. Five Pteraxii Sterylizors provide a potent deep strike threat with their phosphor torches, and three Serberyrs Sulphurhounds are fast, flame-spewing cavalry who can trade up into tougher foes. Inside the Codex is a guide on how to get your Purge Corps Deltic-9 painted in the livery of Mars, and some tips for tipping engagements in your favour.

The other pre-game upgrade option is Hand of the Phaeron. Replacing Phaeron’s WIll, for 2CP this upgrades one of your Overlords to be a PHAERON, and lets them use My Will Be Done twice a turn. While useful in some builds, the fact that MWBD is CORE only does mean this is far from and auto-take, especially with how juicy a lot of your other options are, but worth keeping in mind.

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Imotekh gives you an extra CP each turn and has decent shooting and melee, plus a once-per-game Mortal AoE. He doesn’t buff his unit at all though, which feels like it might pull counter to what the army is trying to do.

Dynastic Agent: Units that can be added to any Necron detachment without breaking detachment abilities or protocols. With the new book in play, Necrons play pretty much how you’d expect just from looking at them. Legions of durable infantry lumber up the board, surrounded by a panoply of strange and terrible damage dealers, whether they be viciously be-clawed constructs, robot space wizards wielding arcane relics, imprisoned star gods or looming ancient war machines. Your core forces are extremely durable, while your specialist units are exceedingly effective when deployed in the right situations. The tradeoff for all of this is that you have to think ahead. Many units are relatively ponderous, while the powerful Command Protocols have to be planned out before battle is even joined. Get your strategy right and you can grind your foes before you. Get it wrong, and the pesty galactic usurpers will run rings around you, forcing you to make a tactical withdrawl to your tomb world rather than be undone. This Necron character is another walking fear-monger-er. Although this time instead of just looking the part, it also was some fear-related abilities as well.

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On the flip side, he’ll also have 16 wounds which means that players can start shooting away at him as soon as the game starts. The Void Dragon