The Barges are retarded.

Like, legitimately retarded. The pilots should be wearing safety helmets retarded.

>>16649693
It looked like they were wearing them to me...

My Necron Lord is one of those down with the False Gods kind of undead dude.

He's comes to the aid of rebels of any faction (especially humans) who are trying to throw off the shackles of oppression.

His motivation is that he doesn't want other races to fall to a god like they did the C'tan.

Also, he fights other Necrons because he believes he should be the ruler of a new unified Necron Empire. The other Necron Lords are unworthy imbeciles.

(My motivation for this fluff is so I can field my Imperial Guard with my necrons and pretend it's the same "faction". The Imperial Guard being humans who have rejected the Emprah and sought out this Necron Lord for protection)

>>16649700
Naw, man.

The Arks are sexy as fuck.

The Barges need to be burned.

Having said that, I'm buying two of each.

>>16649693
they're also made of ultramarine symbols.

Good fluff and crunch maybe,
but only to distract us from the models!

>>16649661

Ok, I'll bite. Let's start the tread off positively. I like the new necron fluff. I think it's cool that now I'll actually be able to CONSIDER what loadouts to use on my troops, what troop choices to bring, and what badass commander I should set loose. It all seems very fresh. I love the commanders, the vehicles, the new dakka, and POWER WEAPONS! My only gripe is the lack of that giant necron monsterous creature that was rumored. I wanted my Iron Giant mini!

All necron players now have a spiritual liege. How does that make you feel?

I really think we should just, you know, *talk* about the new stuff.

Not whether it's better or worse than the old stuff.

Just discuss it.

I really hope we got all the arguing out of our systems the first few threads.

>>16649708
Both the arks and the barges look retarded to me, even by 40k standards they look retarded. If I were going to play Necrons(which is the rules were better and the models cheaper I totally would just to use Deathmarks because those things are sexy) I would just stick to a Monolith and footslog like a motherfucker.

>>16649739
Probably not,
especially that Dr. Baron Von GenericNaming shows up.

That guy clearly got his doctorate in RAEG

I really don't see why people think that all of the sudden that Necrons will stop being bad guys. Just because they can fight each other now and recognize powerful adversaries doesn't mean that they've gone soft. All the Necrons, as far as I know, still have the overarching goal of reclaiming their lost empire by force. I doubt they'll go

>Hey, we're awake now and you're living on our solar system. Oh, you're using it right now? That's ok, we'll just come back after you're done.

These are my new Necron lords.

>>16649705

So wait, I have the option of making my Necrons heroic bastions of justice, liberating the oppressed and helping kittens stuck in trees?

>>16649752
>Deathmarks
I know that feel

I reallyy want to use them too but, if rumors are correct, they are way too expensive! I was really hoping to go with an entire army of Immortals, Deathmarks, Wraiths, and Doomsday Arks.

>>16649790
sure why not.
Fluff seems to allow for it.

>>16649790
Pretty much.

>>16649800
Just do it anyways, who cares, I am going to do it and no one can stop me!

Except Guard players...

How does a tomb world obsessed with money and wealth sound? Just a bunch of assholes who fly around taking anything that looks cool or is worth money,

>>16649786
I approve.

>>16649809
That's my problem! Don't get me wrong, I'm used to defeat and all but, my meta is all IG and Marines. This one Tau guy and myself are the only people playing xenos and it's our time to shine.

My Necron Lord godhood to simply be a matter of processing power. You will add cycles of die!

>>16649820
Trazyn the Infinite: He is a Necron who woke very early and is fascinated with studying and collecting history. His tomb world is filled with secret trinkets including (I quote) 'a giant of a man clad in baroque power armor' (start your wild theories here!). He even will attack other Necron tomb worlds to capture artifacts from them that he doesn't think they deserve. He is the character that has the CC ability to pick one type of model he killed that round and inflict wounds on all models of that type in the combat.

GW beat ya to it.

>>16649838
FUCKER

LOOTED

A

PRIMARCH

>NOW DATZ WUT I CALL FLASH BOSS

>>16649823
Well, who knows, maybe they are better than people are saying.

>>16649838
Thats just one guy though, I mean an entire tomb filled with gold plated warriors and stuff. It seems like he just likes artifacts and stuff like that. I plan on making my Necrons love money.

>>16649846
Pit him against a Blood Ravens army. Let the Battle of Looters commence.

>>16649820
Sounds like you doin' it right by me!

This is going to hurt my wallet hard.

With previous armies, I just bought what was needed to build a fun list and called it a day.

But now, I just know I'm going to buy everything. Goodbye proper meals; hello poptarts and water.

>finding new fleshy bodies to download themselves into
This guy. He'd be slaaneshi as fuck if he could only get some skin to have sensations with.

>>16649860

Well, he's one of the most influential 'cron Overlords, so reason stands that he's gonna have at least ONE tomb world with him. As for the money, just had an idea. Make them an offshoot of this guys tomb worlds that has misinterpreted his instructions of "capture relics of historical significance" to "capture any and everything that looks important". Shit would be funny.

>>16649821
Damn Right you approve this.

When i get my hands in that Command Barge i'll Convert the fuck out of that.
My Crons will be Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger than the rest of the Necrons Around the World.
The Best Part of all of it, it's the fact that it's possible by the fluff.
>Dat Command Barge

>>16649889
Same boat for me. Havn't bought anything for my army though, and they have been needing these reinforcements. Thankfully I've been saving for this.

>>16649786
Daft (dakka?) Orks are better. Too bad the shoop-shot is too big to upload, though.

>>16649709
Have you considered that perhaps the Ultramarines copied the Necron Barges? What if the Necrons have been subtly influencing the Ultramarines all this time, right down to their symbol?

Yes. Oh shit indeed.

>>16649971
Would make more sense seeing how Necrons are the oldest living "race" in 40k.

>>16649956
The worst part is that I'm literally buying one of everything.

Sure, the Immortals/Flayed Ones/etc will be fine since I already have a buttload but, I know I'm going to be needing multiple sets of certain ones while others are complete shit. It's still not going to stop me.

;_;

>>16649971
I'm sorry to inform you that some Necrons have accepted Maneus Calgar as their spiritual liege.

That's what my Necrons will be. Ultramarine fanboys. Painted in blue.

>>16649889
Sell your plasma like a boss.

>>16649661

Hey, I remember making that picture, nice to see it caught on.

>>16649904
I like your style guy!

>>16650013
You are a monster. Here is what happens to your Ultramarines.

In other news, I will be purchasing the fuck out of these and building Egyptcrons to lead my current complement of rusty Steamcrons and Decepticrons.

>>16649937
Make the pilots have turntables, give the Lord a sound board. Add some lasers and shit.

link to new codex?

>>16650061
Link is the store, when it comes out. Because it hasn't.

I'm thinking Portal-crons

Lady SoDalg: In fact we solved science before sleeping, testing is now just an artistic endevore

Or maybe this
Overlord Ryta Repulsor: Ahh! After Ten thousand years I'm FREE!! Its time to conqure Terra!!!

>>16650092

>endevore

Spelling error, or are your subjects now being EATEN and this was a Freudian slip?

>>16650119
No, I meant endevor, sorry, any wich do you like better?

>>16650139
*any way* damn I can never into spelling!

>>16650119
Hehe, a bunch of Necrons looking for the perfect taste. Sadly all they can taste is metal so they think everything tastes the same and get pissed. Before the great sleep they would have feasts erry day.

this is a necron lord

>>16650139

1) endeavor OR endeavour if you're British
2) conquer
3) "any wich" -- English isn't your first language, is it? First off, it would be "any which", and secondly that's never been a construction used in English.

I am so doing an army who's theme is that their Overlord acts like a ten year old with a temper tantrum.

>Wake up
>Orks looted his favorite Staff of Light
>Teleport entire Tombworld's forces to fight massive Waaagh three sectors over
>IG happen to be fighting the Orks
>Help them
>At victory party
>Planetary-Governor doesn't compliment his new cloak
>Entire sub-sector devoid of all life the next week

>>16650231
>Fighting Tyranids
>Rippers won't let him keep them as pets
>To this day, nobody knows what has been cutting a bloody path through Hive Fleet Kraken

>>16650219
"Sigh" No english is my first language, its just late for me.......

>>16650269
all flayed ones must wear navigator skins. upkeep to the highest degree. washed in embalming fluid and sun dried to keep them from spoiling quickly.

>>16650231
>It's his birthday
>The Feudal World that hasn't had contact from space in thousands of years forgot
>Entire population butchered
>Flayed Ones dance around in rotting flesh and party hats

I want to make an army for Xeno, Mistress of The Undying Swarm.

What units would you recommend?

>>16650387
Scarabs and Spyders. I could see the new vehicles working too but, only their variants with the big guns. I guess some Immortals or Warriors since you have to have them.

>>16650387
Scarabs, lots and lots of scarbs, also Tomb Spyders

>>16650387
Scarabs.

>>16650398
>>16650402
>>16650404
I like how /tg/ will always answer as fast as possible when it comes to Xeno.

>>16650387
scarabs, many many scarabs

>>16650385

>>16650398
Well Xeno has her handmaids, those scarabs that have experienced enough and absorbed enough necrodermis to begin to form a personality and a more hominid body form. Do you think that would be a good analogy for the Immortals?

>>16650437
It's fucking Xeno.

Yeah sure whatever.

>>16650437
Considering Xeno's "canon" was just created by us fa/tg/uys, any thematically appropriate conversions you come up with to represent the necessary two units of troops would be canon.

>>16650231
>At victory Banquet
>Nobody lets him ride in a Crisis Suit
>MFW we know the real reason for the Harvest of Ka'mais

>>16650483
this is my favorite lord.

My Necron Overlord believes that the Flesh is Weak, and seeks to cure the Flayer and Destroyer diseases instead of finding a new body. He was inspired by the beliefs of a Heretek Cult that worshiped him. He also has a shitton of Crypteks.

>>16650483
So, what's next in the adventures of Lord Assholetep?

>>16650483
>>16650231

I'm tempted to do some writefaggotry about a Lord who gets his first visitor to his tomb in 10,000 years but then throws a hissy when the visitor asks for immortality LIKE THEY ALWAYS DO!

>>16650551
DO EET!

>>16650231
>Helps IG fight Chaos for rule over a planet
>Weeks into the campaign
>Lord Commissar mispronounces his name
>The Deamon Prince Valshar now rules over Ciruck IV

>>16650551
>Gives Arch-Magos new shiny Necrodermis body
>Becomes most trusted adviser
>Years later
>Forgets to polish his Res Orb for him
>Magos is turned melted down and turned into Scarabs and the forgeworld where he grew up is obliterated

>>16650548
An adventure with the Adeptus Mechanicus/

>>16650586
>>Magos is turned melted down and turned into Scarabs
oops

I think my necron lord will be deeply bitter over the lost war and how it turned so many of his race into mindless automatons. But this will turn to hatred of the upstart races the old ones used to fight back against him and thus a purge will be needed, until an eldar or something reminds him that aside from them and maybe the orks, nobody even knows about the old ones anymore.

Man Assholehotep would become the next Megakain. Really awesome, gets archived, then nobody does anything with him.

>>16650483
Whenever I read this story, I always think of the scene from Mars Attacks where the aliens first land.

THEY CAME IN PEACE!

PEWPEWPEWPEWPEW.
Dead.

>>16650603
The Hrud do.

>>16650606
>Admech find Assholehotep in stasis
>Praise him and write legends about him
>Thousands of ears later they forget
>He finds records when he wakes up
>They haven't edited his page on Admechpedia in 12000 years
>All forgeworlds in the next five sectors melted to a molten goo

>hive world is under attack by nids
>he sees the world being demolished and decides to help
>after a month of hard combat the nids are all eradicated
>the citizens thank the lord and ask what he would like in return
>he asks for a solid gold statue of himself errected in the center of the major city
>they comply
>he inspects the work and finds a 5% impurity of silver in the statue
>the hive world is now a dead world.

Holy fuck... archive this thread.

Assholehotep is /tg/'s best original character in a long time.

>>16650634
I see his destroyers acting like the necron equivlent of Angry Marines

>Assholehotep helping a Forgeworld
>One of their Titans steps on a single Scarab
>"What do mean an entire Titan Legion was eaten by bugs"?

>>16650551
(TRIP MODE ENGAGE)

Consciousness.

Was he really conscious? He had to be, because he was contemplating himself. And he knew that to be conscious was to be able to recognize one's own consciousness.

He. He was male. Or at least, he had once been male.

Slowly the abstractions and ideas of the world began to filter back into his mind. Like the slow and steady cycling up of one of his heavy cannons, the Necron Lord seated upon the royal-yet-austere throne began to regain its many overlaid programming sequences and quantum computational matrices that once, in the age when the Old Ones still ruled the galaxy, had accepted the memories of his weak, fleshy mind.

Visual acuity was slower to return than auditory data. What he heard was a mess of glottal clicks and wet-sounding exhortations. Flesh. He was in the company of some thing made of flesh. His multi-dimensional memory cores instantly pulled the memory of how his own, ancient language sounded to the forefront of his consciousness...

Should if be Assholehotep, or Assholetep? Assholetep sounds a bit more like Imhotep.

I was just joking with the whole "Assholehotep" thing.

But, since /tg/ likes it, I guess I have to make it

>>16650656
They Turbo Boost around blasting obscenities and racial slurs?

...so they all have personalities now?

I mean, I guess that's cool.

I liked it better when all the Necrons wanted to do was kill everyone because keep it down you hooligans. Back in my day the stars ate people and we were damn glad for it.

...at least, that's how I always saw them...

>>16650642
LOL I FLAY YOU!

>>16650701

>>16650666

(Oh dear. Apparently my story is possessed.)

The stream of data that met the fleshy creature's ears registered as a highly compact, complex series of code rendered into audio. Had the creature the ability to translate the Necron Lord's ancient language into its own language, a rough translation would have sounded something like the following:

"Who are you?"

Visual acuity finally returned, and the Necron Lord beheld the intruder, his guest.

For a moment, the Lord wondered if some sort of damage had occurred during his sleep. He had only been asleep for...one thousand computational cycles, so it was a probabilistically unsound hypothesis.

The glottal clicks had indeed come from a fleshy mouth, but the creature standing before him, draped in some form of red robe, looked decidedly mechanical; waving mechadendrites hung behind its body like snakes, ready to strike. A single strobing green eye shone from the shadow under its hood.

It uttered more of its wet, glottal clicks. The Lord inclined its head a fraction of a centimeter to the right, as if a human regarding some kind of small animal that had wandered into its den.

>His Tomb Ships assist a fleet based Chapter fight of some Eldar Pirates
>Battle Barge cuts in front of them by accident
>The Space Hawk Chapter no longer exists

>>16650697
it is more DIY flavor crons

>>16650693
Yes.

This is my Lord. Jelly?

What happens if the Blood Ravens try to accept some of Assholetep's Cryptech as a gift?

>>16650673
Imhotep: Im my honest opinion tau eat penis

>>16650750
>They return the Cryptech to him
>One has a smudge
>Necrons confirmed for DoWIII

>>16650750
The Kaurava campaign was a great failure. Kaurava had Necrons. Do the math.

>>16650721

Movement programming finally returned, and the Lord stretched out its claw-like fingers which had been curled around the skull-faced ends of his throne's armrests. The red-robed flesh-and-machine creature scrambled down the many steps that led up to his throne, frightened by the sudden motion of the Lord.

Raising his left arm to his neck, The Lord sunk the first two fingers of his hand into his neck. Across his ancient, softly-glowing form, eldritch runes came afire with sickly golden light, flowing from the plinth-throne upon which he sat and up into his eyes, which flickered with a weak, green flare.

He tried another language, his fingers twisting slightly to re-adjust his speech modulation. This language was gruff and simple, barely more than bare grunts and loud invectives. A small flare of memory code told the Lord that it had once belonged to a race he had fought...so long ago.

When that language didn't seem to work, he turned his fingers another quarter-turn. This language was complex and almost musical in its quality, the polar opposite of the language of the Krork. Yes, Krork. That was what they were called. And this language, the language of the Old Ones.

>>16650743

Why would you name your lord Jelly?

>>16650782
that is the best name i have seen

I'm going to archive this.

It probably doesn't warrant it but, when every thread on the front page of sup/tg/ are quest threads, these little gems need a time to shine.

So Trazyn the Infinite here's got a Tau and an Eldar symbol on his belt.

Just sayin'.

>>16650824
>The Overlord who likes to collect shit has trinkets
MIND BLOWN

>>16650824
Trazyn, Bludflag, and the Magpies are now all in a scavenger hunt.

>>16650777

(Jesus, now my story is holy. WTF.)

Lastly, the Lord turned his fingers a few degrees to the right. Another code-language was belched forth from his voice matrices, and at long last there seemed to be a flicker of understanding in the flesh-and-machine thing.

"Who are you?" The Lord asked in that basic, almost childish, code-language.

The flesh-and-machine thing looked as if it might run, but whatever passed for courage amongst the young race got the better of him and he took a few steps toward the Lord.

"I am Tech-XXXXX Yriendl...and I must say, it is an XXXXX to meet you, my Lord..." The Necron Lord could only pick up small fragments of the Tech-thing's attempts to respond in that simple code-language. Again the Lord adjusted his vocal matrix, this time fully adjusting to the Tech-thing's language.

"Lord...yes, that is who I am." The Necron Lord turned his gaze from the Tech-Priest out toward his throne room. Yes, this was his throne room. He remembered coming down here, after some event, and sitting down for that long sleep.

Turning his gaze back to Yriendl, The Necron Lord began to stand. His legs seemed unwilling to support his weight for a moment, but soon he began to fully straighten to his impressive height, towering above the small Tech-Priest in his dark red robes...

"So tell me, Tech-Priest...what brings you to my throne room?"

>>16650840
Deathskullz, you mean. Bluddflagg won't join unless the prize is a hat.

>>16650824
turns out they're actually both part of an ork weapon he took, and he's never fought any eldar or tau through a fluke of probability.

>>16650782
I'm thinking Drizz'thamen.
Tortured by the evil of his kin, fights for the weak, dual wields warscythes (yes, WARSCYTHES).

Peronsally, I like the face that they are coming out with individuality with the necrons. I like the idea of their new fluff too.

I DON'T like how they are changing things from back in the day to cancel out everything we've come to know and love about necrons. I feel like they should've recently taken on the C'tan and using them as slaves as opposed to beating them before they all went into stasis. Because now, much fluff is considered obsolete. Such as the Khaine, Khorne, Nightbringer battle.

Also, I'm not a huge fan of them looking like Egyptians. They are undead space robot zombies. Not Egyptians. They could have gone sooooo many different ways with that. Fail. Harsh Fail.

Other than that, I'm quite happy that they're adding more, however this was coming eventually. What are they gonna do, update a codex with the same models and not add anything new? That's just stupid. lulz.

>>16650771
Guard won.
And kicked the necrodermis out of the Necrons along the way.

>Harvesting residents of a local Feral World
>Hears Feral Child has insulted him
>Entire human population besides the child is killed
>The last image of a sentient creature the child sees is Assholehotep mooning him

You know why the Necrons and Eldar don't like each other.

They're the only people that live long enough to Get Mad at these kinds of things

I am legitimately enjoying the storm of rage and butthurt threads these new necron previews have created. Feels good man.

>>16650895
They have always been Egyptian themed. That is part of why their war machines are giant pyramids.

>>16650901
So Assholehotep bombed the baneblade shipments.

>>16650854

"M...My Lord..." The Tech-Priest fell to his knees in front of the Necron Lord. Reaching up, he pulled the hood of his robe down, revealing his hairless, augmented face. Fully half of his upper head had been taken over by his primitive machinery, what flesh remained- one eye and that fleshy jaw that made that code-language- pale and sunken. In that fleshy eye was an emotion the Lord was at a loss to recall.

Joy. Ah, yes. That's what it was.

"I knew you existed..." The Tech-Priest said breathlessly. He appeared in the midst of some form of ecstasy, and the Necron Lord could not help but be amused by this base show of emotion. "The forbidden texts...the scraps of information about Sanctuary 101...I knew the Necron were real..."

The Necron Lord, for but a moment, had a small twinge of...dread. Yes. It was almost as if he had had conversations like this before. His memory wasn't the same as it used to be, but he put that thought aside. Now was a rare occasion, and the Lord did not want to waste it.

Spreading his claw-fingered hands wide, he stood tall and straight. "I am here, Tech-Priest, and I can assure you I am real. The pleasure of your company is appreciated, for I have not had the chance at good conversation in quite a long while. So, with that in mind: I shall answer any one question you have." Magnanimous. That was the word for what he was being. The Necron Lord was finding it slightly amusing to have to search for words in his memory.

>>16650895
>Scarabs
>Monoliths
>The ORIGINAL NECRON LORD

Gee they never looked like Egyptians before

>>16650895
DO YOU WANT ME TO FUCKING DIG OUT THE ANCIENT MODEL OF THE NECRON IN THE EGYPTIAN HEADDRESS?
SUCK MY DICK.

>>16650930
Do it faggot.

>angry marines and asholehotept's destroyers get into an arguing match over who killed the most tau.
>it was a tie.
>they proceeded to go to the next world to try to break the tie.
>the whole sector was fucked.

>>16650925
>>16650930
>Assholehotep is one of the few remaining Lords wearing the original attire
>Always made fun of
>Goes around blowing up other sleeping Tomb Worlds out of spite
>Whispers "Faggots" under his breath every time

>>16650936
You can start by licking my nuts, then work your way to the shaft.

>butchering Dark Eldar
>Dark Eldar youth throws shoe at his face
>Flayed One, Flayed Ones everywhere!
>Pic related, its whats left of the kid

>>16649661
That Eldar rune is the rune of the reaper, which is used by the Dark Reaper aspect warriors. Khaine got if from the Nightbringer when the Bloody Handed god slapped the C'tan's shit so hard it exploded.

It's not just a random looted Eldar trinket. In all probability it's got something to do with the Necrons controlling the C'tan shards.

>Assholehotep meets with some Admech
>They compliment him on his wonderful Particle Whip
>Entire Admech presence in five sectors destroyed since they confused his Staff of Light for a Particle Whip

"Please!" The Tech-Priest raised his small, fleshy hands and those waving mechadendrites towards the Necron Lord. A bit of slime was leaking from that ugly, fleshy eye of his. "Can you make me like you? Can I rid myself of this flesh and become perfect, like you?"

Silence once again descended upon the Necron Lord's tomb complex. He hunched back down, staring at the near-prostate Tech-Priest before him, those flicker wych-fire green eyes of his blank, as they had been the whole time and would be forever.

The material that made up one of his throne armrests began to bubble and liquefy. Slowly, gracefully, a tall staff emerged, metal crawling up its length as if it were mercury before forming into a wicked pair of curved blades.

Reaching back, the Lord took hold of the staff. Bringing it to bear with both hands, he unceremoniously spit the Tech-Priest in the gut with his warscythe, releasing the shaft to allow inertia and gravity to carry the Tech-Priest down the many stairs from his throne, that warscythe embedded in his augmented body.

whoah those arcs and barges look really fun

and the warriors in there look like they're dancing lol

>>16650915
>>16650925
>>16650930
The dude's point still stands. They were creating new necrons. Doesn't matter if there was lots of Egyptian stuff before, they had the option of not being so Egyptian and doing something else- like the way the Eldar stopped being crazy-haired punks/Bowie-lookalikes.

>>16651004
ALL ABOARD THE PARTY ARK

>>16651006
Wait, you have a good point.

Next Eldar codex will have bowie look alike rockstars who fly around seducing hot human bitches.

>>16650985

Like a wraith, the Necron Lord flew into the air, the universal constant of gravity seeming to warp around his metallic form. He came down hard onto the ground below, yet no sound carried.

The Tech-Priest was screeching and crying, trying to pull the Lord's warscythe from his gut. Calmly, the Lord reached out and grabbed the shaft, giving it a small twist. More screeches, followed by some fleshy babble whose meaning thankfully escaped him.

"I should thank you, Tech-Priest. My memory is not what it used to be, and had you not asked your...question, I would not have been reminded of the last time I had been woken by a flesh-sack. And the time before that. And the time before that. And for as long as I can remember since I came down here to sleep."

The Necron Lord brought himself down to one knee, bringing his skull-like face to bear on that whimpering, sputtering, bleeding flesh-sack's face.

"Pleeeease, make me like yoooooouuuu! We are soo afraid of death, please make us immortal! Pleeeeeease!" Another twist of the blades in that Tech-Priest's gut, followed by more screeches and cries of mercy.

"Creature, you truly do not have any idea of the thing for which you so BLINDLY BEG! TO CONTEMPLATE THE INFINITE SPACES BETWEEN MICROSECONDS! TO STARE INTO THE ABYSS FOR WHAT SEEMS LIKE AN EON WITHOUT THE SMALLEST CHANGE! TO KNOW THAT YOU SHALL OUTLAST THE STARS THEMSELVES!"

>>16651006
It does matter that they had Egyptian stuff before. I could use your argument by saying "they changed them from space Egyptians robots to just robots".

>>16651041
You could indeed, if you liked the Egyptian thing. That guy, however, doesn't. I don't see the problem.

>Wake up assholetep
>"I could ask you for immortality, but that sounds boring, wanna go pick up some bitches"
what happens /tg/

>>16651006
Er, actually, certain Eldar still are Bowie lookalikes. Titan crews, for instance, and some pirates.

>>16651074
>thus reminding him he doesn't have a penis anymore
>your death would make Slaaneshi daemons wince

>>16651074

"Bitches?"

"Female members of my race."

...

"Computing."

"Computing."

...

"Let's do this."


And that how Assholetep learned how to get drunk.

>>16651038

"But the worst...is the selfishness. The hubris. The pride..." The Necron Lord's voice became deadly small, a ghostly whisper in the bleeding Tech-Priest's ear.

"I have not spoken to anyone in a thousand cycles...I give you the opportunity to begin a conversation, a luxury I have not had in quite a while. What is the first thing you do? You think only of yourself and your short, precious existence, never ONCE THINKING OF ME!" The Tech-Priest cringed in the face of that ancient rage.

The Necron Lord stood, assessing the flesh-sack. Reaching down, he pulled his warscythe from its gut, twirling it upright and setting it down onto the floor with a soft thud.

"What is this planet called now? It was designated 011001 in my time..."

The Tech-Priest babbled first in its native tongue, then in that code-language.

"D...Damnos! Damnos! Please don't kill me! Pleeeeaaaaasee!"

The end. Computer forgot my trip, and I forgot I put a space in it, hurr. Night all, hope you enjoyed.

>>16651006like the way the Eldar stopped being crazy-haired punks/Bowie-lookalikes.

MODEL WISE they looked like Guardians and Harlequins are still around (and popular)

Background wise, glam rock space pirates were always there. They never had glam rock models.

I like the idea of Assholetep looking like a clissic lord model

>>The Silent King, who put himself into exile (for his unforgivable crime against his people) by leaving the galaxy after defeating the C'Tan encountered the Tyranids in the void between galaxies and has returned to spur the Necrons into action against the Tyranids (realizing that if the Tyranids wipe the galaxy clean of biological matter, then the Necrons will never find a form to transfer their minds back into).

Holy shit, this guy is cool

I'm imagining a necron lord who stumbles across an adminstratum hive planet, and sends his forces en mass to the surface... to collect the paper work and organize it in a much more efficient manner.

There should be a tale about the confusion of Assholehotep vs Assholetep, him getting pissed off at people mispelling it.

>>16651074
>all hot women in a one light year radius suddenly absent from their homes
>sweet millions-strong rave party on Assholetep's tomb world
>Assholetep tries to score with the hottest chick at the party
>she points out he doesn't have a penis
>thus did the Great Raveocaust begin

Pair of Necron Lords that go about the galaxy in a guitar shaped spaceship bringing the galaxy ancient music.

>>16651217

>>16651217

>>16651187
And the Administratum bureaucrats would go ape shit in the Name of The Emperor. (Well, some of them would. More than you would expect from a normal society, but the Imperium man, the Imperium. They probably respect the bylaws and bureaucratic procedures they abide by as holy writ.)

The reason this occurs to me is the Rogue Trader book (IE, first edition 40k) has rules for this or that imperial clerk or etc. They have a robe, possibly a knife, and a laspistol or something. They are surprisingly brave and skilled for being the imperial equivalent of accountants.

>>16651210

Relax Lord bro, gimme two minutes and a soldering iron

>>16651236
Filing is SERIOUS FUCKING BUSINESS to the Administratum.
Any Adept you could name could easily have been in a knife fight with one of those fuckers from filing block XJ6S4. They shall not forget the Great Misfiling of 241.M41.

You could have a subsect of flayers obsesed with dicks

they just collect dicks and strap them on, pretending they have dicks and trying to hump each other.

Their lord sheds a tear and the crypteks vow to find a cure for this terrible illness.

>>16650901
crypteks can fix one up in no time, pick a color

>>16651248
>>16651267
Problem being, it's still basically a necrodermis dildo.
He won't feel shit.

It is said his cry of frustration shorted out electronics for parsecs.

>>16651288
>Assholetep's face when he finds out he has no dick http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfbK_dbsCu0

>Assholetep
>Awesome writefaggotry

This is why I love late-night /tg/.

>>16651101
This is some good writing.

I am pleased.

>>16651109
I enjoyed. I would like to see Assholetep become /tg/'s next character.

"An aeons old soulless automaton king... with the petulant impatience and obnoxious tantrums of a 7 year old child."

+++ Imperial Star Charts name this world the Tomb World of the Necron Lord, Assholetep the Insufferable.

RECOMMENDATION: Avoid at all costs. Assholetep is easier to insult than a catty gay hipster at a costume party on Halloween where like 3 other gay men dressed as the same obscure superhero that you never heard of.

>>16651266

5 minutes in paint

>>16651340

Imperial Writefag is consistently good. Then again, I'm biased because I loved the Gav series.

>>16651325
>the party roughly one yoctosecond afterwards

>>16651369

My Necrons will be purists who have decided that their metal forms are infinitely superior to the flesh they abandoned.

They seek to destroy all the other weaker necrons who desire to return to their original forms.

Their vehicles will pilot themselves and none of them will have headdresses or loincloths.

Assholetep's Hieroglyph:

H
8
U

>>16651395
i used to think the same way, but then i decided that it would be hilarious to have a lord who tries his best to creep out a hivemind by simply following them around and have his units stare at the destruction the nids brings to the worlds and not do a thing. the cold green glowing eyes just watching them judging.

So... Lolicron can be REAL now?

Despite myself, I'm a bit grudgingly happy with the direction 'Crons are going, purely because I painted my guys specifically to catch the eye and be ostentatious.

My entire army is all gold, red and white. Everyone who sees my Monolith calls it 49'ers statium.

>>16651490
If the Necrontyr even had female it is possible, though I doubt a necron lord would have a tiny body.

>>16651507
too bad that i don't think your going to be fielding your monolith with the way they are taking it. big nerf cube is what it is going to become with the teribad living metal rule change.

>>16651490
One is the Drizz't of Necron, and the other is faggotry.
They fight crime!

My Necrons are gonna be mindless slaves of a C'tan.

Me.

Hey guys. Quick question for anyone who knows.

Pariahs. They Fine Cast yet? Also any rumors on if they're getting new models (probably in the second wave)?

>>16651617
i believe they are the preatorians or w/e they are called

>>16649661
Giving Necrons a personality and motives beyond just kill. Not such a bad thing.
Giving them stupid personalities seen before in other hero's and giving them pretty much the same motives as chaos just somehow more noble and making them want to become fleshy things again. Kinda lame

>>16651678

I don't know. I don't see them as being "just like chaos" as much as being "just like people."

From what it seems, every Necron Lord has pretty much their own motivations, Some want to be people again, Some want to take over shit, some want to be able to eat ice creme.

I actually really kind of like that. The problem is the C'Tan. what are they doing with them? How do they fit in?

That's my major problem.

>>16651663

I don't think so. I get the feeling Pariahs are still going to exist. The Pretorians are just bigger Necrons.

>>16651740
All signs point to no, actually, there has been no mention at all of pariahs existing.

>>16651617

Pariahs aren't in the new book; it's assumed they will be the "Cryptek" upgrade characters (i.e., Sergeants), and eventually get new Finecast models to use as such.

>>16651548

Anyone whining about Living Metal is completely retarded and/or willfully ignorant. The only shocking is how widespread the whining is.

Monoliths are borderline invincible for 90% of armies. Do you know why nobody cares? Because Necrons are terrible, and a Monolith alone isn't going to accomplish anything even if you let it rampage around unchecked for six turns.

Therefore, if you make the army not-terrible, you have to fix Living Metal. It was made two editions ago, when it was MUCH easier to kill vehicles, and changes since bestowed it with its near-invincibility.

Also, in the "I CAN'T JUST ASSUME IT WILL NEVER DIE?????" stupidity surrounding Monoliths, everyone is forgetting that it's a support vehicle. It lost one part of that in that it no longer helps WBB rolls, but the Portal and the simple fact that it's huge and blocks LOS to most of your army is still intact.

Do you fucking know what "support" means? It means if the rest of the army gets better, the Monolith is improved by association. Instead of pulling shit like Warriors through the portal solely to keep them away from things that can hurt them, now you get to pull Jump Infantry with S5 Power Weapons through the portal 18" away and then watch them perform a 12" move and a 6" Assault.

Monoliths are better because the army is better. Living Metal has no place in a 5th Edition army, and anyone that isn't short-bus stupid already knew that.

>>16651713
the C'tan are toast, crispy blackened toast. After the old ones were killed off the necrons turned on the C'tan for turning them into the necrons and every one of them were wiped out save 4 perhaps. then after they killed the C'tan they decided to go to sleep because the babbies of the old ones were pissed that their gods were dead and the enslavers were running amok so they steered clear of that hornets nest and went to bed.

>>16651713
I hope that in an emergency for Apoc games you can field larger versions though. Although it seems ridiculous that every C'tan is now Khaine.

Hell, you could made each one modular, and have multiples of the same C'tan that cost more dependent on how many abilities they're able to choose from and better statlines, although with a up-scaled chance of them getting enough cognizance to attack your own troops in the midst of things.

I feel like there should be larger shards in HQ slots if you want to play a C'tan Loyalist army.

>>16651765
i know monoliths are not supposed to be invincible, i don't care about that at all. it's the living metal part of it that pisses me off. str. 10 and 9 can still destroy a monolith just like every other vehicle in the game. the fact every army is starting to get their vehicles being immune to melta and the monolith doesn't get that treatment even though it's going to cost the same.

plus it completely fucks over the pylons with their 2 structure point weakness that they have so you might as well not even bother with them.

So this Silent King guy sounds totally badass huh.

>>I AM ULTIMATE RULER OF THE GREAT NECRON EMPIRE HAR HAR oh wait I'm useless and can't control my own vessels and there's a civil war everywhere

>>ALRIGHT GUISE LET'S BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF THE OLD ONES INSTEAD OF EACH OTHER OKAY oh shit the old ones are way too powerful we're getting the shit kicked out of us

>>OH HI MISTER DECEIVER YOU'RE GOING TO HELP US GEE SURE THANKS oh shit I got deceived and my whole fucking species is soulless mindless robot things

>>BAWWWWW I SO EMO I BANISH MYSELF FOREVER o hay guise i came back

Did I say badass? I meant dumbass.

I am completely dissatisfied with the redesign. I was expecting something more like pic related instead of tomb kings in space.

These new ones are majorly retarded

>>16652583
iwouldhavebeenokwiththis.jpg

>>16652256

Just like the Emperor

>>16649700
Wait. Is the Ghost Ark fucking pedal powered? What in the fuck?! Is that necron on top directing galley slaves? But... what... fuck this gay earth.

>>16652976
The Emperor, what a badass

>I'M GONNA MAKE TWENTY SPACE BABIES ON THE MOON!!! oh no, I sad, 10 go bye bye

>I GO FIND MAH SPACE BABIES NOW!!! I still can't find two of them... ah well

>I GIVE MY 18 SPACE BABIES CONTROL OF THEIR OWN ARMIES!!! even the nine of them who've grown up on worlds that have warped their psyche, nothing can go wrong with that...

>OH NO, THE NINE SPACE BABIES WHO GOT ALL FUCKED UP IS NOW HERESYING ME WIV TEH CLONE ARMIES I GIVES THEM!!! I r ded nao :(

Did I say bad ass? I meant dumb ass.

>>16653021
I agree. Emperor was a just-as-planned scheming douchebag, and a massive dumb ass.

Necrons are just another generic alien empire based on a human culture now.Fuck yeah good fluff that is.

You hate because it makes you look cool in 40k.Fuck yeah.

>>16653021
>OH NO, THE NINE SPACE BABIES WHO GOT ALL FUCKED UP IS NOW HERESYING ME WIV TEH CLONE ARMIES I GIVES THEM!!! I r ded nao :(

That's not ENTIRELY accurate. Sanguinius was loyal to the end, and Magnus was loyal up until the emperor decided to send the Space Wolves to wipe him out for attempting to warn him that Horus had bought a top-hat and grown and mustache with which he could twirl in a sinister manner.
Also, there was nothing physically wrong with Lorgar or Fulgrim, or Horus himself come to think of it.

I will concede however that the emperor was asking for fucking trouble with Angron.

>>16653133
>alien empire based on a human culture
Are you implying it's possible for human writers to create a concept based on anything except by building upon human concepts...?
Did you really think the "soulless mindless kill bots"
concept wasn't based on the human fear of death, and the loss of identity?

>>16653163
>That's not ENTIRELY accurate.
Stopped reading there. That was the whole point of the post. By retardedly simplifying any given concept, you can make it seem stupid.
Even more so, as the Poster who did the same for the Silent King is doing so based on incomplete information from an unreleased codex.

I'm just glad the silly green lego tubes have gone

>>16653187
>Implying the silly green flourescant tubes weren't the BEST part of the old Necron range.

>>16653255
Nothing says "ancient alien horror" like air bubbles in shoddy plastic.
And what about people who don't want Green?

>>16653270
you could get blue tubes, or red tubes if you knew where to get em. I like the green tubes, but only certain models have been shown. If they still have the same old warriors, it is likely they will still have lego tubes.

>>16653270

I said they were the best part of that range, I didn't say they were particularily great themselves.

>>16653284
Or GW could not include them at all, cause they look daft anyway, and people could paint the gun tubes however they wished...?
>>16653287
Fair enough. You can't have liked the old range much...

Has it actually been CONFIRMED that the fluorescent tubes are not making a comeback?

For all we know, the standard warrior kits could be packing them, and they could be interchangeable with the immortal kits (meaning you'll have to buy more warriors to outfit your immorta-AAAAAARGGGH)

Or, possibly, all the kits will simply come with a mundane plastic tube with details in it like we've scene, and GW will go on to release packs of glow tubes seperate, so you can use them wherever you wish

>>16649752
>>16651765
Nope. Monolith sucks now. Particle Whip has a 24" range, portal doesn't augment WBB, Living Metal just ignores shaken/stunned, and woe betide if you Deep Strike it, as it suffers mishap rolls, and it's fat ass WILL scatter into something.

Regarding my 'crons, I'm going to stick with the old theme and play as one of the forces that were retconned as 'malfunctional'. They still travel the galaxy harvesting essence for their patron C'tan, the Dragon, and consider Lords showing signs of personality as severely malfunctional.

Basically I'm gonna build a list to stomp the fuck out of the players jumping on the Necron bandwagon. Because I'm an ancient, irritable asshole like that.

>>16653323

Someone should draw a Carnifex embracing a Monolith. "I know that feel bro"

It's the standard 'take what everyone already owns one or two of and make it obsolete so they have to buy our shiny new whatever"

>>16653284
>>16653307
>>16653321
There is confirmation that the Warrior and Destroyer models will not change, but are planned for a sprue recut, which could mean some shiny new bitz.

Regarding the green tubes, the rumour goes that they'll be replaced with textured plastic tubes like we've seen on the Immortals.

My necron lord hunts slavers and frees them, adopting the little girls who can't look out for themselves as his own daughters to remind him of the family he once had.

Only they all grow old eventually and he can't stomach watching his new children die, so he has to send them back to their home races every time.

Then he gets lonely again and repeats the cycle.

>>16653369

Is his name Big Daddy?

>>16653323
>doesn't augment WBB
How can it Augment a mechanic that's been stated almost everywhere to no longer exist as a mechanic...?
Armour 14 Living Metal as it was, was stupidly hard and everyone knows it.
The scatter on Deep Strike thing though, yeah, that's stupid.

Of course, this is assuming all the above is true.

>>16649661
I thought it was prronounced G - OWW - SS ???

I much like the old Necron 'force of nature' feel, than tomb kings in space. But that's just me.

>Particle Whip has a 24" range

It's always been 24''.

>>16653377
The new mechanic is like FNP as everyone said. There was a rumour that power weapons etc no longer ignored it, but nothing came of that. Rolls are made just before removing casualties, which is an improvement over the derpy lying models down for a turn. The Res Orb increases the roll to 3+. The Monolith could have given the 3+ bonus to the unit it just teleported.

In addition, the flux arcs are four separate weapons now that fire D3 shots each, which isn't so bad. Apparantly a 30pt decrease in cost.

I'm mostly pissed about the range nerf on the whip, this FORCES the 'lith to close range right into the jaws of melta squads, which it is now woefully vulnerable against. So if it sits behind your line, it can't shoot, it can't repair units, it can only teleport in reinforcements, or get a unit out of trouble. You can't drop it close to enemy lines to bring the Whip to bear in a timely manner, because it'll get clusterfucked by Mishap rolls (you try making something that big make a safe scatter) and melta-d into oblivion if it survives.

It does stink of Carnifex nerfing all over again, but I also feel it's GW bowing to the pre-teen SPESS MAHREEN players who did nothing but bitch about the Cheese Pyramid.

>>16653461

Power weapons and S8+ do not ignore the new WBB, ever.

>>16653443
Sorry, I made a mistake. For some idiotic reason I thought the whip nerf was in range. It's a S8 AP3 large template, no AP1 center.

Still, the increased vulnerability makes that 24" range really sting now.

>>16653501
So, the crux of your argument is "I hate the fact that my vehicle can now be killed just like everyone else's"
All that means is you need to pick your primary targets, rather than getting to do a multi-turn spam of the whip.

Though, I still agree that if it now suffers mishaps, a vehicle that size is going to suffer from it badly.

>>16651946

There's a grand total of one vehicle in the entire game immune to meltaguns, and that's the monolith.

Oh, you mean 'melta' the rule? It's great to have that, except it's only on stormravens, which are available to two armies in the whole game, cost 200+ points each, and still pop to the AP1 and S8, as all other armor 12 things.

Only the monolith was ever immune to damage of any real kind, or gimped armies entirely like the monolith. No, I'm not gonna count 285 point templar land raiders with lance protection.

>>16653501

Welcome to where every other AV14 vehicle is.

Seriously after they removed phase out and with it the monolith's biggest drawback, there was not a chance for the monolith to keep its immunity to lances and melta. Besides, the armies it hurt the most were lance reliant non-imperials like Eldar or worse, Chaos Daemons that have exactly two units capable of penning a monolith (crappy soul grinder melee and BS3 gun and charging UM bloodthirster).

>>16653323

It's a 200 point skimmer with armor 12. Normal movement, resistance to stun and shaken, targets 4 separate units with its dakkaguns (derpaherp, problem, imperial guard veteran fag?) and it gets an instant-kill reverse portal against stuff close by, so you can suck up all the paladins, and they'll be gone forever, including Draigo.

It lets you teleport around combat units, short-ranged dudes with AP2 guns, and can deep strike.

All for 200 points.

Stop whining, you faggot.

'carnifex nerf' should be a new term

>>16649661

This is what I was hoping for too.
I could deal with transhumanist necrons, but they're ust pushing the egyptian feel back too hard.

Yes, I know they were egyptian before, there was a reason the previous codex had less of that.

But i'm jsut going to ignore the new canon and use the old necrons in my games, instead of dick-obsessed flayed ones.

>>16653583

This was meant to link to this

>>16652583

>>16653579
Nothing saying it doesn't still have it's trudge-tastic 6" movement rate. If it has the ability to make a 12" move, all is forgiven.

>>16653592

Looks retarded, like when people whine the monolith got nerfed. In case you didn't know, monos have been useless since late 4th edition, because people have this habit of outright ignoring them, and instead slaughtering all the warriors huddle close by, so you phase-out.

I've not seen a monolith used even once in 5th. It's all heavy destroyer, all the time. Taking a piece of shit 235 point unit that's slow, cumbersome, and so short-ranged it won't be able to influence the battle is a total waste of points.

Now it's an actual support unit, and conveniently gets rid of annoying things like paladins, massed light infantry, and everything else on foot, really.

"My nobs are totally gonna destroy you, mister necronfucker!"
>deepstrike monolith.
>suck them in for great justice.
>remaining boy powerklaws can't hurt armor 14 slab of plastic.
>"Problem, orks?"

>>16653611
WHEEEEEEEEEE goes the speedy lith!!!

Imhotekh, pissed off by all the Ork Shenanigans, decided to paint his liths red.

>>16653615
What's this "suck em in" thing all about...?

>>16653615
>>16653579
>Hoping like hell the enemy will conveniently fail Strength checks when they try the gimmicky portal vacuum.

>>16653630

Anything within 6" of the portal has to take a strength test or be removed from the game

>>16653630

The portal can used as a vacuum to force S tests on models close by. Failure equals remove from play.

>>16653630
The 'lith can try and suck a unit within 6" into it's portal. Any model that fails a Strength check is instantly destroyed.

>>16653632

>not realizing most armies are S4 or S3, and so equally vulnerable to this thing.
>pretending this is gonna be shitty like Cruddace.
>not understanding Ward makes good armybooks and rules.

>>16653661
I'm liking the looks of the rest of it, just the Monolith... like I said earlier, carnifex nerf...

>>16653680

But nothing's changed for the worse, except that it's gonna be fielded now, and is a terrible model.

>>16653661

Ward has thus far produced

-WHFB daemons (dont even need to go into that)

-Vanilla marines (widely agreed to be one of the crunchiest marine books ever, regardless of how much he took the usual smurf pandering over the top)

-Blood angles (basically vanilla marines 2.0, with a couple of wacky stuff thrown in that people are either ok with, or is completely stupid)

-Grey Knights (one of THE most divisive codexes ever. It completely shifted the focus of the original army, condemning all the fluffy inquisition elements to a single squad that required an SC to use at all, as well as crazy stuff like the Dreadknight and psyrifledreads. Overall, the book is solid, but it's infamous for pretty much raping armies that aren't highly prepared to face it)

So all in all, the only 'good' codexes under Ward's belt have been marine codexes. Sure, the Grey knights do break the typical marine mold a bit, but at the end of the day they're basically just gimmicky marines with a few extra toys and less melta.

Next month we'll be finding out if he has any competence at all outside his comfort zone

>>16653651
This is awesome.

>>16653692

You're dumb.

Here, let's compare.

Ward: blood angels. space marines, grey knights, 5th edition rulebook. All of this is perfectly in synch with each other, and all's relevant still.

Kelly: orks, eldar, space wolves, dark eldar. Orks suck ass, as do eldar. Neither's aged well, with orks being almost as old as vanilla marines, yet quite dramatically worse. Wolves are still 'broken' in casual games, even this long after release. Dark eldar were likely made by Jes, and just had Kelly's name slapped onto them, but are very nice to play, either way.

Cruddace: imperial guard, sisters of battle, tyranids. Tyranids are underpowered and terrible. Unfun to play against and with. Imperial guard were broken for a bit, but aren't now that allies are gone. Still hated by everybody, and a very boring army to play, as so much of it's useless.

I give no fucks about warhams fantasy elves edition, as it's not relevant to anything.

>>16653692
He has taken 3 armies that are similar in superficial ways and made each of them play different on the table.
Each is, by the nature of their playstyle, going to be approached, played and fielded differently. That is not a bad thing in the slightest, especially since marine dexes have been a spotty thing.

>>16653680
The only "Nerf" I see is that it is no longer utterly indestructible.

Which makes it like every other vehicle in the game.

>>16653737
Though, TBH, I do think all vehicles in 40K are needlessly fragile.

>>16653692

Spoiler: He doesn't.

>Play Tau
>Monoliths are now not immune to Melta
>Never fought a monolith
>Would still only use railguns on it anyway
It doesn't really seem to effect me but it's nice for every other army though. It seems the reduction of point cost on the monolith is nice for the Necrons too. It seems more balanced.

>>16653729
>>16653724

This is my point

Ward Has competently produced marine books, they're solid. They're not particularly underpowered or overpowered. They;re GOOD (I guess I probably emphasised the negative in my post)

My point is that I am reserving my final judgement on Ward's capabilities until I can sit down and read the crons over myself.

If he ballzes it up, I'm simply going to assume he should stick to doing the boys in power armour.

If he produces something good, I will applaud him

Next month is the decider

Most people in this thread are retarded
embrace your new necron overlords.

>>16653651

But where do the people who get sucked into the portal go?

Hey people, what's the suspected codex schedule? Is there an Imperial army between Necrons and Tau? Because I'm an impatient type, and I want to see me some new Tau...

>>16653692
From what I've seen, the rest of it is very tasty. Wraiths and Flayed Ones both have 3A apiece, with the Wraiths getting Rending, but their Jetbike status has been revoked, they're now Jump Infantry that ignore terrain. They also get some weapon options, which sound fun.

Immortals are Troops (it seems this goes for all armies, and not just for a special Lord like the original rumour went), and have an option to swap for Tesla Carbines (S5 Assault 1, roll a 6 to hit and it gets a second automatic hit). I'm not sure if that means ominous things for my favourite Necron weapon, the Gauss Blaster.

Those funny shields-with-spines the Lychguard carry can reflect fire onto enemy units. The mechanic goes that saved wounds from shooting can be redirected towards an enemy unit within 6". The sword is a plain power weapon. Warscythes are still nasty as fuck.

The -new- Necron Vehicles get Quantum Shielding, which operates like the old DE Night Shroud. 2+ invul save against damage rolls until one gets through. They're all open-topped.

Deathmarks are surprisingly un-sniper-y, 24" AP5 rapid-fire weapons. However, they can designate a target unit at the game start for bonuses, or immediately Deep Strike within range of an enemy unit that appears from Reserves.

Triarch praetorians are jump infantry, kinda like a cross between Lych Guard and Wraiths.

>>16653773

Into a 9x9 concrete room with only a single window in the roof, around which is arrayed a system of lights

The only other occupant is lolicron

>>16653782

Yakface said Gauss Blaster is S5 AP4 Rapid Fire Gauss.

Tesla things are 24'' S5 AP- Assault 1 and hit rolls of 6 do additional hit. So GB is superior in short range and tesla in long range.

I'm an outsider to 40K, but necrons seem neat.
Even if I do take issue with the perpetual grimderp of 40K and wish just a few bits of noblebright existed for any of their causes. Besides Tau, who piss me off for some reason.

>>16653782

>immediately Deep Strike within range of an enemy unit that appears from Reserves.

What's the point of that?

Sacrificial unit?

>>16653780
There's 6th Ed next year

>>16653782
>Jetbike Status Revoked
Ummm, I don't recall wraiths ever being jetbikes...

>>16653795

Unless it gets a free round of shooting when DSing.

>>16653793
It's the ridiculous EARS on their mechs. And their stupid goddamn chicken legs. OK, it's their mechs, full stop. I want a Tau mech redesign and I want it years ago.

>>16653795
It's like the opposite of "I've been expecting you" that Coteaz has.
Instead of immediately shooting a unit that comes in from reserves, you get to appear right before their unit and get shot!

There is probably some rule we don't know about related to that (i.e. deathmarks get to appear and shoot immediately, regardless of turn)

>>16653793

Tau are lame because they are utterly incidental to the setting

They have no large influence, aren't involved in anything mysterious and potentially galaxy breaking (as far as we know), they have very little character beyond 'for the greater good' and 'we loevs the alien peoples' and 'every class in their place'.

You could remove the Tau from 40k and the universe would barely notice

>>16653800
The "wraithflight" special rule allowed Wraiths to move like jetbikes.

>>16653804

As everyone knows, Tau were GW's attempt to cash in on the asian market, and as everyone in Nottingham has learned from their japanese animes, them asian people like mecha and ridiculous ears.

>>16653791
Ok, that's not so bad. I was worried they were going to become Heavy 2 or something.

>>16653800
First line of the Wraithflight rule; "Wraiths move as if they were Jetbikes..."

>>16653795
I get the feeling they're going to have some exception that allows them to shoot the same turn they arrive this way.

>>16653808
I like that fact. Everything's galaxy-breaking in 40k. It's way overcrowded with DEADLY THREATS. Things were much simpler when it was just Imperium-Chaos, with Orks and Eldar running about in the middle.

>immortals as troops

So they're gonna be like the Dire Avengers and the Warriors are gonna be the Guardians?

>>16653804
>Have Tau army of mainly XV8s, XV88s and an XV9
>Don't put the ears on them
CRISIS AVERTED.

>>16653818
Seriously, Tau tanks are cool, Fire Warriors are cool, I can totally live with Kroot... but the mechs are a dealbreaker. I couldn't pay money for that.

>>16653826
Looks to be that way. I'm gleeful because they are my favourite Necron unit, you can always rely on the motherfuckers.

>>16653827
PUN... VERTED.
Ah, but you still have to deal with chicken legs. Mind you, I've seen one or two posed in ways that minimise the silliness.

>>16653834
>>16653827
>>16653804
The Forge World ones are much, much better.

Shit, this update even got Lolcron to come back.

He's the best Ro-bro. And the Drizzt of Necron.

Everythingwentbetterthanexpected.jpg

>>16653844
Shame they are so expensive (both money and point wise)
I do field the XV9 with 2 Fusion Cascades.
It eats Terminators for breakfast and can easily fuck up any unit it pops up next to. T5 is also really damn nice.
The only downside are the unreliable number of shots.

But back to Crons. Would it be worthwhile to pick up the Necron Battleforce? I was holding out on it because I was waiting for this codex to drop but from the looks of things it would still be worthwhile to get.

>>16653826
Warriors are set to be cheaper, horde type blobs. It seems like they will have their uses.

>>16653825

Yes but at least those factions have lots of flavour and important figures to act as focal points.

Tau just have a poorly defined doctrine, the fact that they grew up super quick, the ethereals being mysterious (with no real hints as to what to make them interesting) and the fact that they ally with other races.

Their characters? um... they have the space pope, who is... well he's never really given much backstory. There's aun-shi who... also doesnt have much story besides being purportedly a badass. Farsight, the most characterful individual, who unfortunately remains almost completely unfleshed out besides 'I stopped following orders and hate orks' and 'I have this wierd sword'. And Shadowsun, who is a commander whose entire character revolves around Farsight.

The Tau need to be fleshed out more is all. They need the inner workings of their empire looked into in much the same way as the Imperium. All we have now is bare surface details about the fact that they have classes and nothing more.

And we definitely need some more direction, other than 'lets just sit here out on the galactic rim and expand a litle but ultimately never be important;

Even before their new update the Necrons had more character than them, what with being dastardly villains who had their steely fingers into everything

>>16653853
"So I got quite a few messages telling me to check out some new leaked shots of the Necrons that are coming up.

OH

DEAR

GOD

Well, seems like I can't stay in bed anymore. Time to dust off the tablet and get back to making art.

Check back in a little while."

>>16653862

And the Ghost Ark can teleport in more warriors, restoring d3 in a turn. Only warriors are this expendable, the ability doesn't work on more advanced crons according to rumours.

>>16653861

Forge World XV89 Battlesuits are about $13 more than a normal GW Battlesuit. So it's getting closer to the point where High Quality FW will cost less than the cost of GW's plastic models.

Also, yeah, Necron BF pretty much has all stuff you can use still. Destroyers, Warriors and Scarab Swarms. Especially if it's one sale, it's totally worth buying.

>>16653883
Warriors look to the the only unit who can take a Ghost Ark as a transport, everything else has a Necron equivalent of the Valkyrie, a pseudo-flyer skimmer.

That D3 boost also can't take a unit above it's starting strength. Why couldn't the monolith have that too?

>>16653865
This is why I want to see that codex. They could do a lot more with them, and hopefully that wouldn't consist of making them MOAR ASIAN. What'd be fun is some explanation for their rapid growth/high tech, like...
>they're sitting on an Imperial STC
>their world was 'seeded' with tech/knowledge by the Eldar as some kind of highly complicated Glorious Revivial plan
>there's a C'Tan sitting in the middle of their sun

>>16653861
That IS much better looking. Shows that making them better isn't too tricky, either... it's mainly that more rounded feel, I think. Also, no ears.

So, I've been wanting to start 'crons for a while now and I was wondering if this would be a good way to start when the new stuff drops:

-1 Necron Battleforce
-1 box of Lychguard
-Trazyn the Infinite (he seems cool. May replace with normal Overlord if his stats are bad)
-Maybe a command Barge
-I may pick up another vehicle as well. The doomsday ark looks fun.

you know I hope not all the C'tan are nerfed into being slave shards.
I liked the big 4 c'tan, they where a nice counter point to the chaos gods. Not all gods where from the warp. I really hope their fluff stays much the same as it is now.

>>16653986

They were deleted because we don't need a material counter to the chaos gods.

So are there any more pictures of the new necron models?

I want to seeeee them.

If Deathmarks can shoot immediately after DS in after an enemy, they'll be one of the most fun unit in the game.

Wow, you guys hate the antennae on Crisis Suits that much? I kind of like them myself, though different strokes and what not.

>>16653980

Imhotep, Trazyn, Anrakyr and Nemesis Prime are all overlord-based (can take a personal barge), this indicates a good base statline. Illuminor and Orikan are crypteks, although Diviner can give himself a greatly increased statline for a random number of turns by invoking the ancient spirits of evil.

No more spooky outsider waiting to reawaken? ;_;

Although with all this personality it would make more sense if he created the Tyranids now. Hating the necrons and everything is a good excuse to troll them out of their fleshy bits by eating everything biological in the galaxy.

>>16654020
I can just imagine an army full of Deathmarks up against Blood Angels or Chaos Daemons
Fun everywhere.

>>16654027
Yeah, I never knew they were so widely hated. But, as stated before, you don't even have to put them on the models.

>>16654030
>During the game he is able to achieve a 'powered up' state that gives him a greatly increases statline, but this boost can randomly end on any turn dropping him back down to his regular stats.

>>16653692


I honestly really kind of liked the C'Tan.

They weren't actual "Gods." They were just so powerful that it made them "Godlike" which is very similar to the Primarchs really. Also their involvement with the Eldar was always cool IMO. I kind of like the Eldar/Necron rivalry and hope that doesn't go away.

>>16654031
highly doubt it, Current fluff has the nids coming from a long way away. the 40k galaxy is the 13th galaxy they've visited. And given how far apart galaxies are it doesn't seem unreasonable to suggest they left their home galaxy before the old ones and necrons had their little war.

>>16654030

Ancient spirits of evil, transform this decayed form to Mumm-Ra, the Ever-Living!

>>16654091
I lol'd

>>16654091

>Draigo, what does the auspex say about his powerlevel!?
>IT'S OVER 40,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>16654057
>They weren't actual "Gods." They were just so powerful that it made them "Godlike"

Gods are defined by worship, little else. The C'Tan were at least as godlike as the chaos gods. But the chaos gods fit into the central narrative of the setting being constructs of the collective unconcious. Whereas the C'Tan were just kind of there, with some shoehorning into the ancient past.

>>16654238

But all we get from Chaos gods' direct power is "too powerful to manifest in the materium" and "Slaanesh alone created the Eye of Terror".

While the power we see exhibited by C'tan is much less, with all those defeats they suffered at Imperial hands, and Deceiver directly fighting Cypher and failing to take him out, and his refusal to take part in Medusa V except to rant after his forces finished dead last...

>>16654238
shoehorning isn't a bad thing if it adds something cool and fitting to the background

I dunno. The guns on the Deathmarks seems fucking pathetic. 24" range and mediocre gun-stats for a fucking badass-looking sniper robot? Makes no sense.

I also ain't liking the fact every damn box has only 5 units. If Necrons were an elite army like GK and worked with low number of troops at high cost it'd be fine. It looks like you're gonna have to take half your army's worth of Warrior and then a few specialized troops though.

Can't wait for the codex, It'll decide if I'm gonna officially start Necrons as my second army or just get some models for looks.

My necrons will just be machines from the Terminator, in SPAAACE!

WTB CUSTOM FEMALE NECRON LORD (LADY) SCULPT

get to work ebay come on

>>16654365
> cool and fitting

Space god vampires that are completely unrelated to the warp are cool, I'll grant, but not exactly fitting. Outside of the C'Tan, the gods of the setting are results of a races collective unconscious given form by psychic powers (Chaos/Eldar) or false idols (Emperor).

If the C'Tan were warp monsters or just liars, then they'd be fitting. But DW keeps skirting around the latter portion. The early fluff for this edition seemed to fit with it, with the C'Tan being insane Lords, but they're going back to them actually being real and it's irksome.

>>16654534
Having them be "real" and fragmented is going to piss off far fewer people than "LOLRETCON that never happened LOL!!"
>>16654508
I'm actually glad the new release doesn't have Lords with Tits.
Why would a metal skeleton robot have boobs...?

>>16654562
"Why would a metal skeleton robot have boo- GAHHH!"
A diversionary tactic for breaking the enemy's concentration.

>>16654562
Lordess vanity

>>16654534
see thats whats good about them IMO
they're entities of god like power that aren't from/use the warp, it adds some nice variety.
They may be gods in name but I wouldn't call them true gods like the chaos gods.
Besides its not like they're the only beings who can mess with reality without using the warp. Nids do it too.

im currently repainting my oldass necrons bone white with gold shoulderpads and red eyes/gun rods.
what shall their new fluff be, tg?
get off my lawn grumpy old bastards?
half-mad killer machines with spiralling plans of doom?
OCD overlord who likes his stuff run to nanosecond presicion?

>>16654850
Pirates.
Give your Overlord a hat with a big ol skull and a Scarab as a Parrot.

New Codex makes this fluff legit.

>>16654850
combine these two
>half-mad killer machines with spiralling plans of doom?
>OCD overlord who likes his stuff run to nanosecond presicion?

Mad OCD overlord has spiraling plans of doom to make the galaxy conform to his desires with nanosecond precision.

>>16654850
>>16654933
Crotchety old pirates.

Basically: Monkey Island robot pirates led by a robotic LeChuck

My army theme: Crons accidentally brought out 3 shards of the Nightbringer, not knowing they were from the same C'tan. Shards fuse into a single entity. C'tan kills the Lord. Nightbringer shard searches for other shards to consume and bring his power back to full.

Mindless enslaved spess zombies restored. Fuck you, Matt Ward.

>>16655205
you, I like you
Night Bringer was my favourite bit of fluff from 3rd ed crons.

>>16655205
>running an army the codex supports
>fuck you to its writer
hurrrrrrrrrrrr

>>16655242
Nobody had a problem with sapient lords, we had them all through the only fluff and black library stuff.

Nobody had a problem with independent lords that had no C'tan master, or maybe never had one at all and just worked with the C'tan because "FUCKING OLD ONES, DIE, DIE, DIE!" was their motivation or they just wanted immortality and made a deal for it.

I don't think this mutually antagonistic thing was needed or really that well thought out. Sure it lets you have necron on necron fights in the fluff, but independent lords could have done that anyway and forces following different C'tan would also explain it.

Even having shards of C'tan could be explained by Khaine or the Blackstone fortresses breaking them apart.

To me you could have got everything people have approved of in this codex without the retcons. It just seems self-indulgent on the part of the writers. They wanted a rewritten backstory and damn the problems it might cause with older players.

I'm not saying you can't add new things(Dragon mech-crons FTW) but it kinda goes against the whole "and the laughter of thirsting gods" theme that has always been a part of the setting.

And yeah I know the C'tan weren't their at the beginning, but if you want to play that card I could tell you about playing against people who fielded Chaos androids. Pre-cron Crons.

>>16655242
It`s pretty goddamn funny watching people try to reconcile this codex with their mindless Ward hate.

In fact it`s the best thing about this release.