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All STLs are optimized for a small plate resin printer like a Mars or Photon and easily supported in simple software like Chitubox. Another new character coming is the Chronomancer. A dastardly Necron who likes to manipulate time and space.

I’ve definitely already noticed this impacting my list-building choices, and it’ll also have a big impact on positioning during games, as there’s going to be a real trade-off in some turns between staying in range for protocols or going out hunting. Regular Lokhust Destroyers with a Lord. Lethal Hits on these means they can chip most things (especially as you can add re-roll Wounds as well), and are good into some rising metagame tools, but suffer from being an unwieldy unit to move and low AP, so can have issues into 2+ saves. Overall, I am pleased about this change. While it hurts some units, most notably the large Destroyer squads that were staples of older builds, I’m reasonably convinced that the payoff in making the core 1W infantry much, much better is worth it, and it being rolled out for free to a bunch of Canoptek stuff is just gravy. Command Protocols Sounds promising, and it is – this is pure upside. For it to be great, however, the effects need to be good, so let’s take a look. The Skorpekh Lord is slightly nastier in terms of personal killing power, but a bit less mandatory to make their unit excel. They do add Lethal Hits, which is a strong effect, plus Mortals on the charge, but our strong vibe is that Necrons are very much a synergy army, so the Skorpekh might fall behind.

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The technical specifications for this Necron unit have not been obtained or released by the Ordo Xenos. This is a very cool ability. While some of the effects are clearly better than others, there’s use cases for all of them, and while the boosts are mostly incremental they will add up over the course of the game. I also like that having two options for each protocol tends to mean that most builds will find a way of using all of them First, we’ve got the Canoptek Doomstalker which looks like a big brother version of the Canoptek Reanimator (inside Indomitus). If you look at the first big points to make about the datasheet, the model is a heavy support and GW redesigned the way degrading works, now giving an entire new statline to follow as it gets injured.

As is common with flayed ones who like to destroy all organic life, they get bonuses to non-vehicles. All unmodified 6s to hit against non-vehicles grant an extra hit! When all a model does is slap in melee, this may come up more than you think. You can also make use of the Stratagem sheet to help punch up into big targets – full wound re-rolls on shooting from Protocol of the Conquering Tyrant can allow smaller stuff (or regular Lokhusts) to flay wounds off almost anything, while Protocol of the Hungry Void can often push you to a Strength breakpoint. Even with that, being realistic about what you can or can’t expect to kill at a given moment is very important, and you should always focus on the things that realistically threaten to clear your units, as you can weather firepower from lesser enemies comfortably. What Combos Should You Build Around? 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.Next up, shooting. This is an area where the Q3 2023 Dataslate hit the best Necron options quite a bit, so there’s a few ways you can go with this. Lokhust Heavy Destroyers and Doomsday Arks are your top quality choices, but you definitely pay for them. Doomsdays are just all-round good and durable, but hard to hide, a little swingy and run you 210pts each. Lokhust Heavies, on the other hand, are extremely good at killing whichever target you build them for, and fairly easy to hide, but way, way more fragile than you’d normally expect from a 150pts “heavy shooting” unit. You generally need something that can kill enemy tanks, so either three Gauss Lokhusts or a Doomsday is a fine place to start here, which you can either supplement with the choices below, or a second unit of the same (with the option on Enmitic Lokhusts on a second unit). The other big advantage of going this way is that many of the strong board control lists running as custom dynasties make use of many of the same tools, so buying in this direction gives you quite a bit of flexibility. With a revised datasheet for the new edition, the Flayed Ones’ long flayer claws can shred armour with even greater ease, as they now strike with an AP of -1. And as one would expect for a unit whose rather gruesome modus operandi sees them cover their metallic bodies in a macabre second skin made from the flensed flesh of their victims, they’re at their best when killing squishy stuff. If that unit contains one or more models with fewer than their starting number of wounds remaining, select one of those models; that model regains one lost wound.

With a whole new Edition, and Necrons featuring in the starter boxes, there are likely a lot of new players wondering if Necrons might be for them – so why should you play Necrons? Welcome to the first in a series of Faction Focus articles for 10th Edition. 10th has now been in the wild for long enough that people have really started to get to grips with what each faction can do, and starting today we’re going to be publishing articles exploring each one in turn. This Edition, we’re planning to be much more modular about how we handle our enduring competitive content for the game’s various factions, aiming to make it easier to maintain, and this is the first step down that road. Last of all we have the Sautekh. Like with the Nihilakh the faction trait here is a little underwhelming. The gauss reaper has moved to being an assault weapon, so essentially this is a boost of 6″ to the rapid fire range of gauss flayers and 3″ to blasters. That’s fine, but not spectacular. Re-rolling morale is also kind of only OK – Necrons tend to either be fine or dramatically past the point where a re-roll will do that much. Big spicy boys. Pretty scary, durable thanks to T6 and able to ignore modifiers to their stats when fighting in melee, which can be clutch against some armies. Also get to take one plasmacyte token per three for a once-per-game shot of Devastating Wounds, which can create big swing turns. Ophydian DestroyersCodex: Adeptus Mechanicus and Codex: Necrons are both on the immediate horizon, and each brings a new Combat Patrol box of cold-hearted logisticians who want nothing more than to snuff out biological life with their superior technology.

Wings: This strat is incredible, especially once you bring Cryptothralls into the mix as we’ll get to, and in test games it’s been where the majority of my CP have ended up going. The first thing to bear in mind with this ‘building’ is that it comprises three constituent Starsteles (part pylon, part waystone, all awesome), which can be set up to cover quite a large area of the battlefield. Obyron can tag-team with Zandrekh, and provides Fight First for the attached unit. Fight First is super good in 10th, but my vibe is that it isn’t quite needed on any of the units you can join, and you’d rather have a durability buff. This list uses pretty much exclusively what comes in the Starter sets, with the exception of the Skorpekh Destroyer Lord, Chronomancer, and Cryptothralls. The Lord and the thralls come in the Indomitus set and arguably so does the Chronomancer if you proxy the Plasmancer–the Chronomancer model has not been released as of this article. This list hosts some very nasty melee threats, some good midrange shooting, troops to sit on objectives, and the option to jump your Reaper Warriors into position to give someone a really bad day. Coming in with a full CP count, you can even spare one to put some infantry in reserve for nefarious secondary schemes. So I Started Blasting… First, we’ve got the Canoptek Doomstalker which looks like a big brother version of the Canoptek Reanimator. If you look at the first big points to make about the datasheet, the model is a heavy support and GW redesigned the way degrading works, now giving an entire new statline to follow as it gets injured. Win An Indomitus Box: Enter NowOn top of getting three models for one drop, they give your Necrons some bonus Leadership which has been the Achilles heel to fat Warrior blobs. This is a very basic intro modelling set, but offers a bundle of some test models and a good spread of paints for the “standard” Necron color scheme. With 6 paint colors, 3 models, and a brush, this set works out to about the same amount as if you bought them on their own, although the Agrax Earthshade and Tesseract Glow containers are smaller than the retail versions which are more expensive so separately you’d get slightly more paint for slightly more money. Scaling the uses of this sort of thing by mission size, and standardising across all armies, feels like an elegant solution and we’re glad to see this. For Necrons specifically, extra warlord traits help because of the mandate to make a NOBLE your warlord. I’d expect to see Enduring WIll added to Skorpekh Lords a lot, and Thrall of the Silent King tried out on a wide variety of buff characters like Crypteks. Relic wise, the Veil of Darkness has been slightly nerfed but remains a near must-have, and there are some good generic weapon options. All together, very useful. Overall, this terrain is easily the most mobile terrain we’ve ever seen for the game. Although, as we said before you’ll want to be running multiple Crypteks to get the most out of shooting these things around the board. Ophydian Destroyers