Quarterly update!

[Plague _Lord]

Well, having not purchased any necron models in a few months, I've now ordered myself four copies of Warhammer: Imperium #15. If they arrive, I'll have a unit of 20 flayed ones without needing to renegotiate my mortgage.

 

One issue I am finding with these changes is that they seem to push Necrons even further towards being a melee army. That's not necessarily a bad thing when we have a mission pack requiring us to hold the centre of the board, but it's not what I'm used to seeing. Existing Core units, especially Warriors, look a bit less special now.

 

I had planned to build a silver tide army. That hasn't got worse thanks to this update, and I suppose by neutering some of the key threats it has become a bit more viable, but it doesn't look like the most fun way to play Necrons right now. I'm sure at some point I'll field a force with 60 Warriors and 20 flayed ones though, just to see what happens.

Necron melee is great but shooting is still good. Especially destroyers now potentially hitting on 2s with full rerolls to wound are really tasty.

[Miek]

I used to play mostly destroyers and wraiths in 8th and loved it, can't wait to try them out. Wraiths with D3 beamers will be an interesting way to vary out ranged weapons.

I love the acanthrite model and would like to make them work, is anyone using them or planning to use them?

 

Edit: Yeah I'm too excited about the acanthrites to not give them a try. I don't see how they would be competitive, but I think they could work.

Edited November 11, 2021 by Miek

[Lord_Ikka]

Makes me happy, as I love my Skorpekh and now I can use Disruption Fields on them- with a boosting plasmacyte you can get the reaper blades to Str 9.

[Malakithe]

I wish they would have done something with the Doomstalker. I love the model but the datasheet is garbage

[Malakithe]

I need to review my list and make some changes now...all core, all technomancers lol