Necron Unit of the Week Series: Monolith

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NECRON UNIT OF THE WEEK SERIES

Welcome to the Necron Unit of the Week series for 10th edition! Each week will see a different unit from the Codex, Imperial Armour, and Legends datasheets featured for discussion. The goal here is to discover and chronicle tactics for the featured unit so that new players and veterans alike can use this database to inform their strategies with the wider knowledge of the forum. The game of Warhammer 40,000 is ever changing though, and as the rules evolve throughout the edition everyone should feel free to return to older threads with the release of new FAQs/errata, changes in points values, information gathered from games played, and of course the Codex being released. These threads are also great places for newcomers to the Necrons to post their questions about tactics related to the featured units.

Please note that the purpose of this series is not to lament what the current meta deems “ineffective”, or that another unit “does it better”. Those units will get their own threads.

 

This week’s unit is:

Monolith

 

How many do you take, and what do you use them for?

Do you prefer the Death Ray armament or Gauss Flux Arcs?

What hijinks have you gotten up to with the Eternity Gate? 

Has your Monolith been effective in combat with the Portal of Exile?

 

 

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[Tyriks]

I think Monoliths now are better than they have been throughout 8th and 9th. They still can die really fast if your opponent has the right tools, though.

 

I like the Death Rays but I generally find it harder to get reliable anti-armor so I may be biased. I did like both. I keep trying to make two fit into my list but it just removes so many other things.

 

The Portal of Exile did finish off a unit that was on an objective in one game but I don't know if I would ever count on it. I haven't gotten to do many shenanigans yet with the teleporting around - I keep deploying everything clumped up for the Reanimator aura so it isn't far enough away to really matter usually. I should actually give that a try sometime though.