Games Workshop - Warhammer 40,000 - Necrons: Ophydian Destroyers

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Both factions lose out on the powerful Silent King datasheet, which has empowered some ridiculous results and performances from the Necron faction over the last 6 months or so at time of writing. After the removal of Core from his datasheet however, we have started to see some players moving away from him. The SK is a little less reliable and you can get a lot of Necron “Beef” in for his 400 points – so count this against the Armies of Renown a little less than you might have.

Because this box does have Castellan Crowe you probably just want one copy. Still, if you’re looking to start this is a great box as you’ll get the ability to build in many different directions. Just plan your list out all the way before you commit to a particular Grey Knight unit type.Not all Necrons awaken from the Great Sleep as was intended. Some suffer physical damage in the intervening millennia; usually faulty stasis-crypts bring on a slow decay that rots the mechanical Necrodermis body and erodes engrammic pathways and synapses. Others become infected by the Flayer virus and devolve into creatures whose reason is subsumed by an unnatural taste for flesh. Necron Monolith (HQ) | Obelisk | Plasma Generator | Summoning Core | Forbidden Archive | Gauss Turret | Greater Summoning Core | Thermo Plasma Generator | Ancient Pyramid | Sentry Pylon | Energy Core | Subspace Spire The savings all around speak for themselves – I’m sure Trazyn the Infinite himself couldn’t resist getting a few copies for his collection. Boarding Patrol: Necrons – Points

These are both phenomenal Armies of Renown on almost all fronts. Interesting and diverse, propping up the many units in them and separating out two parts of the Necron Codex normally used together has allowed those units to explore more design space and create some truly unique options that play nothing like the main codex. The primary issue with Armies of Renown in the past has been when they manifest as “Meta List but better”, or just better than the main codex (See Crusher Stampede, Speed Freeks and Skitarii Veteran Cohort for examples of these).Warriors • Immortals ( Despotek • Guardian) • Pariahs • Deathmarks • Lychguards • Triarch Praetorians • Flayed Ones • Cryptothrall The new Ophydian Destroyers kit contains 3 Destroyers and a Plasmacyte. The Destroyers resemble nothing so much as a cross between Canoptek Wraiths and Flayed Ones. Between their claws and hyperphase weapons they’re looking very choppy! Weapon and Model Options Another real talking point here is just how much you can boost a squad of Canoptek Spyders. 1CP can increase the AP of their bizarrely high volume (12 shots per model for 10 points, in squads of 3) 12 Shot S6 Ap- 1D shooting, and the same can give them +2 to their movement and a Weapon Skill of 2+ for a turn. Canoptek Spyders have made out like bandits from these rules and provide a very interesting basis for a list.