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. The Awakened Dynasty detachment rewards you for having Leaders, but what about units that can’t have one? Bring the Sovereign Coronal, providing a 6” aura of “I’m being lead, honest”, and enjoy access to +1 to hit and easy full Wound Rerolls from Conquering Tyrant on your Doomsdays (or even a Monolith). Army Lists 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. Before I go any further and with a little bit of a spoiler alert of what is coming up, I need to say one thing.

Next is the one that we will be seeing on almost every table, the Sempiternal Weave. This is a simple, amazing upgrade that can be put on any Necron character that provides them with a 4+ Feel No Pain ability. This has a ton of applications for it, especially when we are taking into account the d3 minimum heal, and is particularly strong on the Command Barge Honestly, I’d say Warlord Traits are the one real area of disappointment in the book. I expect you mostly take either the Sautekh, Nephrekh or Szerakhan ones on your Warlord, buy your biggest melee nasty Enduring Will and maybe throw out Thrall of the Silent King when you have a use for it. Relics 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? On the flip side, he’ll also have 16 wounds which means that players can start shooting away at him as soon as the game starts. The Void Dragon Warhammer Community: Warhammer 40,000 Preview – Beyond the Box (13/06/2020) (Last accessed on 13 June 2020)When an enemy unit shoots or fights, if any of your models are destroyed, put a number of reanimation tokens in a pot equal to the total starting wounds of the destroyed models (so if four Lychguard with two starting wounds each die, put eight tokens in the pot). Loss of free Overlord Stratagems (particularly the ability to double tap Undying Legions) hurts the ability to soak an enemy go turn. To round out, a couple of army lists that have succeded at post-Dataslate events. Cameron Glodowski – 1st Place – Battle Zone Ursa 2023 The List

Relentlessly Expansionist: At the start of the first battle round, before the first turn, units with this code can make a Normal Move of up to 6″. The slightly longer answer is that early on you will often want to use either cheap, expendable units like Tomb Blades, Flayed Ones or a buffed brawler like a Command Barge or Transcendant C’tan with the Sempiternal Weave to go out, sit on an objective, and draw the enemy in. Then the Lychguard get involved. In addition, if all units from your army are from the same dynasty (excluding DYNASTIC AGENT, C’TAN SHARD and UNALIGNED units), select one command protocol that has not been assigned to a battle round (there will typically only be one). That command protocol is active in every battle round in addition to the one assigned to that battle round – select which directive your units will benefit from at the start of each battle round. Note that if this additional command protocol is the one described in your dynasty’s code, this means both of its directives apply to all units with this ability in your army in every battle round, in addition to the protocol assigned to that battle round. The available command protocols are shown below. When a unit disembarks from a TRANSPORT model, set it up on the battlefield so that it is wholly within 3" of that TRANSPORT model and not within Engagement Range of any enemy models. If, for any reason, a disembarking model cannot be set up, that model’s unit cannot disembark. Dimensional Translocation: A generic rule for all units that can deep strike in the reinforcement step. It’s the standard 9″ distance, and it’s nice to see it codified centrally.

On 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. 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.

Wings: I cannot stress enough how absurdly good these are from test games. If you’re going Infantry-heavy, three units in every list. They even provide flexibility in how you set up your army – while creating bumper-sized tarpits is their main role, if you feel you need an extra objective holder in a given game you can just choose not to attach one of the squads you’ve brought along. Deathmarks I do think we’ll see less Sautekh than we used to simply (ironically) because of how much better this book is now. Previously, the Sautekh warlord trait and some of the characters were duct tape desperately trying to hold together a terrible faction – now it might turn out you simply have better options. There is still stuff to like here though, so expect to see them tried. Custom Dynasties

Acanthrite • Doomstalker • Plasmacyte ( Reanimator • Accelerator) • Reanimator • Scarab • Seraptek • Spyder • Tomb Sentinel • Tomb Stalker • Wraith