Necrons, Necrons info and forces

[Bob 121]

The Necrons are a mysterious race of skeletal warriors that have lain dormant in their stasis-tombs for millions of years. They are ancient beyond reckoning, pre-dating even the Eldar. Yet, they are beginning to awaken, for the galaxy is ripe for harvest.

The Necrons' story is one of an ancient betrayal. Aeons ago, the Necrontyr race clung to their short lives in fear of oblivion at the hands of their massive and ravaging star. They pushed the limits of science in an effort to lengthen their lives, but to no avail. Then, the star gods known as the C'tan were discovered, offering immortality at a terrible price.

The Necrontyr agreed, and their souls were encased in living metal bodies. What they did not know was that the process dulled their minds and senses so they became slaves of the C'tan. The C'tan needed warrior-slaves to harvest the lifeforms of the galaxy so the star gods can feast on souls, and the C'tan's new Necrons served this purpose well.

After life across the galaxy ran thin millions of years ago, the Necrons went into stasis, waiting for life to grow back. Now, in the 41st millennium, they have found a galaxy teeming with life again.

In combat, the Necrons are unyielding war-machines that bring swift death to their prey. Armed with Gauss weapons that strip an opponent's molecules one layer at a time, the Necrons have fierce firepower. Also, the Necrons have a remarkable ablility to repair themselves, a Special Rule known as We'll Be Back! This gives the Necrons incredible staying power in a battle, which makes them an enemy dreaded by all races in the world of Warhammer 40,000.

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C'Tan Nightbringer
The Nightbringer is death incarnate, a sadistic god weilding the power to unmake the stars. It delights in inflicting great pain and suffering not necessarily to feed, but simply because it can. Its gaze is death and its mighty scythe has feasted on the deaths of entire civilisations. With a starship imbued with a measure of its power, the Nightbringer has destroyed entire star systems on a whim and gorged itself on the death agonies of countless billions of lives.

With the passing of the Necrontyr race, much of what was known of the star-gods faded into mythology, though awareness of the Nightbringer has remained with every race since that time. The war between the Old Ones and the C'tan unleashed forces beyond understanding, and the suffering caused among the elder races cannot be fully comprehended. Of all the star-gods, the Nightbringer is the most ancient and has inflicted the greatest misery upon the galaxy, quickly discovering that terror and anguish were the most delectable of sweetmeats.

The very star under which the Necrontyr race lived their brief, morbid lives gave birth to the vast sun-spanning energy that was the Nightbringer. In their quest for a weapon with which to defeat the Old Ones, the Necrontyr turned to the mighty coalescent energy feeding within the photosphere of their star. The first of the C'tan to manifest across the incorporeal starlight bridge, the Nightbringer brought with it the curse of death that had plagued the Necrontyr race since their birth. Having fed on the sustaining, but flavourless power of a star, the Nightbringer found the epicurean delights of the Necrontyr's awe and fear much more to its liking and slaughtered those who had brought it into being, feeding on the essence of their terror and suffering. Its appetite knew no bounds and only with desperate pledges of servitude were the Necrontyr able to convince the creature they had summoned forth that there were yet more races beyond their world that could be feasted upon - species beyond number for it to destroy.



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C'Tan Deceiver
The Deceiver's greatest achievements are wrought from deception and lies, its empire of fear build upon manipulation and mistrust. Subtle and charming, its web of half-truths and outrageous falsehoods have led planets to their doom and great leaders into slavery, all for the mocking amusement of the lord of deception. In ages past, even when the Necrontyr were still clothed in flesh, the other C'tan learned to shun the influence of the Deceiver. Only a few were consumed by the entity itself, others were set to fighting amongst themselves.

Of all the so-called star-gods, the C'tan in the ancient Necrontyr scripts, Yngir to the Eldar, the one known as the Deceiver was the most insidious and capricious. The little that can be gleaned indicates that even the Necrontyr knew few truths about this entity when they first discovered it and spoke the aeons-long owrds its dissipate form could notice. Its manifestation is also said to have been a time of great rejoicing among the Necrontyr - they were awe-struck by its fluid transition to an earthly form among them and the ease with which it adapted to the realm of matter. They first named it Mephet'ran, the Messenger, and believed it was a bridge to mediate between themselves and the other star-gods.

As the C'Tan began to gather followers and devotees, the messenger soon outstripped all others. The star-gods seemed too remote and awe-inspiring to many Necrontyr, but Mephet'ran communed in ways they understood. Perhaps this was because it was never as powerful as the other C'tan, and used guile and skill to secure its future. There are indications that many gave themselves willingly to become its slaves but the messenger sent them to serve other gods, perhaps fearful of the jealousy it would provoke if its power waxed too strong. Certainly the messenger stoked the fires of hatred which the Necronty felt towards the Old Ones, drawing them towards a was which would burn the galaxy to cinders.




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Necron Lord

The most sophisticated of the C'tan's servants, the Necron Lords act as leaders and energy loci for the Necron warriors. Clad in crumbling vestments and wielding ancient, arcane staffs, they are a chilling sight on the battlefield, directing their warriors' attack in unnatural silence. The patina of age mars the silvered perfection of their forms and they wear the accumulated power of millennia like a robe. Glittering arcs of energy surround their every gesture and soulless fires burn in their empty eye sockets.




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A Necron Lord may be mounted on a Destroyer platform, becoming a Destroyer Lord. This platform allows the Lord to rise over the battlefield and dive down with deathly speed to destroy his enemies.



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Pariah Squads

Crafted from a terrible symbiosis of Necron technology and human evolution, Pariahs represent the next phase fo the C'tan's ideal for the galaxy. resembling artificial beings of soulless perfection, Pariahs radiate a sense of palpable menace and horror to those around them. Blotting out psychic emanations and infusing those nearby with the sense of their own mortality, Pariahs embody the ultimate horror of the Necron threat.




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Immortal Squads

The Immortals were among the most favoured Necrontyr servants of the C'tan, and were the first of their kind to give up their cursed, fleshy bodies to become the soulless Necrons. Implacable metal giants, the lustre of their gleaming bodies has been eroded by the ravages of time. Fleshless metal skulls strike fear into teh hearts of their foes and the eerie silence of their advance is more unnerving than a bloodthirsty battlecry.




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Flayed One Squads

Twisted and ghoulish terrors of the night, the Flayed Ones advance before the Necron force, spreading fear like a plague before them. Stooped yet terrifyingly agile beasts from man's darkest nightmares, the Flayed Ones' long flensing blades can strip the skin from their prey in seconds. Thin and wiry, they adorn themselves with the still-wet hides of their victims, leaving the skinned corpses to sow fear and confusion amongst their enemies' ranks.




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Necron Warrior Squads

The skeletal form of a Necron Warrior is a spine-chilling sight, as bullets and lasblassts bounce harmlessly from its metallic limbs. The gauss flayer which it wields is no less terrifying, as it strips its target atom by atom; in a heartbeat it dissolves skin, muscle and then disintegrates bone until nothing remains.




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Wraiths
Grotesque floating killers, Wraiths are more like ghosts, shifting in and out of phase. A Wraith's spinal cord is elongated and fluid, equipped wih powerful shock lashes and blades. Wide, hunched shoulders support a leering, skull face, and long, whip-like arms wield scalpel blades for fingers and a nightmare assortment of arcane surgical equipment.




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Destroyer Squads
Necron Warriors are fused to skimming flyers are known and feared as Destroyers. They are a heavily altered form of the Necron Immortal, equally broad with a more pronounced spine from which their terrible weapons draw their power. The speed and ferocity of their attacks are undiminished by their antiquity, and they remain at the forefront of the red harvest.



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Scarab Swarms
Silver, beetle-like constructs, Scarabs move ahead fo the main army, flying in swarms so thick that they blot out the sun. Scarabs appear without warning, silent but for the rustle of carapace on carapace, a moving carpet of death more deadly than the sum of its parts.



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Tomb Spyders
These arachnoid creatures are artificial constructs created to maintain the ancient Necron tomb complexes. Their many eyes stare out from a featureless, metallic block. The hooded carapace of a Tomb Spyder provides essential protection while their flexible metal limbs repair Necron technologies, which they will also fight to protect.





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Heavy Destroyers

Like their lighter brethren, Necron Heavy Destroyers are a fusion of a Necron Immortal and a flying skimmer craft. As standard, the Heavy Destroyers mount the heavy gauss cannon and home in on the enemy armour, fixing them with their baleful multi-lensed targeters before raking them with devastating fire from their heavy gauss cannons .


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Monolith

The Monolith combines the properties of transport craft, armoured destroyer and Necron power icon. Its ponderous form floats across teh battlefield, its crystal core pulsing with sickly energy, powerful beams of gauss lightning whipping from its weapon mounts. The frontal section is capable of opening a dark portal and transporting Necrons to the battlefield to cause fresh havoc.




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[Bolter]

Bob... You'll be suprised...

I am DONE with Space Marines. They are over.

I spent 210 dollars on Necrons.... I already have a sizabble army. They easily are the best army, they just can't die.

[Bob 121]

I KNOW!!!!! I played against this one guy and his destroyers took out half of my guys before my first turn
Anyway I am surprised that you would join the xenos maybe there's hope for you yet......... if only I could get close enough to reprogram you.... I wonder if Tau have an EMP?

[Bolter]

Xenos, true, but differant than all other xenos. Most senos are savages (Tyris and orks) or eldar (and dark). All of which I dislike. I like the Necron image, the mini's, and the constant winning. Did the guy you played use a C'Tan?

[Bolter]

Very nice. In your opinion, do you like an 1000 point army in the open fields or a 500 army in a fort?

[Bob 121]

That's a hard one the fort is really nice in terms of cover but a bigger army would be nice. Overall I think that i'd take a bigger army. I'm gonna make a new thread for battle stories and i'll move the current one over there and also finish it up.