Necrons
Advancing in inexorable lockstep come the deathless legions of the Necrons. Eldritch energy weapons crackle and howl, erasing swathes of the enemy. Godlike beings twist reality to their will. The living fall to dust, swept away by ancient powers beyond comprehension. The Necrons have risen to reclaim the stars, and none shall stand in their way.
Books
| Book | Kind | Edition | Version | Last update |
 Necrons | ||||
| Necrons | Faction Pack | 10 | 1.3 | March 2026 |
 500 Worlds: Dread Incursions | ||||
| 500 Worlds: Dread Incursions | Expansion | 10 | January 2026 | |
 Boarding Actions | ||||
| Boarding Actions | Expansion | 10 | 1.1 | July 2025 |
 Munitorum Field Manual | ||||
| Munitorum Field Manual | Expansion | 11 | 1.0 | |
FAQ
Faction Pack: Necrons
| Q: | Can a unit be affected by a Resurrection Orb (e.g. from a Catacomb Command Barge and an Overlord) more than once per turn? |
| A: | No. |
| Q: | Can a Cryptothrall that has used its Systematic Vigour ability to ‘fight on death’ later fight again if returned to its unit before that unit is selected to fight? |
| A: | Yes. |
| Q: | When using the Protocol of the Undying Legions Stratagem, are any other rules that are applicable to Reanimation Protocols applied (e.g. Necron Warriors’ Their Number is Legion ability)? |
| A: | Yes. |
| Q: | If I am using the Canoptek Court Detachment, if there are no objective markers within No Man’s Land or within my opponent’s deployment zone, can those areas be within my army’s Power Matrix? |
| A: | No. |
| Q: | Can I use the Cosmic Precision Stratagem to set up a unit anywhere on the battlefield instead of only wholly within 6" of a battlefield edge, even if it doesn’t have the Deep Strike ability? |
| A: | Yes. |
| Q: | When using the Protocol of the Conquering Tyrant Stratagem or Lokhust Destroyers’ Hard-wired for Destruction ability, to be eligible to re-roll the Hit roll, does the unit also need to be eligible to re-roll a Hit roll of 1? |
| A: | Yes (see ‘Rules with Multiple Conditions and Effects’ in the Rules Commentary). |
| Q: | When I set up a unit using the MONOLITH’s Eternity Gate ability, do I have to set that unit up wholly within 6" of one battlefield edge? |
| A: | No. |
| Q: | When I set up a unit using the MONOLITH’s Eternity Gate ability, and that unit is not wholly within 6" of one battlefield edge, is that unit eligible to shoot in my Shooting phase? |
| A: | Yes. |
| Q: | Does the Canoptek Court Autodivinator Enhancement trigger when army rule effects such as Code Chivalric (Imperial Knights) award a player CP, or when an opponent discards a Secondary Mission card for 1CP? |
| A: | No in both cases. It only triggers when your opponent gains CP as the result of an ability (not any other kind of rule). |
| Q: | If a unit is removed from the battlefield using the Hypercrypt Legion Hyperphasing Detachment rule and it has the Deep Strike ability, can that unit arrive from Reserves in the first battle round? |
| A: | No. |
| Q: | If I target a CANOPTEK WRAITHS unit with the Canoptek Court Reactive Subroutines Stratagem, can this trigger that unit’s Wraith Form ability? |
| A: | Yes. |
| Q: | Do rules that activate Reanimation Protocols (e.g. the Protocol of the Undying Legions Stratagem) only apply to a Bodyguard unit whose attached Leader unit is on the battlefield if one or more models from that Bodyguard unit are also still on the battlefield? |
| A: | Yes. |
| Q: | When being set up using the Cosmic Precision Stratagem, does a model that is large (e.g. a TESSERACT VAULT) have to follow the rules for large models in the Setting Up Large Models Appendix(3.2.1)? |
| A: | Yes. |
Keywords
The keywords presented in this section have a number of special features:
- CLICK on the link to open the tooltip.
- The number in parentheses indicates the number of datasheets containing this keyword. This number represents the total number of datasheets in the faction, regardless of the filter.
- The list does not include named keywords that match the datasheet’s name (unless there are other datasheets with such a keyword).
Introduction
The Detachment rule listed here will apply to either your whole army or to particular units within it.
When mustering your army, your chosen Detachment enables you to upgrade CHARACTERS using the Enhancements listed here, as described in the Core Rules (see the Select Units step). If you are playing a Crusade battle, you can instead use the Renowned Heroes Requisition to give your CHARACTERS Enhancements, as described in the main Crusade rules.
Your chosen Detachment gives you access to the Stratagems listed here in addition to the Core Stratagems listed in the Core Rules. During the battle, you can spend Command points (CP) to use these Stratagems.
Army Rules
Reanimation Protocols
The Necron dynasties benefit from the nigh-on supernatural technologies that once saw them dominate the galaxy, perhaps the most unsettling of which are their reanimation protocols. Should a Necron be slain, its body becomes wreathed in an eerie glow. Crawling limbs reattach. Sundered torsos and smashed skulls reform amidst emerald sparks. Witch lights flare back to life within dead eye-lenses and the Necron rises again, shambling back into their battle line. Those Necrons too catastrophically damaged to reform vanish instead, teleported away to their tombs for repair.
If your Army Faction is NECRONS, at the end of your Command phase, each unit from your army with this ability that is on the battlefield activates its Reanimation Protocols and reanimates D3 wounds. Each time such a unit reanimates a wound:- If that unit contains one or more models with fewer than their starting number of wounds remaining, select one of those models; that model regains one lost wound
- If all models in that unit have their starting number of wounds, but that unit is not at its Starting Strength, one destroyed model is returned to that unit with one wound remaining.
Awakened Dynasty
3DP
Command Protocols
The Necron nobility and their high-ranking courtiers make war in a codified and relentless fashion. Their command protocols crackle out across multi-dimensional spectra from carrier-wave projectors, compelling their semi-sentient soldiery into battle one overriding directive at a time
While a NECRONS CHARACTER model is leading this unit, each time a model in this unit makes an attack, add 1 to the Hit roll.Enhancements
With this device the bearer can twist space and time about them, enfolding them in a swirling darkness. When it fades, they have vanished, rematerialising elsewhere through a miracle of arcane science. NECRONS model only. Once per battle, at the end of your opponent’s turn, if the bearer’s unit is not within Engagement Range of any enemy units, the bearer can use this Enhancement. If it does, remove that unit from the battlefield. Then, in the Reinforcements step of your next Movement phase, set up that unit anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 9" horizontally away from all enemy models. |
Clouds of hyper-dense particles billow from this small artefact, to obscure and shield the bearer from the foe. NECRONS model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, models in that unit have the Stealth ability. |
This engraved sigil-circuitry transforms the fierce will of the bearer into a surging lash across every phasal state. NECRONS model only. While a friendly NECRONS unit (excluding CHARACTER units) is within 6" of the bearer, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, add 1 to the Hit roll. |
The bearers living metal mantle is bonded to mirror versions of itself across many dimensional thresholds. NECRONS model only. The bearer has the Feel No Pain 4+ ability. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One NECRONS INFANTRY CHARACTER model from your army that was just destroyed. You can use this Stratagem on that model even though it was just destroyed.
EFFECT: At the end of the phase, set your model back up on the battlefield as close as possible to where it was destroyed and not within Engagement Range of any enemy units, with half of its starting number of wounds remaining.
RESTRICTIONS: Each model can only be targeted with this Stratagem once per battle.
TARGET: One NECRONS unit from your army that had one or more of its models destroyed as a result of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Your unit activates its Reanimation Protocols and reanimates D3 wounds (or D3+1 wounds if a NECRONS CHARACTER is leading your unit].
TARGET: One NECRONS unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Strength characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit. In addition, If a NECRONS CHARACTER is leading your unit, until the end of the phase, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit by 1. (this is not cumulative with any other modifiers that improve Armour Penetration].
TARGET: One NECRONS unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [ASSAULT] ability. In addition, if a NECRONS CHARACTER is leading your unit, until the end of the phase, you can re-roll Advance rolls made for your unit.
TARGET: One NECRONS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a unit within half range, re-roll a Hit roll of 1. If a NECRONS CHARACTER is leading your unit, until the end of the phase, you can re-roll the Hit roll for that attack instead.
TARGET: One NECRONS CHARACTER unit from your army that was within 6" of that NECRONS unit when it was destroyed.
EFFECT: After the attacking unit has resolved its attacks, your unit can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, but it must target only that enemy unit when doing so, and can only do so if that enemy unit is an eligible target.
Annihilation Legion
2DP
Annihilation Protocol
The most murderous Necrons of an Annihilation Legion retain no thought processes beyond destroying anything in reach. They are mechanised death, echoes of the industrialised and brutal processes of bio transference made manifest. Whether soullessly efficient or frenziedly deluded, these killing machines follow protocols that have atrophied into a singular and all-consuming insanity.
Each time a DESTROYER CULT or FLAYED ONES unit from your army declares a charge, you can re-roll the Charge roll. If one or more targets of that charge are Below Half-strength, add 1 to the Charge roll as well.Each time a DESTROYER CULT unit from your army makes a ranged attack that targets the closest eligible target, add 1 to the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack.
Enhancements
This Necrons sanity suffered during the Great Sleep. Now they are driven by a wrathful zeal, one which has seeped through the carrier waves of their commandments and into their followers. NECRONS model only. In the Fight phase, each time a model in the bearer’s unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6: on a 4+, do not remove the destroyed model from play; it can fight after the attacking models unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play. |
An immortal destroyer, this war leaders every victim is etched irrevocably into their cognitive engrams. Every weakness they ever overcame is recalled, frailties they can exploit on each new battlefield. NECRONS model only. Each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes an attack, on a Critical Wound, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1. |
This deathly killer exudes a soul-sapping presence, the promise of lifes’ end so explicit in their chilling gaze that few can muster the strength of will to evade it. DESTROYER CULT model only. Each time an enemy unit within Engagement Range of the bearer’s unit is selected to Fall Back, roll one D6: on a 3+, that unit cannot Fall Back this phase and must Remain Stationary. |
Atavistic fears are summoned from the pits of nightmare and thrust into the minds of all foes near this metal-skinned horror. DESTROYER CULT model only. At the start of the Fight phase, each enemy unit within Engagement Range of the bearer must take a Battle-shock test. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One DESTROYER CULT or FLAYED ONES unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
TARGET: One DESTROYER CULT or FLAYED ONES unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model from your unit makes an attack that targets a unit below Starting Strength, add 1 to the Hit roll. If the target is Below Half-strength, add 1 to the Wound roll as well.
TARGET: One DESTROYER CULT or FLAYED ONES unit from your army that has just destroyed an enemy unit, or just caused an enemy unit that was not Below Half-strength to become Below Half-strength.
EFFECT: Your unit’s Reanimation Protocols activate.
TARGET: One DESTROYER CULT or FLAYED ONES unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes a Pile-in or Consolidation move, it can move up to 6" instead of up to 3".
TARGET: One DESTROYER CULT or FLAYED ONES unit from your army that started the phase within Engagement Range of that enemy unit.
EFFECT: Roll one D6: on a 2-5, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds; on a 6, that enemy unit suffers 3 mortal wounds. Your unit can then make a Normal move, but must end that move as close as possible to that enemy unit.
TARGET: One DESTROYER CULT or FLAYED ONES unit from your army that had one or more of its models destroyed by the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move, but must end that move as close as possible to that enemy unit.
Canoptek Court3DP
Power Matrix
Countless worlds across the galaxy harbour quiescent Necron technology, buried beneath the surface or mistaken for mere xenoarchaeological ruins. Whether part of an awakening tomb world’s defences, phased beneath the crust of a planet to empower the Cryptek’s conquest or perhaps the very objects they seek, these strange engines can be roused to wakefulness. Linked in an interdimensional matrix, their ancient energy cores can be vampirically bled to empower the Crypteks’ arcane technologies as well as their artificial and servile constructs.
Certain areas of the battlefield are considered to be within your army’s Power Matrix, as follows:- Your deployment zone is always within your army’s Power Matrix.
- At the start of any phase, if you control at least half of the objective markers within No Man’s Land, until the end of that phase, No Man’s Land is within your army’s Power Matrix.
- At the start of any phase, if you control at least half of the objective markers within your opponent’s deployment zone, until the end of that phase, your opponent’s deployment zone is within your army’s Power Matrix.
Enhancements
This Cryptek has had a personal dimensional pocket reality crafted for them, from which they can emerge into battle at will. CRYPTEK model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Infiltrators ability. |
With this small orb, its surface shimmering in fractal hues and shifting in multidimensional facets, a Cryptek can bypass the ancient security protocols placed upon the areas dormant machineries. Esoteric data and unusual strands of energy can be accessed, the orb acting as a skeleton key to greater power. CRYPTEK model only. While the bearer is leading a unit, if that unit is wholly within your army’s Power Matrix, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, re-roll a Wound roll of 1. |
This cryptogeometric puzzle box harbours a chronoscarab. The tiny construct creeps forward in time along temporal webs before hauling back a captured net of future moments. Its master can scry these wriggling futures to predict their foe’s strategies, using the knowledge to develop new counter-tactics to ambush the attackers. CRYPTEK model only. Each time your opponent gains a CP as the result of an ability, roll one D6: on a 2+, you also gain 1CP. |
This microsilicate weave generates a cyclical electrostatic overload that, providing its user triggers it in time, sends arcing lightning leaping out to roast onrushing attackers. CRYPTEK model only. Once per phase, when an enemy unit selects the bearer’s unit as a target of a charge, roll one D6: on a 2-5, that enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds; on a 6, that enemy unit suffers 3 mortal wounds. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One CRYPTEK model from your army that was destroyed by one of the attacking unit’s attacks.
You can use this Stratagem on that model even though it was just destroyed.
EFFECT: Until the end of the battle, each time a friendly CANOPTEK model makes an attack that targets the attacking unit, add 1 to the Hit roll and add 1 to the Wound roll.
TARGET: One CRYPTEK or CANOPTEK unit from your army that is wholly within your army’s Power Matrix.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by CRYPTEK or CANOPTEK models in your unit have the [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability.
TARGET: One CRYPTEK model from your army.
EFFECT: Select one objective marker within 18" of your CRYPTEK model. Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by friendly NECRONS models have the [IGNORES COVER] ability while targeting units within range of that objective marker.
TARGET: One CANOPTEK unit from your army that is within 8" of that enemy unit.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to 6".
TARGET: One CANOPTEK unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit can only be selected as the target of a ranged attack if the attacking model is within 18".
TARGET: One CANOPTEK unit from your army that was selected as a target of that charge and is wholly within your army’s Power Matrix.
EFFECT: Your unit’s Reanimation Protocols activate.
Obeisance Phalanx
2DP
Worthy Foes
With a command transmitted by regal carrier wave, signalled by a glowing glyph or via a haughty gesture with their blade, the ruling nobles mark their chosen enemy. With this declaration are the Triarchal Codes observed, and the ignorant foe doomed. The nobles’ powerful servants and the Triarch’s guardians of tradition march to war obediently, driven to best the mightiest of foes on the battlefield as a demonstration of the dynasty’s honour and a warning to the rest of their enemies’ foolish kind.
In your Command phase, select one enemy unit. Until the start of your next Command phase, each time a NOBLE, LYCHGUARD or TRIARCH unit from your army makes an attack that targets that unit, add 1 to the Wound roll.Enhancements
A strict adherent to the ancient codes, this noble reserves their greatest displays of power to execute the enemy's leaders. Such champions are brought low in ostentatious manner, the inspiration or strategy they once provided severed at a stroke. OVERLORD model only. Each time the bearer’s unit destroys an enemy CHARACTER unit, your opponent loses 1CP if they have any. |
With sheer will this noble drives their warriors into battle against the most malevolent foes. Not from pretenders to nobility, nor marauding beasts, nor titanic machineries will this noble turn; they have faced greater horrors during their long existence. OVERLORD model only. The bearer’s melee weapons have the [PRECISION] and [ANTI-INFANTRY 5+] abilities. |
This dynastic scion is an expert in the arts of martial excellence, and their living metal form has been enhanced by their Crypteks. With effortless arrogance, they and their guardians parry or contemptuously swat aside the strikes of those they see as their lessers. OVERLORD model only. Each time a melee attack targets the bearer’s unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll. |
This insatiable subjugator sees all before them as theirs for the taking by ancient right of conquest. They wield their legion like an iron gauntlet, using it to seize the battlefield in a demonstration of their power and strength, daring others to try taking it from them. OVERLORD model only. Each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes an attack that targets an enemy unit within range of an objective marker, you can re-roll the Hit roll. |
Stratagems
TARGET: Your NECRONS WARLORD.
EFFECT: Until the end of the battle, each time an enemy unit takes a Battle-shock or Leadership test, subtract 1 from the result.
TARGET: One NECRONS unit from your army (excluding TITANIC units) that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, an unmodified Hit roll of 5+ scores a Critical Hit.
TARGET: One NECRONS VEHICLE unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack is allocated to a model in your unit, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack.
TARGET: One LYCHGUARD or TRIARCH PRAETORIANS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6: on a 4+, do not remove it from play. The destroyed model can fight after the attacking model’s unit has finished making attacks, and is then removed from play.
TARGET: One LYCHGUARD or TRIARCH unit from your army that has not been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [PRECISION] ability.
TARGET: One LYCHGUARD or TRIARCH unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the start of your next Command phase, add 1 to the Objective Control characteristic of models in your unit. If your unit has the VEHICLE keyword, add 3 to the Objective Control characteristic instead.
Hypercrypt Legion
2DP
Hyperphasing
Employing fractal corridors, dolmen gates and ancient translocation science, the Necrons are able to phase in and out of existence. Nowhere is safe for the terrified foe as mechanoid hunters appear from unfolding planar lattices to slaughter or escape retribution into gulfs of darkness, only to materialise elsewhere to kill anew.
At the end of your opponent’s turn, you can select a number of NECRONS units from your army (excluding units that are within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units). The maximum number of units you can select depends on the battle size, as follows:
|
Once you have made your selections, remove those units from the battlefield and place them into Strategic Reserves.
Enhancements
With a mind as labyrinthine as the multi-dimensional tomb itself, this commander directs their servants in complex forays through the tomb’s hyperspatial architecture, catching the witless enemy off guard. NECRONS model only. While the bearer is on the battlefield or in Strategic Reserves, add one to the number of units from your army that you can select for the Hyperphasing rule. |
This ancient being will suffer no threats to their rule, stepping imperiously from twisting nightmare dimensions to annihilate any who dare to oppose them. NECRONS model only. Each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1. If the bearer’s unit was set up on the battlefield this turn, you can re-roll the Hit roll instead. |
Wound with filaments of temporal circuitry, this amulet enables the bearer to accelerate themselves and their closest guardians in stuttering bursts of compressed time. NECRONS model only. Each time the bearer’s unit Advances, do not make an Advance roll for it. Instead, until the end of the phase, add 6" to the Move characteristic of models in the bearer’s unit. |
This hypermaterial key unlocks portals between transpatial dimensions embedded into a tomb’s architecture. Through such limitless doorways, the Necrons can pursue their quarry wherever they hide. NECRONS model only. Models in the bearer’s unit have the Deep Strike ability. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One NECRONS INFANTRY unit from your army that had one or more of its models destroyed as a result of the attacking unit’s attacks and one friendly MONOLITH model.
EFFECT: Remove your INFANTRY unit from the battlefield and then set it back up anywhere on the battlefield that is wholly within 6" of your MONOLITH model and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units.
TARGET: One NECRONS VEHICLE unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have a 4+ invulnerable save.
TARGET: Your NECRONS WARLORD.
EFFECT: For each of your NECRONS units in Reserves, that Reserves unit’s Reanimation Protocols activate.
TARGET: One NECRONS unit from your army (excluding MONSTER units) that is arriving using the Deep Strike or Hyperphasing abilities this phase.
EFFECT: Your unit can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy models.
RESTRICTIONS: A unit targeted with this Stratagem is not eligible to declare a charge in the same turn.
TARGET: One NECRONS unit from your army that was set up on the battlefield this turn using the Eternity Gate ability of a MONOLITH model that started the turn on the battlefield.
EFFECT: Your unit is eligible to charge this phase.
TARGET: One TITANIC model from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks and is within 18" of the attacking unit.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in the attacking unit have the [HAZARDOUS] ability.
Starshatter Arsenal
3DP
A wide range of mechanical treasures are stored within the grand armouries of the Necron dynasties. Some Necron nobles prefer to wage mobile warfare, utilising the swiftest of these vehicles, including imperious anti-grav war barques, looming mechanical walkers and supersonic assault craft powered by eldritch technologies to outflank, outrun and eliminate their enemies. As the armoured tide sweeps over the hopelessly outmatched foe, Ghost Arks swoop low to disgorge rank upon rank of skeletal Necron Warriors. Other forms of servile construct and maniacal killing machines join the lethal procession, too, adding their firepower to the cosmic wrath, and when the foe inevitably breaks, dynastic soldiery piloting – or fused with – repulsor-driven platforms surge forwards to scythe down any who would attempt to flee.
Relentless Onslaught
The Necrons possess countless terrifying engines of war. When mustered in great number, these instruments of annihilation sweep across the battlefield, seeking to reclaim lost realms and obliterate any foolish enough to trespass upon the territories of their ancient dynasty.
Each time a NECRONS model (excluding MONSTER models) from your army makes an attack that targets a unit within range of one or more objective markers, add 1 to the Hit roll. In addition, ranged weapons equipped by NECRONS VEHICLE and NECRONS MOUNTED models (excluding TITANIC models) from your army have the [ASSAULT] ability.Enhancements
When this noble unleashes the might of their cosmic armoury, their followers are left in no doubt as to the importance of the battle at hand. If they do not strive to live up to the lethal effectiveness of the dynasty’s war engines, their Overlord’s wrath will be terrible. OVERLORD or CATACOMB COMMAND BARGE model only. While a friendly NECRONS unit (excluding MONSTER and TITANIC units) is within 6" of the bearer, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, re-roll a Hit roll of 1 and re-roll a Wound roll of 1. |
Feeding vampirically on datastreams from the dynasty’s war engines, this device enables its owner to track enemies through multiple dimensions, leaving them no hiding place. NECRONS model only. Ranged weapons equipped by models in the bearer’s unit have the [IGNORES COVER] ability. |
This Necron noble is a master of rapid warfare, commanding armoured columns with great precision. NECRONS model only. In your Command phase, select one friendly NECRONS VEHICLE or NECRONS MOUNTED unit (excluding TITANIC units) within 6" of the bearer. Until the start of your next Command phase, that unit is eligible to shoot in a turn in which it Fell Back. |
When activated, this device wreathes dynastic craft in a time-dilation field that reduces the force of incoming blows and shots. NECRONS model only. In your Command phase, select one friendly NECRONS VEHICLE or NECRONS MOUNTED unit (excluding TITANIC units) within 6" of the bearer. Until the start of your next Command phase, each time an attack is allocated to a model in that unit, subtract 1 from the Damage characteristic of that attack. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One NECRONS unit (excluding MONSTER and TITANIC units) from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, if the target of that attack is within range of one or more objective markers, add 1 to the Wound roll.
TARGET: One NECRONS VEHICLE or NECRONS MOUNTED unit (excluding TITANIC units) from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets a model in your unit, if the Strength characteristic of that attack is greater than the Toughness characteristic of that unit, subtract 1 from the Wound roll.
TARGET: One NECRONS VEHICLE or NECRONS MOUNTED unit (excluding TITANIC units) from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, if your unit Advances, do not make an Advance roll for it. Instead, until the end of the phase, add 6" to the Move characteristic of models in your unit.
TARGET: One NECRONS VEHICLE or NECRONS MOUNTED unit (excluding TITANIC units) from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit can move horizontally through models and terrain features.
TARGET: One NECRONS unit (excluding MONSTER and TITANIC units) from your army that is within range of one or more objective markers you control.
EFFECT: Your unit’s Reanimation Protocols activate.
TARGET: One NECRONS unit from your army (excluding MONSTER and TITANIC units) that was the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to D6".
Cryptek Conclave2DP
It was during the ongoing war in the Nephilim Anomaly that Szarekh, the Silent King, issued an edict of unprecedented technological freedom. No weapon of science-sorcery was to be off limits in the Necrons’ campaign to reclaim galactic dominance. With the Silent King’s blessings, ever more conclaves of like-minded Crypteks are now gathering power and influence throughout the Necrons’ domains. Some such conclaves have arisen across the region now designated Greater Ultramar, either in answer to the onset of Human invaders or as a defensive measure against the rampage of Ammentar’s cursed legion. They see powerful Crypteks compete with one another to fashion the greatest weapons and augment their android phalanxes in the most cunning ways. For those enemies unlucky enough to stand in their way, the conclaves are a byword for terror.
Technosorcerous Augmentations
Whether building on one anothers’ shared results or vying to produce the most ingenious adaptations, the Crypteks treat the battlefield as an opportunity to test their latest scientific and technological breakthroughs.
- Ranged weapons equipped by CRYPTEK models from your army have the [ASSAULT] ability.
- In your Shooting phase, each time a CRYPTEK unit from your army is selected to shoot, select one of the following abilities: [ANTI-INFANTRY 3+], [ANTI-MOUNTED 4+], [ASSAULT], [HEAVY], [IGNORES COVER]. Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in that unit have that ability.
Enhancements
This cloud-like familiar of fractal computational electrons possesses a cogitational intellect that, when fed raw data, produces inspired strategic guidance. NECRONS model only. Each time you select the bearer’s unit as the target of a Stratagem, roll one D6, adding 1 if it is within range of one or more objectives: on a 4+, you gain 1CP. |
Energy lenses project in a web from a central node borne by the Cryptek, coalescing about Necron weapon systems and focusing their power still further. CRYPTEK model only. In your Shooting phase, each time the bearer’s unit is selected to shoot, when selecting an ability for the Technosorcerous Augmentations Detachment rule, you can also select from the following abilities: [ANTI-MONSTER 5+], [ANTI-VEHICLE 5+]. |
Clinging to the bearer’s hand like a glove woven from shadow, this strange device folds space-time with a single gesture, momentarily compressing the relative distance between Necron weapons and their targets. NECRONS model only. Add 6" to the Range characteristic of ranged weapons equipped by models in the bearer’s unit. |
Projected from the bearer’s staff as a secondary energistic emission, these solid-state electroshackles bind and trammel their victims in crackling fetters. CRYPTEK model only. In your Shooting phase, after the bearer has shot, select one enemy unit hit by one or more of those attacks (excluding TITANIC units); until the start of your next turn, that enemy unit is pinned. While a unit is pinned, subtract 2 from that unit’s Move characteristic and subtract 2 from Charge rolls made for that unit. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One NECRONS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can ignore any or all modifiers to the following: that attack’s Ballistic Skill or Weapon Skill characteristic; the Hit roll. If your unit has the CRYPTEK keyword, you can also ignore any or all modifiers to the Wound roll.
TARGET: One CRYPTEK INFANTRY unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: If your unit has the NECRON WARRIORS keyword, until the end of the phase, models in your unit have a 5+ invulnerable save. If your unit has the IMMORTALS keyword, until the end of the phase, models in your unit have a 4+ invulnerable save.
TARGET: One CRYPTEK model from your army that was destroyed by one of the attacking unit’s attacks. You can use this Stratagem on that model even though it was just destroyed.
EFFECT: Until the end of the battle, each time a friendly NECRONS model makes an attack that targets the attacking unit, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
TARGET: One CRYPTEK unit from your army.
EFFECT: Select one friendly NECRONS model (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) within 12" of a CRYPTEK model in your unit. Until the end of the phase, that friendly NECRONS model has the CRYPTEK keyword.
TARGET: One CRYPTEK unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit is selected to shoot, when selecting an ability for the Technosorcerous Augmentations Detachment Rule, you can select one additional ability from those available.
TARGET: One NECRONS unit from your army within range of one or more objective markers.
EFFECT: Your unit’s Reanimation Protocols activate. If it is a CRYPTEK unit, it reanimates an additional 1 wound.
Cursed Legion2DP
The cursed legion of Nekrosor Ammentar sweeps across the stars like some android plague. They are avatars of death, a fanatical host through whose ranks the Destroyer madness is allowed to spread unchecked. Those gripped by the madness are fanatical in their devotion to the Nekrosor and vigorous in their efforts to forcibly inflict their blessed curse upon the lower ranks in their service. Entire phalanxes of android soldiery surge into battle with a sickly, killing light dancing in their ocular lenses. Even the lowliest Warriors fight with cold ferocity, while the Destroyers kill with nightmarish speed and efficiency born of zeal. With every conflict the ranks of the cursed legion swell with new converts, and the trail of carnage they leave in their wake grows all the bloodier.
Cold Fervour
The fury of the Destroyers and – by extension – of the cursed legion is not a wild or reckless thing. It is rather a ruthlessly methodical annihilation of the enemy, in which the Destroyers take the lead while ripples of their strange madness roll out to infect nearby Necrons and goad them, too, to greater efforts of tireless murder.
- Add 2 to the Strength characteristic of weapons equipped by DESTROYER CULT models from your army.
- The first time each turn that a DESTROYER CULT unit from your army makes attacks that destroy a unit or cause it to become Below Half-strength, after that unit has finished resolving its attacks, until the end of the turn, add 2 to the Strength characteristic of weapons equipped by friendly NECRONS models (excluding DESTROYER CULT, MONSTER and TITANIC models).
Enhancements
Though it resembles a typical ankh, this chest piece fills its host with an insatiable need to exterminate the foe. CATACOMB COMMAND BARGE or OVERLORD model only. The bearer has the DESTROYER CULT keyword. Add 2" to the Move characteristic of models in the bearer’s unit and add 2 to the Attacks characteristic of melee weapons equipped by the bearer. |
Consumed by the Destroyer madness, this Cryptek’s powerful intellect is turned entirely toward killing. CRYPTEK model only. The bearer has the DESTROYER CULT keyword and during the Declare Battle Formations step, the bearer can be attached to a DESTROYER CULT unit (excluding CHARACTER units). If you do, the bearer’s unit cannot contain any models without the DESTROYER CULT keyword. Add 3" to the Move characteristic of the bearer. |
The malevolent madness of Ammentar itself burns in the minds of this warrior and their comrades. DESTROYER CULT model only. Each time a model in the bearer’s unit makes an attack, add 1 to the Hit roll. |
This band of living metal sinks into the bearer’s brow and floods their neural cortex with a murderous urge. DESTROYER CULT model only. In your opponent’s Shooting phase, when an enemy unit has shot, if a model in this unit was destroyed by those attacks, this unit can make a surge move of up to D6". |
Stratagems
TARGET: One NECRONS unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 1] ability.
TARGET: One DESTROYER CULT unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time an attack targets your unit, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.
TARGET: One friendly NECRONS unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) within 9" of that DESTROYER CULT unit.
EFFECT: The friendly unit’s Reanimation Protocols activate.
TARGET: One DESTROYER CULT unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the turn, your unit is eligible to shoot and declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once per turn.
TARGET: One NECRONS unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) from your army that has not declared a charge this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your unit declares a charge, if one or more targets of that charge are within Engagement Range of one or more friendly units, add 2 to the Charge roll.
TARGET: One NECRONS unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) from your army that is within 6" of one or more enemy units and would be eligible to declare a charge against one or more of those enemy units if it were your Charge phase.
EFFECT: Your unit now declares a charge that only targets one or more of those enemy units, and you resolve that charge. Note that even if this charge is successful, your unit does not receive any Charge bonus this turn.
Pantheon of Woe2DP
To unleash such a power is a strategy of last resort for most Necrons, for it sees multiple C’tan shards released from tesseract oubliettes and hurled into the heart of the foe. Though the Necrons employ powerful mechanisms to control the shattered remains of the star gods, still it is a risk deploying even one such fettered abomination amidst the mayhem of war lest it slip its bonds and go on the rampage. Concentrating the power of multiple shards upon a single battlefield, meanwhile, has a warping effect upon reality itself, and requires the efforts of skilled Crypteks using complex necrodermal bindings to prevent the C’tan shards from breaking free. For all this, the sheer cosmic devastation unleashed by several shards on a single battlefield is breathtaking to behold.
Cosmic Distortion
The quantum dissonance and molecular erosion caused by multiple C’tan shards in close proximity is enough to fray the very physical being of the foe at an atomic level.
NECRONS MONSTER units from your army have the following ability:Distortion Fields (Aura): While an enemy unit is within 6" of this unit, it is unravelling. While an enemy unit is unravelling, each time an attack targets that unit, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
At the start of each phase, for each NECRONS MONSTER unit from your army, that unit can suffer 3 mortal wounds. If it does, until the end of the phase, the range of that unit’s Distortion Fields Aura ability is increased to 9".
Designer’s Note: If your army contains more than one TRANSCENDENT C’TAN unit, each of those units must take the Reletavistic Tether ability.
RESTRICTIONS
When mustering your army, each NECRONS MONSTER unit from your army has the relevant Necrodermal Binding ability shown below, and you must increase the points cost of each of those units by the amount shown in the Munitorum Field Manual. If this causes your army to exceed the points limit for the battle you are playing, you cannot include that unit in your army.
Necrodermal Binding Abilities
This eldritch device fetters and directs the Deceiver’s powers within a vortex that devours lesser wits entirely. C’TAN SHARD OF THE DECEIVER model only. This model has the following ability: |
The energies of this binding latch onto enemy targets and shunt the shard into alignment with them. C’TAN SHARD OF THE NIGHTBRINGER model only. This model is eligible to declare a charge in a turn in which it Advanced. |
This device bleeds off the Void Dragon shard’s energies and earths them violently through nearby machines. C’TAN SHARD OF THE VOID DRAGON model only. Once per turn, at the start of your opponent’s Shooting phase, select one enemy VEHICLE unit visible to the bearer. That unit must take a Leadership test. Until the end of the phase, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll and, if that Leadership test was failed, subtract 1 from the Wound roll as well. |
This binding uses atomic resonance magnetism to compel the shard into the midst of the foe. TRANSCENDENT C’TAN model only. In your turn, each time this model is set up on the battlefield using the Deep Strike or Transdimensional Displacement abilities, it can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy units. When doing so, if this model is set up within 9" of one or more enemy units, until the end of the turn, it is not eligible to declare a charge. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That NECRONS MONSTER model. You can use this Stratagem on that model even though it was just destroyed.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your model’s Deadly Demise ability inflicts mortal wounds on a D6 roll of 3+ instead of on a 6.
TARGET: One NECRONS MONSTER unit from your army.
EFFECT: Select one unravelling enemy unit visible to your unit. That enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test. When doing so, subtract 1 from the result. If that test is failed, that enemy unit suffers D3+1 mortal wounds.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once per battle round.
TARGET: One friendly NECRONS unit (excluding MONSTERS) within 6" of that MONSTER unit.
EFFECT: If that enemy unit was unravelling at the start of the phase, your friendly unit’s Reanimation Protocols activate.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once per turn.
TARGET: One NECRONS unit (excluding MONSTERS) from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets an enemy unit, re-roll a Hit roll of 1. If the target of that attack is unravelling, re-roll a Wound roll of 1 as well.
TARGET: One NECRONS unit from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit is destroyed, if that model has not fought this phase, roll one D6, adding 1 if the attacking unit is unravelling: on a 4+, do not remove the destroyed model from play; it can fight after the attacking unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
TARGET: One NECRONS unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of that enemy unit.
EFFECT: When that enemy unit Falls Back, all models in that enemy unit must take a Desperate Escape test. When doing so, if that enemy unit is Battle-shocked, subtract 1 from each of those tests.
Hand of the Dynasty1DP
PHALANXES OF NECRON SOLDIERY RECLAIM THE BATTLEFIELD FOR THEIR DYNASTY
Hypermotility Protocols
Command protocols and neural impulses flood the mechanical bodies of these android warriors, lending them greater speed of thought and movement.
- Friendly IMMORTALS/NECRON WARRIORS units’ ranged attacks have [ASSAULT].
- When a friendly IMMORTALS/NECRON WARRIORS unit is selected to make an advance move, that move does not prevent that unit from being eligible to start an action.
Enhancements
Goaded into battle by overriding imperatives, these Warriors march relentlessly out to enact the will of their masters. NECRON WARRIORS unit only. This unit has Scouts 5" |
Nobles are not above expending additional resources to improve the armaments of their more valuable soldiery. IMMORTALS unit only. This unit’s ranged attacks have [RAPID FIRE 1]. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One friendly IMMORTALS unit.
EFFECT: Your unit has +1 OC until the end of the turn.
TARGET: One friendly IMMORTALS/NECRON WARRIORS unit.
EFFECT: Select one objective your unit is controlling. That objective is secured.
TARGET: That IMMORTALS/NECRON WARRIORS unit.
EFFECT: Your unit shoots using snap shooting, but while doing so your unit can only target that enemy unit.
Skyshroud Spearhead1DP
LIKE A PLAGUE FROM ANCIENT MYTH, MURDEROUS GRAV‑SKIMMING NECRON SWARMS FILL THE SKIES
Transdimensional Deployment
Transported to the battlefield via dimension-shifting technologies, Tomb Blades materialise in crackling fields of energy and strafe unprepared targets, often to devastating effect.
- Friendly TOMB BLADES units have Deep Strike.
- When a friendly TOMB BLADES unit is selected to shoot, if that unit made an ingress move this turn, that unit’s ranged attacks have +1 to hit rolls.
Enhancements
Ancillary reclamators capture the molecular matter of these Tomb Blades even as it is blasted apart, drawing it in a swirling comet trail behind them and working it back into their physical forms. TOMB BLADES unit only. When this unit activates its Reanimation Protocols, +1 to the roll. |
Like some echo of the Nekrosor’s own murder‑madness, a coldly efficient kill‑frenzy grips these Lokhust Destroyers so that – even as they streak into battle – they lay down one ferocious volley of fire after another. DESTROYER CULT MOUNTED unit only. This unit’s ranged attacks have [ASSAULT]. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That NECRONS MOUNTED unit.
EFFECT: That move does not prevent your unit from being eligible to shoot.
TARGET: That NECRONS MOUNTED unit.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a normal move of up to D3+3".
TARGET: That NECRONS MOUNTED unit.
EFFECT: Ranged attacks that target your unit with a S greater than your unit’s T have -1 to wound rolls.
The Phaeron's Armoury1DP
WAR ENGINES ARE UNLEASHED FROM WITHIN THE TOMB WORLD’S ROYAL ARMOURY TO CRUSH THE FOE
Empowered Engines
When a Necron ruler unleashes the mightiest war engines from amongst their armoury, they may charge their finest Crypteks to enhance them first.
Friendly NECRONS TITANIC FLY units have +6" M.This detachment has the HYPERCRYPT tag and cannot be taken with another HYPERCRYPT detachment.
Enhancements
Subtle transplanar optics allow this war leader to peer through the energy veil of a Monolith’s eternity gate and dissect the defences and weaknesses of the enemies beyond it. This ensures their emergence from the portal is as grandly bloody and spectacular as possible. NECRONS model only. When this unit is selected to shoot, if this unit was set up using a Monolith’s Eternity Gate ability this turn, this unit’s ranged attacks have:
|
Projecting a subtly tailored weave of spiritual entropy fields, antiphotons and infrasonic oppression waves, this war engine projects a sense of ominous dread and impending death like a shadow before it. OBELISK unit only. In your opponent’s Battle-shock step, if an enemy unit within 8" of this unit is below starting strength, that enemy unit makes a battle-shock roll. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That NECRONS TITANIC FLY unit.
EFFECT: Attacks that target your unit have -1 AP until that enemy unit has attacked.
TARGET: One friendly NECRONS TITANIC FLY unit.
EFFECT: Select one visible enemy unit within 12" of your unit. That enemy unit has +3" detection range.
TARGET: That OBELISK/TESSERACT VAULT unit.
EFFECT: Your unit’s Tesla Sphere weapons have +1 AP.
Crusade Rules
In this section you’ll find additional rules for playing Crusade battles that are bespoke to NECRONS units.
As a tomb world is reawakened, its Systems come online by the order of the Necron royalty, giving them access to new abilities.
AGENDAS
NECRONS armies can attempt to achieve unique Agendas in addition to those found in other publications. These represent the faction’s unique goals and their particular methods of waging war.
REQUISITIONS
NECRONS armies have access to a number of bespoke Requisitions in addition to those found in other publications.
As they gain experience and prowess, NECRONS units in your Crusade force can be given one of the Battle Traits in this section instead of one presented elsewhere.
Themed to the unique nature of NECRONS, these Battle Scars represent long-lasting effects units from your Crusade force may come to carry.
CRUSADE RELICS
In addition to the Crusade Relics in other publications, NECRONS CHARACTER models can claim one of the Crusade Relics found here.
CRUSADE BADGES
Here you will find three Crusade Badges representing goals you can set yourself when campaigning with your Crusade force. Once one is achieved, you could set yourself a new goal, or take the opportunity to start a new Crusade force.
Awakening A Tomb World
A Necron tomb world’s awakening is a multi-stage process, with each System being responsible for different aspects of mobilising the dynasty’s forces. To represent this process, your Crusade force will be able to utilise the Systems of the tomb world awakening and direct power to each System as befitting their mission. Upon distributing all available power, your Crusade force will receive special bonuses known as Master System abilities based on how the power has been distributed.
Awakening Points
Awakening points are a limited resource that a NECRONS Crusade force can use to empower its three Systems. Your Crusade force starts with 3 Awakening points to distribute across each System, with each System having three possible bonuses to choose from. By completing Awakening Agendas, you can distribute all three Awakening points as you see fit, but your total distribution spread will dictate which Master System abilities you have access to once all three have been allocated.System Bonuses
Each System has three bonuses to choose from which offer your Crusade army additional benefits in battles. To gain access to a System bonus, you must allocate an Awakening point to it by completing the relevant Awakening Agenda for its System.Awakening Agendas
To allocate an Awakening point, you must successfully complete the Awakening Agenda for that System. An Awakening Agenda can be selected as one of your two Agendas instead of one from another source. Once you have done so, select a bonus in that System that you want to activate and allocate an Awakening point to it.Master Systems
When all three of your Awakening points have been allocated to System bonuses, you gain access to Master System abilities. For instance, if you have chosen to allocate Awakening points to System bonuses in the Translocation and Reanimation Systems, you have access to each of those Master System abilities.During a battle, you can choose to use one Master System ability, granting a bonus for use during that battle. If you do, you must immediately roll one D3 and remove that many Awakening points from your Systems, starting with a System bonus in the same System as that Master System ability. This results in your Crusade army immediately losing access to those System bonuses, whether or not you have used them yet.
The Awakening points removed can be reallocated via the completion of Awakening Agendas once again as you see fit, representing the changing needs of the dynasty as it conquers the galaxy. As noted, a Master System ability can only be used when all three of your Awakening points have been allocated.
Command System
The invigoration of a tomb world’s command systems reinforces the neural dominion of the world’s awakening android warriors to their immortal masters. As more of the command systems are awoken, as more Necrons rise from the torpor of their stasis crypts, the tomb’s ancient nobility - or their favoured legates - exercise an authority that is as ingrained in their servants’ psyche as it is hardwired into their cogitational processes.
To master the fate of others is a heady tonic to those whose existences are forged to rule. There are few more potent expressions of control than the breaking of other beings.
1. HARMONISED DYNASTIC HYPERDERMIS
At the start of the battle, select one CHARACTER unit and add 1 to the Toughness characteristic of models in that unit until the end of the battle.
2. SERVILE PRESERVATION PROTOCOLS
At the start of the battle, select one CHARACTER unit. Each time a Bodyguard model in that unit is destroyed by a melee attack, if that model has not fought that phase, roll one D6: on a 3+, do not remove it from play. The destroyed model can fight after the attacking model’s unit has finished making its attacks, and is then removed from play.
3. REMASTERED DEFICIENCY
Once per battle round, you can target a NECRONS CHARACTER unit from your army with the Command Re-roll Stratagem for 0CP and can do so even if you have already targeted a different unit with that Stratagem this phase.
If you have access to this Master System ability, you can use it in one of the following ways:
Reanimation System
The semi-sentient substance comprising the bodies of the tomb world’s guardians can be augmented or accelerated with ghostly signals that flicker across dimensions between the tomb world and whatever distant war zone has claimed its fallen people. Once empowered, the tomb’s reanimation systems can cause the living metal to enter new and horrific states of spasming unlife that drag the Necrons back from extinction’s edge time and again.
Prestige among the wider dynasty is measured not only in the tomb world's conquests but in the ceaseless return of its eternal crusaders to their rightful place amongst the phalanxes at war.
1. RAPID REANIMATION
Once per battle round, you can re-roll the roll for one unit in your Crusade army’s Reanimation Protocols ability.
2. RESURRECTION FLUX
While a unit is Below Half-strength, add 1 to the result of that unit’s Reanimation Protocols roll.
3. ANASTASIC CONTINGENCY
Once per battle, after an enemy unit has caused a unit from your Crusade army to go below its Starting Strength, that unit can use its Reanimation Protocols ability.
If you have access to this Master System ability, you can use it in one of the following ways:
Translocation System
The Necrons’ hyperscience enables their legions to conquer territories far from their tomb world, its warriors’ shambling gait belying a horrifying manoeuvrability. By activating additional translocation systems within the tomb’s insane architecture, dimensional corridors, dolmen gates and eldritch portals - gateways unused for millions of years - are unsealed, opening uncanny pathways that echo once more with the footfalls of advancing doom.
Possessing an overriding martial mindset, a desire to purge or conquer the galaxy, the tomb world's legions are on the march, driven to seize every prize their masters deem of worth.
1. ASTROMANTIC PERCEPTION PORTAL
Once per turn, select one NECRONS unit that was set up on the battlefield using the Deep Strike ability this turn. Until the end of the turn, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
2. DIMENSIONAL CATACOMBS
Before the start of the battle, select up to three NECRONS INFANTRY units from your Crusade army. Those units have the Scouts 6" ability, and while using that ability, they can FLY.
3. TRANSTEMPORAL ACCELERATION
Once per battle, in your Command phase, select one NECRONS unit from your Crusade army. Until the end of the turn, add 2 to Advance and Charge rolls made for that unit.
If you have access to this Master System ability, you can use it in one of the following ways:
Agendas
If your Crusade army includes any NECRONS units, you can select Agendas from those presented here.Destroyers care only for the murder of organic life - their obsession is monomaniacal, their tally of the slain ever growing and their joyless appetite never sated.
To the Necrons it is not enough to simply defeat their enemies. They must prove their superiority by completely obliterating them with contemptuous ease. How else, after all, are the lesser species to be truly put in their place?
During the Great Sleep, the Necrons' once-sprawling territories were steadily eroded, conquered and parcelled up by other beings. Now that they are rising once more, the dynasties are loath to lose any more ground.
In addition, at the start of your Shooting phase, you can select one NECRONS INFANTRY unit within range of an objective marker outside your deployment zone from your Crusade army that is not Battle-shocked and is eligible to shoot. The selected unit can conquer that objective marker, and until the end of your turn that unit is not eligible to shoot or declare a charge. Each objective marker can only be conquered once per battle, and the unit that conquers it gains 2XP.
As though it were not enough of an insult that the creeping thieves of the lesser species defiled the dynastic tombs with their intrusion, they also stole precious artefacts whose true worth they cannot comprehend. These must be recovered, even if the quest should take a thousand years.
At the end of your Movement phase, one NECRONS CHARACTER unit from your Crusade army (excluding Battle-shocked units) that is eligible to shoot and is within range of that objective marker can attempt to reclaim this treasure. If attempted, that unit cannot shoot or declare a charge until your next turn. If this unit is within range of that objective marker at the start of your next Command phase, the treasure is reclaimed and that objective marker is removed from the battlefield.
The CHARACTER model that successfully reclaimed the treasure gains 4XP. After the battle, that CHARACTER can exchange one Crusade Relic it possesses with a NECRONS Crusade Relic it is eligible for.
Requisitions
If your Crusade army includes any NECRONS units, you can spend Requisition points (RPs) on any of the following Requisitions.Exactly how the dreaded Flayer virus spreads is beyond the grasp of the most knowledgeable Cryptek. Some have attempted to rationalise it as a physical pathogen, info-virus or energistic flaw, yet none truly understand this almost supernatural curse or why it is that entire groups of Necrons can fall victim to it.
The greater a Necron noble's reputation, the more cunning and accomplished are the Crypteks who seek them out and offer them service.
Many afflicted with the Destroyer curse have awoken from the Great Sleep that way, yet more frightening is for the nihilistic madness to find purchase within the personality engrams of formerly stable Necrons. Their ambition and psyche atrophies until all that remains is the cold-hearted desire for annihilation.
Destroyer Madness: Each time this model makes an attack, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
By manipulating the hypercircuits of the tomb world's esoteric subsystems, some can be returned to quiescent dormancy as others shudder into semi-sentient activation.
Battle Traits
When a NECRONS unit gains a Battle Trait, you can use one of the tables presented here to determine which Battle Trait that unit has gained.With a possessiveness born of arrogance, this most determined ancient seizes what they desire through sheer will.
The passing aeons provide ample opportunity to improve one's bladesmanship when mortality is but a dim memory.
As more systems awake upon this Necron's tomb world, greater legions become theirs to command.
These combatants have developed a truly indomitable will, rapidly recovering from even the most catastrophic damage in their determination to serve their masters.
The soldiers in this unit are receptive to the desires and commands of their betters even at great distances.
These Necrons rise again and again despite the most grievous injuries, resolutely refusing to succumb to their wounds.
Cravitic repulsion fields can be enfolded via enhanced protocols so as to accelerate the mechanisms that will ensure the foes' doom.
With prismatic arrays that can force temporary wormholes through intervening defences, no foe is safe from this machine's weapons.
When heavily damaged or suppressed, Necron war machines can exert a carrier wave of atavistic intimidation with which to exert their master's will.
These constructs exhibit hyperdeveloped protective subroutines, engaging extermination protocols to defend their Cryptek masters.
Their duties as tomb guardians discharged, these Canoptek constructs have adapted to focus on speed and aggression.
Augmented with advanced matter-replication capabilities, these Canoptek constructs can swiftly repair themselves in battle.
Battle Scars
When a NECRONS unit gains a Battle Scar, you can use one of the tables presented here to determine which Battle Scar that unit has gained.If your unit already has the relevant Battle Scar from this book, generate a Battle Scar from the main Crusade rules instead.
NOBLE Units
This noble's sanity is unravelling one engram at a time, lending them a savage vitality, but rendering their capacity to issue rational commands non-existent.
- Add 1 to the Strength and Attacks characteristics of melee weapons equipped by this unit. This unit has the Lone Operative ability and loses the Leader ability.
DESTROYER CULT Units
Whatever dregs of personality or intellect this being possessed are draining away, replaced by their mechanistic obsession with endless slaughter.
- Each time a model in this unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
- Worsen the Leadership and Objective Control characteristics of this unit by 1.
NECRONS Units
Excluding C’TAN SHARD unitsSo damaged has this unit been that their core personality engrams have become scrambled.
- Each time you target this unit with a Stratagem, reduce that Stratagem’s cost by 1CP for that usage.
- This unit cannot Fall Back or Advance.
CANOPTEK Units
These constructs are running on exhausted power supplies, leaving them nothing in reserve to effect self-repair during battle.
- Add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in this unit.
- This unit cannot use its Reanimation Protocols ability.
Crusade Relics
When a NECRONS CHARACTER model gains a Crusade Relic, you can select one of the Crusade Relics presented here.Artificer Relics
Ever burning, this robe-like skein is a remnant of necrodermis - a material that once caged a C’tan Shard. The haze of its smoky particles, each tinged with a micro-echo of their once-prisoner’s insanity, can obfuscate biological senses and technological augurs that rely on rationality and logic.
Models in the bearers unit have the Stealth ability.Antiquity Relics
A dangerous weapons technology, this device generates a tachyon energy field around its bearer’s blade, resulting in their every blow striking faster than light and discharging tremendous destructive energy into their victims. Should the bearer be slain, the field rapidly overloads and detonates in a blinding flash of lethal power.
The bearer has the Deadly Demise D3 ability. In addition, select one of the bearers melee weapons; add 2 to the Strength and Attacks characteristics of that weapon, and that weapon has the [LETHAL HITS] ability.For millennia, the Orb of Eternity rested in a primitive fane on the world of Ormandus, where the indigenous populace marvelled at its ability to repair their technologies. Ever since this state of affairs was righted by a host of Triarch Praetorians, the Orb has been imparted as a boon to those deemed worthy of such power.
While the bearer is leading a unit, each time that unit’s Reanimation Protocols activate, it reanimates 3 wounds instead of D3 wounds.Legendary Relics
Heshkefnet’s name endures where her dynasty is long forgotten. The phaeron’s tyrannic will haunts the blackstone engrams in this small artefact, an imprint which can be invoked to reinforce the most imperious demand for eradication.
Once per battle, at the start of your Command phase, select one unit from your opponent’s army. Until the start of your next Command phase, each time a model from your Crusade army makes an attack that targets that enemy unit, you can re-roll the Hit roll.Crusade Badges
When your Crusade force accomplishes specific long-term goals, you can earn the Crusade badges shown below, representing your warriors’ successes over many battles.Awakened Tomb
You have reached out your enduring will from the cold and sterile heart of your tomb world and reasserted your right to the stars. A t your command, awakened legions march to reclaim the tomb world’s territory where it lies scattered, ruined or invaded. With every harrowing purge and each ruthless repossession, the remnants of your realm are remade and revived to regal superiority. With every victory is this new age revealed: the opportunities for expansion and prestige; the verminous species to be crushed. The galaxy has changed much, but conquest is an eternal concept. The galaxy will learn once more to fear your dominion.
- You have used a Master System ability once.
- You have won at least two battles
Conquering Tomb
The ancient stasis-crypts and darkened cities of your tomb world actuate with increasing frequency. Your dynastic legions enlarge day by day, fresh phalanxes of metallic soldiery awoken to serve your ambitions. Pulses of esoteric energy surge through newly activated systems that empower greater campaigns of conquest. None can resist your inexorable rise, not savage hordes, nor youthful and naive empires, nor dishonourable thieves and assassins. All will cower in obeisance, or be cast into oblivion.
- You have used a Master System ability three or more times.
- At least one CHARACTER from your Order of Battle has reached the Heroic rank.
- You have won at least six battles
Subjugating Tomb
Your dominion has moved far beyond the reclamation of lost power as your legions seize new worlds and entire planetary systems. Your nobles and Crypteks lead armies on unending campaigns of systematic conquest, eradication and enslavement, and your tomb world stands as a linchpin of the wider dynasty’s expansion. The stars themselves will be shackled to your will as you eclipse your dynastic rivals in an immortal reign of subjugation!
- You have used a Master System ability ten or more times.
- At least one CHARACTER from your Order of Battle has reached the Legendary rank.
- You have won at least ten battles.
Awakening Points Remaining
Download blank Awakening Points Remaining:
Boarding Actions
Introduction
Within the following pages you will find numerous Boarding Actions Detachments that can be used in your Boarding Actions games. Each lists which units you can include in your army, any modifications to those units’ army rule as presented in their Codex or Index, a Detachment rule unique to that Detachment, and a number of Enhancements and Stratagems that you can use.A keyword that will be shared by all units in your army.
MUSTERING RULES
Which units you are allowed to include in your army.
FORMING BOARDING SQUADS
Any additional rules that will apply in the missions Form Boarding Squads step. Note that not all Detachments will have these.
RULES ADAPTATIONS
Some units will be unable to use certain abilities in Boarding Actions battles. Where this is the case, these units and their relevant abilities will be listed here.
Due to the distinct nature of close-quarters battle in Boarding Actions, most army rules require some modifications to their effects. Where this is the case, these will be described here.
DETACHMENT RULE
Each faction will have a number of different Detachments to choose from, each with its own Detachment rule to reflect the unique fighting methods of such forces.
ENHANCEMENTS
Further Enhancements that you can give to CHARACTER models from your army, beyond those(Boarding Actions Enhancments), will be found here.
STRATAGEMS
Additional Stratagems that you can use, in addition to those (Boarding Actions Stratagems), will be found here.
Tomb Ship Complement
The phaerons of the Necron dynasties possess some of the most powerful voidships in the known galaxy. These gigantic vessels carry full complements of Necron Warriors, Lychguard, Canoptek constructs and other lethal assets that can repel boarders or slaughter enemy crews with ease.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
You can include up to one of the following units:You can include up to one of the following units:
You can include up to three of each of the following units:
- IMMORTALS (5 or 10 models)
- NECRON WARRIORS (10 models)
- DEATHMARKS (5 or 10 models)
- FLAYED ONES (5 or 10 models)
- LYCHGUARD (5 or 10 models)
- SKORPEKH DESTROYERS (3 models)
- CANOPTEK SCARAB SWARMS (3 models)
- OPHYDIAN DESTROYERS (3 models)
- TRIARCH PRAETORIANS (5 or 10 models)
Rules Adaptations
- When setting up ILLUMINOR SZERAS or a SKORPEKH LORD on the battlefield, no other units can be set up within the same Entry Zone they are set up in.
- The CANOPTEK SCARAB SWARMS unit loses the Self-destruction ability.
- The CHRONOMANCER model loses the Chronometron ability.
- DESTROYER CULT units lose the Plasmacyte ability.
- The HEXMARK DESTROYER model loses the Inescapable Death ability.
- The IMOTEKH THE STORMLORD model loses the Grand Strategist and Lord of the Storm abilities.
- The OPHYDIAN DESTROYERS unit loses the Tunnelling Horrors ability.
- The ORIKAN THE DIVINER model loses the The Stars are Right ability.
- The OVERLORD WITH TRANSLOCATION SHROUD model loses the Translocation Shroud ability.
- The PLASMANCER model loses the Living Lightning ability.
- The PSYCHOMANCER model loses the Harbinger of Despair ability.
- The SKORPEKH LORD model loses the Crimson Harvest ability.
- The TECHNOMANCER model loses the Technomancer ability.
- The TRIARCH PRAETORIANS unit loses the Deep Strike ability.
- The TRAZYN THE INFINITE model loses the Ancient Collector ability.
Transdimensional Reinforcement
Necron voidships possess dimensional translocators that allow Cryptek engineers to withdraw damaged assets from the field and replace them in short order.
Units from your army with the Reanimation Protocols ability lose that ability. Such units, if they are not CHARACTER units, then gain this one.Once per battle, in your Command phase, this unit can request reinforcement. When it does, roll one D6 for each destroyed model in this unit: for each 5+, return 1 destroyed model to this unit with its full wounds remaining.
If this unit is destroyed without having requested reinforcement, after removing the last model from the battlefield, it immediately requests reinforcement as above. If one or more destroyed models are returned to this unit, set it back up on the battlefield wholly within one of your Entry Zones, containing just the returned models. If this is not possible, the unit remains destroyed.
Designer’s Note: Rules that refer to Reanimation Protocols activating do not apply to this rule, and have no effect.
Detachment Rule
Conquest Protocols
The Necron commander seeks to regain lost ground from their upstart foe. Those who seek to prevent the dynasty from reclaiming that which is rightfully theirs are marked for immediate termination.
Each time a NECRONS model from your army makes an attack, if that model is within range of an objective marker or the target of that attack is within range of an objective marker, on a Critical Wound, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.Enhancements
Resurrection Protocols This Necron commanders body has been fitted with a miniaturised resurrection field. This device greatly enhances the bearer’s regenerative abilities. The first time the bearer is destroyed, roll one D6 at the end of the phase. On a 2+, set the bearer back up on the battlefield, as close as possible to where it was destroyed and not within Engagement Range of any enemy units, with D3 wounds remaining. |
Mindshackle Scarabs Mindshackle scarabs burrow into the brains of a living host and wrest control of their faculties. CRYPTEK model only. In your Command phase, select one enemy unit within 12" of and visible to the bearer. That enemy unit must take a Leadership test, subtracting 1 from the result: if failed, until the start of your next Command phase, subtract 2" from the Move characteristic of models in that enemy unit and subtract 2 from Advance and Charge rolls made for it. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One NECRONS unit from your army.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Strength characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit.
TARGET: One NECRONS unit from your army that is Set to Defend and has not fought this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [SUSTAINED HITS 2] ability.
TARGET: One NECRON WARRIORS or IMMORTALS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, you can re-roll the Hit roll.
TARGET: That NECRONS unit.
EFFECT: Roll one D6: on a 2-4, that enemy unit suffers 1 mortal wound; on a 5+, that enemy unit suffers 2 mortal wounds.
Deranged Outcasts
Whilst the minds of many Necrons have been afflicted by the Great Sleep, the outcast Destroyer Cults and Flayed Ones have lost all semblance of sanity. Necron commanders often unleash these insane killers on their most hated foes, trusting that they will slaughter every last living being.
Transdimensional Reinforcement
Necron voidships possess dimensional translocators that allow Cryptek engineers to withdraw damaged assets from the field and replace them in short order.
Units from your army with the Reanimation Protocols ability lose that ability. Such units, if they are not CHARACTER units, then gain this one.Once per battle, in your Command phase, this unit can request reinforcement. When it does, roll one D6 for each destroyed model in this unit: for each 5+, return 1 destroyed model to this unit with its full wounds remaining.
If this unit is destroyed without having requested reinforcement, after removing the last model from the battlefield, it immediately requests reinforcement as above. If one or more destroyed models are returned to this unit, set it back up on the battlefield wholly within one of your Entry Zones, containing just the returned models. If this is not possible, the unit remains destroyed.
Designer’s Note: Rules that refer to Reanimation Protocols activating do not apply to this rule, and have no effect.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
You can include up to two of the following units (duplicates are not allowed):You can include up to two of each of the following units:
- FLAYED ONES (5 or 10 models)
- OPHYDIAN DESTROYERS (3 models)
- SKORPEKH DESTROYERS (3 models)
Rules Adaptations
- When setting up a SKORPEKH LORD on the battlefield, no other units can be set up within the same Entry Zone they are set up in.
- DESTROYER CULT units lose the Plasmacyte ability.
- The HEXMARK DESTROYER model loses the Inescapable Death ability.
- The OPHYDIAN DESTROYERS unit loses the Tunnelling Horrors ability.
- The SKORPEKH LORD model loses the Crimson Harvest ability.
Detachment Rule
Terrifying Charge
The murderous onslaughts of the Destroyer Cults and the hideous skin-wearing Flayed Ones are utterly terrifying to their living victims. To witness their bloody advance is an experience that can break the will of even the most hardened veteran.
Each time a NECRONS unit from your army declares a charge, each enemy unit that is a target of that charge must take a Leadership test: if failed, until the end of the turn, each time a model in that enemy unit makes an attack, subtract 1 from the Hit roll.Enhancements
Inured to Damage Those who lead the Destroyer Cults will brook no impediment to slaughter. Thus, many of their number bid the Crypteks remove all protective systems, allowing the Destroyer to fight until the very moment their broken form is phased back to their stasis-tomb. The bearer has the Feel No Pain 6+ ability. Once the bearer has destroyed one or more enemy units, it has the Feel No Pain 5+ ability instead. |
Domineering Presence This monstrous Lord has long transcended their limiting Necron form and been wrought anew as a monstrously intimidating killing machine. In your opponent’s Command phase, at the start of the Battle-shock step, select one enemy unit within 3" of the bearer; that enemy unit must take a Battle-shock test. When doing so, if that enemy unit is Below Half-strength, subtract 1 from that test. This Enhancement cannot cause a unit to take two Battle-shock tests in the same phase. |
Stratagems
TARGET: That DESTROYER CULT unit.
EFFECT: Select one objective marker that your unit or the destroyed unit was within range of at the start of the phase. That objective marker is Secured by your army.
TARGET: One FLAYED ONES unit from your army that is in Reserves.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, models in your unit have the Deep Strike ability.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once.
TARGET: One NECRONS unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, if your unit has the FLAYED ONES keyword, each time it moves, models in that unit can move through friendly DESTROYER CULT models as if they were not there. If your unit has the DESTROYER CULT keyword, models in it can move through friendly FLAYED ONES models as if they were not there.
TARGET: That DESTROYER CULT unit.
EFFECT: For each enemy unit within 3" of that Hatchway, if that Hatchway is visible to that unit and that unit is wholly on the opposite side of it from your unit, that unit must take a Leadership test, subtracting 2 from the result: if failed, until the end of the phase, that enemy unit cannot fire Overwatch.
Canoptek Harvesters
Created to defend the Necrons’ tomb worlds, Canoptek constructs are often repurposed to harvest valuable resources for their Cryptek overseers. These murderous automatons will phase through walls, atomise deck plates and obliterate the living in order to achieve their masters’ goals.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
You can include up to three of the following units (duplicates are not allowed):You can include up to two of each of the following units:
- CANOPTEK WRAITHS (3 models)
- CANOPTEK SCARAB SWARMS (3 models)
- NECRON WARRIORS (10 models)
Rules Adaptations
- CRYPTEK units can perform the Secure Site Tactical Manoeuvre as if they had the BATTLELINE keyword.
- When setting up ILLUMINOR SZERAS on the battlefield, no other units can be set up within the same Entry Zone they are set up in.
- The CANOPTEK SCARAB SWARMS unit loses the Self-destruction ability.
- The CANOPTEK WRAITHS unit loses the Wraith Form ability.
- The CHRONOMANCER model loses the Chronometron ability.
- The ORIKAN THE DIVINER model loses the The Stars are Right ability.
- The PLASMANCER model loses the Living Lightning ability.
- The PSYCHOMANCER model loses the Harbinger of Despair ability.
- The TECHNOMANCER model loses the Technomancer ability.
Transdimensional Reinforcement
Necron voidships possess dimensional translocators that allow Cryptek engineers to withdraw damaged assets from the field and replace them in short order.
Units from your army with the Reanimation Protocols ability lose that ability. Such units, if they are not CHARACTER units, then gain this one.Once per battle, in your Command phase, this unit can request reinforcement. When it does, roll one D6 for each destroyed model in this unit: for each 5+, return 1 destroyed model to this unit with its full wounds remaining.
If this unit is destroyed without having requested reinforcement, after removing the last model from the battlefield, it immediately requests reinforcement as above. If one or more destroyed models are returned to this unit, set it back up on the battlefield wholly within one of your Entry Zones, containing just the returned models. If this is not possible, the unit remains destroyed.
Designer’s Note: Rules that refer to Reanimation Protocols activating do not apply to this rule, and have no effect.
Detachment Rule
Retribution Protocols
Those Canoptek constructs and Necron Warriors that serve the Crypteks are inloaded with instructions to defend their master. Should a Crypteks physical form be destroyed, a vengeful wrath will awaken within their followers.
Each time an enemy unit destroys a CRYPTEK model from your army, until the end of the battle, each time a NECRONS model from your army makes an attack that targets that enemy unit, you can re-roll the Hit roll.Enhancements
Nanoscarab Reconstitution This Crypteks living metal form crawls with nanoscarabs, further enhancing its regenerative properties. In each player’s Command phase, the bearer regains 1 lost wound. |
Impromptu Translocation Many Necrons make use of dimensional translocation technology to traverse the battlefield. This miniaturised translocator allows a Cryptek to make a single dimensional leap, taking them out of harm’s way. Once per battle, after the bearer has shot, it can make a Normal move of up to 6". |
Stratagems
TARGET: One CRYPTEK model from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time your model makes an attack, you can re-roll the Hit roll and you can re-roll the Wound roll.
TARGET: One CRYPTEK model from your army that was selected as the target of one or more of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your model has a 4+ invulnerable save.
TARGET: One CANOPTEK WRAITHS unit from your army that has not been selected to move this phase.
EFFECT: The next time your unit is selected to move this phase, models in that unit can move through Walls and closed Hatchways as if they were not there, but when doing so, no model can move more than 6".
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once.
TARGET: One CRYPTEK unit from your army.
EFFECT: For each open Hatchway within 3" of your unit, you can close that Hatchway.
RESTRICTIONS: You can only use this Stratagem once.
Harbinger Cabal
Ominous heralds on missions of acquisition for their dynastic betters or the Nekrosor itself, cabals of Crypteks wield technosorcerous ingenuity. The space lanes and hidden sites of Ultramar are preyed upon by many such groups whose unliving soldiery attack with reality-warping augmentations.
Mustering a Boarding Patrol
You can include up to three of the following units (duplicates are not allowed):You can include up to three of each of the following units:
- IMMORTALS (5 or 10 models)
- NECRON WARRIORS (10 models)
Rules Adaptations
- When setting up ILLUMINOR SZERAS on the battlefield, no other units can be set up within the same Entry Zone they are set up in.
- The CHRONOMANCER model loses the Chronometron ability.
- The GEOMANCER model loses the Molecular Breach ability.
- The ORIKAN THE DIVINER model loses the The Stars are Right ability.
- The PLASMANCER model loses the Living Lightning ability.
- The PSYCHOMANCER model loses the Harbinger of Despair ability.
- The TECHNOMANCER model loses the Technomancer ability.
Transdimensional Reinforcement
Necron voidships possess dimensional translocators that allow Cryptek engineers to withdraw damaged assets from the field and replace them in short order.
Units from your army with the Reanimation Protocols ability lose that ability. Such units, if they are not CHARACTER units, then gain this one.Once per battle, in your Command phase, this unit can request reinforcement. When it does, roll one D6 for each destroyed model in this unit: for each 5+, return 1 destroyed model to this unit with its full wounds remaining.
If this unit is destroyed without having requested reinforcement, after removing the last model from the battlefield, it immediately requests reinforcement as above. If one or more destroyed models are returned to this unit, set it back up on the battlefield wholly within one of your Entry Zones, containing just the returned models. If this is not possible, the unit remains destroyed.
Designer’s Note: Rules that refer to Reanimation Protocols activating do not apply to this rule, and have no effect.
Detachment Rule
Arcanoscientific Expertise
Dispatched to acquire eldritch artefacts in the deadliest of confines, Crypteks augment their immortal retinues with their arcane technical knowledge and devices, ensuring they are sufficient to dominate the vessels and complexes they invade.
In your Command phase, for each CRYPTEK unit in your army, select one of the following abilities. Until the start of your next Command phase, your unit has that ability.- Hyperlocation Stutter (Aura): While a friendly NECRONS unit is within 6" of this model, add 2 to Advance rolls made for that unit.
- Transharmonic Disruption (Aura): While a friendly NECRONS unit is within 6" of this model, add 1 to the Strength characteristic of weapons equipped by models in that unit.
- Quantum Interface (Aura): While a friendly NECRONS unit is within 6" of this model, models in that unit have a 5+ invulnerable save.
Enhancements
Cryptometric Experimentation This Cryptek's living metal body has long been the foundation for their most ingenious alterations. Add 1 to the Toughness and Wounds characteristics of the bearer. The bearer has a 4+ invulnerable save. |
Portal Transmuter With a gesture, the bearer of this device can cosmically link one doorway to somewhere else entirely. Once per turn, when the bearer ends a Normal, Advance or Fall Back move within 3" of an open Hatchway or when the bearer opens a Hatchway, it can, before any units decide if they wish to fire Overwatch, use this ability. If it does, remove the bearer from the battlefield and set it back up on the battlefield wholly within 3" of another open Hatchway and not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units. When doing so, if the bearer cannot be set back up on the battlefield, it is destroyed. |
Stratagems
TARGET: One CRYPTEK unit from your army.
EFFECT: Select one of the abilities from the Arcanoscientific Expertise Detachment rule. Until the start of your next Command phase, your unit has that ability instead of any others from the Detachment Rule.
TARGET: One NECRONS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot or fight this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack, if your unit is within 6" of a friendly CRYPTEK unit, you can re-roll the Hit roll. If your unit has the CRYPTEK keyword, you can re-roll the Wound roll as well.
TARGET: One NECRONS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in your unit have the [PISTOL] ability.
TARGET: One CRYPTEK unit from your army.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to 3".
When a model is destroyed, first resolve any rules that are triggered when it is destroyed, then it is removed from the battlefield. If any such rules apply, and if the model was destroyed as the result of an attack, unless otherwise stated, those rules are only resolved and that model is only removed after the attacking unit’s attacks have been resolved. Unless otherwise stated, destroyed models and units cannot use abilities or be selected or targeted by rules.
Some rules only trigger if an enemy model or unit was destroyed by you, or by a model or unit from your army. This means that the enemy model or unit was destroyed by an attack made by a model from your army, or by a player rule you have. Enemy models or units that are destroyed by any other means are not destroyed by you, or by a model or unit from your army.
The Necron dynasties benefit from the nigh-on supernatural technologies that once saw them dominate the galaxy, perhaps the most unsettling of which are their reanimation protocols. Should a Necron be slain, its body becomes wreathed in an eerie glow. Crawling limbs reattach. Sundered torsos and smashed skulls reform amidst emerald sparks. Witch lights flare back to life within dead eye-lenses and the Necron rises again, shambling back into their battle line. Those Necrons too catastrophically damaged to reform vanish instead, teleported away to their tombs for repair.
If your Army Faction is NECRONS, at the end of your Command phase, each unit from your army with this ability that is on the battlefield activates its Reanimation Protocols and reanimates D3 wounds. Each time such a unit reanimates a wound:- If that unit contains one or more models with fewer than their starting number of wounds remaining, select one of those models; that model regains one lost wound
- If all models in that unit have their starting number of wounds, but that unit is not at its Starting Strength, one destroyed model is returned to that unit with one wound remaining.
The NECRONS and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Necrons datasheets:
TARGET: One NECRONS unit from your army that had one or more of its models destroyed as a result of the attacking unit’s attacks.
EFFECT: Your unit activates its Reanimation Protocols and reanimates D3 wounds (or D3+1 wounds if a NECRONS CHARACTER is leading your unit].
The CRYPTEK keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The CANOPTEK keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
Countless worlds across the galaxy harbour quiescent Necron technology, buried beneath the surface or mistaken for mere xenoarchaeological ruins. Whether part of an awakening tomb world’s defences, phased beneath the crust of a planet to empower the Cryptek’s conquest or perhaps the very objects they seek, these strange engines can be roused to wakefulness. Linked in an interdimensional matrix, their ancient energy cores can be vampirically bled to empower the Crypteks’ arcane technologies as well as their artificial and servile constructs.
Certain areas of the battlefield are considered to be within your army’s Power Matrix, as follows:- Your deployment zone is always within your army’s Power Matrix.
- At the start of any phase, if you control at least half of the objective markers within No Man’s Land, until the end of that phase, No Man’s Land is within your army’s Power Matrix.
- At the start of any phase, if you control at least half of the objective markers within your opponent’s deployment zone, until the end of that phase, your opponent’s deployment zone is within your army’s Power Matrix.
The MONSTER keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
Some units make their way to battle via tunnelling, teleportation, high-altitude descent or other extraordinary means that allow them to appear suddenly in the thick of the fighting.
During the Declare Battle Formations step, if every model in a unit has this ability, you can set it up in Reserves instead of setting it up on the battlefield. If you do, in the Reinforcements step of one of your Movement phases you can set up this unit anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 9" horizontally away from all enemy models. If a unit with the Deep Strike ability arrives from Strategic Reserves, the controlling player can choose for that unit to be set up either using the rules for Strategic Reserves or using the Deep Strike ability.- Unit can be set up in Reserves instead of on the battlefield.
- Unit can be set up in your Reinforcements step, more than 9" horizontally away from all enemy models.
Employing fractal corridors, dolmen gates and ancient translocation science, the Necrons are able to phase in and out of existence. Nowhere is safe for the terrified foe as mechanoid hunters appear from unfolding planar lattices to slaughter or escape retribution into gulfs of darkness, only to materialise elsewhere to kill anew.
At the end of your opponent’s turn, you can select a number of NECRONS units from your army (excluding units that are within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units). The maximum number of units you can select depends on the battle size, as follows:
|
Once you have made your selections, remove those units from the battlefield and place them into Strategic Reserves.
TARGET: One NECRONS unit from your army (excluding MONSTER units) that is arriving using the Deep Strike or Hyperphasing abilities this phase.
EFFECT: Your unit can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 6" horizontally away from all enemy models.
RESTRICTIONS: A unit targeted with this Stratagem is not eligible to declare a charge in the same turn.
Many deadly weapons can inflict fatal injuries on any foe, no matter their resilience.
Each time an attack made with a [LETHAL HITS] weapon results in a critical hit, you can choose for that attack to automatically wound the target.
|
TARGET: One NECRONS unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, each time a model in your unit makes an attack that targets a unit within half range, re-roll a Hit roll of 1. If a NECRONS CHARACTER is leading your unit, until the end of the phase, you can re-roll the Hit roll for that attack instead.
This cryptogeometric puzzle box harbours a chronoscarab. The tiny construct creeps forward in time along temporal webs before hauling back a captured net of future moments. Its master can scry these wriggling futures to predict their foe’s strategies, using the knowledge to develop new counter-tactics to ambush the attackers.
CRYPTEK model only. Each time your opponent gains a CP as the result of an ability, roll one D6: on a 2+, you also gain 1CP.
The most potent weapons strike with such power that they make a mockery of armour and can cleave through several foes.
Each time an attack made with a [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] weapon results in a critical wound, the attack sequence for that attack ends and the target unit suffers a number of mortal wounds equal to the D characteristic of that weapon. These are inflicted after resolving any normal damage inflicted by those attacks.Mortal wounds inflicted by [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] weapons can damage a maximum of one model for each critical wound; any remaining mortal wounds inflicted by that attack are lost.
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
- While a friendly model is within engagement range of one or more enemy models, those models – and the units they belong to – are engaged with each other.
- While a unit contains no engaged models, that unit is unengaged.
EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
BEFORE MOVING: Make an advance roll by rolling one D6.
AFTER MOVING:
- Your unit must be unengaged.
- Until the end of the turn, unless otherwise stated, your unit is not eligible to declare a charge or start an action.
Imperial Knights fight by a stringent set of codes. In addition to defeating the foe, honour must always be upheld.
To determine your army’s Deed, you can either select one Deed or you can randomly select one Deed by rolling a D6 and consulting the relevant table below. The selected Deed will describe what needs to be achieved in order to complete that Deed.
The first time your selected Deed is completed your Oath is fulfilled and, until the end of the battle, your army becomes Honoured and you gain 2CP, or 3CP if you randomly selected your Deed and/or Quality (CP gained in this way are an exemption to the Core Rules that limit the maximum number of CP you can gain per battle round to 1).
|
|
EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
AFTER MOVING: Your unit must be unengaged.
EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
BEFORE MOVING: Select fall-back mode:
- Ordered Retreat: If your unit is not battle-shocked, you can select this mode.
- Desperate Escape: Otherwise, you must select this mode. Make a hazard roll for each model in your unit (06.03).
- Desperate Escape: Each model that is moved can be moved through enemy models.
- Your unit must be unengaged.
- Until the end of the turn, unless otherwise stated, your unit is not eligible to shoot, declare a charge or start an action.
- Desperate Escape: If your unit is not battle-shocked, you must make a battle-shock roll for your unit (01.07).
TARGET: One CANOPTEK unit from your army that is within 8" of that enemy unit.
EFFECT: Your unit can make a Normal move of up to 6".
During Deployment: If a model is so large that its base cannot physically be set up wholly within your deployment zone, it must be set up so that it is touching your battlefield edge. During a turn in which such a large model is set up on the battlefield, that model’s unit cannot do any of the following:
- Make a normal/advance/fall-back/charge move.
- Make any attacks with ranged weapons.
From Strategic Reserves: If a model is so large that its base cannot physically be set up wholly within the distance required of the battlefield edge, it must be set up so that it is touching a battlefield edge. During a turn in which such a large model is set up on the battlefield, that model’s unit cannot do any of the following:
- normal/advance/fall-back/charge move.
- Make any attacks with ranged weapons.
Disembarking from a Transport: When a unit disembarks from a TRANSPORT, it must be set up wholly within 3" of that model. If a disembarking model is so large that it is not possible to set it up wholly within 3" (typically because it is itself larger than 3" in all directions), set that model up with its base within 1" of that TRANSPORT’s base (or hull), and not engaged with any enemy units.
The AIRCRAFT keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The BATTLELINE keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The BEASTS keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The CANOPTEK keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The CHARACTER keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The CRYPTEK keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The DEDICATED TRANSPORT keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The DESTROYER CULT keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The EPIC HERO keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The FLY keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The FORTIFICATION keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
When rotating a FRAME model as part of a move, if that model does not have a base, turn it any amount around its central axis, while keeping it upright.
The FRAME keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The MONSTER keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The MOUNTED keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The NECRONS keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The NOBLE keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The SWARM keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The TITANIC keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
- The attacking model is on a section of a terrain feature that is 3" or more in height.
- The attacking model has the TOWERING keyword and the target unit is within 12".
The TOWERING keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The TRANSPORT keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The TRIARCH keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The VEHICLE keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The WALKER keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
There are several categories of Battle Honours that can be bestowed upon a unit, such as Battle Traits, Weapon Modifications and Crusade Relics. Other categories of Battle Honour may be found in other publications. Each time a unit gains a Battle Honour, you can select from any category.
- Once a unit gains enough XP it will gain a rank.
- Only CHARACTER units can gain the Heroic or Legendary ranks.
- Each time a unit gains a rank, it can gain a Battle Honour.
- There are several categories of Battle Honours, which include:
- Battle Traits: New skills and abilities.
- Weapon Modifications: Upgrade an item of wargear.
- Crusade Relic: Gain a rare and powerful artefact.
- Each time a unit gains a Battle Honour, increase its Crusade points total by 1 (or by 2 if TITANIC).
The greatest warriors, most cunning tacticians and seers lead their armies to war possessed of hard-won skills and powerful artefacts that mark them out as legendary commanders.
You can select one Enhancement that unit has access to (if using this Requisition when that unit gains a rank, this is instead of it gaining a Battle Honour). When doing so, that unit has access to any Enhancements described within any Detachment rules that it could use, even though you have not yet started to muster your army and so have not selected any Detachment rules yet.
If the selected Enhancement replaces a weapon that is a Crusade Relic or a weapon upgraded by Weapon Modifications, that Crusade Relic or Weapon Modifications are lost. Recalculate the unit’s points value as a result of gaining this Enhancement and update its Crusade card. You cannot make any changes that would cause you to exceed your Supply Limit.
This Requisition costs 1RP plus 1 additional RP for each other Enhancement that your Order of Battle contains (to a maximum of 3RP).
Some rules refer to units being below starting strength, or at – or below – half-strength. The meaning of these terms varies depending on a unit’s starting strength, as shown below.
|
The DYNASTY tag is used in the following Necrons detachments:
- That model has the INFANTRY/BEASTS/SWARM keyword and is within a terrain area.
- That model is not fully visible to the attacking model due to one or more intervening terrain features and/or one or more intervening obscuring terrain areas (see below).
Each time a ranged attack targets a unit that has the benefit of cover against it, worsen the BS characteristic of that attack by 1.
The stealthiest warriors can evade the attentions, and the bullets, of their foes.
If every model in a unit has this ability, each time a ranged attack targets that unit, that unit has the benefit of cover against that attack (13.08).The hardiest warriors refuse to be laid low, even by wounds that should by all rights prove lethal.
This ability always takes the form Feel No Pain X+. Each time a model with this ability would lose a wound, roll one D6: on an X+, that wound is not lost.The NECRONS, INFANTRY and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Necrons datasheets:
- Unengaged and made an advance move this turn.
- Has one or more [ASSAULT] weapons.
WHILE SHOOTING: You can only select [ASSAULT] weapons to make attacks with.
AFTER SHOOTING: Until the end of the phase, your unit is not eligible to start an action.
Folding stocks, shortened barrels or lightweight construction enable some weapons to be easily fired on the move.
Units containing one or more models with an [ASSAULT] weapon can shoot using assault shooting (10.05).EFFECT: No models are moved (either in straight lines or rotated). Units that remain stationary do not trigger any rules that are triggered when a unit starts or ends a move.
- If that roll succeeds, that unit does not become battle-shocked.
- If that roll fails, that unit, and each model in it, is battle-shocked.
While a unit is battle-shocked:
- The Objective Control (OC) characteristic of all of its models is modified to ‘-’ (02.02).
- Its controlling player cannot target that unit with stratagems (15).
- It is not eligible to start an action (16), and any action it has started cannot be completed.
EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
BEFORE MOVING: Select consolidation mode:
- Ongoing Consolidation:If your unit is engaged, you must select this mode and select every enemy unit it is engaged with.
- Engaging Consolidation:Otherwise, if your unit is within 3" of one or more enemy units, you must select this mode and select one or more of those enemy units.
- Objective Consolidation:Otherwise, if your unit is within 3" of one or more objectives, you must select this mode and select one of those objectives.
- Ongoing Consolidation:Models in base-contact with one or more enemy models cannot be moved. Each model that is moved must end its move closer to the closest selected enemy unit, and engaged with it if possible.
- Engaging Consolidation:Each model that is moved must end its move closer to the closest selected enemy unit, and engaged with it if possible.
- Objective Consolidation:Each model that is moved must end its move within range of the selected objective if possible, or closer to it if not.
- Ongoing Consolidation:Each model that started this move engaged with an enemy unit must still be engaged with that enemy unit.
- Engaging Consolidation:Your unit must be engaged with all of the selected enemy units. If one or more enemy units engaged with your unit have not been selected to fight this phase, your opponent must select each of those units, one at a time; when each is selected, it becomes eligible to fight and is selected to fight (12.04).
- Objective Consolidation:Your unit must be within range of the selected objective.
- Select Model: Select one model in that unit by following the first instruction below that applies:
If a non-CHARACTER model in that unit has lost one or more wounds, you must select that model. Otherwise, if that unit contains one or more non-CHARACTER models, you must select one of those models. Otherwise, if one or more CHARACTER models in that unit have lost one or more wounds, you must select one of those models. Otherwise, you must select one CHARACTER model in that unit. - Resolve Damage: The selected model loses 1 wound. If this reduces that model’s remaining wounds to 0, it is destroyed.
MORTAL WOUNDS AND NORMAL DAMAGE
When resolving attack dice, if those attacks inflict a mixture of both mortal wounds and normal damage, resolve all of the normal damage first, then resolve all of the mortal wounds.
Many armies employ reconnaissance units who can sit concealed, waiting for the right moment to strike.
During deployment, if every model in a unit has this ability, it can be set up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 8" horizontally from your opponent’s deployment zone and all enemy units.Some weapons are designed to root enemy formations out of entrenched positions.
Each time an attack is made with an [IGNORES COVER] weapon, the target cannot have the benefit of cover against that attack (13.08), including from rules that give a model or unit the benefit of cover (e.g. Stealth).The OVERLORD keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
- Create Groups: Divide all models in the target unit into the following groups, as many times as required:
- One group for each CHARACTER model.
- One group for all other models with the same W, Sv and InSv characteristics.
- Allocation Order: Declare the order in which those groups will have attacks allocated to them, applying all of the following:
- If a non-CHARACTER group contains a model that has lost one or more wounds, that group must be first in the allocation order.
- No CHARACTER group can be earlier in the allocation order than a non-CHARACTER group.
- CHARACTER groups containing a model that has lost one or more wounds must be earlier in the allocation order than CHARACTER groups containing no wounded models.
- Make Save Rolls: The opposing player makes one save roll for each attack that wounded the target by rolling one D6.
Other models and units can be either visible or fully visible to the observing model, as shown below. Note that terrain applies additional rules to visibility (13.07).
Precision attacks can pick high-value targets out in a crowd.
While resolving attacks made with one or more [PRECISION] weapons, at the start of the Allocation Order step (05.03), if the target unit contains one or more CHARACTER models visible to one or more of the attacking models, the active player can select one allocation group that contains one of those visible CHARACTER models. If they do, until those attacks are resolved, or until that CHARACTER group is destroyed (whichever happens first), that CHARACTER group is the current allocation group.Certain weapons are the bane of particular foes.
This ability always takes the form [ANTI-X Y+]. Each time an attack is made with an [ANTI] weapon, if the target unit has the keyword denoted by X, an unmodified wound roll of Y+ is a critical wound.The NECRONS and VEHICLE keywords are used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The HYPERCRYPT tag is used in the following Necrons detachments:
The NECRONS and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Necrons datasheets:
Weapons powered by unstable and dangerous energy sources pose a substantial risk to the wielder and those that stand beside them.
Each time a unit is selected to shoot or selected to fight, after that unit has resolved all of its attacks, make a number of hazard rolls (06.03) for that unit equal to the number of [HAZARDOUS] weapons you selected in the Select Weapons step.Heavy weapons are amongst the biggest guns on the battlefield, but require bracing to fire at full effect.
In your Shooting phase, each time an attack is made with a [HEAVY] weapon, add 1 to the hit roll if all of the following apply to the attacking unit:- That unit is unengaged.
- That unit was not set up on the battlefield this turn.
- No model in that unit has moved more than 3" this turn.
Whether building on one anothers’ shared results or vying to produce the most ingenious adaptations, the Crypteks treat the battlefield as an opportunity to test their latest scientific and technological breakthroughs.
- Ranged weapons equipped by CRYPTEK models from your army have the [ASSAULT] ability.
- In your Shooting phase, each time a CRYPTEK unit from your army is selected to shoot, select one of the following abilities: [ANTI-INFANTRY 3+], [ANTI-MOUNTED 4+], [ASSAULT], [HEAVY], [IGNORES COVER]. Until the end of the phase, ranged weapons equipped by models in that unit have that ability.
The CRYPTEK and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The DESTROYER CULT and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Necrons datasheets:
When all of a model’s ranged weapons have shot, that model has shot.
When all models in a unit that are making ranged attacks have resolved all of those attacks, that unit has shot.
If a unit was selected to shoot and none of the models in it make any attacks, it has not shot.
- If a rule instructs you to move a model as close as possible to a unit or model you must end that model’s move in base contact with that unit or model if its move is sufficient to do so without breaking any other restrictions (such as coherency), or as close as you can achieve if its move is not sufficient.
- If a model is already as close as possible to a unit or model when it is instructed to make a move as close as possible towards a unit or model, that model cannot be moved, but still counts as having made the move in question.
- If a rule instructs you to move a model as close as possible to an objective you must end that model’s move within range of an objective if its move is sufficient to do so without breaking any other restrictions (such as coherency), or as close as you can achieve if its move is not sufficient.
- If that model is already within range of an objective it can move up to the maximum distance of that move but must end its move still within range of that objective.
- The rule allowing this move type has been triggered.
- Your unit is not battle-shocked.
- Your unit is unengaged.
- Your unit has not moved this phase.
BEFORE MOVING: Select the closest enemy unit to be the surge target.
WHILE MOVING:
- Each model must end its move engaged with the surge target if possible.
- Each model that cannot end its move engaged with the surge target must end its move as close as possible to the surge target.
- Your unit cannot be engaged with one or more enemy units that were not the surge target.
- Your unit cannot move again this phase.
Some weapons possess a punishing rate of fire, or can land devastating flurries of blows, tearing the foe apart with relentless ferocity.
This ability always takes the form [SUSTAINED HITS X]. Each time an attack made with a [SUSTAINED HITS] weapon results in a critical hit, that attack results in a number of additional hits on the target as denoted by X.The NECRONS and MONSTER keywords are used in the following Necrons datasheets:
While a model with an aura ability is on the battlefield, it is always within range of its own aura ability.
A unit can be affected by more than one aura ability at a time, but if a unit is within range of the same aura ability more than once, that aura ability only applies to that unit once.
EFFECT: Your unit is set up as described in Set Up (03.02).
BEFORE MOVING: Make a hazard roll for each model in your unit (06.03).
WHILE MOVING: Set up each model in your unit wholly within the set-up distance of that TRANSPORT, and as close as possible to that TRANSPORT. Each model that cannot be set up in this way is destroyed.
AFTER MOVING: Your unit is battle-shocked and, until the end of the turn, it is not eligible to declare a charge.
From detonating ammo stores to corrosive innards or frenzied death throes, some targets are deadly even in defeat.
This ability always takes the form Deadly Demise X. Each time a model in this unit is destroyed, after the units embarked within it (if any) have made their emergency disembark moves, roll one D6. On a 6, that model suffers a deadly demise; each unit within 6" of that model suffers a number of mortal wounds denoted by X (if this is a random number, roll separately for each unit within 6").The quantum dissonance and molecular erosion caused by multiple C’tan shards in close proximity is enough to fray the very physical being of the foe at an atomic level.
NECRONS MONSTER units from your army have the following ability:Distortion Fields (Aura): While an enemy unit is within 6" of this unit, it is unravelling. While an enemy unit is unravelling, each time an attack targets that unit, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that attack by 1.
At the start of each phase, for each NECRONS MONSTER unit from your army, that unit can suffer 3 mortal wounds. If it does, until the end of the phase, the range of that unit’s Distortion Fields Aura ability is increased to 9".
Designer’s Note: If your army contains more than one TRANSCENDENT C’TAN unit, each of those units must take the Reletavistic Tether ability.
RESTRICTIONS
When mustering your army, each NECRONS MONSTER unit from your army has the relevant Necrodermal Binding ability shown below, and you must increase the points cost of each of those units by the amount shown in the Munitorum Field Manual. If this causes your army to exceed the points limit for the battle you are playing, you cannot include that unit in your army.
Scouts form the vanguard of many armies. Unnoticed by the enemy, they range ahead of the main force.
This ability always takes the form Scouts X". In the Resolve Pre-battle Abilities step, if every model in a unit has this ability, you can do one of the following:- If that unit is in strategic reserves, you can set up that unit anywhere that is wholly within your deployment zone.
- If that unit is wholly within your deployment zone, it can make a scout move (see below).
- If that unit is embarked within a DEDICATED TRANSPORT that is wholly within your deployment zone, and if every model embarked within that DEDICATED TRANSPORT has the Scouts ability, that DEDICATED TRANSPORT can make a scout move.
EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
AFTER MOVING: Your unit must be more than 8" horizontally from all enemy units.
Rapid fire weapons are capable of long-ranged precision shots or controlled bursts at nearby targets.
This ability always takes the form [RAPID FIRE X]. Each time you gather attack dice for a [RAPID FIRE] weapon, add X additional attack dice if the target unit was within half range of that weapon in the Select Targets step.Example: If a [RAPID FIRE 1] weapon with an A characteristic of 1 targets a unit that is within half range, you would gather one additional attack dice for that weapon (for a total of two for that weapon).
EFFECT: Your unit shoots as described in Making Attacks (04).
WHILE SHOOTING:
- You can only target one visible enemy unit within 24" of your unit (and only if it is an eligible target).
- Each attack only hits on an unmodified hit roll of 6 (irrespective of the attacking weapon’s BS characteristic or any modifiers).
- You cannot re-roll hit rolls.
EFFECT: Your unit is set up as described in Set Up (03.02).
BEFORE MOVING: Your unit is set up as described in Set Up (03.02).
WHILE MOVING: Set up your unit wholly within the set-up distance of one or more battlefield edges and more than 8" horizontally from all enemy units.
- Before the Third Battle Round: While doing so, no models can be set up within your opponent’s deployment zone.
The DESTROYER CULT and MOUNTED keywords are used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The TITANIC and FLY keywords are used in the following Necrons datasheets:
- That model has the INFANTRY/BEASTS/SWARM keyword and is within a terrain area that contains one or more dense terrain features.
- That model’s unit did not make one or more ranged attacks during this turn or during the previous turn.
- Advance roll
- Charge roll
- Damage roll
- Hazard roll
- Hit roll
- Save roll
- Wound roll
- A roll to determine the number of attacks generated with a weapon.
TARGET: That unit or model.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll. If you are rolling more than one dice together, select one of those dice to re-roll (excluding charge rolls, which you must re-roll in full).
Mighty heroes fight at the forefront of battle.
Before the battle, in the Muster Armies step, for each leader and support unit in your army, you can select one friendly bodyguard unit that unit can lead. That unit will then lead that bodyguard unit for the battle and form an attached unit with it.Unless otherwise stated, each bodyguard unit can only have one leader unit and one support unit attached to it.
Assassins and other covert agents are difficult to pinpoint in the storm of battle.
Unless part of an attached unit, this unit is not visible to enemy models unless they are within 12" of this unit, and it cannot be targeted by [INDIRECT FIRE] weapons unless the attacking model is within 12" of this unit.If this ability takes the form Lone Operative X", unless part of an attached unit, this unit is not visible to enemy models unless they are within X" of this unit, and it cannot be targeted by [INDIRECT FIRE] weapons unless the attacking model is within X" of this unit.
The MONSTER and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Necrons datasheets:
The CHRONOMANCER keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
Dispatched to acquire eldritch artefacts in the deadliest of confines, Crypteks augment their immortal retinues with their arcane technical knowledge and devices, ensuring they are sufficient to dominate the vessels and complexes they invade.
In your Command phase, for each CRYPTEK unit in your army, select one of the following abilities. Until the start of your next Command phase, your unit has that ability.- Hyperlocation Stutter (Aura): While a friendly NECRONS unit is within 6" of this model, add 2 to Advance rolls made for that unit.
- Transharmonic Disruption (Aura): While a friendly NECRONS unit is within 6" of this model, add 1 to the Strength characteristic of weapons equipped by models in that unit.
- Quantum Interface (Aura): While a friendly NECRONS unit is within 6" of this model, models in that unit have a 5+ invulnerable save.
High-explosive rounds can fell several warriors in a single blast, but firing them too close to comrades is unwise.
Each time you gather attack dice for a [BLAST] weapon, add one additional attack dice for every five models that were in the target unit in the Select Targets step (rounding down).If this ability takes the form [BLAST X], each time you gather attack dice for such a weapon, add X additional attack dice for every five models that were in the target unit in the Select Targets step (rounding down) instead.
- Engaged and did not make an advance move this turn.
- Has one or more [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapons or is a MONSTER/VEHICLE unit.
WHILE SHOOTING: Models in your unit can target enemy units your unit is engaged with.
- MONSTER/VEHICLE Models: Each time a MONSTER/VEHICLE model in your unit makes an attack:
- Unless that attack is made with a [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapon and targets a unit your unit is engaged with, subtract 1 from the hit roll.
- If that attack is made with a [BLAST] weapon, it still cannot target a unit your unit is engaged with.
- Non-MONSTER/Non-VEHICLE Models: You can only select [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapons to make attacks with and you can only select enemy units that are engaged with your unit as targets.
Weapons designed for close-quarters fighting can be wielded effectively even in the press of melee combat.
Units containing one or more models with a [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapon can shoot using close-quarters shooting (10.06).When using another shooting type, for each model in that unit (excluding MONSTER/VEHICLE models), you can only select one of the following to make attacks with:
- One or more of its [CLOSE-QUARTERS] weapons.
- One or more of its other ranged weapons.
Pistols can be wielded even at point-blank range.
[PISTOL] and [CLOSE-QUARTERS] are identical for all rules purposes. See [CLOSE-QUARTERS].