Necrons – Ophydian Destroyers
MELEE WEAPONS | RANGE | A | WS | S | AP | D | |
| Ophydian hyperphase weapons | |||||||
| Ophydian hyperphase weapons | Melee | 5 | 3+ | 4 | -2 | 2 | |
WARGEAR OPTIONS
- For every 3 models in this unit, this unit can have 1 Plasmacyte.
ABILITIES
CORE: Deep Strike
FACTION: Reanimation Protocols
Tunnelling Horrors: At the end of your opponent’s turn, if this unit is not within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units, you can remove this unit from the battlefield. In the Reinforcements step of your next Movement phase, set it up anywhere on the battlefield that is more than 8" horizontally away from all enemy models.
WARGEAR ABILITIES
Plasmacyte: Once per battle for each Plasmacyte this unit has, when this unit is selected to fight, you can use this ability. If you do, until the end of the phase, melee weapons equipped by models in this unit have the [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] ability.
Designer’s Note: Place the relevant number of Plasmacyte tokens next to the unit, removing one each time this unit uses this ability.
Designer’s Note: Place the relevant number of Plasmacyte tokens next to the unit, removing one each time this unit uses this ability.
UNIT COMPOSITION
- 3-6 Ophydian Destroyers
| 3 models | 80 |
| 6 models | 160 |
KEYWORDS: INFANTRY; DESTROYER CULT; OPHYDIAN DESTROYERS
FACTION KEYWORDS:
NECRONS
NECRONS
STRATAGEMS
COMMAND RE-ROLL
1CP
Core
C
INSANE BRAVERY
1CP
Core
C
FIRE OVERWATCH
1CP
Core
C
RAPID INGRESS
1CP
Core
C
HEROIC INTERVENTION
1CP
Core
C
COUNTEROFFENSIVE
2CP
Core
C
BLOOD-FUELLED CRUELTY
1CP
Annihilation Legion – Battle Tactic
MASKS OF DEATH
1CP
Annihilation Legion – Strategic Ploy
THE SPOOR OF FRAILTY
1CP
Annihilation Legion – Battle Tactic
INSANITY’S IRE
1CP
Annihilation Legion – Strategic Ploy
MURDEROUS REANIMATION
1CP
Annihilation Legion – Battle Tactic
PITILESS HUNTERS
1CP
Annihilation Legion – Battle Tactic
PROTOCOL OF THE SUDDEN STORM
1CP
Awakened Dynasty – Strategic Ploy
PROTOCOL OF THE UNDYING LEGIONS
1CP
Awakened Dynasty – Strategic Ploy
PROTOCOL OF THE CONQUERING TYRANT
1CP
Awakened Dynasty – Battle Tactic
PROTOCOL OF THE HUNGRY VOID
1CP
Awakened Dynasty – Battle Tactic
COMMAND RE-ROLL
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed
BA
INSANE BRAVERY
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed
BA
EXPLOSIVE CLEARANCE
1CP
Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic
BA
COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
2CP
Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy
BA
POTENTIALITY SYPHON
1CP
Cryptek Conclave – Strategic Ploy
MOLECULAR TARGETING
1CP
Cryptek Conclave – Battle Tactic
IMAGE OF DEATH
1CP
Cursed Legion – Battle Tactic
METHODICAL MURDER
1CP
Cursed Legion – Battle Tactic
MORTIS PROTOCOLS
1CP
Cursed Legion – Strategic Ploy
DRIVEN TO BUTCHERY
1CP
Cursed Legion – Strategic Ploy
SPREADING MADNESS
1CP
Cursed Legion – Battle Tactic
UNNATURAL AGGRESSION
2CP
Cursed Legion – Strategic Ploy
RUSH TO SLAUGHTER
1CP
Deranged Outcasts – Strategic Ploy
TERRIFYING AMBUSH
1CP
Deranged Outcasts – Strategic Ploy
BATHED IN BLOOD
1CP
Deranged Outcasts – Strategic Ploy
COSMIC PRECISION
1CP
Hypercrypt Legion – Strategic Ploy
HYPERPHASIC RECALL
2CP
Hypercrypt Legion – Strategic Ploy
DIMENSIONAL CORRIDOR
2CP
Hypercrypt Legion – Strategic Ploy
ENSLAVED ARTIFICE
1CP
Obeisance Phalanx – Battle Tactic
PHASE MELDING
1CP
Pantheon of Woe – Strategic Ploy
ENTROPHASIC AURA TARGETING
1CP
Pantheon of Woe – Battle Tactic
MASS TRANSMOGRIFICATION
1CP
Pantheon of Woe – Epic Deed
CHRONODISTORTION
1CP
Pantheon of Woe – Battle Tactic
MERCILESS RECLAMATION
2CP
Starshatter Arsenal – Battle Tactic
REACTIVE REPOSITION
1CP
Starshatter Arsenal – Strategic Ploy
ENDLESS SERVITUDE
1CP
Starshatter Arsenal – Strategic Ploy
DISINTEGRATION BEAMS
1CP
Tomb Ship Complement – Strategic Ploy
CONCENTRATED ATOMISATION
1CP
Tomb Ship Complement – Battle Tactic
DISRUPTION FIELDS
1CP
Tomb Ship Complement – Battle Tactic
UNWAVERING DEFENCE
1CP
Tomb Ship Complement – Battle Tactic
DETACHMENT ABILITY
Relentless Onslaught
Cold Fervour
Annihilation Protocol
Hyperphasing
Conquest Protocols
Terrifying Charge
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.
Example: A unit of Lokhust Destroyers (which have a Wounds characteristic of 3) activates its Reanimation Protocols. The unit had a Starting Strength of 3, but currently contains 2 models, and one of those models has lost 1 wound. A 3 is rolled to see how many wounds are reanimated. The first of these reanimated wounds restores the wounded Lokhust Destroyer back to 3 wounds. The second of these reanimated wounds returns the destroyed Lokhust Destroyer to the battlefield with 1 wound remaining. The third of these reanimated wounds restores one of the remaining lost wounds to the same Lokhust Destroyer that was just returned. The unit now contains 3 models, two of which have 3 wounds remaining and one of which has 2 wounds remaining.
06.02 Mortal Wounds
Some attacks or rules inflict mortal wounds on units. Each time a unit suffers one or more mortal wounds, its controlling player must resolve the following sequence for each of those mortal wounds, until either all of them have been inflicted or that unit is destroyed:- 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.
Before selecting targets for this weapon, select one of its profiles to make attacks with.
[DEVASTATING WOUNDS]24.10
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.
Example: An attack made with a [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] weapon with a D characteristic of 3 results in a critical wound against an Intercessor Squad, so inflicts 3 mortal wounds. The first 2 mortal wounds are sufficient to destroy 1 Intercessor model, so the remaining mortal wound is lost.
The NECRONS keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
Characters
Dedicated Transports
Other
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
Characters
03.04 Engagement
A model’s engagement range is the area of the battlefield within 2" horizontally and 5" vertically of it.
- 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.
WHAT IS ENGAGEMENT?
While opposing models are within each other’s engagement range, they are able to fight in vicious melee, so unless they are seeking to make melee attacks, models should keep out of their foes’ reach.
ENGAGEMENT
These two units have at least one model within 2" of the opposing unit, and are therefore engaged with each other.
ADVANCE MOVE09.06
MAXIMUM DISTANCE: Advance roll + your unit’s M characteristic.
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is on the battlefield and 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.
06.03 Hazard Rolls
To make a hazard roll for a unit, roll one D6: on a 1-2, that roll fails and that unit suffers 1 mortal wound, or 3 mortal wounds instead if each model in that unit is a MONSTER/VEHICLE model. If more than one hazard roll is required for a unit, make all of those rolls simultaneously.
[LETHAL HITS]24.23
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.Designer’s Note: Choosing to automatically wound the target means that no wound roll is made for that attack. You may decide against this, as it means that attack cannot result in a critical wound and so cannot trigger other abilities such as [DEVASTATING WOUNDS].
Hit Roll
Make one hit roll for each attack dice by rolling one D6. For each result, check if it fails or is a hit by matching the first condition below that applies:
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CRITICAL HITS
Critical hits are still hits. In addition, other rules can be triggered by a critical hit, such as [LETHAL HITS] (24).Save Rolls
The opposing player resolves the following sequence:- 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.
Wound Roll
Make one wound roll for each hit by rolling one D6. For each result, check if it fails or is a wound by matching the first condition below that applies:
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CRITICAL WOUNDS
Critical wounds are still wounds. In addition, other rules can be triggered by a critical wound, such as [DEVASTATING WOUNDS] (24).COMMAND RE-ROLL15.02
1CP
Core Stratagem
A great commander can bend even the vagaries of fate and fortune to their will, the better to ensure victory.
WHEN: Any phase, just after you make one of the following rolls for a friendly unit or model:
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).
- 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).
01.07 Battle-shock Rolls
To make a battle-shock roll for a unit, its controlling player makes a leadership roll for it (see above).- 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.
BATTLEFIELD MORALE
The morale and organisation of troops can waver and break during battle. This is checked using battle-shock rolls, most commonly in the Command phase. Failing such a roll represents the unit’s courage faltering due to taking casualties or through other disruption, reducing its battlefield effectiveness. Similarly, some rules will require you to check a unit’s readiness by making a leadership roll.01.05.01 Automatically Successful/Passes/Hits/Wounds
When a dice roll or test is automatically successful or automatically passes/hits/wounds, do not roll the dice and instead move to the next step of the sequence for that roll as if the required result had been rolled. Any rules that take effect on a particular dice result or roll result do not take effect.Example: If a hit roll is automatically successful, move straight to the Wound Rolls step for that attack. Such a hit roll is not a critical hit.
Example: If a wound roll is automatically successful, move straight to the Save Rolls step for that attack. Such a wound roll is not a critical wound.
INSANE BRAVERY15.04
1CP
Core Stratagem
Indifferent to their own survival, these warriors hold their ground against seemingly impossible odds.
WHEN: Battle-shock step of your Command phase, just before you make a battle-shock roll for a friendly unit.
TARGET: That unit.
EFFECT: That battle-shock roll is automatically successful.
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem more than once per battle.
TARGET: That unit.
EFFECT: That battle-shock roll is automatically successful.
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem more than once per battle.
06.01 Visibility
Line of sight is used to determine visibility between models. For an observing model to have line of sight, it must be possible to draw an imaginary straight line, 1 mm wide, from any part of that model to any part of the model being observed. This line is the line of sight. While doing so, other models in the observing model’s unit and in the observed model’s unit are ignored.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).
Model Visible
If any part of another model is visible to the observing model, that model is visible.
Model Fully Visible
If every part of another model that is facing the observing model is visible to the observing model (so the only thing blocking visibility to any part of that other model is that model itself), that model is fully visible.
Unit Visible
If one or more models in a unit are visible to the observing model, that unit is visible.
Unit Fully Visible
If every model in a unit is fully visible to the observing model, that unit is fully visible. When determining this, the observing model can see through other models in that unit.
SNAP SHOOTING15.09
ELIGIBLE IF: As stated in the rule allowing this shooting type.
EFFECT: Your unit shoots as described in Making Attacks (04).
WHILE SHOOTING:
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.
FIRE OVERWATCH15.08
1CP
Core Stratagem
A hail of fire can drive back advancing foes.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Movement phase.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit (excluding TITANIC units).
EFFECT: Your unit shoots using snap shooting.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit (excluding TITANIC units).
EFFECT: Your unit shoots using snap shooting.
INGRESS MOVE20.04
SET-UP DISTANCE: 6"
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is in strategic reserves (excluding units that are embarked within TRANSPORTS that are themselves in strategic reserves).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.
RAPID INGRESS15.07
1CP
Core Stratagem
Be it cunning strategy, potent technology or supernatural ritual, there are many means by which a commander may hasten their warriors’ onset.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Movement phase.
TARGET: One friendly unit that is in strategic reserves (excluding AIRCRAFT).
EFFECT: Your unit makes an ingress move (20.04).
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem during the first battle round.
TARGET: One friendly unit that is in strategic reserves (excluding AIRCRAFT).
EFFECT: Your unit makes an ingress move (20.04).
RESTRICTIONS: You cannot use this stratagem during the first battle round.
HEROIC INTERVENTION15.11
1CP
Core Stratagem
Voices raised in furious war cries, your warriors surge forth to meet the enemy’s onslaught head-on.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Charge phase.
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit within 12" of one or more enemy units. You can only select a VEHICLE unit if it is a CHARACTER/WALKER unit.
EFFECT: Resolve a charge with your unit (11.02). While doing so, before making the charge roll, you must select one of the following modes:
TARGET: One friendly unengaged unit within 12" of one or more enemy units. You can only select a VEHICLE unit if it is a CHARACTER/WALKER unit.
EFFECT: Resolve a charge with your unit (11.02). While doing so, before making the charge roll, you must select one of the following modes:
- Leap to Defend: When selecting charge targets, you can only select enemy units that made a charge move this phase and are within the maximum distance.
+1CP
- Into the Fray:
- When making the charge roll, if the result is greater than 6 (after modifiers), change it to 6.
- When selecting charge targets, you can select any enemy units that are within 6" of your unit and within the maximum distance.
05.04.04 Destroyed
Throughout a battle, models will suffer damage, lose wounds and be destroyed. When every model in a unit has been destroyed, that unit is destroyed.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.
FIGHTS FIRST24.13
Those possessed of lightning-fast reactions may strike before the opponent can react.
While every model in a unit has this ability, that unit is a Fights First unit.See the Resolve Fights First Combats step in the Fight phase (12.04).
COUNTEROFFENSIVE15.12
2CP
Core Stratagem
In close-quarters combat, the slightest hesitation can leave an opening for a swift foe to exploit.
WHEN: Fight step of your opponent’s Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has resolved its attacks.
TARGET: One friendly unit that is eligible to fight.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Fights First ability and it must be the next unit you select to fight (12.04).
TARGET: One friendly unit that is eligible to fight.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, your unit has the Fights First ability and it must be the next unit you select to fight (12.04).
ASSAULT SHOOTING10.05
ELIGIBLE IF: All of the following apply to your unit:
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.
- 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.
[ASSAULT]24.04
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).The NECRONS and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Necrons datasheets:
Characters
PROTOCOL OF THE SUDDEN STORM
1CP
Awakened Dynasty – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Arcing energies leap from one Necron to the next, lending them unnatural speed and surety
WHEN: Your Movement phase.
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.
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.
PROTOCOL OF THE CONQUERING TYRANT
1CP
Awakened Dynasty – Battle Tactic Stratagem
The legions employ the strategies of their masters in perfect synchronicity, laying down hails of mechanically coordinated fire.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
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 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.
PROTOCOL OF THE HUNGRY VOID
1CP
Awakened Dynasty – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Necrons strike with data-augmented accuracy.
WHEN: Fight phase.
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 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].
FALL-BACK MOVE09.07
MAXIMUM DISTANCE: Your unit’s M characteristic.
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is engaged.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).
[HAZARDOUS]24.15
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.COMMAND RE-ROLL
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed Stratagem
A great commander can bend even the vagaries of fate and fortune to their will, the better to ensure victory.
WHEN: Any phase, just after you have made a Hit roll, a Wound roll, a Damage roll, a saving throw, an Advance roll, a Charge roll, a Desperate Escape test, a Hazardous test, or just after you have rolled the dice to determine the number of attacks made with a weapon, for an attack, model or unit from your army.
TARGET: That unit or model from your army.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll, test or saving throw.
TARGET: That unit or model from your army.
EFFECT: You re-roll that roll, test or saving throw.
INSANE BRAVERY
1CP
Boarding Actions – Epic Deed Stratagem
Indifferent to their own survival, these warriors hold their ground against seemingly impossible odds.
WHEN: Battle-shock step of your Command phase, just after you have failed a Battle-shock test taken for a unit from your army.
TARGET: The unit from your army that Battle-shock test was just taken for (even though your Battle-shocked units cannot normally be affected by your Stratagems).
EFFECT: Your unit is treated as having passed that test instead, and is not Battle-shocked as a result.
TARGET: The unit from your army that Battle-shock test was just taken for (even though your Battle-shocked units cannot normally be affected by your Stratagems).
EFFECT: Your unit is treated as having passed that test instead, and is not Battle-shocked as a result.
[BLAST]24.05
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.
Example: If a [BLAST 2] weapon with an A characteristic of 3 targets a unit containing 12 models, you would gather four additional attack dice for that weapon (for a total of seven for that weapon).
EXPLOSIVE CLEARANCE
1CP
Boarding Actions – Battle Tactic Stratagem
A well-placed explosive munition in confined shipboard spaces can cause bloody carnage.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
TARGET: One unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Select one model in your unit that is equipped with a weapon with the [BLAST] ability. Until the end of the phase, when determining how many models are in the target unit for the purpose of that ability, include models that are not visible to the attacking model. In addition, attacks made with that weapon can be allocated to models that are not visible to the attacking model.
TARGET: One unit from your army that has not been selected to shoot this phase.
EFFECT: Select one model in your unit that is equipped with a weapon with the [BLAST] ability. Until the end of the phase, when determining how many models are in the target unit for the purpose of that ability, include models that are not visible to the attacking model. In addition, attacks made with that weapon can be allocated to models that are not visible to the attacking model.
COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
2CP
Boarding Actions – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
In close-quarters combat, the slightest hesitation can leave an opening for a swift foe to exploit.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has fought.
TARGET: One unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and that has not already been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Your unit fights next.
TARGET: One unit from your army that is within Engagement Range of one or more enemy units and that has not already been selected to fight this phase.
EFFECT: Your unit fights next.
The CRYPTEK keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
POTENTIALITY SYPHON
1CP
Cryptek Conclave – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Drawing upon the accumulated precausal potential energies that coalesce around significant locations, the conclave are able to steal that power and use it to trigger the unrealized probable remanifestation matrices of their own forces.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Command phase.
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.
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.
MOLECULAR TARGETING
1CP
Cryptek Conclave – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Targeting analysis of the targets’ molecular makeup allows all attempts at shielding or obfuscation to be bypassed with contemptuous ease.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
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 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.
The MONSTER keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
Characters
The VEHICLE keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
Dedicated Transports
[SUSTAINED HITS]24.36
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.Example: An attack made with a [SUSTAINED HITS 2] weapon results in a critical hit. That attack therefore hits the target three times (once from the critical hit, and twice more from the [SUSTAINED HITS 2] ability).
METHODICAL MURDER
1CP
Cursed Legion – Battle Tactic Stratagem
In the grip of the Destroyer madness, these Necrons strike and slay with inhuman speed and efficiency.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
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 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.
The DESTROYER CULT keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
MORTIS PROTOCOLS
1CP
Cursed Legion – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
In the absolute destruction of their enemies, the corrupted Necrons find fresh purpose and a macabre simulacrum of new life.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after the first time a DESTROYER CULT unit from your army destroys an enemy unit this turn.
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 friendly NECRONS unit (excluding MONSTERS and VEHICLES) within 9" of that DESTROYER CULT unit.
EFFECT: The friendly unit’s Reanimation Protocols activate.
SPREADING MADNESS
1CP
Cursed Legion – Battle Tactic Stratagem
It is as though witnessing other Necrons engaged in acts of merciless butchery stokes the Destroyer madness in their fellows.
WHEN: Your Charge phase.
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 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.
UNNATURAL AGGRESSION
2CP
Cursed Legion – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The android soldiery of the cursed legion are maddened with the desire to engage and slay their victims at close quarters.
WHEN: End of your opponent’s Charge phase.
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.
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.
DEEP STRIKE
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.
Hyperphasing
Hypercrypt Legion Detachment
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:
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Once you have made your selections, remove those units from the battlefield and place them into Strategic Reserves.
COSMIC PRECISION
1CP
Hypercrypt Legion – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
With a sanity-defying mechanism at the heart of the tomb, dynastic astromancers divine the pre-aligned point in space and time where a crucial role can be played in the wider battle plan.
WHEN: Your Movement phase.
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 (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.
The NECRONS and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Necrons datasheets:
Characters
HYPERPHASIC RECALL
2CP
Hypercrypt Legion – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Obeying recall protocols, threatened tomb defenders will phase out of existence, only to be relocated to a more advantageous position by the tomb's hulking Monoliths.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has shot or fought.
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 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.
DIMENSIONAL CORRIDOR
2CP
Hypercrypt Legion – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
As the tomb's warriors pass through a dimensional displacement corridor, the passage’s surface is lit with data-glyphs providing hyperlogical tactical information. When they step from an eternity gate, they are already prepared for the hunt.
WHEN: Your Charge phase.
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 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.
01.06 Leadership Rolls
To make a leadership roll for a unit, its controlling player rolls 2D6: if the result is equal to or greater than one or more of the Ld characteristics in that unit, that roll succeeds. Otherwise, that roll fails. The rule that instructed you to make that leadership roll will describe the effects of that roll succeeding or failing.
The TITANIC keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
ENSLAVED ARTIFICE
1CP
Obeisance Phalanx – Battle Tactic Stratagem
It is not only android soldiery that be compelled to serve. With a command, prized war engines and ornate weapons are empowered to hyperlethality.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
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 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.
The NECRONS and MONSTER keywords are used in the following Necrons datasheets:
Characters
Cosmic Distortion
Pantheon of Woe Detachment
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.
PHASE MELDING
1CP
Pantheon of Woe – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The very stuff of reality flows together at an atomic level, and the foe find to their horror that they are literally – and gruesomely – rooted to the spot.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Movement phase, when an unravelling enemy unit is selected to Fall Back.
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.
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.
ENTROPHASIC AURA TARGETING
1CP
Pantheon of Woe – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Necrons’ android senses can target the foe by reading the exotic radiation signatures wreathed about them by the C’tan shards onslaught.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
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 (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.
MASS TRANSMOGRIFICATION
1CP
Pantheon of Woe – Epic Deed Stratagem
The power of the C’tan rips the foe’s greatest assets apart and forcibly reknits nearby Necron soldiery using the stolen corporeal matter.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after a NECRONS MONSTER unit from your army destroys an enemy unit.
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 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.
CHRONODISTORTION
1CP
Pantheon of Woe – Battle Tactic Stratagem
With the battlefield shuddering in and out of sync with time and space, slain Necrons still strike at their enemies through cracks in temporal causality
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
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 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.
MERCILESS RECLAMATION
2CP
Starshatter Arsenal – Battle Tactic Stratagem
The Necrons are driven to reclaim what is theirs, exterminating all who would impede such efforts without mercy.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
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 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.
NORMAL MOVE09.05
MAXIMUM DISTANCE: Your unit’s M characteristic.
ELIGIBLE IF: Your unit is on the battlefield and unengaged.EFFECT: Your unit moves as described in Moving (03).
AFTER MOVING: Your unit must be unengaged.
REACTIVE REPOSITION
1CP
Starshatter Arsenal – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Subroutines buried deep within the neural networks of Necron soldiers and crews enable them to react instantaneously to targeting locks, repositioning themselves to evade incoming fire or close in upon the foe.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has shot.
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".
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".
ENDLESS SERVITUDE
1CP
Starshatter Arsenal – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Should the unclean thralls of lesser species threaten dynastic territories, the fallen Necron soldiery will rise to repel the interlopers.
WHEN: End of your Fight phase.
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 (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.
DISINTEGRATION BEAMS
1CP
Tomb Ship Complement – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Necron boarding parties are often fitted with disintegrator tools, perfect for breaching solid metal to strike hidden foes.
WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after an enemy unit attempts to prevent a NECRONS unit from you army from operating a closed Hatchway.
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.
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.
CONCENTRATED ATOMISATION
1CP
Tomb Ship Complement – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Concentrated gauss fire is exceptionally difficult to avoid in the tight confines of a voidship.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase.
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: 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.
DISRUPTION FIELDS
1CP
Tomb Ship Complement – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Fitted by ingenious Cryptek engineers, disruption fields lend Necron infantry greater killing power.
WHEN: Fight phase.
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.
EFFECT: Until the end of the phase, add 1 to the Strength characteristic of melee weapons equipped by models in your unit.
UNWAVERING DEFENCE
1CP
Tomb Ship Complement – Battle Tactic Stratagem
When tasked with defending a position, Necron infantry will fight with unwavering determination and uncanny skill.
WHEN: Fight phase.
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 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.
The NECRONS and VEHICLE keywords are used in the following Necrons datasheets:
Dedicated Transports
The MOUNTED keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
Characters
Relentless Onslaught
Starshatter Arsenal Detachment
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.Cold Fervour
Cursed Legion Detachment
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).
Conquest Protocols
Tomb Ship Complement Detachment
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.Army List
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Battleline
Dedicated Transports
Other
01.02.01 Starting Strength and Half-Strength
The number of models a unit contains at the start of the first battle round is its starting strength. The starting strength of an attached unit is the number of models that unit contains at the start of the first battle round.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.
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Example: A Captain (1 model) is attached to a unit of Intercessors (5 models). This attached unit has a starting strength of 6. If three Intercessors were destroyed, the unit would be at half-strength. If four Intercessors were destroyed, the unit would be below half-strength. If all of the Intercessors were destroyed, the remaining Captain would be below half-strength, despite having his full wounds remaining.
SOME UNITS CANNOT BE AT HALF-STRENGTH
If a model’s W characteristic or a unit’s starting strength cannot be evenly divided in half, that model or unit cannot be at half-strength (but can be below half-strength as described above).PROTOCOL OF THE UNDYING LEGIONS
1CP
Awakened Dynasty – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Nanoscarabs are released in boiling black clouds that whirl about the legions and effect rapid repairs
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has resolved its attacks.
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 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].
BLOOD-FUELLED CRUELTY
1CP
Annihilation Legion – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Whatever strange afflictions eat away at the sanity of Destroyers and Flayed Ones, mercy is not one of them.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Movement phase, just after an enemy unit ends a Fall Back move.
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 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.
MASKS OF DEATH
1CP
Annihilation Legion – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Wreathed in tendrils of transdimensional shadow that intensify their deathly visages, these killing machines evoke such terror that steady aims tremble and blade arms are sapped of strength.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
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 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.
THE SPOOR OF FRAILTY
1CP
Annihilation Legion – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Where one foe falls, logic dictates all others must follow. Where blood is shed, ever must more flow.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or the Fight phase.
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 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.
INSANITY’S IRE
1CP
Annihilation Legion – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
To strike down one horror is merely to draw the rest of the pack's insane and murderous focus.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase, just after an enemy unit has shot.
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.
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.
MURDEROUS REANIMATION
1CP
Annihilation Legion – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Through some quirk of their kind's shared insanity, a spark of gruesome satisfaction surges through them with every enemy life snuffed out, triggering quiescent power reserves that drive them onwards.
WHEN: Fight phase.
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 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.
CONSOLIDATION MOVE12.08
MAXIMUM DISTANCE: 3"
ELIGIBLE IF: It is the Fight phase and your unit was eligible to fight this phase.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.
PITILESS HUNTERS
1CP
Annihilation Legion – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Driven into a state of hyperaggression, an Annihilation Legion's most eager hunters plunge into their prey's midst to maximise their butchery.
WHEN: Fight phase.
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 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".
RUSH TO SLAUGHTER
1CP
Deranged Outcasts – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
Often drawn to the same blood-soaked environs, Flayed Ones and Destroyers weave around one another in their desire to kill.
WHEN: Your Movement phase.
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: 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.
Annihilation Protocol
Annihilation Legion Detachment
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.
Terrifying Charge
Deranged Outcasts Detachment
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.The DESTROYER CULT keyword is used in the following Necrons datasheets:
IMAGE OF DEATH
1CP
Cursed Legion – Battle Tactic Stratagem
Confronted with these android spectres of terminal mortality, even the most courageous enemies find their aim wavering and their limbs shaking.
WHEN: Your opponent’s Shooting phase or the Fight phase, just after an enemy unit has selected its targets.
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 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.
DRIVEN TO BUTCHERY
1CP
Cursed Legion – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The murderous goad of the Destroyer madness pushes these android killers to seemingly impossible efforts to get to grips with the foe.
WHEN: Your Shooting phase or your Charge phase.
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 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.
TERRIFYING AMBUSH
1CP
Deranged Outcasts – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The sudden appearance through a bulkhead or a hatchway of a blood-slick Necron Destroyer is enough to cause the boldest warrior to quiver.
WHEN: Your Movement phase, just after a DESTROYER CULT unit from your army opens a Hatchway.
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.
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.
BATHED IN BLOOD
1CP
Deranged Outcasts – Strategic Ploy Stratagem
The Destroyer Cults leave only blood, yore and butchered bodies to mark the decks they have taken.
WHEN: Fight phase, just after an enemy unit is destroyed by a DESTROYER CULT unit from your army
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: 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.