Necron vulnerabilities

[Stonerhino]

Doesn't stop them they just get teleported back to the tomb and repaired then teleported back the the battlefield and or another battlefield.

Also it's a rule for game balance rather then being fluff.

[Lord Damocles]

They certainly are in Apocalypse reloaded - the Tau anti-vehicle EMP bomb (it's either icefire of the other one, but I always get the names mixed up) is specifically noted as affecting Necrons, while the anti-organic Neutron bomb specifically does not affect Necrons; from this I'd suggest lobbing as many haywire/emp grenades at them as you can get hold of.

The Icefire Warhead doesn't actually physically damage the Necrons though - it doesn't inflict any damage on non-vehicle Necron models; just forces a Pinning Test (and even then has no effect on constructs like Tomb Spyders).

(I notice that rules-wise it doesn't work at all anymore, like most of the Necron formations...)

[Cheeslord]

Yet remarkably if you knock a few of them down with bat then chase after the rest of them this seems to stop all res orbs and living metals from functioning.

Its an odd thing, but this forum is the only place I've seen people say Necrons themselves are made of living metal. Their vehicles are partially made of it (I imagine like terminator 3, living metal "armour" over a core of other mechanical elements), but the necron warriors/lords/canoptek/ etc. is, as far as I have read in the fluff, just made of "normal" metals. It's not clear what their Repair Protocols represent but it may be mini-scarabs crawling over them to repair them, internally routing "alternative power" to bypass damaged systems or a modular design that lets parts "crawl back together".

Mark.

[El_Machinae]

The metal is a molecular phenomenon. Molecules are chains of atoms that do 'special' things due to their atomic arrangement, a 'the whole is greater than the sum of the parts' kind of thing. If the self-repair is due to some spiffy design at the molecular level, then damaging the molecules themselves would inhibit the repairability of the Necron. So, stuff that hurts it at the atomic level will flense away the atoms and disrupt their molecular capabilities.

[Tethylis]

Its an odd thing, but this forum is the only place I've seen people say Necrons themselves are made of living metal.

Well I am not sure about the old book but the 5th ed codex fluff does seem to use living metal for even the most basic Necrons.

Colosal bio-furnaces roared day and night, consuming weak flesh and replacing it with enduring living metal.

[Oppressor]

I kind of miss the old codex where weapons that are strong enough to negate their armor save also negated their WBB or repair protocols. It made more sense that a plasma gun or melta gun or lascannon etc. would do enough damage (even on a molecular level) to prevent rapairs.

[Lord Damocles]

Its an odd thing, but this forum is the only place I've seen people say Necrons themselves are made of living metal.

Well I am not sure about the old book...

'Their [Necrontyr] cursed flesh would be replaced with living metal in imitation of their gods.'
Codex: Necrons (3rd ed.), pg.25

I kind of miss the old codex where weapons that are strong enough to negate their armor save also negated their WBB or repair protocols. It made more sense that a plasma gun or melta gun or lascannon etc. would do enough damage (even on a molecular level) to prevent rapairs.

That's not how We'll Be Back worked.

You'd get WBB against a Plasma Gun with any Necron, and some (Immortals, Lords, Destroyers) would get it against Melta weapons and Lascannons.

[Oppressor]

That's not how We'll Be Back worked.

You'd get WBB against a Plasma Gun with any Necron, and some (Immortals, Lords, Destroyers) would get it against Melta weapons and Lascannons.

Ah, sorry, been too long since I played against the old necron codex.

[El_Machinae]

Imagine the terror of seeing a man-sized opponent get back up after being smoked by a laser cannon

[artekfrost]

Imagine the terror of seeing a man-sized opponent get back up after being smoked by a laser cannon

as the gaping hole in it's chest closes.

or seeing one get up after taking a demolisher shell to the face

[Cthell]

or seeing one get up after taking a demolisher shell to the face

Only if there's a resorb nearby; demolisher cannon to the face was the best way of putting any necron down for good (S10 and all that)

[jay1234]

nids. necrons