Necron Rumour Summary

[The Dude]

Okay, as I haven’t yet gone mad looking after IG rumours, I thought I’d have a crack at the Necrons. Now they are further out, so don’t expect too much here for a while. The same rules as my IG thread apply. No wishlisting (go here for that) and stick to discussion of the rumours and how they will affect you or other rules.

If you have something new, but wish to remain anonymous, PM me.

General Info

Brimstone has said Necrons should appear late 2009 early 2010 at the earliest.

Rules

There will supposedly be 3 tiers of Lord in a similar vein to the Necron background section of the Apocalypse book. Each tier will supposedly have more options as you go up. The top tier is rumoured to be the C’Tan infused, or simply mad version of the Lord, keeping the C’tan models useable in regular 40K.

Some say there is the possibility of a "Spyder Lord", although this is likely just mutant wishlisting.

There was some talk of C’Tan replacing a normal Lord mid-battle

Some say the C'Tan will become apocalypse only, possibly getting Forge World models. This would differentiate them from the C’Tan infused or Mad Lord that thinks it’s a C’Tan.

Some say we can expect to see Named Lords such as those that appeared in the Medusa V campaign background.

"We'll Be Back" is rumoured to either receive a major overhaul or to be replaced by Feel No Pain. This is rumoured to be for game speed reasons. The benefits and drawbacks of this change have been widely discussed.

There are vague rumours that most if not all units in the army will receive a +1T boost.

There are even vaguer rumours of a potential drop to 4+ Armour Save

The Gauss Rule is rumoured to be change. The most common rumour to this is that Gauss will not receive the usual -2 on the auto-glance, but instead only a -1 on a glance, effectively giving them the same result as they currently have. Some people have guessed that Gauss will simply be replaced with Rending, although many others believe this is unlikely. No firm rumours have emerged yet either way.

Necron Warriors are rumoured to be 20ish points (possibly 22) each with T5. They will also supposedly get some form of Grenade.

Some say Warriors and Immortals will get Slow and Purposeful or possibly even Relentless.

It is rumoured that there will be at least one more troop choice coming from either a rearranged FOC or possibly a brand new unit.

It is rumoured that one or more new units is being developed

There will possibly be new types of scarabs. Builder scarabs for repairing friendly units, and combat scarabs for… combat.

It has been said that the Monolith will go up to 300 points

There has been some talk of a new vehicle. What this is unclear, with many people suspecting something “smaller” than a Monolith such as the Pylon or Obelisk.

[The Dude]

PLEASE NOTE!

Due to the following post from Harry, and the resulting flood of spam posts, I have decided to retire this thread. I will keep all information here for those who want to search for it, but buggered if my name is being put next to a freaking wishlist thread

Originally Posted by Harry

I have a small something new. (and I hesitate to say this after all your hard work)
but ...... and there is really no getting around this one ....

It's not happening.

No one has been asked to write the book.
No one has been asked to sculpt the models.
No one has put pen to paper ... not a single word, not a single concept sketch.

It's not happening.

So pretty much every word of the OP and since (not to mention the previous 12 page thread) is all pointless wishlisting.

IT"S NOT HAPPENING.

(Sorry Dude).

Okay, as I haven’t yet gone mad looking after IG rumours, I thought I’d have a crack at the Necrons. Now they are further out, so don’t expect too much here for a while. The same rules as my IG thread apply. No wishlisting (go here for that) and stick to discussion of the rumours and how they will affect you or other rules.

If you have something new, but wish to remain anonymous, PM me.

General Info

Brimstone has said Necrons should appear late 2009 early 2010 at the earliest.

Rules

"We'll Be Back" is rumoured to either receive a major overhaul or to be replaced by Feel No Pain. This is rumoured to be for game speed reasons. The benefits and drawbacks of this change have been widely discussed.

“Phase Out” is rumoured to be removed, again for speed reasons and to make army choice freer.

Apparently much of the Necron army will also get Slow and Purposeful. This has also been rumoured to be Relentless, but S&P has come up more often.

There are vague rumours that most if not all units in the army will receive a +1T boost.

There are even vaguer rumours of a potential drop to 4+ Armour Save

There will supposedly be 3 tiers of Lord in a similar vein to the Necron background section of the Apocalypse book. Each tier will supposedly have more options as you go up. The top tier is rumoured to be the C’Tan infused, or simply mad version of the Lord, keeping the C’tan models useable in regular 40K.

Tomb Spyder Lord, will apparently have the bottom half of a Tomb Spyder and top half of a Necron Lord, and it allows Scarab swarms to be scoring.

There is apparently a Flayed One lord. My informant wasn’t sure what he does, but he is meant to make the Flayed Ones fit a bit more with the background

There was some talk of C’Tan replacing a normal Lord mid-battle

Some say the C'Tan will become apocalypse only, possibly getting Forge World models. This would differentiate them from the C’Tan infused or Mad Lord that thinks it’s a C’Tan.

Some say we can expect to see Named Lords such as those that appeared in the Medusa V campaign background.

There will supposedly be a Named Necron Lord who has a swarm of Scarabs around him (think The Mummy). No word yet on what he does.


The Gauss Rule is rumoured to be change. The most common rumour to this is that Gauss will not receive the usual -2 on the auto-glance, but instead only a -1 on a glance, effectively giving them the same result as they currently have. Some people have guessed that Gauss will simply be replaced with Rending, although many others believe this is unlikely. No firm rumours have emerged yet either way.

Necron Warriors are rumoured to be 20ish points (possibly 22) each with T5. They will also supposedly get some form of Grenade.

Some say Warriors and Immortals will get Slow and Purposeful or possibly even Relentless.

It is rumoured that there will be at least one more troop choice coming from either a rearranged FOC or possibly a brand new unit.

It is rumoured that one or more new units is being developed

There will possibly be new types of scarabs. Builder scarabs for repairing friendly units, and combat scarabs for… combat.

It has been said that the Monolith will go up to 300 points

There has been some talk of a new vehicle. What this is unclear, with many people suspecting something “smaller” than a Monolith such as the Pylon or Obelisk.

Background

Background will be expanded going to go into a bit more detail of the Necrons now & before they became machines.

Rumours seem to indicate that GW is still playing with where they want the background to sit.

Miniatures

New Plastic Flayed Ones