Forge World Releases Necron Tomb Sentinel

 

Forge World has released another Necron model, to support the release of Imperial Armour 12: The Fall of Orpheus

 

From Forge World:

 

In the ages-old Necron panoplies of war, the Canoptek Tomb Sentinel is all but unique. One of the last war machines designed by the Cryptek master-artificer Toholk the Blinded, at the Silent King’s command it was given over to the Praetorians for wider dissemination across the Necron dynasties before the Great Sleep.

Both guardian and aggressor, the Tomb Sentinel is a heavily modified variant of the insectile Tomb Stalker, which forgoes that device’s hellish close combat ability and instead mounts an Exile cannon, a powerful weapon which blasts objects out of existence, casting them into other dimensional realms beyond the material universe. Phasing through the paltry defences of lesser races like a phantom, the Canoptek Tomb Sentinel can deploy this terrible device into the close confines of an enemy stronghold with devastating effects.

The Canoptek Tomb Sentinel is a detailed multi-part resin kit designed by Will Hayes which offers a wealth of dynamic modelling opportunities, much like the Tomb Stalker. This model is available to pre-order now for despatch from Friday 31st May.  

The model clocks in at £45 or $68.

Loken

Forge World New Releases - Necrons

Two new Necron models have been released by Forge World.

Forge World Releases Necron Tesseract Ark, Sentry Pylon

Forge World has just released two new Necron models as part of Imperial Armour 12.  Both are spectacular models as we have come to expect from Forge World.  

TESSERACT ARK

The Tesseract Ark is one of the most powerful Necron war machines encountered on the battlefields of the 41st Millennium, and so sophisticated is its design, it can be manufactured only by the most adept of Crypteks. Built around a contained singularity torn from the heart of a dying star, in battle the Tesseract Ark can siphon the destructive energies of this captured star-fragment and unleash them in a variety of terrible ways. Most notably, the armoured bulk of the Tesseract Ark is surrounded by a gravitic distortion effect, a potent defensive mechanism.

The Tesseract Ark, designed by Daren Parrwood, is a complete multi-part resin and plastic kit, packed with detail. The forward armour and arcane projector array of its singularity chamber give it a unique profile, making a fantastic and menacing centrepiece for a Necron army. 

 The Tesseract Ark costs 55GBP, about $ 84.

SENTRY PYLON WITH GAUSS EXTERMINATOR

The stasis-tombs of the Necrons are vast and shadowy edifices, and many an Imperial Explorator expedition has made planetfall on a dead world only to vanish without trace; slain at the hands of the unliving guardian-constructs that watch over their slumbering masters.

Among these defences are automated weapons platforms of strange design known as Pylons. Some of these are huge, cyclopean constructs, but Imperial tactical logisticians have codified smaller, tactical variants as Sentry Pylons. These powerful devices are arcs of glittering metal equipped with a weapons array that can strike down enemy aircraft at ranges so great as to be almost beyond comprehension. Some are outfitted with a gauss exterminator array, a larger and more potent example of the hellish energy weapons carried by the Necron soldiery, which can also be employed against ground targets with no loss of effectiveness, scouring vast areas clear of life and cutting buildings down to little more than smoking rubble.

The Necron Sentry Pylon with Gauss Exterminator, designed by Stuart Williamson, is a multi-part resin kit that stands almost 6" (150mm) tall. The Sentry Pylon’s cruciform arc profile is packed with detail, making each a fantastic painting project as well as a potent battlefield unit. 

 The Sentry Pylon costs 46GBP, about $ 70.


Full rules and background for these two war machines can be found in Imperial Armour Volume Twelve: The Fall of Orpheus, and both the Sentry Pylon and the Tesseract Ark are available to pre-order now for despatch from Friday 3rd May.

Necrons from Forge World Open Day

From Forge World Open Day comes news of new Necron units.

Imperial Armour 12 Preview

Forge World has released photos of some of the interior pages of the new Imperial Armour 12, which will be on sale tomorrow at the Forge World Open Day.  The book features Necrons, Minotaur and Death Corps of Krieg.

I probably won't buy this book because I don't collect any of those armies.  I don't buy every Forge World book anymore because I simply don't have room on my bookshelves for them all!  Plus I don't tend to read the books I don't have a serious interest in.  So the Badab War is the last one of these I read.  And that pair of books was chock full of Space Marine goodness.

Loken

Imperial Armour 12 Video Released!

 From Forge World:

Imperial Armour Volume 12: The Fall of Orpheus on sale at the Forge World Open Day

We can now confirm that we’ll have Imperial Armour Volume 12: The Fall of Orpheus on sale at the Open Day in limited numbers. This 227-page, full colour, hardback book sees a shadowy horror arising in the dark fringes of the galaxy, and the fate of an entire Imperial sector hanging in the balance. By a strange coincidence Alan Bligh has been telling us a little of what the new book contains.

If any of you are going to Forge World Open Day, please let me know and I will post your photos and summaries!

Loken

Imperial Armour 12: The Fall of Orpheus

Forge World has released images from the upcoming Imperial Armour 12 The Fall of Orppheus.

Forge World Releases Necrons

Forge World has started releasing Necrons in advance of the release of the new Imperial Armour book

From Forge World:

The Night Shroud is a dedicated bomber, larger than the more numerous Night Scythe and Doom Scythe craft alongside which it operates, whose origins date back countless aeons to the lost battles of the War in Heaven.

The Night Shroud was built to carry a relic of that ancient and apocalyptic conflict – so-called Death Spheres – containment vessels imprisoning the merest fragment of anti-matter. This potent warhead is kept out of phase with the material universe until the sphere detonates, unleashing an energy blast capable of annihilating anything it touches.

The Night Shroud is a complete resin and plastic kit. Model designed by Daren Parrwood.

This model is available to pre-order now and will be despatched from Friday April 5th.


The Night Shroud costs 70 GBP, about $ 105.

Forge World has also released a Necron Realm of Battle board.

From Forge World:

The stasis-crypts of the Necrons are protected by great defensive structures; near-impregnable fortifications designed to stand against the ravages of eternity, hostile action and deadly environments. Tomb Citadels often stand on the outermost borders of a wider complex. They act as watchtowers and outposts that are often the merest tip of the iceberg; the fathomless depths of silent galleries and stasis-chambers that make up the nameless cities of the Necrons extending far below them.

A Tomb Citadel is far more than an inert relic of strange aeons past, however. Each is a near-living war machine in its own right, and Imperial combat records record these brutish structures rising from the very earth, or phasing strangely into existence in the midst of a Necron assault. If not quickly destroyed, these dread ziggurats will form a beachhead from which the undying legions pour forth to destroy their foes

The Realm of Battle Necron Tomb Citadel, designed by Blake Spence, is a 2' x 2' (609mm x 609mm) tile which can fit onto a Citadel Realm of Battle board.

This model is available to pre-order now and will be despatched commencing Friday April 5th.

It looks great, but it would be nice to have 4 different boards so you could make an entire, non-repeating, table.

Make sure you check out the Forge World site.

Loken

Forge World Previews Imperial Armour 12

A cool video showing some of the great art that will be in the upcoming Imperial Armour 12: The Fall of Orpheus.

This looks like it will be even better than the last volume.  Which I hated, because, well, basically I hate Space Wolves!  :-)

But these books are true labors of love.  You can tell being an author of one of them is a great job, and I heartly reccomend them!

Loken

FAQ Imminent?

This surfaced in an update made available yesterday.

With a clarification to the transport rule in the digital version of Codex Necrons, it seems a new FAQ could be on the way. We can now see that units embarked in a Night Scythe that is destroyed now take no damage. This change appeared yesterday, but has yet to work it's way to the FAQ. Keep an eye out for updates, soon.

Son of Dorn

Feast of Blades - Demons and Flyers

Feast of Blades has turned into one of the big four national tournaments.  And so with a few hundred people battling it out in both the Invitational and Open tournaments a couple of things were very obvious.  Cranberry Muffinman from 40K Nation and I webcast the event and interviewed all the players on the feature table.Here is what we saw and heard around the tables.

Daemons are in

Four of the top 8 armies were Daemons.  Daemon armies were all over the place.  Why?  Screamers and Flamers.  Two ridiculously tough units.  Screamers act like jet bikes and are S5 AP 2, 2 wounds and basically a beast in HtH.  Flamers really can't be assaulted because of their weaponry and can dish out huge shooting damage.  As we were broadcasting the feature table, we saw 3 Daemon on Daemon games in addition to the final!

Necron Night Scythes are insane

BoLS just wrote an article you need to read.  8+ Necron Night Scythe armies were in evidence and while not in the top 8, were clearly powerful.  Twin Linked Tesla weapon at S7 and Assault 4.  Av 11/11/11 with living metal.  And it is a dedicated transport and only 100 points!

The thing is, they have limited/small units to hold objectives and so while packing a lot of Tesla love, they have a hard time with games that require you to hold objectives.  So I think there is a lot of noise, but in tournament games, they are total hit or miss armies.

Of course in Apocalypse, they are pretty nasty, and I expect my good friend and local Necron Lord "Wild" Bill Hubbell to start fielding lots of these.


Also, check out both Spikey Bits for your gaming needs and Next Level Painting for your painting needs.  Both guys are super nice and I highly recommend them.

Alec

Necron Vehicle Conversions

Joedrache on the Apocalypse40K forum is a big Necron collector and posted these photos of his recent Necron vehicle conversions.   Here are his comments on his vehicles:
 

Triarch Stalker

For the stalker, I tried to make it look like the picture in the book (but found out later it has 3! legs in the fluff) I think 6 are much better than 3.  I started with the cockpit of the ghost ark, adding part of the fenders and the mount for the grav motors to be the joints for the legs. Each leg had to be notched to fit on there with some strength. I added an extra bi segment for the front legs to give it a more crabby appearance, and adding two arches beside the driver, I think intimates the quantum shielding it has. For the heat ray I fused 4 synaptic guns in a chevron formation. This model is definitely one of my favorite conversions.

Ghost Ark

The Ghost Ark would be my 2nd favorite. The profile shots show how you could cut each arch to make it fit with the gun underslung. First thing I had to do was toss that lousy flying base in the trash. Is there any way that could ever support this model?  Have you seen the DE flying bases?  WTF! I digress. I wanted it to have a more organic, bug, ribcage feel than the viking longboat look it did have. The odd heads in there are from Puppetswar. I could never quite capture the progression of damaged warriors at the rear, being repaired as they come up to the front. there was no room for the flayer attachments, so I just stuck them on individually, giving them a nice transitional arch throughout the sets

Catacomb Command / Annihilation Barge 1

My Catacomb Command / Annihilation Barge serves double duty of course, though its usually the sweep attack variety. The main thing to do was get that Overlord to hang off the side for lopping off marine heads. I use a heat gun extensively in my modeling.  It cost me a $ 100 at Sears.  Its pricey, but so worth it, especially for Nids or other organics.  But in this case, I just had to slightly bend legs and ankles, and the scythe arm to get the right pose. I wanted it to be even more drastic, but had to compromise. if you bend too much they start to look boneless!

Catacomb Command / Annihilation Barge 2

Catcom2 The Headless Horseman! The tricky part here was building it upside down. There is a sweet ball underneath that will never be seen. had to cut the male part off of the crescent upright to get it to work, and you can see, my angle was not quite right, but that's okay. I just love the way this Overlord looks while he's prowling the sleepy hollows of 40k. He did have a BA helmet, but it fell off so now he's hunting grey knight paladins.

I wanted a big Necrony crystal out there. This is a quartz pendulum, and it was very hard to get the paint to stick. The uv paint i'm using is pretty chalky, and generally bad paint, but it glows. I wanted the Doom Ark to look like its got a spinning matrix that charges up for the shot. Plus it seems the normal way you're supposed to build it (which I almost never do) just obscures the cool gun barrel, so I wanted to show that off. Then I wanted a more servitor feel for the driver.

Much thanks to Joe.

Loken

Necron Triarch Stalker

From Ben Laird, who writes a Necron blog "Warhammer with Zail" wrote this on the Necron Triarch Stalker.

I have read lately quite a few negative opinions on the Necron Triarch stalker that seem to be based purely on speculation as not that many people have actually used it in game. Having played with them in most my lists over the last week I thought I would give a quick rundown of what I think they can do, both the good and the bad.

For those unfamiliar with the Triarch Stalker it is an open topped armour 11 walker, with a heat ray that acts like two multi-meltas or a heavy flamer. What makes it interesting however is the quantum shielding boosting it to AV 13 and the ability that whatever target it hits gets ‘marked’, allowing any other Necron unit shooting at the same target to be twin linked. Now the obvious use of this is to either ensure the death of your chosen vehicle target either through the multi meltas or the twin linked fire or shoot it at a large squad and then fire into it with now twin linked immortals/warriors.

The downside to this vehicle is the cost and the fact it only has one weapon meaning it is easy to make it ineffective. The thing that people overlook though is just how hard av13 walker can be to kill in combat. The ability to tie up any unit that makes it too your lines after you have shot a couple of times can be game changing. Multiple time I have delayed an assault marine squad or a unit of grey hunters from crushing through my lines, giving me time to either bring my counterattack unit (wraiths generally) into position or get my shooty elements further away.

Triarch Stalkers are great, they don’t fit into every list but they have fantastic synergy with some of our best units. They make telsa immortals incredible! And they offer even more AV 13 saturation to go along with your command and annihilation barges. I highly recommend using them and I can definitely see their place in certain competitive lists.

Specks.

 

Necrons Rise!

Well, the world is going to hell!  Well, Tomb Worlds are at least.  The Necrons are here and I have to say they are AMAZING!

The Codex:

The Doomsday Ark:

Necron Catacomb Command Barge / Annihilation Barge:

Necron Lychguard / Triarch Praetorians:

Necron Immortals / Deathmarks

And the Necron HQ units are absolutely spectacular.  

Imotekh the Stormlord

Necron Overlord

Trazyn the Infinite

Necron Cryptek

Necron Lord with Resurrection Orb

For the entire range go to Games Workshop's site!

Alec