Hello fellow Phaerons.

Just wanted to post a lil update and progress report of my current painting batch. I am glad with the way this guy has turned out compared to my first Skorpekh back in Jan (stopped the hobby for about 5ish months and only just started again at the end of June).

While I was painting, I was getting a lil frustrated and wasn't very happy with it while painting until my wife came over and looked at it and was commenting on it from a distance as if on the table and that really helped me feel a lot happier with the progress.

So far with all of my batch painting I have spent around 65-75 hours into the painting process (6 Skorpekh Destroyers, 2 Plasmacytes, 1 Doomstalker, 1 Hexmark, 1 Royal Warden, 2 Overlords, 1 Triarch Stalker (cockpit driver only)). Doing the blades on this model alone took about 5-6 hours (first blade blending took about 2-2.5 hours with the second blade being just over an hour and the highlighting taking another 2ish hours and then another about 30 mins doing the corrections).

I am not sure how I feel about the highlights yet as I feel that is where I am lacking the most with my skill and having shaking hands does not help haha. Final product, progress photos and first phase blade are all attached if you wanna look.

Other than the basing that is left to do, I would really appreciate any tips, C+C or anything else.

Appologies for the bad lighting, t'was 4:30 when images were taken. Please ignore the background junk.

Howdy yall id like yall to meet Phaul (the h is silent). Hes the friendliest necron warrior. He had a tragic accident with his left arm (Cat). But his loving overlord had an extra arm to replace it with. He might not be the most accurate necron but sure is the friendliest.

I know this isn't the prettiest paint job but I'm hoping the level of kitbash distracts from the fact this is among my first five models.its a metal nightbringer that I have 3D printed parts in order to get it close to official size. 7th image for Size comparison.

Hello fellow Phareons! Switching up my colors from classic Necron Green to a red and orange color… What’s a good red for Necron glow? 🙏🏻

So my buddy has beaten my Awakened dynasty twice by a short amount of points. So I feel like bringing the pain with a pantheon of woe detachment.

Let me know how y'all feel about this list!

Big Monsters (1975 points)

Necrons

Strike Force (2000 points)

Hand of the Dynasty and Pantheon of Woe (3 Detachment Points)

Purge the Foe

Attached Units

Attached Unit 1

Royal Warden (50 points)

• Attached as: Leader (Character)

• Warlord

• 1x Close combat weapon

1x Relic gauss blaster

Necron Warriors (210 points)

• Attached as: Bodyguard (Battleline)

• 20x Necron Warrior

• 20x Close combat weapon

20x Gauss flayer

• Enhancement: Enlivened Sentinels (Upgrade)

Attached Unit 2

Technomancer (80 points)

• Attached as: Support (Character)

• 1x Staff of light

Canoptek Wraiths (220 points)

• Attached as: Bodyguard

• 6x Canoptek Wraith

• 6x Particle caster

6x Vicious claws

Attached Unit 3

Plasmancer (55 points)

• Attached as: Support (Character)

• 1x Plasmic lance

Immortals (155 points)

• Attached as: Bodyguard (Battleline)

• 10x Immortal

• 10x Close combat weapon

10x Tesla carbine

• Enhancement: Tools of Dominion (Upgrade)

CHARACTERS

C’tan Shard of the Nightbringer (405 points)

• 1x Gaze of death

1x Scythe of the Nightbringer

C’tan Shard of the Void Dragon (380 points)

• 1x Canoptek tail blades

1x Spear of the Void Dragon

1x Voltaic storm

OTHER DATASHEETS

Canoptek Reanimator (70 points)

• 2x Atomiser beam

1x Reanimator’s claws

Doomsday Ark (200 points)

• 1x Armoured bulk

1x Doomsday cannon

2x Gauss flayer array

Lokhust Heavy Destroyers (150 points)

• 3x Lokhust Heavy Destroyer

• 3x Close combat weapon

3x Gauss destructor

I see people are taking Overlord w/ Shroud + Lychguard to auto advance 6" and then use the Driven to butchery strat to charge. I am debating doing something similar with the Chronomancer w/ the Chronometron ability, but would the same strat override the abilities restriction on charging that turn?

It started as a painting challenge. A checkerboard. A touch of chromatic aberration. An illusion.
One square became hundreds, each demanding the next until I could no longer tell whether I was painting the pattern... or the pattern was painting me.

Now the colors refuse to stay still. The edges breathe.
I can't tell if the model is out of focus...
...or if m̵̱̚y̶͙̿ ̵͔͝m̴̹̿ḯ̷͎ǹ̶̠d̷͓̓ has simply forgotten what reality is supposed to look like."
I finished the miniature...
...but I'm not convinced i̸̫̓t̶͉͋ ̷͍̕l̶̮̚e̶̞͋t̶̝̾ ̵̺̾m̷̼̕ë̴̬́ ̷̩͂g̸͚͗o̷͛͜.

[Thanks everyone for being part of my maddening adventure, now I'll retreat back into the stasis chamber until next time, when my mad mind will be useful once again]

(￣﹃￣)

Did I miss something? I see plenty of comments about how great murdermind is now that they are changed to support. The old Enhancement called out that they were allowed to join Destroyers with it, but the new version lacks that and is leaving me confused. Thanks in advance!

Edit: thanks to help I've now found where it states the new supports in the MFM detachments section. Thanks again!

The most prominent unit with the keyword is definitely the Flayed Ones, but they're so squishy that it seems like a waste on them - if they're getting shot they're probably dead, regardless.

Spending 20 points in Awakened Dynasty to get it on a Warrior or Immortal squad or something seems like a waste - if either of those units aren't in a Terrain Area, something is definitely wrong.

Is the keyword secretly good, and I just can't recognize it?

I’m tweaking list after balance dataslate and I’m considering 10 flayed ones. I run cursed legions so Purge the Foe disposition. Flayed ones are great cause infiltrators, but maybe taking unit of 10 is actually good?
They are cheaper per model (55 per 5 or 100 per 10, so 45points extra) and maybe could actually survive?
In purge it’s better to have fewer but tougher units.
Idk. Should I just write them off as a first turn infiltration or try to make them do something more later? What are your thoughts? (Picture for attention)

I have not shout the Battleforce yet but I am thinking about buying it and getting some models I thought looked cool.

Looking to expand from Awakened Dynasty. Have built a Cursed Legion/Skyshroud list but am now struggling to build a Hypercrypt/Hand of the Dynasty one. Any recommendations for units or list examples would be greatly appreciated.

Finally finished the Canoptek Doomstalker, bringing the Combat Patrol to completion.

anyone know where I can get a crap ton of scarabs, besides eBay and Facebook marketplace

Before starting, I don’t think this puts us in a bad spot or that it’s the end of Necrons as an army I just think GW’s approach to handling Necrons has been lazy and dumb.

We’re sitting somewhere between 4th-7th best army right now, and we just ate 8 points increases plus some weirdly targeted hits Tesseract Vault and Doomsday Ark nerfs came out of nowhere and weren’t asked for.
Awakened Dynasty losing precision protection guts half its use case, and our leaders are already super squishy. Meanwhile some top-tier armies barely got touched this round.
This is the pattern with Necrons: C’tan too strong? Exclude them from every detachment ability and strat. Awakened too strong? Nerf something that’s been core to the army all of 10th. If GW can’t design a working archetype, stop handing us gimmicks you’re not willing to actually balance.
Salty take, but it feels like we’re getting punished because some players don’t know how to play against a few big units and are the loudest about it while genuinely oppressive armies get a pass because they’re just marine bodies in different colors.

Ps: My C’tans ❤️

Basically title. Ive searched the faction pack, the tournament companion, the mfm and the core rules but can't seem to find the rules change regarding the enhancement giving cover instead of -1 to hit now.

Is it only in app if I buy the codex?