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 ❤️

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]

(￣﹃￣)

Its about time like damn…

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

BEST: Pinning units from mid-range to penalize their movement and charge distance. Tremorglaive has a [Melta] profile for anti-armor, a [Torrent] profile to deal with light infantry, and packs a punch in melee (despite only 2 attacks). Can scout alongside its fellow Macrocytes. 12" aura of ingress denial makes it not a bad strike denier while sitting in your deployment zone.

WORST: Actual fighting & shooting accuracy is very mid, and has no support abilities that directly benefit any of the units it can support. One of several Crypteks with no Invuln save, making it easy pickings for sniper units without the aid of Cryptothrall bodyguards. Overall performance outside of Kill Team not worth the 75 pt price tag.

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RECOMMENDED DETACHMENT(S): Awakened Dynasty, Canoptek Court, Cursed Legion (can take Murdermind enhancement), Cryptek Conclave, Hand of the Dynasty

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Your thoughts about this Best & Worst? What changes (if any) do you hope to see for this model & datasheet for a future 11th edition codex?

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.

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.

Hello fellow scarab lovers,

I'm currently stuck on what basing theme to choose for my models. I provided some pictures of my models (still WIP) to give you a sense of my theme.

I have also provided some pictures of what I think I would like my bases to look like, but would love some advice on what fits better. If you have another idea that isn't too much work (looking at you full forest bases) I would love to hear it too.

Edit: Grammar

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 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.

it is intresting that there is a lot of leader Cryteks recently. Bot of the Necron killteams are focused around Crypteks.

Szeras is the main necron in the latest big Necron animated show

Dow 4 will also have a Cryptek to be a leader.

Seems intresting.

Been painting for a few years now. Main armies are Orks and Death Guard, but wanted to try something new for 11th.
Not going for any particular dynasty(at least I don’t think, I’m not too deep into lore). Just a dark gold skeleton with red and grey accents. Pink weapons was the big thing for me, I wanted to paint bright glowy pink weapons. Doing a thing where they’re all emerging from an underground tomb.

Basic recipe is:
* prime black
* drybrush with Warpaints Heavy Metal, then Death Metal, the. A light drybrush of Bright Gold.
* Leadbelcher for the other metallic bits
* Mephiston red for the plates.
* for the weapons Doomfire magenta over Corax White, followed by another CW highlight and then globs of Power Node Glow.
* base painted green, then applied Mordant Earth for the cracked earth look.

I’m quite happy with how they turned out, and I can’t wait to get this paintjob on bigger units. I have my eye on two Doomstalkers next!

C+C welcome!

Hi, I am a pretty new painter, and I started to paint my destroyers. I was playing around with different designs, and I settled on this one. Does it look good, and do u think it needs any other adjustments. Thanks!

So i was looking at the way support interacts with leader units and if im *not* getting consumed by the madness then does this mean we can have a cryptek supporting a squad of destroyers while theres a lord (skorpek or locust) in them as well?

This is assuming murder mind is on the cryptek btw

Is this another "I smell toast" moment?

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!