Obviously, your opponent could roll above average and wipe out those 20 Warriors, but thems the breaks in a dice game sometimes. Just by surviving one of the most punishing volleys in the game your Warriors now have the chance to reanimate in the Command Phase with a Resurrection Orb, or they simply just survive on an objective allowing the opportunity to score points. I can hear the laughter already….why should you care about getting 5 or 6 Warriors back when basically an entire squad was wiped out?!Ĥ0k is not as simple as a single Ranger squad killing Warriors. Getting the benefit of Light Cover during the first turn with the Protocol of the Eternal Guardian enhances your entire armies survivability, and will keep your Warriors alive just the same as a Chronomancer buff against AP2 guns.
Now, on an average roll, those Warriors get a shot at bringing some of their friends back! If you are the Necron player going second you know that Chronomancer buff will not be in place for the first punishing enemy shooting phase, but the Necrons Command Protocols have an answer. With the 5+ Invunerable Save from a Chronomancer those 80 shots from a full squad of 20 Rangers Rapid Firing kills 17 Necron Warriors on average. That’s the entire squad dead with no chance of reanimation, but let’s add in a buff most Necron lists will be bringing along. Many players will assume this volley will wipe out 20 Warriors with no problem, but is that how the math works? On average 80 Ranger shots, assuming they are hitting at AP 2 with a Manipulus (because those bad boys are deep striking down as Lucius to use this strat) are killing 22 Warriors.
80 shots from Admech Rangers is going to hurt when your opponent gets those Rangers within Rapid Fire range with the Stratagem to make their Galvanic Rifles Rapid Fire. The bad news is there are more and more units in the game that can wipe a block of 20 Warriors from the table in a single shooting or combat phase.
Let’s start by looking at the Necron’s mainstay unit in the Warriors. After stating some of these cruel facts, I have to agree that the Necron book is no Drukhari or Adeptus Mechanicus, but I still believe they have potential in the current meta. Compared to Drukhari, or even Admech, Raiders some of the Necron units seem priced to sit on the shelf, the whole “my army is full of durable T4 bodies” thing is almost laughable when compared to the amount of firepower the recent Codexes can dish out, and looking over the Warlord Traits or Relics from the Necron book REALLY hurts after reading the same from the Admech Codex. Necrons have been the target of a lot of negative press with the release of the newer 9th Edition Codexes, and some have even dubbed them as the worst of the 9th Edition books.
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