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More like winner doughboy because I brought this up. > biggrin However you did get me with the strength of the PW. Forgive me, I lost my codex 3 weeks ago. Also, if you designate a single target model, say, a chaos lord or somthing they're also boned because if you get the hit they're stuck under the hol. This however is generally a bad move because there are easier targets to hit with a lot more models to burn.

Yes.

The Necrons phase out after both victory and defeat, leaving nothing to salvage for reverse engineering. Their dead and wounded all simply vanish back from whence they came.

If that didn't happen though, yeah humans could do it. Besides, all of the imperiums technology is reverse engineered from previous generations of human technology, the techpriests of mars don't actually know how anything works, they just build the stuff according to instructions basically.

Hail to the Deceiver!

Actually, that is not entirely accurate, the Adeptus Mechanicus does know how the things they build work, if they didn't they would have no understanding of the archaic blueprints they have or find, and would be unable to use them. Plus, contrary to popular belief, they are coming up with new designs all the time, you just dont usually hear about it. (Plus, power armor, chainswords, and power weapons were in part reversed engineered from the Eldar anyway.)

Back on the subject of Necrons, as far as reverse-engineering their technology, the Tech-priests have hit a dead end.
The Tech-priest have created a theory on how gauss technology works (If you dont believe me, check the Necron Codex, because I am citing it here.) but they lack enough understanding of necron technology to properly create an efficient working model that has the same effectivity of the Necron weapon, let alone make it small enough to carry, because the energy required to pull off what the Gauss technology actually does would, with the Imperium technology on hand, take a generator similar to one found in a titan, and it wouldn't be very effective.

Yeah, people will generally do that when they see Nightbringer hit the field. Also, when it comes down to necron tech, even if Mechanicus COULD make a gauss flayer, it would only be able to fire once and then the trigger would melt.

the main thing players seem to forget is that the necrons like their weapons are made from the same materials and in terms of 'organic composure' are resigned to act more as a singular being rather then a soldier with a gun. as an earlier poster suggested they think and the gun does the rest because the gun itself is powered by the necron who wields it (somewhat explained via codex observations about larger necrons and more powerful necrons wielding weapons of equal measure to their physical 'difference')

why do you think only a pariah can use a warscythe, why only a destroyer can use a cannon and why only a immortal can use a blaster. the necrons have no real need for rank specific weaponry or archaic precepts of title earning (like say a veteran warrior earning a terminator class power suite)

also as a matter of reverse engineering, its impossible as formerly said, but parallel levels of engineering have been started by the cult of the void dragon on Terra.. so you know.. not that far off wink

Sweet... *Imagines the massive Necron army marching over the landscape*
Now I feel bad about having nothing but the rulebook and Necron codex to my name... crying

(Before I forget, technically, the Void Dragon cult, and the Void Dragon himself, are actually on Mars, not Terra.)