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don't ya love when on first turn you shoot 4 lascannons at a monolith just to see it sat on the ground slowly and fall over, makes the necron player crap there pants

This is true enough, but while the Deceiver is the more scheming of the three, he's the weakest of the four. Weak enough that while the Necrontyr were still mortal it would actually divert would-be servants to other C'tan so he wouldn't catch their ire. Even now, the Deceiver is very careful to operate under the radar of Nightbringer, not interacting with him unless necessary. In the codex it also mentions how careful he was that the other C'tan weren't awakened until he needed them. You're right that the Nightbringer is much more up front, but he's also much more terrifying and powerful, the Outsider is off going batshit somewhere, maybe in the webway, I dunno, and the Void Dragon, it's not that it doesn't care so much that it's still in stasis. And while it is on Mars, and not Terra. It's one planet over. I don't care how awesome of a cannon your moon is. Once Void Dragon's up, it's curtains for the Sol system, in my opinion, and without Holy Terra, the Imperium is gone.

Sweet action. I just fought my first battle. I pound an eldar force. It was a 1000 point game. He scored 310 points against me and I hit him for 520 points.

Thanks! And any group that thinks it can throw down with my tomb and live will find out just how much I want to feed on their souls. twisted

The particle weapon theory seems rather speculative to me, although I can see your train of thought. As for psychers, the warp, and all the powers it bestows, are anathema to the c'tan. I don't know exactly what reaction it would have should they come into contact with enough warp energy, but it would no doubt be painful in the extreme or fatal for the c'tan. However, if a necron force is taking the field with psychers, at least fluff-wise, the force would contain a detachment of pariahs to throw the psychers into disarray.

Considering C'tan in thier natural state feed off of stars, which generate the impressive and constant stream of particles we call the solar wind, I doubt a particle weapon would be of much use.


Keep in mind that during the War in Heaven, the Nightbringer dueled Khaine himself. I doubt piddly psykers and sorcerers are going to seriously worry beings which have stood toe-to-toe with the actual gods the lesser beings worship.



Here's something just about everyone overlooks: the definition of anathema. Anathema doesn't mean that something is a weakness of yours.



The C'tan HATE the warp, and it does not appear they have a great deal of control over it, other than being able to seal it away, but it's not necessarily their weakness.

You're missing the point. Something being anathema to you doesn't mean that you are repulsed by it. Something being anathema to you means you hate it with every fiber of your being and want to see it destroyed. The Culexus example is misleading because yes, psykers hate pariahs and nulls, but they hate them because they're weakened by them, they're not weakened by their hatred of them.


C'tan don't reside in some immortal demi-plane where stars are represented by fruit. C'tan have always lived in the physical universe. They existed for eons as giant clouds of energy that eat something from stars(EM energy, high energy particles, it's never explicitly stated). They took no notice of lesser life until the Necrontyr condensed them down and placed them in Necrodermis. The Necrodermis doesn't pull them from another reality into ours, it's more analogous to a suit that would bring you down to a level where you could experience personal interaction with bugs or bacteria. When you 'kill' a C'tan in it's Necrodermis, you're not slaying a god. All you've managed to do is pop the suit-balloon that keeps them at our level, and they revert (i.e, explode) back to being a big amorphous energy entity.


Right in the codex where it says "The warp is anathema to them." I.E. "The warp is hated and consigned to destruction by them."

Hey, no-one's mentioned the juicy all-round 14 armour monoliths get in a while, so I think I'll do that now. Oh and because their made of living metal, nothing can count it as less than 14. HAHA, the futures bright, the future is a dull silver with blue shoulder pads. Did I mention the 14 amour?