Slowly the 5th edition Necron rumors are starting to stir...
The following is shamelessly nicked from teh interwebs.
Earlier on I got a phonecall from my friend, who had just come off the phone from Games Workshop. He told me the conversation with the GW employee got around to Necrons when my friend mentioned that the C'Tan were totally missing from the 5th Edition rulebook.
Apparently, according to the GW Employee, they were left out because they intend to remove them from the next incarnation of the Necron codex and instead include them as an apocalypse datasheet, costing around 1500pts each. The rationale for this is probably obvious to a lot of people on warseer as its been said for as long as the Necron Codex has existed that the C'Tan shouldn't be represented on the TT or weren't represented appropriately considering that they are gods yet can be popped by a lucky force weapon or turned into a squig etc. Coincidentally, this ties up with the rumour posted by Sekhmet on the C'Tan Support Group forum that the C'Tan would be given the Forgeworld treatment not too long from now and would be the size of Eldar Revenant Titans.
The employee, being a Necron player himself, said that he was interested in the direction Necrons were going. He also mentioned that Necron Lords are much more important now and that there are special character Lords. There are even two of these special Lords in the Apocalypse Reloaded book; The Herald Of the Storm (from Medusa V) and The Herald Of Awakening. Finally, he also mentioned that there would be options or even models to represent the varying tiers of Lords, from Bronze up to Platinum, Platinum perhaps being near C'Tan in power or status.
Personally, If this turns out to be true I'll be quite annoyed because, for one thing, I wanted to see The Outsider and secondly, the C'Tan are very important to Necron army lists for dispelling tough characters and monstrous creatures. Hopefully we'll get something else to balance out the loss of the C'Tan.
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As a necron player I'm surprised to find that I like this rumor a lot.
The latest necron fluff, found mostly in the two apocalypse books. And that great updating of the necron fluff in the 5th ed book, has given the Lords a lot more personality, and a lot more control over the decisions made by the necrons on the battlefield.
The command level structure was very awesome, and indicated that the C'tan may be the sponsors of the necrons, but do not participate in any meaningful way in their conquests. If it pleases them, they'll show up at a major battle , and influence the outcome. But they shouldn't really be the lone HQ in a necron standard army.
As far as game design reasoning. As long as their heads aren't completley up their asses, we are going to see some power level increase in the currently over-costed and underwhelming necron lords. And necron lord special characters sound awesome.
Time to research this special lord from medusa... anyone got any links for me?
Couple other things that were added are - C'tan may or may not be truly C'tan - but more like insane Lords who think that they are gods and build themselves ever greater bodies. almost like they are leaning a bit more back to the aztec/egyptian mythos as opposed to the lovecraftian stuff.
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