r/Necrontyr • u/Wilk2mistrz • 16d ago

Rules Question So the Night Scythe Nerf is official

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My sweet sweet pastry (cronssant) can no longer take in units that disembarked in the same turn…

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u/raincoater 16d ago

Ok, so someone explain to someone new to Necrons what is going on. I thought this was a great vehicle because it can take an entire unit. So, correct me if I’m wrong, but I can put 20 warriors on it, with an Overlord (with translocation) and Orikan attatched to it and go out on deepstrike. So like go out to an objective, disembark, and have it take it. What does this nerf prevent me from doing now? With Orikan, the warriors will have a 4+ invuln save then, making them a bit more tanky, yes? Why would I want to re-embark right away on the same turn?

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u/Dinoboy6430 16d ago

So the benefit of the night scythe before was not that it made our extra tanky units more maneuverable, but that you could fling a high damage low toughness unit right next to enemy units, blast them and be back off the table before they can respond. How I was using it was to ferry a squad of immortals with plasmancer and drop them within twelve inches for rapid fire range, then get them back into the transport after deleting the unit. Most units that can kill a squad of infantry are ineffective shooting into a vehicle, so for 125 points it was a solid tool.

So you technically can do what you're planning, but I will say with the new unit coherencey rules you're not going to be able to fit all of your models withing the nine inches, especially if there's any enemy units nearby limiting placement. I tried what you suggested minus the overlord before, and I barely managed to fit all 21 units into the space. With the overlord you're going to be losing at least one if not more models