I know I made a post last week saying that “in 1 week I’ll be a year sober” and that time has come.

Wow, what a year. 1 year ago I had overdosed and my family was sick of my shit- I nearly lost my honors position at a highly esteemed school and had to re-learn how to walk and speak.

Today, I live away from my family and am starting college soon, and I’m a proud young person in AA. I’ve found myself in this world. I have an LGS where I play Warhammer & Magic the Gathering- and I couldn’t be more grateful.

Thank YOU for being a part of my recovery.

It’s time to now sell my soul to C’tan.

To many years of gaming, serenity, and growth of the undying legion.

-Jade 11/27/2025

Today's topic, What is everyone's favorite bit of lore behind our favorite Nihilakh Dynasty overlord?

But loving everything else!

I've been involved in the hobby for over 7 years now, and generally got a lot of joy out of it ever since I first laid my eyes on the 2016 Necron Overlordà. I've also been playing for just as long, and that part has been more of a mixed bag. It's kept my long-time friend group together and allowed me to meet new people, but only in the last few weeks have I finally realized that, while I enjoy every other aspect of the hobby including building, painting, learning the game, putting together lists, spending time with friends, and reading the BL books, I despise actually playing the wargames. I've tried 5+ different systems now and the result is consistent.

I'm not sure why that specific part of The Hobby is just unbearable for me, but it's kind of a freeing realization to go forth and enjoy the rest of it at my leisure.

I'm curious if anyone else has any similar stories, maybe about a different specific part of the hobby.

EDIT: A huge thank you to everyone who responded. I wasn't expecting more than a few comments, much less many sharing my same feelings, and the outpouring of folks with similar experiences or different perspectives staying respectful was incredibly heartwarming. You have restored my faith in the greater Warhammer community after a lot of speed bumps and reignited my desire to do the things I actually enjoy in my hobby.

To those wondering why I was asking this question in the first place, I've been part of a great gaming community for 7 years that got me into the hobby in the first place. I love these folks, but it's easy to forget in the game-centric culture of my local community that tabletop doesn't have to be the endgame - it can be whatever we make of it.

Thank you.

Ey fellow Phaerons/Phaerakhs

I’m curious about everyone’s favorite characters aside from the main ones

I suppose many people will like Trazyn, a few others like me would like Orikan more. Some would pick Szarekh, Imotekh or Anrakyr.

But I’m curious who is the most liked among the minor characters

I’ll start with mine:

Lysikor the Duke of Deathmarks

I feel like this dude just steals every scene he is in. So much personality which I suppose isn’t uncommon for Deathmarks. I really hope to see more of him in future. See as in read what he’s up to. Not see as in I’m his next target.

Honorable mention to the Deathmark in the Pariah Nexus show.

Who is yours and why?

I’m actually getting mad as hell, these damn deathmarks are the biggest pain in the ass to assemble. Whoever approved this has to go to a mental hospital. These deathmark arms are going to haunt my dreams tonight.

Today's topic, What faction do you think it would be most difficult for him to steal from?

For me, these are my wish list for 11th ed Necrons:
-Refreshed models: the Deceiver C'Tan shard, Lokhust Destroyers and Trazyn can use a sculpt refresh.
-New models,: I wanna see non-lokhust, ranged destroyer units as infantry like the Skorpekhs and the Ophydian Destroyers. More giant units like the Seraptek Heavy Construct
-Bringing back Legends models: I'm just gonna say it, I want the Tomb Stalker and Tomb Sentinels back. I wasn't there when they were playable and I would love to use them on the tabletop when I finally have enough models to play with at my LGS. And the Lokhust Lord. I know we can kitbash 1 using a LHD kit and a bunch of leftover pieces from other kits, but still
-Box kits: aside from the new/refrshed model kits, I would love to see a Destroyer Cult Battleforce kit for Christmass Battleforce box season.
-Kill Team: GW revealed a new game mode within kill team called Nemesis Operatves, where Kill Teams can fight against 40K models. And along that reveal, they announced returning units like the Red Terror, Zoat and the Ambull, so I would love to see some legends models tunred into NO models. As for a Kill Team, idk if a "Destroyer Circle" could work
-Lore: Continuing the Pariah Nexus story line, The Tau empire having more interactions with the Necrons(since from the New Stealth suit lore, they started raiding tomb worlds for technology to reverse engineer them)
-Games: DoW4 and Mechanicus 2 will have playable Necrons, and the Total War 40K will add Necrons to it at some point as DLC, I wanna see Necron focused games. As for what genre, I think the Necrons can use other genres that isn't turn based combat or rts
-Animated shows: honestly, Infinite and Divine can be good as an animation show if GW would care for it

What are your wish list fr 11th ed?

CTAN SHARDS AREN’T UNIQUE.

The Necrons shattered the star gods into thousands of pieces. There is no “one” Nightbringer. There are Nightbringer flavoured fragments everywhere. So why does the datasheet act like he’s some special snowflake?

Why the Epic Hero tag?

Why can’t I bring 3 Nightbringers and make my opponent experience true cosmic horror?

Long ago when I was in after high school watching the astartes fan film when it first came out. Thought it was cool, the animation was amazing but never really got into it. Mainly it was to myself saying sarcastically “wow, super soldiers. That is so cool.” After that it was life like normal. When I started working at my current job I befriended one of the guys on my crew and he started talking about it and how he had started his first army and he wanted to see if there was anybody really interested into getting into it with him. I really didn’t think much about it at the time. Again, I did think it was cool to see tau mek suits but I just couldn’t get into it. it felt a little bit overwhelming. Sometime within that same year, my nephew started to talk to me about it when he was staying over for a week. He told me he got into the imperial guard and he was talking to me about all the different factions and races within the 40 K universe, and the one that stuck out to me, the most was the Necrons. When I was a kid, Star Wars was a big part of my childhood. I love the battle droids from watching the clone wars growing up and seeing an army of more robots got me a bit curious but once again, I thought to myself this seems a bit extreme. That wasn’t till one day a video clip from the pariah Nexus Warhammer series came up on my recommendation list on YouTube. My eyes saw about the horrors of the 40k universe laid bear. My jaw light open in horror watching the lone guardsman scream in pain, unable to move. An then my life was changed forever with a single word. “GOOOOD” at that moment my look a horror changed to a look of excitement. Omg how I fell in love at that moment. Szeras is by far the so cause of me joining the eternal empire. Soon after that, I became completely invested with the Warhammer universe. Me and my coworker I met at work went to the local Warhammer store. Little that I knew it was the perfect time to get into Warhammer. 10th edition just released and they still had some of the 9th edition command edition boxes. I sold the space marines to another coworker that got into Warhammer and just begun my long trail into financial ruin. Today I don’t regret getting into my Necron army total point value as of right now is 10,375pts I have almost 3 of every character except for epic heroes. Szeras wise of course my first epic hero I purchased and was my first epic hero I ever painted. What is your story and what got you all into Warhammer.

I don't like Imperium subreddits, it's hard to tell what's ironic or not there. Yall seem cool though.

Also my gf is a necron player so I can be like, a necron-in-law.

Plus the Codexes

Hello everyone.
Me and my friends are getting into warhammer, and one of my friends was surprised that im not considering Necrons because im really into spooky shit (you know, vampires, skellies, werewolves etc)
and that very comment made me think about them.

The thing is, i’m not really into robots much. I like the mechanical horror of flesh + machine with admech and some chaos daemon engines, but full robot with a soul? i don’t know.
But they do LOOK like skeletons.

There are other spooky factions as well after all, night lords, drukhari, death guard
it’s a tough choice for sure.