Adeptus Ridiculous - NECRONS TODAY: DYNASTIES, DESTROYERS & FLAYED ONES | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: April 28, 2021

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Because actually I don't know what today's episode is on No what are we doing today Bricky Well real quick I want to mention that merch thing real fast Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so we're sold out Oh that's right yeah We sold out in like 24 hours give or take I did I did not expect this I was I was woefully unprepared

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I spent a good like four hours yesterday packing shirts. Just putting them in packages and sending to the post office. I was like, oh, Jesus, what have I done? But apparently something really great. Apparently, apparently something nice and fashionable for our wonderful patrons. But speaking of fashionable, I don't have a segue. We're doing Necron's, but we're doing like the major Necron episode, like the whole full-on talk of the Kron's today.

Oh, I love it. So far everything I've heard of the Necron's has been amazing from their Pocobal Khatans. Or I always get mixed up between Ketan-Kat-Kat-Kat-Kat-Kat-Kat-Kat-Kat-Kat-Kat-Kat-Kat-W. That's the other one's a demon-engin. This is a polka-ball, God, you know. And the Necron that doesn't remember that he's a robot, tries to eat food and drink. Nevisor Zandrek. Zandric, yeah.

Oh, man. If it's a Necron day, I'm always going to be happy. I'm very pleased because I have spent the last few weeks painting up my Necron army because I'm trying to do Necron stuff over at, like, Ice Check. And I've been spending all this time painting, painting, painting up Necron's, Necrons, Necrons, Necron's. And I'm really hyped to be playing them. And so I'm really hyped to be talking like So in case anyone doesn't realize

Or understand the point of this because we already covered Necron lore. We covered The Silent King. That's our second episode? Ever? Yeah, I think so. I really was the Craig. Yeah.

Yeah, and if you want to do like a 40K overview, it would be the War in Heaven. So yeah, Necron's were our second ever episode if you're curious about the Silent King and you want to know about how the necrons became the necrons and kind of like the basis of 40k in general. You can go ahead and check out that episode. I'm sure I will link it, but it's the second one we have.

And this one is more of like an army overview. I'm talking about where the necrons are at now in like the current age of 40K. We're talking about like more specific units of the necrons. We're talking about the different kinds of dynasties, you know, a little bit about the hierarchy. It's kind of like an overview, kind of like we did it of Admec and orcs and the Tao. Oh, I'm looking forward to it. Good, good.

More necrons are always fun. Oh, yeah. I'm in it. I'm in it. Let's go. Let's go. So I want to talk about a little bit more about the necrons as they are known to the world. Because necrons are probably one of the races besides maybe tyrannids that are not at all known by a

regular imperial citizen. Oh, I guess that's true. Like, I guess there haven't been too many encounters with, like, the Imperium and the necrons have there? And, like, if, uh, if a citizen is going to see a necron, they've, they've pushed all the way to Tara and that's bad. That's not, that, or they're not going to live to tell the tale. Yeah.

Otherwise, Tara's about to get conquered and you're going to be able to tell about it for five minutes, yeah. Overall, the necrons, basically like, worlds go missing or die, like in the hundreds every year. Like, it's just the way it works in the Imperium. Things just constantly go missing, things lose communications, they go check it out. It's just rubble. Sometimes it's necron. Sometimes it's not.

And some of the times when it is necron, sure, it's taken a note of. But honestly, like, no one lived long enough to ever make note of. the necrons. And so, like, as a regular citizen, because the necrons are probably, besides like maybe the jukari, are probably one of the smallest races in 40K, along with like, well, the smallest, like, footnote. I guess the tau is up there too.

But it's the fact that the necrons are kind of rising back up in their tomb worlds. And they're kind of going to be like, hey, we're getting back up, back up, back up. And so while there's still like a ton, because there's a ton, but they're all the sleep. so we don't really know where they are. So the only reason they're small is because all of them haven't woken up yet. Like the ones that are awake are a fairly small faction. But if like every tomb world woke up, they'd be fucking massive.

Oh, it would be ridiculous. If every tomb world woke up, the two things holding back necrods, kind of like how the things holding back orcs are their stupidity. That's the only reason of whether they're not bullshit overpowered. The only thing holding back necrons is their, sleep dementia, all the problems they're currently having when waking up and like the decay they've suffered, as well as just the sheer size, the largest Necron dynasty currently. The biggest one is known as South Tech. And that's, and it's 80 worlds, 80. Oh, that is not many. Well, in terms of

40K, like, I know everybody's like 80 worlds, that's a ton. It's like in 40K, that's like a pinthick. That's a drop. Yeah, it's dropping a big old bucket. Yeah, it's eight, it's currently 80 awoken tomb worlds which I mean a tomb world is like holy shit it's a fucking tomb world but even so like with the Imperium having like roughly a million

fucking planets it honestly it just isn't that many if you think really take the comparison damn the Imperium has over a million worlds I mean that's how they always refer to it in the lore they're always like the Imperium of man a million worlds over

a galaxy of of murder and elves and other debauchery. I mean, I know it was a lot, but damn, like a million like planets is a lot. I think we, I think we did the math a bit ago because if I, yeah, okay, so you look up stars in the Milky Way galaxy, right? And the answer, how many stars are in the Milky Way? And the answer is 100,000 million stars. Oh.

At least astronomers estimate there is about 100,000 million stars in the Milky Way alone And if you think about it If we have how many planets in our solar system is at nine? Are we counting Pluto? I don't know dude I don't think Pluto's a planet How dare you? Pluto's a dog What? No, put your drum set away

Put your drum set back Get it out of here It's gone, it's gone, it's gone, it's gone Stupid. Yes. Okay. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, or Uranus, Neptune, Pluto. Nine. I was right. It was nine. Okay. We're counting Pluto. Fuck you. So, anyway, if you think about it, like, we've got nine planets.

God knows how many planets are on all. Like, if there's only one planet per star, there'd be a hundred thousand million planets, right? Oh, yeah. So, so honestly, at this point, like a million worlds in considering the sheer level of Imperium expansion, much humans like that fuck. I think population makes a decent amount of sense, especially given the time frame. It's stupid. Let me rephrase that.

It doesn't make sense. It's stupid. But, you know, when you really truly think about that kind of like scale of the galaxy, we aren't running out of planets any time soon. No, no, we're good. So the neck... Yeah, millions of worlds.

Yeah, millions of worlds. But here's got millions. You know, whatever. Like, their ships are made of cathedrals. All right, whatever. Fuck you. It's perfect. So anyway, Necron dynasties are very strict in their protocols and their processes.

The necrons as a dynasty are all like a royal kind of stature. The main people above are all known as nobles. So back in the day, your dynasty was like tradition, family, right? Right. Now it's a lot more physical. It's like actual programming because, you know, the robots. Ah, okay. Like normal necrown.

How does the dynasty work with robots? I know, right? It's a little strange. At the time, it was like a legitimate dynasty of family and hierarchy and all that stuff. But now it's still considered dynasty, but now the robots and now it's actually like the functional programming is through all in every single dynasty. So like normal necrons, right, a necron warrior, a teeny little boy has almost no brain function. In fact, it almost doesn't operate at all on its own, and it has to be commanded to even do anything. But the higher you go up there, the nobles themselves are individuals.

And besides the common cause of, you know, fuck aliens get money, they don't generally have very similar goals in mind. One of the things that necrones go hand in hand with is political turmoil. They love to fuck each other over. they love to try to make a coup to try to get someone off the throne to try to de-thrown the noble king yada yada like all that kind of old school stuff there's always scheming going on with their little robot hands

you can't have a proper dynasty you can't have proper nobility without trying to fuck each other over and fuck each other's houses over it's just it has to happen even if you're robots it's it's not nobility and it's not a dynasty without it. You gotta have it.

It's, yeah, Shai says it's Game of Thrones, but I wish there was like a, I wish it's Game of Cron's. Oh. Yeah, you put your drum set away. You put that away. We don't need any more. No more drums for anybody.

No one gets drums today. No more drums today. This is a drum, drumless episode. This is a drum-free zone now. So, a dynasty's hierarchy, right? So if you want to know, like, Who's the big bad cron? You know, who's the big dick cron?

That is always known as the phaeron. It's P-H-A-E-R-O-N, pharaoh. So almost like pharaoh, but with an N. Yeah, GW isn't subtle. It's the pharaoh. And then beneath the pharaoh are overlords, and then you've got lords beneath that. And then there's some other ones below that,

but they're all a bunch of bitches. It's overlords and lords and lords. So those are the big three. You can have lots of overlords and tons of lords, but there's like the one big bad boy, and that's the pharaoh. Now, there are some subservient titles that are given depending on the situation. Example, Nemesor is bestowed upon a commander of a military campaign. So our good boy, Nemesor Zandrek, is actually an overlord. But he's given the title of Nemesore because he is actually.

like he's like the general, the main general of a campaign. Oh, okay. So that's what makes him a little bit different besides the fact that he's insane. And he tries to eat crumpets and shit. Just imagining him trying to eat food and like drink, drink and having it all just like slosh down his metal body, never doesn't amuse me. That's always a great image to just cheer up your day. God, it's such a good day to not be a robot. What is

Does he try to like Does he try to like seduce the ladies I mean if he doesn't think he's a robot and he thinks he's a person I mean The sins of the flesh right It's like beat beat boop Hello sororitus I may I may attempt to

To believe in your emperor It depends on how much you want to persuade me Oh Oh I know what kind of fan art you're getting after this episode I don't want Nevisor Zandrick fan art He's old He probably doesn't even want to bang

He probably doesn't work He's probably just like Man all these horny fucking kids Why can't they just enjoy battle Like I can't they just have a good time Come come Oberyn These strange necrons with green paint Yelling wah must die

Onwards Tallyho I just had a horrible thought of like What would happen if he actually managed To seduce a lady because he's just a robot. It's just smooth metal down there. Like what?

Yeah, but it's, but it's smooth metal. He's an overlord. He gets good shit. Smooth. Okay, good to know. What she takes off as like, overlord cloak and it's all wrinkly and shit. It's like, oh God, he's old.

No. Oh, move on. Next topic. Oh, this has gone to a bad place. Oh, man. I am like wiping my hands on my shirt trying to clean them for starting this conversation. The blood's on my hands. Okay, don't worry about it.

Fuck what we're talking about. Well, yeah, it's right, the hierarchy. Okay, so each Farron or Overlord, right? They're also served by something called the Royal Court. So it's basically like, you know, your advisors, your big political advisors. It's what the president would go into the war room with, right? Right. And these people assist in administration.

military campaigning, all that kind of stuff. It's filled with lords, overlords, generally the pharaoh himself, and also something called cryptex. And cryptex are basically a variant of necrone hierarchy, but they're like the engineers and technology kind of people. Generally, you consider them as engineers. Their powers, though, are fucking insane.

You can almost assume that they are like psychers, but they're not though that's the thing it's like they'll have powers that operate almost as if they are a psycher but it's just extremely highly advanced tech that seems like it breaks reality to our feeble minds wow so like are they like shooting lightning bolts and like doing like space magic because like I assume they can't like or can they read people's minds like can they affect people psychically oh absolutely Here's an example. There's one called the Psychomancer, who is the harbinger of despair. And the psychomancer has this thing called the Nightmare Shroud.

And what he does is a small black cask. And when it is opened, the worst, this is quote on the Wiki, the worst terrors of a thousand eons are unleashed on their foe, assailing the enemies with phantasms of dread as potent as any real danger. So, like, he opens this, like, cask. And then he, everyone around him immediately thinks that they are fucking going to die and like suicide is more is like a better alternative. And they'll just like all kill themselves. Fucking, whoa.

Whoa. Jeez. Like, I was like, man, this is, this is an edgy boy, psychomancer harbinger of despair. Oh, oh, I'm not even done. I'm not even done. Let's not, we got to talk about the veil of darkness. Oh. With a simple wave of its skeletal hand, the cryptic can summon a billowing sheet of almost intangible shadow,

enveloping it and nearby allies before disappearing along with the enshrouded necrons. And when the darkness ebbs, the cryptic and his comrades have disappeared, only to rematerialize some distance away. Fucking what? I know. It's so cool. It's so fucking edgy. They're so edgy. I love it. Now I'm like, look, I got to get me a. psychomancer and I got to get me a veil of darkness. The veil of darkness is actually a relic

you can take on the tabletop. Basically what lets you do is the bearer and one unit get to be removed from the battlefield and set back up anywhere else on the battlefield a certain distance away from the enemy. That sounds good. It actually is pretty solid. I like to take it with a giant blob

of warriors and they just drop it right in the face and be like, hello and just blast them. It's pretty great. So yeah, cryptechs are neat. Like this is shit that you would think is fucking space magic, but in reality it's just really good tech. Damn. Oh, hello. Oh, hello.

The chronomancer or the harbinger of eternity. He has the chronometron. The bearer of this arcane device exists slightly outside the flow of time, allowing him to glimpse possible futures and modify his recent actions of course. A cryptic utilizing a chronometron appears blurred. Its movement sudden and spasmatic as a primitive pictorial or degraded hololith. So basically he's able to appear into time and adjust what he was going to do in case. And he looks like a film reel where he's like constantly jittering like a VCS or VHS. Fuck. VHS.

That's so cool. Lightning fast VCR repair. This is Necron's how may I help you That's so cool though So he literally can just look into the future And be like oh yeah If I take one step to the right I'm gonna step on a mine and blow up So let me go ahead not do that

Like how does how does he ever lose Well of course there's the assumption that God damn it shy Lighting fast BCR repair How do I ever lose I don't lose, exactly Well, I mean, obviously Obviously, I'm assuming that you can't just do it forever

And it's not the fact that he just like Is constantly able to move But more the idea that he exists Like the device exists And you can like glimpse these slight features And it makes him seem a little bit like blurred But you can still get shot I think on the tabletop

It allows the Chromaster to give a unit Like a five up Inval save And that invulnerable save is the idea that like, okay, they're like kind of jittering in time and so they're really hard to hit. Right, right. Or they're just really good at walking aside. Crypto? These guys are dope.

Like, now I'm just like, yo. Cryptex are super dope. Cryptex. I call them a Cryptarch, but whatever. Cryptex are super dope and they look fucking awesome. They have a really cool design. They have like, they're a little bit more like, I don't know how you say it, but they're a little bit like, more

they look less humanoid I mean they still have they're still like bipedal with arm and leg but they definitely have a little bit more of like a strange look to them oh do you know that one guy we mentioned a bit ago Illumina Zeres

he was the guy who created biotransference he like tortures Eldar and he's like you're screaming is too loud he's a cryptic ah that well I guess I suppose that makes sense yeah they tend to have like that singular eye they normally have like one eye

I don't know if that's like there's a reason for that, but they tend to. But yeah, they're pretty nasty. And anyway, that was the whole court, the royal court, cryptex, necron lords, etc. But I want to talk a little bit about some of the famous dynasties that are around. So in the actual game, there are six dynasties that you can play as, and then you can create custom ones. One of my more favorite ones is the Mephyrith dynasty. During the war in heaven, they were all of,

about stellar destruction. And they possessed the ability to supernova stars. Oh, well, that's pretty cool, right? Yeah, that's pretty dope. Yeah, sure. The Silent King were good fans of them. He would tend to use them whenever they, whenever he had a world that was a bit troublesome. And he was like, hey, he'd point out to space and they'd see like a giant doomsday weapon.

and he'd be like, don't fuck with me. And often they would be like, okay, Solid King, yes, sir, Silent King. We're not going to fight you anymore. We'll join your cause. Yes, sir. I don't want my entire star system to explode. Whatever you say, sir, please don't supernova our son, sir,

please, whatever you want. Most Necron's actually didn't like them because necrons actually have an ironic that we talked about Tao and the Eastern influence, but necrons are actually very honorable. The Milan Necron's at the time, don't like. They don't enjoy that kind of supernova

because they find it very dishonorable and against the Necron code. But the Mepford guys didn't give a shit. They liked it. They were like, ooh, what, you're scared of us? What little pussy? What are you gonna do? Oh, boy, Star up.

Fuck you. Wow. They were stoked. They have a cool color scheme. They're, you know how Necron have that green color? Yeah. They actually have like a bright orange

because they suck the energy from the stars to power their weapons. So they're like all orange or is this they have like an orange glow to them? Basically take all the green glows you see on a necron and change it to orange. Ooh, that'd be pretty dope, actually. They look really cool. Yeah, and they're... Sounds like you don't fuck with them. No, you tend not to.

They're basically the super shooting dynasty. If you're playing them on the tabletop, they are all about their guns. They have like longer ranges, higher armor penetration. They hit harder. All of their guns have like super powerful, really nasty orange, orange supernova glows. Their affair on was a guy named Kyrek the Eternal. He actually died during the Great Sleep. A bunch of Eldar assassins killed him because they were like,

mm, exploding stars, not a fan. And so after that, of course, every overlord was like, well, I guess I got to be Farron now. I was like, no, I guess I got to be Farron now. And they all just started like, what's the Ed and N? anything like when they get into a fight and like there's like the dust ball with like all the limbs flying around and that just happened for all of the Mephyrida dynasty um there is one guy though named Zarathusa Zaru Zerru oh holy shit give me a moment oh boy oh boy this is gonna be a good one uh Zarathusa the ineffable oh all right Zarathusa the ineffable

you don't F with them whatever happened to the drum set DK I We got rid of it. I didn't put them tis, okay? There's no drums. Thank you. You're welcome. But anyway, oh no, shy says she's going to add drums and post. Fuck.

Anyway, Zarathusa, the fucking this guy. He seems like he's the guy who's really wrestling control. He seems to be the guy who's making it. He's kind of an ass. He's really mean. Oh, okay. But, you know, he's just some dude, I don't know. He looks cool.

He does look cool. He's need to look at. He's, uh, he has a whole thing with a shield of ball campaign, which is a thing with the Blood Angels. Um, he's also, I think they're attempting to fight off the High Fleet Leviathan and stuff. There's a lot of things going on with him, but, um, it's more like Zaruth, Sussah. Oh, boy. I, I, I'll be in my head.

I like to imagine that when he rules, he gets really mad when people can't pronounce his name right. So he's just in this constant state of being upset because nobody can say Zarathus, right? That's really very interesting because these guys are robots. They should have that power of a tie. Or I like to imagine there's like a necron that's like Zarathut and then his head just explodes because he just can't get it right. Because he has like the command protocol. And the first time someone says his name wrong, they just like power down to die. and he's just surrounded by court

it's like why did you kill all these people like I didn't they just couldn't say my name I programmed it before the great sleep I didn't know it'd be stuck I was in my earlier days I was very upset I'm sorry anyway that's the Mephyrit dynasty

they're pretty cool there's also the oh boy some people call it the Nialok some people call it the Nielok I call it the Nihilok because I think it's funnier.

The Nihalok took a bunch of treasure from a vast amount of worlds and they hoarded it under themselves under the command of Farron Krispec, which is actually originally known as Farron Chipsack, but it was British, so now he's Crespec.

I can't take that name seriously. Anyway, the dynasty, like, it flaunts its giant wealth and strength, but it's become really territorial with its treasures. It does not like people getting near its domain. It gets very angry. And so they're slowly making their way forward a little bit,

but they're trying to claim more and more for themselves. They've also allied with Asylum King since its return, which is quite nice. And ever since the fall of Acadia, they've been beginning hunting chaos forces. They also were one of the main groups that defended the Pariah Nexus, which I should tell you about the Pariah Nexus real quick. This is one that's very new. It came out like a year ago.

Oh, that's super new. The Pariah Nexus is this area of space. It's also known as the Zone of Silence. And there's this weird material in 40K. It's kind of like a MacGuffin. It's called Blackstone. And Blackstone is a warp manipulating substance. Necrons have a vast amount of it.

though the ad mech are starting to really enjoy it because they're like ooh, ooh, good study, beep boop but the necrons love it and it's a really good way to get a whole lot of I guess like,

it's a good way to manipulate the warp like there were giant pylons on Kadia that were made of Blackstone which I'll talk more about in the fall of Katie episode in like four years or whatever the hell we get to that but so how how does this Blackstone like manipulate the warp exactly Like if you have a piece of it, like, how are you manipulating the warp with this material?

Well, the Wiki itself states that it has, is very highly resistant to the powers of the warp. And it's known to hold back like the empiric energies of it. Oh. I don't think there's any like real like reason why it's just this rock does this. You know, I mean, I'm- Special properties. Yeah, it's just special properties. But the main thing, like, for instance, like Illuminaur Zeras has a big chunk of blackstone on his model.

And I believe it's like a little blackstone, like a weird, like a midter type deal. And so when Cycars are near him, they have a higher chance of having like problems because he's got this little piece on him. The Pariah Nexus is a region of space that after using large amounts of blackstone arrays are cutting off huge amount. Yeah, it's basically, it's basically warped kryptonites. Blackstone's warp kryptonites. That's the best way to describe it. I thought it was more of like a shield, a warp shield, but yeah, okay. Yeah, crypto-knit.

It's more like kryptonite because it makes like Cychers suffer. It's not, makes them suffer. But basically, they're creating this giant, like, it's really, it's really cool. It's actually fucking terrifying. They create this array of Blackstone around this area of space known as the Pariah Nexus. And in these areas, demons and warp creatures are having insane issues of even passing this region of space. They can't even like get through it in general. And everything inside the region feels like they're currently next to a sister of silence.

Like there are tons of human worlds in the Prya nexus. And it slowly, slowly drains like the minds of the people there to where basically. human functions just kind of go away. So the, they're like a full world, and then people will just kind of start moving slower, and then they just like won't eat, and then they just won't

move, and then there's just kind of like wilt and die, and just like all stop. Oh, that is, that is terrifying. And so a whole world will just be like turned into bones. Like, there won't be a sign of a battle. There won't be

a sign of anything. Like, people just lose like the will to live and then they just stop and they just they just lay down and die okay uh that reminds me of serenity when they find that reaver home world where all of the berserkers are gone but the only people that are left are the people that went like they're just like they've become so dacile that they just don't care to move anymore and they just grew old in their chair and they're just dead what's serenity um you ever see firefly the the cipherly the Firefly? Yeah.

It's like the, it's like the canon movie ending because it got canceled. Oh, oh, I didn't know about that one. I only saw like up to episode five or so of Firefly.

It's a good movie. It's a good movie. Is it a good movie? Is it worth it for the people who are like, Firefly was the greatest thing ever and we lost it? Um,

yeah, I think so. I thought Serenity would pretty good. I wasn't a huge Firefly fan, but whatever. Oh, God. When I watched,

I watched like three years. ago, so it's pretty recent. When I watched that, I was like, you know, this is, the production quality is really low. But it's got that Mass Effect Char, it's like Mass Effect One. You know, it's got that charm, and it's got that good story, it got the good characters, but everything else around it is a little bit jank. It's got Nathan Phillyan. It's like, I think, pretty sure he's sick of listening to people talk about Fireflies. It's like, but that's 20 years ago, I'm over it. I want to be K-D-6 now. Oh, wait. Oh, wait. No idea. Oh, no, I don't.

Anyway, the, um, I don't about Firefly. But I'm pretty sure Warhammer fans love Firefly. Probably. And I'm sure someone in the comment section right now is just like, oh my God, Firefly. That's my favorite show ever.

I will never forgive you, Fox. And then the, I don't remember who was. I don't remember. I'll never forgive you. Same guys like, how dare you, Serenity was a travesty or something.

And it's like, oh, no, what have I done? Yeah, I imagine someone is going to be like really upset. Yeah. How dare you look serenity. Anyway, anyway, that's a firefly thing. Yep. Right now there's no firefly. There is only pain.

So anyway, the entire Pariah Nexus area of space is like being cut off from the warp in areas. And since the necronns don't have souls, they kind of don't care. So they are basically able to take a section of space. and remove it from like chaos and the warp. That's, that's, I bet that comes in handy. It's extremely handy. And like there's no chaos in here, or at least there's like damn few in any chaos that there is there

has a really hard time operating. Like they've done what is basically the impossible, which is create a null zone in space where chaos and the warp cannot function. That's a big deal. It's a very big deal. That's a huge... So if they made enough, like, could they make more of these pariah of nexus?

And just like... I am... I don't... I don't know. The thing is that... So the pariah nexus is just like the term for like this section of space. It's like around maybe 20 or 30 planets, give or take. It looks like. Honestly, I have no idea.

My assumption is they probably can, but it's also most likely very, very, very, like, I won't say expensive, but that much blackstone probably is not extremely easy to get. And also, we remember the Necron forces are kind of small in a sense. So I'm not quite sure. I know that the Imperium was there and trying to cause problems for the Pariah Nexus.

It was actually a source of frustration that Luton had because there's a particular sister who's kind of like a cyker, but she was in the nexus and she was using her abilities like the faith abilities and like but I thought I thought the faith was supposed to be taken from the warp

but if this thing cuts off the warp like well and so that that's I'm not that big of a lore person to give a shit but I know it set him into a tizzy he was very he was very upset poor luton for luton

for lutin anyway that's the the Nihaluk dynasty they've been kind of making their way out oh here's a cool one There's Nefrek. They are noticed, yeah, dude, if you, like, that image of that kid in the high school class where, like, the vein popping out of his forehead where he's, like, sweating really hard.

That's GW. W. Writers or any Necron guy who can't put a K.H. in their name. It's always K.H. All these names is very Egyptian. Like, Nefrek is, like, that sounds like an Egyptian, like, Pharaoh or something. Oh yeah. Well, I mean, that's the whole necroth. They have giant pyramids and scarabs. Yeah. But anyway, they're located near the galactic core.

And that allows for a lot of energy, but their main goal isn't to become flesh and blood, but to become beings of pure light. Oh, that's an interesting goal for a robot. It is.

They've been fighting the thousand sons consistently lately, actually. Magnus and the Thousand Sons are trying to steal or figure out the technology on how they turn the Caton into slaves.

Oh. And so they want to get that for themselves for whatever fucking purpose that could be for. Just mass destruction and, you know, why would you want? Magnus destruction. I thought we were done with the drums, man.

Go, Zeech pokey ball, go. but they I mean they use they use the stars the galactic core to power of the weaponry kind of like Mephyrip but they're able to actually

become that pure light for short periods of time allowing them to like blink across the battlefield in literally a blink and teleport through solid matter and shit in the game

they can like move through certain objects and shit just by like blinking through it it's pretty neat so they actually do become beings of light for a short period of time

like for a very short. Oh, that's pretty dope, actually. Yeah, they have like bright gold armor. They're really bougie looking. I was going to say, at first I was like, look, if they're fighting the thousand sons, I have to hate them, because those are the first minis I bought. You know, I got to represent, but they sound really cool. These these light beings, robots sound really cool.

Netflix are pretty cool. They're probably one of the weaker factions in game, but they are pretty neat. Oh, speaking of good factions, though, Novak and, you know, K-H. They, back in the days before biotransference, they had the custom of adorning their faces and arms with the blood of their enemies. Oh, boy. So they've got red, a red-faced armor is their main, like, like, robot skeletons is all in rem. They're, like, super brutal butcher. They're like sharks.

They're mellow. And then once blood is spilled, they're like, Ngrams go haywire, they turn into like killing machines. Currently, they're like robot berserkers. They're like robot sharky berserkers, yep. Sick. They're super cool. They're currently engaged with thousands of orcs.

They're also engaged against the tyrannids because they deem that all organic life must die. That sounds very necrone, sure. Very necrony. And they're actually, they've unfortunately, grabbed the attention of a certain man known as Mortarium, who has released a biomechanical thing called the

ferric blight and destroyed like four tomb worlds by having this mechanical blight just ravaged the planet whole. So, they pissed off the wrong man. Yeah, it seems like in 40K, out of all of

the chaos gods or factions that you could piss off, you really really don't want to piss off. off the death guard, mortarian, or Grandpa Nurgel. I mean, not that the other ones are great, but, oh, boy, they seem to really fuck.

They do. And if, like, that's the thing, it's, you know, you can kill the corn guys. But then, but then, then, Nurgles rockets in there, and it's really, you need a lot of, like, hand sanitizer. Yeah. A lot of, a lot of social distancing, masks, the whole nine yards for them.

And then, and then, and then, and then you try that, and then this giant wing do with the Scyth comes down and just kills you. It's like, ah, shit, why don't I even bother? So after that, you have the Zerican dynasty. This is the main one of the Silent King. They look kind of like brass colored. He took a large amount of his royal court

into the Galactic Void with him. The tomb worlds without him being there have kind of suffered. Eldar attacks, warp storms, etc. He's finally come back, though, and he's reawakening them all pretty quickly. A lot of them aren't pleased. Some are. Some are like, oh my God, our Savior's back, let's go. Some of them are like, you left us, fuck you. And then he just subsurped, he just forces them down anyway. So it doesn't really matter. It's generally subject pretty quickly, but they're like, they're the new kids on the block. The Zerikin was added just in this recent Necron Codex. And, you know, it's the main one of the Silent King and he just came back finally. So it makes sense.

Yeah. And then lastly, we have Sautek. Souttec is the classic silver and green that you see everywhere. Ah, the OGs. The third most powerful dynasty before biotransference, big and bad number one now. Their fair on is Imatech, the Stormlord, who is an absolute Chad, who was like, Silent King, you are a coward and a bitch. I will never join you. Fuck off. And the scary thing is he actually has the say to do that because he's a lot stronger with his tomb than the Silent King currently is.

Oh, really? Oh, he's got a lot of Tomb Worlds. Okay, like, Imatech, he made his way to power because everyone above him was completely, what's the word again for incompetent? Was very incompetent. He said, all right, I'm just going to kill all of you and take it for myself.

And he's been hard at work killing the Imperium and is hyper expansionist. and he's going all the way out. He wants to full on return the galaxy to Necron rule. And he legitimately has like the go-ahead. He has the power because the Song King is back and he's gaining followers and he's pretty scary, but Imatech is a big force.

And while he's not going to like try to kill the king because that just feels counterintuitive, like why war against each other. Right. But he's like, Imotech is like the ad mech back in the days of, of the Great Crusade or maybe the king is like the admec I don't know point being is that regardless

it's like okay I guess we could fight but maybe shouldn't I'm trying to remember because obviously his name Imotech is very close to Emotep and I think I think Emotep was very similar

where like he was he was a pretty strong well-known priest and he did a lot of backstabbing and betraying because he thought he was better and stronger than the pharaoh. So that makes sense that Emotech is kind of like his namesake, I suppose. Although I'm sure I'm going to get actually for that because I don't remember what Emotech actually did. Ah, it's whatever. Imotech is a neat guy.

He's actually the pharaoh of the South Tech dynasty. He's the big bad. He is the guy. You can actually use him in game, too. Oh, is he good? He is like, uh, yes. So South Tech, South Tech Dynasty in game is considered one of the weaker ones. But it's one of those ones where like you read it and you're like, eh, this seems kind of meh.

But then you get access to Emotech and Nemesor Zandrek because Zandrek is part of the South Tech dynasty. And then you're like, oh, wait a minute, these guys are insane. So it's one of those things where you don't take it for the special rules, you take it for the characters. Oh, okay. Emotech is pretty insane. he is a hyper grand strategist probably the greatest strategic mind in the galaxy

like everybody possibly whenever he like attacks it is literally impossible to determine if it is the main force or if it's a decoy to bleed reinforcements and turn back and with like a millisecond his mind can change

because of his commands and the way his protocols are he's versatile he has millions of feints and counter strategies, and he's got contingency plans, and he is a master, master general. Wow. Here, oh, we got to do a quote, of course. Oh, yeah, got to do quotes. Do it.

Let me tell you of my future. My hand will reach out into the stars, reshaping the galaxy into a place of order and unity. Under my reign, the kingdoms of old shall live again, reborn to an eight. age of power and glory, the like of which you can only imagine. I will rule every planet touched by the light of this star, and even in the darkness beyond, my name will be whispered with fear and respect. Order, unity, obedience. We taught the galaxy these things long ago, and we will do so again.

Imitek is a boss. He's super cool. That is a hell of a speech. That's a rallying cry Jesus Christ I mean his weapons called the staff of the Destroyer he has a Flamethrower built into his hand called

The Gauntlet of Fire The guy the guy literally Can Call Lightning strikes on planets With no fucking lightning The guy is insane That's why he's called the Storm Lord In the tabletop you can call a lightning strike To do damage to your enemy

It's so cool How how exactly does that work How does he just call lightning from know, or is that like a... Necrons. What is that like? A cryptoteg gave him some shit. Cryptos can see through time. Who gives the shit? Necrons. Necrons. Let's go. So when you play necrons in the tabletop, like, do you have to play like a specific dynasty? Because I'm assuming you can't just be like, oh yeah, I'm going to just mix dynasties. Like, do you have to stick to like one? I mean, you can kind of mix them,

but you actually lose some benefits if you stay only one. They have a new thing called command protocols. It's like an extra buff. So if you mix them, you can. You can be like, I'm going to run one patrol of Novak and one patrol of Sautek, which patrols are like how you create your stuff. But normally you like to run one because it allows you to gain the benefits of said group. South Tech is pretty good in the case of the characters because you can only run Imitech and like Nevisor Zandrek if you want kooky old man neck run. If you want to run him, which I actually pay in him like yesterday.

If you want to run him, you have to run Souttec. Emmetech is super cool. He's super cool. So if you want the named characters, you have to run their dynasty. Yeah, certain named characters. It's kind of the same way with a few other factions as well. Like, I can only run Lord Creed of the Imperial Guard if I run Kadia, you know. Right, right, right. It's not like you could run like the Silent King and Emotech.

Well, you can actually. The issue is that only one of them can be your major warlord. Oh, right, right, right. Fair. It's also a little redundant because if Imitac is your warlord, you get a bunch of benefits. But if the Sondon King is your warlord, you get a bunch of benefits. So it's like, why lose one? You know, just take one of the other.

Also, they hate each other. Yeah. I was going to say, like, there should be some rule where, like, they cannot be on the same team because they despise each other. Yeah. There's actually a couple of things about the other necron's, because those are the main dynasties at the moment. There's a few other things. I want to talk a little bit about necrodermis real quick. And I also want to talk about a few of the units

because we kind of talk about some of the specific units and if you'd like to learn a little bit more about the cryptex I can tell you more about them too. I do. I do actually. Good, good, because I like the cryptics a lot. So the main thing when you think about necrons is of course the robots, but there's a thing in the game called reanimation protocols.

That's the main selling point. And it's this thing that the necrons have called necrodermis. It's often described as living metal. and the name literally means corpse skin, necrodermis, you know. Yeah. I was going to say dermis sounds like your skin. Yeah, endodermis.

Yeah. But basically what it is, it's adapted to create the bodies of the caton. But it's like a strange, unknown chemical molecular structure that's almost like a flowing metal. And so sometimes it can act almost like a liquid or sometimes like a solid. So sometimes you'll like shoot a Necron dem and it'll fall over and then it'll like and then it'll just kind of like like the lights on it will re-light up and it'll just kind of stand right back up like a zombie. Oh, that's bad. In the tabletop often like if you kill maybe 10 necrons, I'll have to roll my reanimation protocols and for every like five or up, let's say roll three. Then three of them just go like and they get back up again.

So it makes the Necron's really tanky. And then they have like characters like a Technomancer, which is a cryptic. And you can go to the Necron Warriors and be like, okay, you can revive up to three of them. And they just get right back up with their living metal. Necronuts have an ability where if any of them have lost any health, then when it's your turn, they regenerate one health because their living metal is repairing itself. Oh, boy. So they're like a counter punch. You know, you try to shoot them down or beat them down.

They just get right back up. Correct me if I'm wrong. But I think in like the last Necrone episode, didn't you say like originally the Necron's were kind of based on like Terminator? Oh yeah, because reanimation protocols was originally called Will Be Back. Right. It sounds an awful lot like liquid metal sounds an awful lot like a T-1000 thing to me. So I'm just like that's.

It absolutely does. If they started off as terminators, and now they have liquid metal that can just, like, be liquid or harden into, like, a weapon or repair them. Yeah, it's a little weird. It's not super liquidy. They still are generally pretty, like, metal boys.

But it has the ability to, like, almost seem like it flows in a weird way. It's cool. It's super cool. Necron Warriors are obviously your main, like front line troops of the necrons they have no autonomy they are completely mentally bound

to the commander's will outside of very small instructions they have almost no tactical awareness and that's the whole point is that necron warriors are just like hundreds of them are instantaneously moved and fired and used entirely by the overlords will

he just kind of like uses the command protocols in his head and just has them adjust in milliseconds. And the creepiest thing about necrons, silent. Oh yeah. Well, I guess they wouldn't be talking, would they? Because they're just, they're being, yeah, it's the overlord that's doing everything and moving them and making them fire, so. They move in like lockstep,

all in the exact same movement with no words. And then until you hear like the powering of their weapons. It's pretty terrifying. I never thought about how. terrifying that would be to see on like a battlefield where every soldier is just moving in like complete unison and not saying anything and it's just like one big well-oiled machine and then they get shot and then they get right back up oh gross um so if you manage to take out the overlord would all of the subservient like necrons just power down uh no not necessarily

I'm sure they've got command stuff on like ships in orbit or like the monoliths and stuff. Oh, okay. Though I do believe you will cause problems. It's kind of like killing a big bug in tyrannids. It's like a link that might have an issue. In the tabletop, it makes you lose out on some buffs and some abilities. But overall, it's not a huge difference. Though I'm sure, I think I'm pretty sure there will be some issues will occur.

But I mean, good luck killing the overlord behind his legions of, of, fucking warriors that are all moving in unison and do whatever he wills, yeah. And who are getting back up. Oh, I got, here's like, I was looking at the quote for the warriors and I was like, hey, look, one from Imitech again.

Hey. What care I that my lesions are faceless? Identity matters only to those who have the ability to think. My immortals and lich guard, perhaps. Lords and cryptex, certainly. But the remainder of my vessels? Well, suffice to say that the concept

of glory is wasted on the inglorious. That's a great quote. He's a prick. He's cool, though. He's a super prick. But he's right. Like, none of them have any real, like, identity. They don't care.

They're just, they have no autonomy. Like, they're so bound to the overlord. What are they fucking care about glory or identity or whatever? They're just drones. They have lots of different interesting weapons in the Necron arsenal. Gausblasters are their main, this is the main weapon for the main. Like, the main necron is a gauss weapon. And a gauss weapon strips the target down to its very molecules

and then reduces its subsequent atoms in seconds. Oh. So you become atomized when you get shot by necrons. Oh, God. And that's their main weapon. So they have a lot of these. It's not like that's just one special guy in the back, that only one person, like all of them can do that.

Yeah, actually, I think Shy posted a gif of the cinematic where it happens. You mightn't click on it because it's not registering. That's actually, I think a pretty, I think it's actually a very accurate description or visual description of what a gossip weapon does. Because it just immediately burns it down to its atoms. It's pretty horrifying. Yep. Oh, God, that is.

that's a really cool effect though that's the basic weapon that is the lowest warriors carry that that is the lowest level weapon that necrons carry there's also I was not to say how does it get worse than a deatomizer well let me tell you DK

so we got one of my favorite guns which is called the Tesla carbine and the Tesla it fires like lightnings you know that arrive and then cracks surround which like melts armor and has it fused to skin beneath and and just char the flesh off of like off the bone um but as they consistently like arc and this electricity arcs more and more almost like it has a mind of its own crackling around the object that's being fired at it actually

has very low armor penetration but i love it in the tabletop because it has good strength but the The gimmick is that if you roll your dice, let's say like you need a hit on threes and you roll like two threes and a six, for every six you roll, you get two extra hits. So normally if you roll, you got like three hits, you would then roll three more times to hurt the person. But because you got one six, you actually roll five because it's the two, the six and then the two extra. Oh. And so sometimes I'll roll these and I'll get like four sixes and I'm like, wow, cool. Eight more hits coming your way.

Lightning. Light them up. Light them up. God, that just sounds horrible, though. That just, like, melts the armor to, like, your flesh. Ah. Oh. Yeah, it's nasty.

Jeez, that's gross. Let's not forget. Whenever there's, like, a heat gun that's just like, oh, yeah, it's literally baking you inside of your armor. And it's like, oh, geez, like, yeah, your flesh just melts because you're getting roasted in your own armor. It's like, ah. It's real nasty. Ow. Let's not forget about the flayed ones.

Do you remember the flayed ones? Are they the ones that literally wear human flesh or something? You know it. Yes, throat cloth. Let's go. Let's go. The night lords are big fans. They got gigantic, long, dangly, like, knife fingers.

And they are just like, ooh, let's, let me wear it. Because they've got, like, some kind of flayed one virus, which makes them hunger for, for, like, flesh that, Makes no sense because, you know, they're robots. Yeah, they're robots. Yeah. Is that a picture of one that shy just posted covered in that, that mini? That thing is horrific.

Yeah, oh, yeah, that's a, that looks like it's a, a custom-made one. As far as I'm aware, the more recent flayed ones, they actually just recently had a new, a new kit come out. and they do look pretty good. This is like super recent. Oh. They're really nasty and they look fucking awesome. I am so happy with the Flayed ones update. I love and hate the fact that there is a very obvious face on his shoulder.

I know, right? Isn't it cool? That is both amazing and so disturbing. I love it. It wants us a flesh. It lowers, like, enemy leadership. They get a whole bunch of effects with their killing, if they kill a fleshy targets, not vehicles.

Pretty great. Pretty great. Pretty slick. Oh, geez. Speaking of things, I would definitely not want to see on the battlefield or have to fight on the battle. That's crazy, though. It's like, oh, yeah, do you have to really worry about the atomizer?

Sure. Do you have to worry about a lightning gouty? Canon? Yeah, of course you do. But then you also got to worry about these fuckers. They're going to slit your face off and use it as ornaments for their armor. Is there anything you don't have to worry about? It's all bad.

Oops, it's all nightmares. Oops, only nightmares. Oops, all nightmares. Great. We can't stop now, though. We got to talk about destroyer cults. Of course we do. So there's a necron virus. which is known as the destroyer cult virus,

which, or it's destroyer, shit, destroyer virus? I forget the name of it, but basically it's turned to this entire cult of these special kinds of necrons whose only goal is the eradication of all life. Of all life in general, it's all they want. And these are known as the destroyers.

There's a couple of these. They recently came with melee variants. The ones that Shai is posting are the Nechron Destroyers and Destroyer Lords They're like they're they generally have Gigantic fuck off anti-tank weapons Oh that all that new

That's the many I have that's called the Locust Heavy Destroyer He's chunk He's junk And he's got a chunky gun Jesus Christ Oh yeah he do Are those like deatomizing

DK? Yes More quotes? All right The destroyers Question mark They are weapons, nothing more, and should be expended as such. They are necrone and form only, having been reborn to a madness deeper than any other so which I have borne witness.

Whilst I held nothing but approval for their drive and efficiency, I can present no logic adequate to justify their ultimate goal. A warrior's proper function is to fight for a profound objective to leave behind works or deeds greater than himself. Given free reign, the destroyers would leave behind nothing, not like, nor art nor glory, only dust would remain. I am a soulless machine, yet even I feel pity for their victims." Quote, unquote, Zerik, the Silent King. Holy shit. He's like, even he's like, dude, you're not even, you're not like, at least fight for something.

These guys just want to kill everybody. I'm a soulless machine and even I pity them. Like, whoa. Another reason why the Silent King is a Chad. Yeah, God. So what the fuck is in that gigantic cannon that that destroyer's got? Like, is that just a giant deatomizer? I think, yeah, fair.

Okay, hold on. I got to put my phone out real fast. I got, because I got this. So that is, so that is a Locust Heavy Destroyer is a brand new model that was just recently released. And the Locust Heavy Destroyer carries that gun is known as the Gauss Destructor. He also has another weapon called the N-Midic exterminator, if he so feels like it. It is basically one shot. It's a one-shot send you back to your mother cannon.

It is pretty great. I like that. Send you back to your mother cannon, yep. A lot of the Necron anti-tank stuff does insane damage, but it's very low shot. It's like you got to sink that shot in there. There's also like there's different kinds of arcs. Like there's the Doomsday Ark and the Ghost Ark, which are these like kind of, uh, look really funny.

Um, there's these super cool, like, um, what do they call? Like Egyptian, Egyptian arcs that carry a whole bunch of warriors. Very similar to like the arcs you would see in ancient Egypt, like on the water. Oh, right, right, right. You have like command barges and annihilation barges. But I actually, uh, there's a lot of stuff right there that's pretty cool. But I want to talk a little bit more about the cryptic stuff. Because not just cryptex, but there's also things called conoptic units.

And conoptic units were always like a supplementary force, but you can kind of make one in your own right now if you feel like it. Conoptic are these kinds of, they're very much like subservient robots in the sense of they're used for tools. They're like servitors, I suppose, but in different variants. They're meant to be more like bug-like and more like, worker, like drones, like drones. Oh, okay. So we talking like scarabs? Yeah, so the little scarabs are known as conoptic scarabs.

That's their full name. Got. Conoptic scarab swarms. And these conoptic units are generally seen over by cryptex. Okay. And that's kind of the thing that's like an overlord will see over a domain of warriors where a cryptic will see over the domain of conoptic units. Right.

Pray that the night is upon us for if this twilight is the work of the necrons, we are all dead men, Lieutenant Crackos of like the Imperial Guard. There's things like the scarabs, which we all know, they eat anything and everything. And if they eat anything and everything, they turn it into any materials. There's conoptic spiders,

which are used to refill scarabs and cause other problems. There's conoptic wraiths, which are really creepy. They have like a wraith whip coil body, and they like transfer. between fucking walls and they can like slither through objects in like a wraith form

they look like giant murdery rates they're really cool those are really cool those minis one of my favorite favorite ones I say favorite a lot but fuck you I like it is the more recent edition called the conoptic doomstocker

and it's a gigantic war the worlds with a giant like fuck you gun on the top Oh my, that is definitely war of the worlds. There's no mistake that that's where they got the inspiration. But fucking Jesus. It is easily war of the worlds. It is so cool.

It is so big. And it's obviously it has four legs, not three, so it's not quite a tripod. But who gives a shit? It's war of the worlds. It's very clearly, yeah. Only Tom Cruise can stop that thing. Thank God for Tom Cruise. Thank God.

Listen, Imitech, the storm lord. Listen, Imitek. The reason. you haven't conquered the galaxy is because you don't believe in Scientology. Oh, Tom Cruise. You'll never live that down. Oh, Tom Cruise. So I got two more things I want to talk about.

I want to talk a little bit more about Cryptex and then I want to go over a little bit of what the Silent King has. Okay. On his Pimp Machine. Yes. The Silent King and his Pimp Machine. Let's fucking. It's important.

It's important. So other, let's see, the cryptex, so the cryptex that we currently have in, in game are tech, they all end with Mancer. It's Technomancer, psychomancer, chronomancer, plasmancer. There's also two other ones called the Ether Mancer and the Alchemist,

which is the one one doesn't have Mancer out of it, apparently. But the Technomancer is very much the recreation and mandaling, mandling, handling slash managing, excuse me, of conoptic units as well as the necrons themselves. The whole point, especially the tabletop, is to regenerate all the different kinds of units, revive them the usual. On the picture that Shai posted, he's the second from the left, the guy who's given the little peace sign. The guy on the far left is the chronomancer. That's the time, the guy, the harbinger of eternity. For instance, he has something called the Time Splinter Cloak,

which is a weave of disparate strands of time, creating a shield against any attack that does not originate from the time stream of this precise moment. Okay. Which, you know, all right. Okay. All right. That's cool.

Nice. Nice cloak, bro. The far right is the psychomancer. That's the guy we mentioned earlier with the nightmare shroud and morale and stuff. The other guy on the second to the right is known as the plasmancer. He's the harbinger of destruction.

I like him because he's got a little pointy finger. He's like pointing at you. He's like, ooh, you. I'm going to get you. He's got something called the gaze of flame, which is hidden weaponry inside their own bodies. And basically what happened is that when in battle the eyes of the cryptic

who has granted himself the gaze of flame has like an unnatural ghostly fire, he also has like solar flares and solar pulses. And he'll like, he has an ability where he just points at a unit in the fucking tabletop and he just does damage to them. It's called like Harbinger of Destruction or some bullshit like that. It's a fitting name. It's a good name for someone that just.

I think it really... I think it really is called that. Yeah, Harbinger of Destruction. Yeah, point at guy, do damage. Like, living lightning, if you're near him, it, like, zaps him. It's so silly. The Ethermancer... Oh, they fuck so hard. They're so cool.

God damn. Ether's all about lightning, crackling fields of lightning and arcs of lightning. Storm clouds appearing out of nowhere. And then, of course, there's the alchemists, which is the harbinger of transmogrification, which has like the harp of dissonance, which is a harp-like casket

that has perfect, precise levels of tension, and when a note is properly played, it'll burst the molecular bonds of any material. Oh. So he's like, burring, carbon is now dead, fuck you, bering.

Whoa. I mean That's These guys are insane So necrons are Like I mentioned before right Numbers And their sleeping problem

Is the only reason why these guys Do not rule the galaxy Yeah I mean even with their small numbers I imagine there's still a big problem Because holy shit Look at what they got Like if

If all the tomb worlds woke up It's fucking over There is no fight. They win. Yep. That's it. 100%. 100%.

There is no surviving. Jesus. I didn't realize, like, I knew the Necron's were beefy. I knew they had some cool shit. But oh my God. Especially the Cryptex are like, how do you fight that? I mean, that's the thing is the cryptics don't tend to enjoy being on the battlefield much because they're like little, they're nerds, they're scientists, and they're working on stuff.

But, I mean, often, you know, how do you fight that? Well, when you play the Imperial Guard, you got to have like 9,000 guns and eventually, I don't, it doesn't matter. One of those happens to be in the right timeline and you get fucked. They just happened to be in the right time. Oh, shit. Oh, we forgot about the Hexmark Destroyer. Hexmark Destroyer, let's go. Okay.

This is a dude, right? It's a dude. and he's got he's got a bunch of pistols Peace All right He's got six He's part of the destroyer cults He's got six pistols

Six separate pistols And with each pistol That he has He's got like all these little arms And he hits like a cowboy man And And he has all these like a little guns He fires them out into different kinds of areas

And he's basically doing He's basically doing the Reaper thing from Overwatch where he's just firing them in all directions. He's just spibbibbibbibbbbbbbbbbh. Please tell me all six of his arms have six shooters. They're all six shooters. I think they're just single shot pistols, but it doesn't matter. It's still a cowboy man.

Yeah, he's still a cowboy for sure. He's super cool. He just pops in. He's just got all of his guns. He's like, yaha. Your beat boot partner. Beep boot partner. Yeah.

Oh, I didn't mention... He's cool. That's a sick mini. He's a sick-ass mini. I didn't mention one last one. Death marks. Oh. I got to talk about death marks.

They're snipers. Oh, okay. There's snipers and assassins and they lurk in hyperspace, which is in a separate dimension of the area that they're currently at. And what happens is that they'll... they'll lurk in weight and then they'll materialize directly into the dimension that they're supposed to be

him and immediately like fucking snip out of an enemy commander and then just rematerialize back into their dimension and go away. What a bunch of cheaters. I know they're just going zip blam! Zip! Can't see me! Oh my, that's fucked. Jesus.

They're actually in Warhammer Mechanicus and they're the most annoying enemy in the whole game. If you like walk past them, they shoot you as an Overwatch and then they teleport somewhere else on the map. They are complete degenerates. Man. Like that, it's just the necrons have so much good shit.

Mm-hmm. Did you know that Nevisor Zandrek hate death marks? He considers them to be cheating because he's an honorable robot. I was going to say because they're dishonorable and they're hiding in another realm and ah, you're a bunch of fucking loser cheaters because you can't fight. the honorable way and yeah that makes sense that makes sense yeah it's a very nevosaurus and jerk thing there's also lichgard lichgard are the personal uh bodyguards of like the overlords and farons um like pew loyalty um these guys are really cool but at this point i think we we've covered a lot

of necrons stuff between the cryptex and the overlords and the and king is i thought i had more to talk about it with the king but i realized i didn't i was there's not a whole lot of talking about about his like his get up and his pimp thing besides the fact that a fucking Kata is on it. Yeah, he's just got a god ornament, a former god ornament, just like, yeah, he's like he's like it's like it's got like hamster I think it's hamster on a wheel is like keep moving keep moving oh I guess we should talk about monoliths Okay, let's do you have a modelist and tessa and maybe like tesseract vaults too Sure. Oh yeah because we didn't really talk about monoliths in the original did we? Oh yeah, I guess so

So, okay, so monoliths are a very, sorry, I would be, I would be very upset by I didn't talk about monoliths because they're important. A monolith is a giant fucking pyramid and it's a massive mobile fortress that arrives from the sky and will immediately start teleporting necrons into battle just at will. Oh boy. They are huge pyramids that float across the battlefield with tons of guns and they are not unkillable because they just keep on regenerating their armor. and there's a thing called, I think I mentioned this before, there's a thing called the eternity gate, which allows the necrons to just spill out from anywhere.

Like, it's an entire mobile assault, you know, because they take the necron warriors from a tomb world, like three star systems away, and just like, you know, just let them flow out of the monolith. But their eternity gate also operates as, like, a weapon. so the necron monolith and melee can

like attack a space maria and they suck him through the gate and they just like teleport him in the middle of space somewhere we'll never be seen again oh that's messed up it is but it's kind of funny just like and they're out in the middle of space and he's like it just dies if you see a monolith you know that trouble is a coming

and it's time to maybe maybe get off world Monolith is the true Testament to your planet is being invaded Full on invasion Prepare yourself Because you kill that monolith now Or it's going to keep on spawning warriors And it will not stop

Also if it's a pyramid Why is it a monolith? Why don't they just call it a pyramid Because I guess Same reason they call him Emotech and not whatever Just because they don't be too obvious I guess

I guess There were monolith in Egyptian time, weren't there? Big monolith? I don't know. I don't know. Semantics, who fucking cares. It's whatever.

There's also the Tesseract vault, which is something really needo. It's the gigantic vault that holds a Gaton inside. Holy shit. That is a, that's a, I don't know, can you really call that a mini? Yeah, a mini, right.

But it's basically, it's basically a giant power station that holds the Gaton inside but also allows it to amplify its powers. So the Gatom becomes even way stronger. It's pretty nasty. It's not very good on the tabletop because it's too expensive, but it's still pretty nasty.

I don't even really think we need to talk about the Gaton, do we? Because we know what the Catan do. They've gigantic, insane powers of that defy reality. Oh, yeah. Because that's the whole point. What does that little Katan bindy thing do exactly? does it like, so it uses the Caton's powers and it amplifies them for the Necrons?

It's a, it's a Shmovan prison. It is a prison of the Caton that is just taking them around the battlefield as like, do kill things. Okay, so essentially that's how they use a Katan to kill other people. They've got him in prison to do their bidding. So he's using his Katon powers that are being amplified by the prison for Necron bidding. Yeah, and like the, the Katon power. are ridiculous.

Like, the Transcendant Gaton is able to unleash a huge meteor composed of entirely anti-matter to fall from the sky and annihilate all normal matter in range. What? With a flick of his hand, creates earthquakes that crush people.

Oh, sky of falling stars. Rains blazing meteorites from the sky into the ground. It's just like... I want to rewind here for a lot. a second. Did you say he can make a meteor out of antimatter? Yeah, it's called antimatter meteor. That's the power. It's a thing in game. It's a legit meteor size thing of antimatter. That will, that's a, that's a planetary destruction. Antimatter explosions are no joke. It's not explode. It's not they're not exploding it. He's just throwing it at you.

Right, but once it collide shouldn't it just and just destroy the solar system? Wait, wait, is that the probable time's arrow mutating the flow of causation and remolding the temporal stream of space time continuum the catan cast its foe back into the darkness before time was time erasing them from existence as if they had never been but the ante matters the problem here i didn't realize that was a thing too okay in fairness and the only reason i bring that up is because uh i'm i you know used to used to warframe a lot and my favorite frame is nova prime she has the anti-matter drop. And it's a small little ball of antimatter.

And the conversation was always like, oh, yeah, if there was one war firm that was real, who would be the most devastating? It was like, it's Nova because she's making antimatter and she is exploding it. That is a big boom, and that's planetary destruction potentially. So I'm just like, there's a meteor-sized version of that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, yeah. That's like your solar system is done. Like, holy shit. It's pretty nutty. All the Catan powers are just bullshit. Like, the, Azagorah, the Nightbringer.

He has one called gaze of death. When any way he does, he looks at you. And then you just die. You got to keep those stoner shades on so he can't see you, right? You got to put on those, like, eight-bit like deal with it shades and then he's like fuck you and all he sees in your eight-bit glasses is reflection and he kills himself you did it you did it you did it you killed a shard of the nightbringer anyway at this at this point we're just doing shenanigans we've been

going for an hour and 20-something minutes yeah we want to talk about the stupidity of the Tah and the stupidity of the fucking Necrons and they're pretty ridiculous. They are. But that's what makes them so great. Like, I didn't realize how much crazy shit they had and just exactly how strong they were. Like, I always knew

everybody liked the Necrons. The necrons were super strong. I didn't realize just how much insane, crazy batshit warhammery stuff they had. So now, I'm a big fan of the Cryptex. So they're fucking Wackado. There is something. There it is. I thought that we should mention one last thing

just because. Shai wants to talk about the seraptic heavy construct. I don't really care. It's just a really big forge-world mall that looks cool. It sure does. It's just, I don't know anything really about it lore-wise. It just looks neat-o. And it's forage world, so I try not to care much because it's probably like 500 fucking dollars. It's a tiny-sized robot bug, bricky. Whatever! It's a robot bug. They have lots of those. They do. It's like a, it's a giant, rusty spider walker. That's what it is. Yeah, it's, it's nemo.

If I'm not mistaken, there's this one thing. Just in case you want to make sure that the Necron's are truly, truly overpowered. There is something I'm not, if I'm not mistaken, there is something called the Celestial Oreri. Oreri. Whatever. Blah, ba, ba, ba, ba. It's a special device located at the Necron crown world of Thanatos, which is definitely not at all subtle.

But it is a star chart with tiny various glowing lights that represent each of the stars in the galaxy. And apparently all they need to do is go boop, and then the star on that chart explodes. What? What? They have a star chart and they can just boop it and the star explodes? No questions asked, it just happened? Uh, let's see.

An act that snuffs out any of these lights leads to its physical counterpart undergoing a supernova millennial before its time that destroys all the nearby worlds that circle it. Thus, the celestial aura area is capable of immense destructive power, but that destroying a star must be done with careful consideration, as it would upset the natural order of the cosmos and create a criminal. critical chain reaction. So the only reason they don't do is because it would fuck up things. But if they wanted to, like, some do you might just walk in there and drunk, you'd be like, and do that thing you would do with an elevator and a hotel and just like slap all the buttons?

Oh no, that'd be the worst. Like, oh no, I fell over. Oh, oh, shit, I tripped over a conductic scarab. Oh, oh no, it's the soul system by Tara. Boop! It's just the sky lights up in orange. What happened? And there's just a drunk necrone that stumbled. out of the aurory and he's like, oops. And it was Nemesor Zandrek, like, drunk on oil because he thinks it's real?

Because he thinks, yeah, he's, he's simulating what it's like to be drunk. He's like, I fucking hit all the fucking buttons. Like, Oberon, where are you? Why didn't you help me? Obron, drink some oil. Jesus, that's, that's crazy. Like, I'm not even going to ask

how that aurary works. I'm sure it's just some necrone. It's not important. It just does. It just does. Necrons are the most powerful race in the galaxy, and the only thing keeping them back is all those other issues. It is shenanigans. It is insanity, but you know what it is the most. It is damn fun. Oh, it's supposed to say ridiculous. Adeptus ridiculous. Adeptus ridiculous. And then go home.

There's no more drum sect. There's no more drum sets. What is it? It's ridiculous. Take us home, Bricky. There's no. the closet. Ah, okay. Damn it! Thank you all very much for watching this episode. That's ridiculous. You can find DK.

D.K. Diomonti is everywhere and all. Well, most things, it's fine. Instagram is stupid anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's true. I never use it anyway. Quite shy. Quite shallow any core, quite shy.

I'm Bricky. You find me a bricky. Next week, we are doing. Hey, don't blue ball me. Like that, man, you can't. You're gonna get, you're gonna get fans real mad at you. I'm see. Fucking asshole.

Fucking asshole.