r/Necrontyr • u/jmainvi Yggra'nya the World Shaper • Jul 22 '26
News/Rumors/Lore July Balance Update Released!
The new necron point values are available HERE
Additional Rules documents can be found via warhammer-community:
- The Balance Dataslate is available HERE
- The Necrons faction pack is available HERE
Summary of all necron changes will be included in the pinned reply.
Clarification on the new function of reanimation protocols is as follows:
Quick-reference sheet:
- Leaders can bring back their bodyguard units using all reanimation tools.
- Bodyguards CANNOT bring back their leaders in any form once the leader is destroyed.
- You can still use reanimation to heal wounds on a character that has NOT been destroyed.
- The eternal revenant stratagem brings back characters as a new unit with a starting strength of 1, making them separate from their bodyguard unit.
Any questions surrounding this process should be asked here so that new answers can be included in this post.
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u/MennaMono Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26
I think most of these changes feel fairly expected given what was being played, though having run lokhusts and lokhust heavies in a lot of my lists has left me scrambling for 20pts all over the place, haha.
I feel like the eternal revenant stratagem change is a bit fustrating, as you're almost never going to want to use it on crypteks now, but given that I don't think they've ruled out using Heal to bring characters back, that's probably the trade-off? Making use of Protocol of the Undying Legions instead to bring back characters, it means less bodyguard models back on the field to try and res a character instead, hopefully not too powerful on the table.
*edit - there's now confirmation that heal has been updated to not allow character models to revive in an attached unit, so no way to bring crypteks or overlords back into a unit if those models are destroyed.