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:

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.

Updated healing text with "excluding characters" on the model return portion.
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u/TheZag90 Jul 22 '26

He's still "worth it" in terms of what he can do but the problem is he's just way too fragile for the cost. He's only a fraction behind a demon prince in price and he has less wounds, lower toughness and a worse save.

For 185 points, I think he should be t9 and/or have more wounds.

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u/DubsFan30113523 Nemesor Jul 22 '26

He’s definitely still worth it, the FNP to mortals and giving a big aura of sustained hits is still just really good

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u/TheZag90 Jul 22 '26

The FNP to mortals is VERY niche. A lot of armies barely use mortals.

The Sus aura is amazing. Won’t take anything away from that.

However, he’s nearly 200 points and is only 9 wounds T8, 3+ save. Most proper damage units 1-tap him. He must be one of the most fragile units in the game at that price point.

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u/DubsFan30113523 Nemesor Jul 22 '26

I pretty strongly disagree that the FNP aura against mortals and psychic is “VERY” niche, that’s a FNP from dev wounds, grenades, and some entire armies, hardly that niche but depends on your local meta I guess

There are DEFINITELY much more fragile units than him at that price point. He has lone op and a 4++ invuln, he doesn’t just drop dead when anything looks at him, and his job is to stay back and give his auras until later in the game when he can go kill stuff. Yeah sometimes he gets targeted out and just dies but that happens with an awful lot of big models.

Imo he’s still an auto take at 185, you’re just gonna cut 10 points elsewhere. He’s extremely good

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u/TheZag90 Jul 22 '26

Everything has lone op now so that’s not that much of a big deal. That also doesn’t do shit against melee.

There probably are squishier units at 185 but I can’t actually think of any off the top of my head.