CORRECTIONS: Honourable Combatant is for the bearer's entire unit, not just for the bearer themselves. Makes it a lot more likely to trigger by slaying a character. Thanks for the correction, if you spot any other errors let me know :)

Moment of silence for anrakyr, zandrekh and obyron. Hopefully we get more space marine lieutenants now instead

When Auspex said "full codex review in 12h" in yesterday's necron themed video, and I woke up seeing same video was posted 12h ago, I knew it would be a good day. Auspex is a machine, praise be to the Omnissiah!

Gotta say, this codex is a masterstroke by GW. The balance of power has shifted entirely to units that most (especially new) players don't have a lot of, and that aren't available in large numbers for any kind of discount. Everyone who doesn't already have an expansive collection has no choice but to shell out a ton of cash to stay relevant. Congratulations, GW, you have mastered the art of swindling your customers.

The fact that the Gauss Flayer, a weapon that is supposed to peel away and disintegrate atoms, is AP 0 tells you everything about how much sense this codex was gonna make

the lychguard blob taking 5 simultaneous nerfs is actually wild. -1 to wound nerfed reanimator nerfed reanimation orb nerfed no cryptek no thralls

Orbs now being once-per-game should’ve been d3+3.

A two HOUR breakdown. How on earth do you do this.

The only way he can get us such high quality content with this speed he must be a soulless automaton who never needs to sleep, to eat, or to even breathe. Or hes just that awesome! Love your work Auspex!

I beg GW to just let Trazyn have his Tesseract Labyrinth and allow him to direct deploy units.

the best thing about the codex is the cover art.

As an Admech player my Necron brothers have my sympathy. You guys deserve a better book.

A nerf on top of a nerf for a faction that was lower mid tier at best. With so feel bad moments here, you can't help but think there was a better way to go about making changes.

I knew admech was going to be awful but I didn't expect them to botch the Necrons as well. I'm actually impressed.

Unit-specific Timestamps: New Units: 1:02:28 - Overlord with Translocation Shroud Infantry: 1:04:13 - Necron Warriors 1:05:27 - Immortals 1:06:50 - Lychguard 1:08:50 - Triarch Praetorians 1:09:20 - Deathmarks 1:10:31 - Flayed Ones 1:11:57 - Cryptothralls Other Squads: 1:13:16 - Tomb Blades 1:52:32 - Canoptek Wraiths 1:17:00 - Canoptek Scarab Swarms Destroyer Squads: 1:18:29 Lokhust Destroyers 1:19:50 - Lokhust Heavy Destroyers 1:21:14 - Skorpekh Destroyers 1:22:31 - Ophydian Destroyers Vehicles + Canoptek Vehicles: 1:23:31 - Annihilation Barge 1:24:32 - Doomsday Ark 1:25:34 - Triarch Stalker 1:26:51 - Canoptek Doomstalker 1:27:55 - Canoptek Reanimator 1:28:41 - Canoptek Spyder 1:30:10 - Ghost Ark Flyers: 1:31:02 - Doom Scythe 1:32:26 - Night Scythe Titanic Units: 1:33:32 - Monolith 1:34:52 - Obelisk 1:36:27 - Tesseract Vault Convergence of Dominion: 1:38:09 - Convergence of Dominion C'Tan Shards: 1:39:15 - C'Tan Shard of the Deceiver 1:40:52 - C'Tan Shard of the Nightbringer 1:41:41 - C'Tan Shard of the Void Dragon 1:42:28 - Transcendent C'Tan Nobles + Overlords: 1:43:17 - The Silent King 1:45:17 - Overlord 1:46:35 - Royal Warden 1:47:46 - Catacomb Command Barge 1:49:01 - Imotekh the Stormlord 1:50:28 - Trazyn the Infinite RIP Obyron, my favorite model in all of 40K Destroyer Characters: 1:51:38 - Skorpekh Lord 1:52:40 - Lokhust Lord 1:53:30 - Hexmark Destroyer Crypteks: 1:54:58 - Technomancer 1:56:17 - Psychomancer 1:57:30 - Chronomancer 1:58:30 - Plasmancer 1:59:42 - Orikan the Diviner 2:00:37 - Illuminor Szeras Forge World Units: 2:01:58 - Tomb Stalker 2:02:27 - Tomb Sentinel 2:03:02 - Canoptek Acanthrites 2:03:39 - Tesseract Ark 2:04:23 - Seraptek Heavy Construct

Necron's already weren't doing fantastically but GW decided to nerf them. Makes sense...

Necrons got hurt very badly on reanimation, the whole reason why the necrons have so few attacks per model, very little ap, and higher points cost. Not to mention that many other armies have higher regeneration capabilities than the necrons. Quite frankly its a slap in the face to the necron community. 2/5 detachments are useable and both are focused on different parts of the index, and directly copy grey knights and chaos daemons detachments. On a positive note, deathmarks didnt get nerfed and tomb blades although slightly nerfed gained shoot and move. Also skorpeks might see some play again.

Jesus Christ, this is what happens when you let a small group of tournament bros have input on rules. They just nuke anything that they don't like playing against.

Gotta say that I like the theme of the Obeisance Phalanx. It really gets the idea of an honorable army observing all the protocols across. A bit weird (if understandable) that they still can pick Deathmarks though. That one is a big no-no lore wise.

I really don´t know how they justify that many RP nerfs. It´s not like Necrons were even doing super well. I get a tone down on the Reanimator range but going straight nuclear from 12 to 3? I don´t even know if i´d take him if he costs 70 points now. And sure, we don´t know the cost of all these models now but it is still a very questionable approche to "balance" the race. It´s mind boggling to me how they can seemingly break a race by touching the core thing about it like this but Aeldari is still that stong.

Ah I see. The reanimator is dead again. Thanks GW! I loved not using it in 9th and now I get to have fun not using it in 10th.

From how i see it, unless necron get like 15% points deductions across the board, they have just been severely nerfed. SO many things are just bad now, and they lost all the small advatages they had. Sad day.

GW- "Necron rework focused on having many characters, so lets get rid of some of them." *Apprentek and Despotek stare into the distance. Accelerator and Reanimator Plasmacytes playing at their feet.* Despotek - "No rules yet?" Apprentek - *sigh emulated from external vocal modulator echos metallically behind his postiche enhanced deathmask.*

And so we're stuck with this for 10th. Seriously, it's 9th edition all over again. I may not have a choice but to use it, but that doesn't mean I'm going to spend a single penny on this mess. But cheers to AT for his stellar efforts, and for helping me save some money!

Thanks for the video Auspex. I can't stand how much they nerfed the necrons but glad you're posting!

Such detachment locked around keywords with no way to deal around them are trash. They could add a "flayer virus tainted" upgrade on necron character to give them and their unit "destroyer" keyword, if they really want to lock around keyword, but no it's too hard to think :'( Wait, SM have such kind of upgrade on the "raven guard" style detachment, no ? 🧐

I think its going to be a bit before Necrons reanimate from this sort of nerf.

GW: Hmm what are Necrons known for? Reanimation and durability. Yeah thats stupid, lets nerf those traits into the dirt and give them Grey Knights abilities. Hmm what are Necrons bad at? Movement and raw offense? Yeah lets give them a billion new movement tricks but make them all situational so nobody will use them and nerf their offensive stats even harder. It makes perfect sense.

Glad to see trazyn and the lokust lord safe but ZANDREKH AND OBYRON MY BOYS! NOOOOOOOOOOO!

Kinda sad to see my boy Anrakyr cut from the codex. Even though he wasn't that good I still liked running him for the mind in the machine shenanigans. Otherwise things look pretty solid, hopefully some points cuts will help the more bitter pills go down easier.

I absolutely LOVE how GW takes something fun, and makes it... Not that.

The Warrior has fallen, Long live the Wraith!

Thank you for doing this. These videos are always super helpful.

I was just getting into Necrons after buying my Kill Team. Thought I might like to get a full army as large warrior bricks with big reanimation buffs is what interests me in Necrons. Now seeing the codex and that playstyle just got hammered kills my interest. I just wont buy into them now.

Massive thanks for the rundown, appreciated

As someone who plays this army because of how tanky and unkillable I can make them this is a big hit. I'll likely pivot to another army for this edition. They might still be good for other ways to play them but for me, the reason I adore this army is now gone. See you in 4 more editions crons.

Another step taken by GW to turn Necrons into another Horde Army. There's plenty of nice stuff in the codex rulewise, but they absolutely gutted all the units everyone playing the faction already owned from Indominus + index datasheets to make sure they sell more crap. Classic GW. Nothing new under the sun.

The two Detachments I liked best seem to be Canoptek Court and Hypercrypt Legion. Annihilation Legion gets a honorable mention.

oh man im so looking forward to the canoptek court glad to put my wraiths back on the table again 😁

Glad to see they finally nerfed the super-powerful Eld... what? Necrons nerfed? Sounds about right. Thanks GW!

Amazing job! Thank you for the review

The codex is a flat nerf to the faction. Most of these changes hurt an already under performing faction.

The Royal Warden re-gained the sole reason why I loved having him in the past - it's the only source of reliably escaping engagement range now that the veil no longer allows to, while still retaining the ability to shoot. If the cost stays low, I'll always consider him for whenever I take warriors or immortals.

Looks like my Necrons are staying on the display shelf this edition too. Sad, really. I was looking forward to them for 10th after skipping them for most of 9th.

feels like with this Codex they forgot how to Necron

Great content my dude. Helps my 40k games alot

I’m legitimately going to stop building my Necron army and start Dark Angels. I like them, and I guarantee that GW isn’t going to screw over a SM chapter. Especially one with massive story relevance in the current lore.

This absolutely kills 40K for me. 9th was bad. But at the very least, we could hold our own. Now its like… GW wants to funnel us into being big on reanimations…. But the nerf everything that makes reanimations good. Thanks GW. Can we have 11th go back to something more like 8, and 9th??

I guess the bright side is that it seems GW has stopped codex creep 😂 I just hope the points are adjusted appropriately!

How does he get these out so fast 😭

I got into warhammer last year and was building my army to have zandrehk and obyron with a regular lord 😭

Redeploy was changed for ALL units in the commentary, it is after roll off before first turn. People keep missing it (less and less, but still)

Hoping the CCB missing the Overloprd keyword is an oversight.

Super sad at the Royal Warden change, the assault + heavy addition always made me pick them and have them lead a 5 man squad of immortals, pretending that they were a “spec ops” unit with unique upgrades

What a miserable Codex. Zandrekh and Obyron cut? Warrior meganerfs and cross the board infantry nerfs? Box 'em up for the edition.

Necrontyr word of the day: pain

Welp It was fun collecting necrons end of 9th when I joined the hobby and during the index times. Time to see what other armies have in store for me

I think wraiths will be fun to play. Techno for extra survivability with FNP and having them move through units for MW, shoot and then charge for insane dmg. Granted positioning has to be perfect for it to work

Thanks for the video! This is pretty depressing though, since getting in with Indomitus I built around warriors, and thought the Canoptek Doomstalkers were fun, so my main troops are going way down and it's harder than ever to get my main heavy weapons to work unless I go all in on the Canoptek detachment, but don't have all those other older models. Seriously, as a newer player, the way they've sold me on playing the faction just got the legs kicked out from under it. Do you think they'll add the Overlord word to the Command Barge and Imotekh though?

Great video! Thanks

This codex is honestly a bit rough for Necrons. Rather sad about that.

Thanks for the vid!!

hmm now i'm think what unit to give the Deepstrike Enhancement for the Teleport Detachment. Technomancer with Wraiths or Skorpekh Lord with Skorpekh destroyers. could also be Lochust Lord with Lochust Destroyers just to move them around.

It's worth noting that Deepstrike units can be completely shut down if there's not place that meets criteria for them to appear back onto the board. It's a legit strategy to just remove potential zones they can appear in to just keep them from returning to the battle. I think WAY too much value is being placed on that ability.

I want to make Necrons my Xenos army, then they gut punched reanimation and orbs. Kinda makes me want to refocus on my current collections and not bother.

Wow; the Canoptek Court detachment is just better Daemon rules.

You always make my mornings better ❤

Lol. GW heard people complaining about broken codex in 9th and said ok, 10 edition codexes will be 60 bucks for recycled artwork, 4 lore paragraphs, and nerfs to a 48% winrate faction. Also subfactions are unplayable unless you own 1500 points of 3 specific models from that army that have the keyword. Don’t sweat all the data sheet nerfs, we’ll just drop your points till we achieve the corporate mandated 1$- 1point. I don’t much enjoy the cynasism, but it’s really hard not to feel it after 10th launched so strong and GW has since peeled back the curtain to reveal all the bulshit over the past few months.

Excellent video and out so quickly. You must be half necron.

I think most of the nerfs just came from the problem that reanmation protocols the way they were is impossible to balance. Its either OP cause the opponent cant kill the unit or its useless because they whipe the squad in one turn. So necrons had to be very expensive in points to compensate. Now there is room for points reductions too make more of the units viable and then losing even big units won't feel as bad. since not all your eggs are in 1 or 2 baskets. So for me it all depends on the points. might even have to wait 6 months before GW realises if our winrate were to drop so we can get more points reductions, but who knows

The Tomb Stalker used to only have 2 Gauss Slicers with Rapid Fire at Str 5 AP -1. His new profile changed his ranged attacks to a total of 8 ranged attacks at Str 6 AP -1 and 6 attacks at Str 6, AP -1 and 2 damage with a Gloom Prism. I like the Tesseract Ark because of its versatility.

Nearly every change happening is pushing hoard armies with a top end of massive tanks. Elite units are getting more rare and more sidelined with every codex.

Correction on Honourable Combatant, the article states it's the Overlords unit, and doesn't require it to be in the fight phase with how the article worded it. So, you can blast away a character in the shooting phase with a unit led by a character 😂 then pop the strat

Question regarding Trazyn's Surrogate Hosts ability: I seem to remember that combined units (such as attached Leaders) would get all the keywords of all the models in the unit. In other words, a unit led by a Character would be a Character unit. If so, wouldn't this mean that Trazyn could replace e.g. a warrior in a unit led by any Character?

Is the Overlord with Translocation considered its own datasheet? In other words can you take 3? And still take 3 Overlords with Voidscythes?

i applaud you for making this. theres definitely some pros and cons but honestly i cant say how i feel until i see points and play test a few games. im mostly excited for the the technomancer being able to lead wraiths. i love the royal warden update. and to be totally honest i think that the hit to reanimations actually makes the CONVERGENCE OF DOMINION a somewhat decent choice pick now, seeing how you didnt mention it i am going to assume that its saying the same.but think about it in the canoptek court. the decachment almost encourages castling which means more stuff within its 6" range that you can reroll reanimations on. and more stuff giving you benefit of cover. and to be honest, they dont shoot half bad.

I’ve spotted an interesting mechanic with the hyper crypt legion. The stratagem “Entropic Dampening says that when a titanic unit is shot by another unit within 18, the firing units weapons become hazardous. That being said, it would normally only work on a squad with several dudes firing many guns for a more likely chance to trigger a 1 and kill a guy. HOWEVER, if used against a VEHICLE/MONSTER with multiple guns then any result of one is actually 3 mortal wounds!! After that vehicle shoots, one unlucky roll and it becomes crippled. Thought that was interesting…

I really think GW should add special abilities on a failed charge for charge reliant units like flayed ones, stealers, repentia etc, ie a FNP against shooting, old school flesh hooks or A 6 up save to redeploy back into reserves depending on what would be most appropriate for the model

Was really just starting to like playing Necrons😢 now want to chuck whole game

Canoptek Court - Countemporal Shift, this is how you keep a Reanimator alive.

No Mephrit representation in any of those detachments. No shooty detachment

i would say this is the biggest fowlup GW has ever done to an army, but then again 7th edition orks is a thing where they were so bad they legitimately couldnt play. I dont think necrons are quite that bad but i wouldnt be surprised if their 'metawatch' went down to like 38% winrate suddenly. RP was all we had going for us. Unless they massively dropped costs all over the place this is a flat nerf to like 90% of the codex. Warriors/lychguard got nerfed from multiple angles, overlord is kinda pointless now, yes the ctans got a 5FNP but they got slightly slower when their big problem was mobility in the first place, and my god Reanimator from 12" to THREE! Like cmon at least make it 6" so it doesnt have to hug the damn unit. Also, my god the CCB got done dirty. Wtf is his job now? He has horrible offense, orb is useless on that kind of character, isnt an overlord for various rule keyword triggers. Wtf is he for? Flatout useless now since hes way too expensive for simply +1OC (better to bring a damn tesla-barge now between the two and thats sad)

Seems like 3 x 10 Tesla Immortals, with a Royal Warden, Plasmancer and two Cryptothalls will be the way to go this edition. Having reroll to hit via Canoptek Court and sustained hits on 5+ and reroll to wound versus units on objectives. One unit can pop devastating wounds strat, so that`s alot of devastating wounds there. Then rest of your army is 3 x 6 Wraiths with a Technomancer and 3 x Doom Stalker. Szeras would also be great to buff Tesla Immortals to AP -1 and his own shooting is also great with full rerolls to hit.

I think its the cryptek that gets the +1OC per scarab model. Because chances are the scarabs will only be next to one.

Your patreons spoil us! THANK YOU! Patreons.

Even the old lychgaurd points are too expensive for them now. Every thing supporting them got stripped away

Yeah I’ll be sticking with the index rules.

im not sure about the order of reanimation protocols and battle shock. the rule book says "Your Command phase is split into two steps. In the first, both players gain 1 Command point (CP) and you resolve any other Command phase rules; in the second, you test to see if any of your units are Battle-shocked." as it says any other command phase rules, surely this means you would reanimate before determining battle shock

Can’t the Psychomancer now be used to ‘flip’ objectives with his ability since he can use it at the start of the command phase as well?

My Living Metal body is ready.

Let me say this. Considering 2 of Necrons Detachments are basically copies of other armies, GK and Daemons, if neither of those armies detachments change and if more codexes have copy/pasta detachments, just change keywords of who it applies to, then GW has botched the Detachment idea worse then I even thought GW could ever botch somthing.

Regarding Cosmic Precision (from the Hypercrypt Legion detachment): This may be unintentional, but the wording sounds like it would effectively let any unit that is hyperphasing deep strike.

C’Tan, Wraiths, and……whatever is cheap for holding objectives and doing secondaries I suppose.

Looking at the new codex, what would be a good detachment for the indomitus necrons to build off? I'm thinking maybe cryptec or awakened, but i'm not very good at building lists

I’ve already seen people saying the nerfs to the most used units is good because it will increase variety. Which it might, but even while mostly using the strongest units the win rate was sub 50%, so they were probably fine.

Inverted Codex power creep: the last factions with codex are the strongest. Hope they listen and don’t change too much for the future ones, these first codices are a bit weak

The warrior nerf just highlights why I have lost all excitement for this codex. The solution to making flayers viable is NOT also making the reaper crap as well. The reanimation also sucks now. Going from d6 to d3 means that that many armies have units with better reanimation than warriors, which imo is just unacceptable. If they are anything above 9 points a model they are worthless

Getting this book for Christmas

Cynosure of Eradication is a battletactic? oh, sweet sweet bits of joy.... Teslamorts with an overlord+plasmancer are going to be obnoxious lol. 5+ Sustained2 and devwounds for free long as you have the detachment thing going on. Thats gonna hurt.

I’m looking forward to getting the 10e codex and playing my Necrons army again. When Indomitus was released, they became my favourite faction and my Necrons collection stands at 8000+ points and the most models by faction overall. The 10 codex seems reasonably balanced overall, but I’m disappointed that there doesn’t appear to be any new units, only updated Character models. I’m aware that not every faction receives new units every edition and that Necrons were 9e’s antagonist faction and received numerous new units, whereas other factions have been neglected for years… regardless, Necrons are in the Top 5 most popular/played factions, so it doesn’t make sense to me that GW didn’t create ANY new Necron units. On the one side, my wallet appreciates the break after I’ve spent more $$$ this year on WH40K than ever before… but I’m still disappointed that I’m not getting something new to play with other than that new Overlord with Translocation Shroud (which does look amazing). I wonder if Necrons will at least get a new dice set? (I’ve been making do with translucent green Chessex D6’s for 3 years.)