3:28 to skip the ad. Remember when Raid was a can of bug-be-gone?

Human Tech: They don't make em' like they used to... Necron Tech: They always and will continue make 'em like they used to!

A Canoptek Spyder is a manufacture's wet dream, CnC, sintering, forge, furnace, laser cutter, stamping- all rolled into one.

The Itsy Bitsy Spider got a 40k upgrade.

"The rough equivalent of your Roomba carrying twin-linked MG42s while cleaning your living room" Shut up and take my money! ;)

I, for one, would gladly attach 2 MG-42’s to my Roomba if it meant keeping my house safe from intruding sapient toaster-worshipping apes while I took a long nap.

Nice to see the Necrons getting some love instead of the imperium and chaos. Despite all the post-Heresy history, the War in Heaven set the stage on a far grander scale.

You can just feel the seething, murderous stare of the local Mechanicum Adept while it's pet toaster screams for the sweet release of death.

the necrons are like a civilisation that never discovers elekticety, have barely no idea how it works but somehow manages to make a hudraulicly opperated EM-jammer

Arch: "These robots that were constructed millions of years ago and have been operating ever since have been running for tens of thousands of years" The worst part is: you are technically not wrong....

Such a wonderful construct. Builder, Destroyer, and caretaker. Also absolutely adorable.

You didn't mention the scariest part of scarabs,they can fly (kind of) so imagine a spider made of metal the size of your hand flying at your face. I would need new pants if I survived.

Ah yes, one of the most deadly janitors in fiction.

I work as maintenance in a jail. I've had to climb inside a pipe chase to fix water leaks. Very small area and I am not a small guy.

"A logistician's wet dream" Arch sharing his fetishes with us here.

Necrons run on windowsXP, suddenly their evil makes perfect sense.

I wonder why nobody has ever thought about making a game about playing a tomb mind ? As you explain it, it sounds like a ton of fun like a RTS or 4X or even a survival /builder.

The true Roomba of Doomba

The Canoptek Spyder, or as I say, the Do it all Roomba.

It almost warms my cold metal heart to see lore about the Necrons

Honestly Necrons are the OP of the current 40K setting. They wreck Tyranid splinter fleets with ease. Slaughtered a Tau planet without any difficulty. Continuously beat the Imperium and one World Engine was slaughtering entire fleets and element's of 15 Chapters like it was nothing. The Eldar fear them greatly and do whatever they can to keep them asleep. Chaos is the only one with any decent success and even then the Necrons just build null fields for the Warp and crap on them. The War in Heaven Necrons with full C'tan as so powerful its hard to imagine.

I do believe the canoptek constructs are one of the reasons I enjoy a well built necron army. My favorite would have to be the doomstalker.

I'd be more curious as to how the Necron built AI that *didn't* go crazy. Something of an accomplishment in 40k.

A roomba with mg42s interesting but terrifying

Now I want a roomba with twin MG42’s

I just realized necrons had standard imperial measurements. If they did not, everything would have failed millennia ago for want of a 10 mm socket.

Every time arch says thousands of years I want to stop him and interject "millions" they have been buried for round about 60-65 million years

Ah yes, Windows XP the single greatest operating system Microsoft never developed..... Seriously the irony that Both Microsoft and Apple both went, "okay we can't create a stable Kernal that can not be hacked inside 40 seconds.... Linux! Can we borrow your lack of corruptibility? k thanks gonna make billions now."

I remember making Homebrew version of a huge Canopter Spyder with huge sharp manuals and twin EMP orbs it's role was to carry multiple scarabs on its back them use it's EMP on vehicles first before letting out all the scarabs two overwhelm and destroy enemy vehicle's I use in my games and can be devastating if used right

I still have a Wang 386 in my mum’s attic. Every now & then I bring it out to play a game of Civilisation (that’s Civ 1), or continue a 25yr old game. Running on Windows 3.1, which was an update on the 3.0 it came with.

After listening to this I am completely convinced that someone needs to make a Dungeon Keeper type game but with Necrons.

Ah window xp. So good they had to bribe/blackmail us to change it.

Did the ad save Kibs from starvation?

@Arch if you were to do another big lore series in the vein of Vraks and Badab, I'd love to see one featuring the Necron and their fastidious caretakers. Such as the Lazar Blockade and the return of Anrakyr the Traveller.

Hell yeah. My favorite scouting and harassing units from Dawn of War

"Your favourite RAID Shadow Legends" and this is the first recorded incident of Arch being unable to be more wrong.

*happy touster noicess*

We had a computer that ran Windows 3.11 we had that damn thing for nearly 10 years and it refused to die

I wonder if it's possible to rig up these spiders to work on imperial tech....*hears a pistol click* i-i would never ever consider such heresy! They should be annihilated like real spiders!

I watch the ad, all the way through, happily, simply thankful for the sweet sweet Arch-infused lore

Have the Tau ever found Necrons? For the Tau that might bump their tech even higher.

Thanks for the video! Always happy with more necron content

[libationes deis algorithmi]

The 40K universe has many things that are awful. But nothing would make me 'nope' off a battle-field faster than a wave of hand sized metallic spiders, followed by one the size of a minivan. Commissar be damned.

thanks for the lore, arch!

Well done. Very informative.

Hated these things (scarabs) when the codex first came out for 9th. Just max units swarming and tieing up everything... and nothing you can do

Also necron programing is apparently ran on trinary programing, which is an interesting concept, if a bit confusing.

THE BEST CAPTURE UNIT EVER

in most sci-fi these things would be the "grey goo" scenario antagonists. in 40k they are a damned guard-dog come robo-maintenance-beaver

One lingering question, why do they even use the Necron Warriors if they have stuff like this that is perfectly capable to run and defend the place for thousands of years?

My second army are necrons. Arch got me into them with his lore video about them. Damn you for having me squander money with your cool vids, pal!))))

3:25

Sold I’ll take a dozen to go

No spooky skeleton tomb would be complete without scuttling bugs and spiders.

Is it battle capable? It Canop.

One of my favorite units in all of 40K. :)

it's worse when you consider that humans are a walking store house of trace metals and minerals, now take the trace amounts and multiply by the population of a hive city and you have some serious resource farming. being broken down to the molecular level to replenish your killer's stores. that's some pure nightmare fuel.

I’ve always loved bugs and spiders so I absolutely adore necron canoptek units as they’ve got cool designs such as the Engine of murder and the wraiths but the tiny guys are just as important as the big guys... you can’t have an ever resurrecting army without your support beetles

Thank You , great work . 👌👌👌

For the algorithm!!! Congrats in the RAID advertisement too

Every time i See one of them my mind only thinks. "Helloooooo its zaping time ".

These videos are amazing. Let's hear more about the imperial navy, space marine chapter fleets and Mechanicus explorator fleets!

Nice dude! Feeding that algorithm.

What wors than spiders, Metal Spiders

Thanks for the video

10 000 years? More like millions of years.

Hey Arch somewhere down the line could you make a video on, if you were thinking of but your own set of army what figures would you most commonly find in shops or online and which figures are so rare they'll be extraordinarily expensive or you'd have to make them yourself.

Thanks for the video! Do you plan to make one about The Infinite and the Divine in the near future?

Imagine a minitank that is a smelter and a 3-D printer with laser guns!

@Arch despite a dozen of my subscriptions having Raid ads, still not playing. However, you make the most convincing proposition.

Waiting for a GW storyline where Canoptek Spiders unionise and threaten strike action.

Ah, Necron stuff, nice

Still love the old black and white necron art, it actually looks scary and makes you feel dread. New necrons look like goofy shit.

OK now I want that Roomba

I genuinely wonder if those old computers you mentioned are still functioning lol😂

3:28 lore begins F raid

I think sufficiently advanced technology would work a lot like living tissue. A living thing doesn't require any outside maintainence, just a constant intake of energy and raw material. Your biology is basically molecular-scale nano-technology, but sufficiently advanced technology could work on the atomic scale, or even on the picometer scale. For a gigantic, planetary complex, you might concievably need large-scale self-repair agents, but I highly doubt it. Just a failure of imagination (or deliberate cool factor) on GW's part. Necron technology could easily have multiply-redundant, atomechanical self-repair mechanisms that took advantage of reversible computation, time crystals, etc. You'd have to get around the same problems that living things have with transcription errors, attractor states like cancer, "diseases", etc., but sufficiently advanced technology could probably work all of that out. There are living things that don't age, don't get cancer, have virtually perfect immune systems, etc. Design can likely do a lot better than the random-walk algorithm of evolution.

Plan on watching this vid Arch, but any chance you're planning on a new campaign series? Those are your best

does anyone have any good recommendations for necron lore and books? i just got ahold of the ruin book and infinite and divine and was hoping for other things to look into

Arch please make a video about the Severan Dominate!

Hey those old Nokia phones will sure be working for some centuries, at least mine will.

Dude. In one woodshop i work the CNC run on NT and i don't think it was even 4.

Spider killing machine go brrrrrrrrrrrrr

Arch Question would it be possible to do a video on what happens after a extermnotices? Spelling that does not destory a planet does the imerial reseed it or what?

Between the necrons and tyranids the universe is a bit fucked huh?

Arch my respect for you has quintupled with that first. Annoying boss pick. Frell this spider to the depths of Hell.

Can anyone tell me if the fluff on the Wraiths ever had them doing maintenance by pausing into awkward locations? I have that in my mind, but can’t remember if I imagined it…

The comment for the Algorithmus, glory to Arch

scary metal spiders

This all goes to show that, even in the far far future, beware the ants.

Hey Can you please tell me what is that awesome music at end of your every video

Somebody make a Necron themed Roomba

I feel you should have said "millions of years" with reference to tombworlds cuz these metal spookies went of the sleep around 60million years ago

Arch confirming that XP was the best version of Windows

Video starts at 3:28

You drop off one of these at the local barracks I imagine that within a few hours the quartermaster would have fallen in love and would be trying to make love to the thing. Honestly, I look forward the future cybernetic spider waifus with a penchant for spreadsheets and organizing.

And now I want a roomba with MG42s.... thanks ass...

So (star trek) replicator strapped to a floating Roomba or 6 prosthetic limbs taped to a 3D printer?

I think its time to update the Necron playlist