Apocalypse, what does it bring to necrons

Well, finished my exams now and had a good long holiday, but now back to it all, back to reality I guess.

APOCALYPSE!!!!! Yes the new rules set was released a month or 2 ago, to bring it more in line with the current 6th edition rules. I haven't got a copy of the book, but I had a flick through it and necrons got a reasonable number of formations, compared to what we used to have. 

The infinite phalanx looked interesting and so to did the acquisition phalanx. The formations were basically units that we'd love to field in regular games together, but either cost too much in points, or just aren't competitive. Lets take the acquisition phalanx, it really emphasises the surrogate host rule of Trazyn the infinite, in regular games I'd personally love to field Trazyn and 20 lychguard, so he becomes unkillable as he keeps replacing lychguard. But in regular games it costs 975pts with no upgrades for the models and will just get blown away in a few turns. 

But that's what apocalypse is really all about for all armies, getting to field those units that you've always wanted to field together, even if its completely hilarious and wouldn't work in regular games. But that's why they say come the apocalypse.

Necrons were also very lucky, in that we got access to not one, but 2 new big toys. I'm not going to go into the rules of each one, but I am going to talk about the kit. When I first read rumours of necrons getting to share the line-light for apocalypse with chaos, I didn't believe it. I only started to believe when pictures came through. I think the kit looks great, at first glances it looks like a big monolith,  but if you get to look a one properly, then you'll see the wraith bodies on the sides and all the little scarabs inside. There's also something called a transcendent c'tan inside, I don't really know the fluff behind it so I'm going to feed you with false knowledge. But depending on which one you build, you can mount on a flying stand and use it in your regular games as a c'tan. In my opinion he's different looking and that's great, he really stands out compared to the current 2 c'tan models.

Forge world also put their mark on apocalypse, by releasing an updated version of their imperial armour apocalypse book. In which the necrons also got some more formations, again I haven't got a copy of this book and nor have I even flicked through so no real rules to discuss.

But forge world did release this contents page. The necrons have the following formations:

- Teserect Ark

- Sentry Pylon

- Tomb Citadel

- Tomb Fortress

- City of the Dead

- Gauss Pylon

- Pylon Network

Oh good 3 formations which include the really big necron specific realm of battle game board tiles. The necron terrain does look great, but even for apocalypse it's a bit big. If you've got the space then it's really good and for themed games, but otherwise it might ruin the game with all the rules. Apocalypse is for you to field   loads of miniatures, and not just your usual amount with some terrain. They're battles of epic scale and not a city raid. The new formation with 8 monoliths and one of the new ones (can't remember which one post below which one it is if you know) is what I'm talking about. But that's forge world for you, always doing the massive, the cool, the weird, the hilarious and just stupid ideas. 

But that's just my opinion on it, please by all means get the terrain it looks great and works well with the current necron miniature range. What's your opinion on the whole necrons and apocalypse? Please leave a comment below.