Not enough of this going on.
Originally seen at: http://s3.zetaboards.com/The_Ammobunker/topic/7186255/1/
Well, the whole nerdy internet beast is buzzing with one word right now: Necron. And rightly so. GW has a serious love affair with Space Marines these days and it is nice to finally see them bringing an ancient xeno codex back from a purely nostalgic status (granted, they brought the Dark Eldar back too, but the jury is still out on that one). I'm not doing a review on the codex or a breakdown of the units. There are a million sites out there with much more qualified reviewers of the new Necrons than I could ever hope to be. What I can talk about, is the future.
Basically, I am praying that GW released a solid codex. Yes, of course they are trying to make a bundle off of the new army, but hey it's a business. People were going to have to buy models anyway. What the determining factor will be on whether or not they are just money grubbing jerks is the viability of the codex in a more competitive environment. Because try as they might, I am still not seeing or hearing about any “broken” (read “tournament winning”) Dark Eldar lists running the tables out there in game land. I think the dedicated players might be getting somewhere though, it isn't a dead end fail street like the Tyranid codex. The Necrons, however, might be able to bring enough thunder to shake up the current norm for tournaments. You know what I'm talking about. You're either getting your leaves blown by the IG, fighting for parking spaces against 9 Razorbacks or trying to figure out some crafty way to blow up some Dreadnoughts to stop the Psycannon headache.
I would love if someone out there comes up with a Necron list that trounces these styles of play so hard that the Imperial players have to go back to the drawing board. I'm not hating on Marines or anything, they are just incredibly boring to play against 90% of the time because they're using variations of the same list in tournaments. And frankly, many of them are testing tweaks to their tournament lists when it should be friendly game time.
Go Necrons, go.
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