Earlier on I got a phonecall from my friend, who had just come off the phone from Games Workshop. He told me the conversation with the GW employee got around to Necrons when my friend mentioned that the C'Tan were totally missing from the 5th Edition rulebook.

Apparently, according to the GW Employee, they were left out because they intend to remove them from the next incarnation of the Necron codex and instead include them as an apocalypse datasheet, costing around 1500pts each. The rationale for this is probably obvious to a lot of people on warseer as its been said for as long as the Necron Codex has existed that the C'Tan shouldn't be represented on the TT or weren't represented appropriately considering that they are gods yet can be popped by a lucky force weapon or turned into a squig etc. Coincidentally, this ties up with the rumour posted by Sekhmet on the C'Tan Support Group forum that the C'Tan would be given the Forgeworld treatment not too long from now and would be the size of Eldar Revenant Titans.

The employee, being a Necron player himself, said that he was interested in the direction Necrons were going. He also mentioned that Necron Lords are much more important now and that there are special character Lords. There are even two of these special Lords in the Apocalypse Reloaded book; The Herald Of the Storm (from Medusa V) and The Herald Of Awakening. Finally, he also mentioned that there would be options or even models to represent the varying tiers of Lords, from Bronze up to Platinum, Platinum perhaps being near C'Tan in power or status.

Personally, If this turns out to be true I'll be quite annoyed because, for one thing, I wanted to see The Outsider and secondly, the C'Tan are very important to Necron army lists for dispelling tough characters and monstrous creatures. Hopefully we'll get something else to balance out the loss of the C'Tan.

- Es wird wohl eine ganze Menge neuer Einheiten im nächsten Necron Codex geben

- Man kann Necrons jetzt ihren "Erfahrungen" zuordnen: Bronze, Silber, Gold und Platinium - was das bedeutet ist zur Zeit noch nicht ganz klar

- Die Lords werden mehr Bedeutung erhalten

- Es wird 3 Necron Lord Charaktermodelle geben, welche jeweils die unterschiedlichen Stufen der "Erweckung" repräsentieren

- C`Tans werden aus dem Codex verschwinden, da das Designer Team unzufrieden mit ihnen ist - sie entsprechen nicht dem was sie eigentlich sein sollten: Sternengötter. Aus diesen Gründen werden sie bei Apokalypse als Legendäre Einheit wieder auferstehen. Forge World wird dementsprechend Modelle herrausbringen die bei der Größe und beim Preis mit dem Reaver Titan vergleichbar sind

- In der neuen Liste wird es auch monstrose Kreaturen geben

Erscheinen soll das Ganze gegen Ende des nächsten Jahres.

Has anyone goto GamesDay and hear additional rumors besides those below for the upcoming Necron release in 2008? They say its going to be a release similar to Tau Empires - fewer new model and streamlining rules. I have heard:

* WBB replaced with FNP.
* Necron Warriors and Immortals get SAP, T increase by 1, and point increase.
* Phase Out gone!
* Three different options of Necron Lords.
* Veil is nerfed (sends unit to reserve, but can deep-strike next turn).
* One new HS unit choice.