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THE HARVEST FLEETS : :

NECRON VESSELS

“WHAT LIES WITHIN , , FEAR WE TO ASK . . . . . .”

NECRON VESSELS

NECRONS IN BATTLEFLEET GOTHIC

F or centuries the Explorators of the Imperium have

known of the ancient civilisation of the Necrontyr –

a race that became extinct tens of millions of years

ago. Little remains now of what must once have

been a technically advanced empire that spanned

the galaxy. Any surface structures that may once

have existed have long since disappeared from

Necrontyr worlds. Their existence has been eroded

by time. They and their works have crumbled to

dust with the passage of eons.

Only deep under the sand have the Necrontyr’s

inexplicably strange tomb-temples partially

survived. No intact complex has ever been

discovered. Those that have been explored and of

which records exist, are all ruinous and empty.

What their purpose or content might have been, or

if they were plundered and emptied by others in

antiquity, is all impossible to say. Best analysis

indicates that the Necrontyr vanished from the

galaxy more than sixty million years ago, when the

planet Earth was little more than prehistoric jungle,

and Mankind’s evolution lay millions of years in the

future.

Like a thousand other dead civilisations and

forgotten races the Necrontyr are of interest to few

outside the dusty offices of the Explorator

Archaeos.

Until now.

Now, suddenly and unexpectedly, a chance

encounter has brought the Necrontyr to the

attention of the powerful and great. Raiders

marked with Necrontyr runes and indecipherable

inscriptions of Necrontyr design have been

captured on a brief visual scan. It is a momentary

visual record of the attack, yet it is a link in a chain

of events that extends across the galaxy. It is a link

to other raids, to other sites of destruction where

raiders leave no trace and where records are wiped

across an entire planet.

THE HARVESTER FLEETS

Until very recently almost all contact with the

Necron’s had been limited to battles fought on

planets against small forces of Necron troops.

From time to time reports were made of strange

space craft encountered on the edge of newly

discovered systems, which appeared derelict at first

but when approached became active. More often

than not all that remained of the Imperial craft

which encountered these strange ships was the

scattered wreckage of its remains, and the only

clues to the nature of the enemy were garbled

distress messages speaking of alien ships using

weapons of quite terrifying destructiveness.

Whenever such incidents were investigated

nothing could be found of the perpetuators, and

no useful evidence could be collected pointing to

their nature or origin.

All this changed in the year 666.M40, when the first

recorded incident of a Necron ‘harvest’ took place

in the Yuctan system close to the Eastern Fringes.

Although sparsely inhabited, the system included

an Imperial Naval depot. At the time of the attack

the depot was being used by small Imperial

squadron consisting of the Dauntless class light

cruiser Farsight and half a dozen escort craft.

Squadron Farsight was undertaking a long range

patrol, and was visiting Yuctan to refuel and re-arm,

when it received distress messages from an

Imperial colony on the outlying planet of Merida.

The squadron moved to intercept and took part in

the first recorded encounter between Imperial

battlecraft and a Necron fleet. Only one of the

Imperial craft survived to tell the tale (the Cobra

class destroyer ON37452 ). The Necrons suffered

no losses. By the time a full Imperial fleet could be

despatched to the Yuctan system the Necrons had

disappeared. And of the human colonists in the

system there was not a single trace…

Since then there have been a further 27 recorded

encounters between Imperial Navy ship and

Necron raiding fleets. There are also anecdotal

accounts of space battles between the Necrons and

Eldar, Ork and even Chaos space fleets. All

evidence points to the Necrons being old beyond

the memory of anything living and their

technology, although idiosyncratic, is superior to

that of any other race, including the Eldar. In every

encounter so far the Necrons have only been

defeated by superior numbers of enemy ships, and

wherever the numbers have been even the

Necrons have prevailed. Fortunately for the

Imperium all of the Necron fleets encountered so

far have been small in size, and what should

happen if the Necrons should ever attack in force

remains to be seen.

Even more worryingly, the encounters that have

taken place with the Necrons have occurred all

over the galaxy, without any discernible pattern as

to when or where the Necrons will strike next.

What is more, the frequency of such encounters

seems to be increasing, though how or why this

should be happening is unknown. All that is

known for sure is that the objective of these raids

appears to be the seizure of Imperial citizens – but

for to what hideous use the captured men, women

and children are put remains terrifyingly unknown.

They simply disappear and are never seen again.

ship, no doubt it was a ship, yet buried by

hundreds of feet of rock. It must have lain there for

millions of years, but even after all this time it

appeared neither destroyed nor abandoned. It appeared

intact, and functional too, and many runes, seams and

panels hinted that there might be space within for

something else to survive. But what lies within, fear

we to ask.”

ARMADA

“A s we dug its shape become apparent. It was a

NECRON VESSELS

NECRON SPECIAL RULES

NECRON WEAPONS

Necron vessels employ many unique weapon

systems, unknown to other fleets. These follow the

rules outlined below.

Sepulchre

Only utilised by the largest Necron vessel in a fleet,

a ship carrying a Sepulchre automatically gains a

Leadership of 10. The Sepulchre is used to attack

one enemy ship that is within 20cm range. When

the Sepulchre is used make a Leadership test for the

enemy vessel being attacked, as a wave of palpable

psychic force is generated from the Necron ship.

The crew are paralysed by visions of horror, and if

discipline is lost then the crazed crew are likely to

do damage to their own ship as they rampage

uncontrollably.

A ship attacked by the Sepulchre should take a

Leadership test. If they pass, the captain cracks

some heads and restores order. If it is failed, then

the ship’s Leadership is permanently reduced by 1,

representing the loss of morale and trust. Also the

ship may not use any special orders until after the

end of their next turn. This includes Brace for

Impact. Any ordnance within 20cm of the

Sepulchre (except for non-boarding torpedoes) are

destroyed on a 4+. A Necron ship may only unleash

its Sepulchre when the ship is not on any special

orders or crippled.

Lightning Arc

Stored solar energy is released as a forest of

living energy tendrils which envelop targets

probing for weaknesses. Lightning arcs function

as weapon batteries with two differences.

Firstly, they don’t suffer the normal column shift

to the right when attacking vessels who have

holofields or shadowfields (the bolts do not

need to see) and all targets are treated as

closing.

Lightning arcs with multiple fire arcs can divide

their total Firepower. A lightning arc can be split

between its fire arcs in any way the player

desires. So for a tombship, it’ s Strength 20

lightning arc can fire 5 Firepower to the front,

12 to the left and 3 to the right. Next turn it

could fire 20 Firepower to the right, and none

elsewhere.

Star Pulse Generator

The star pulse generates a pulse of energy with

a radius effect of 20cm, which does not effect

other Necron ships. Each pulse generator gets

one roll to hit against each ship or piece of

ordnance in range. Holofields offer no defence.

A star pulse cannot be generated while the

vessel is using any special order or crippled as it

requires precise control.

unsaveable by holofields.

Portal

Portals are more precise than conventional

teleporters and are able to flood enemy ships

with a relentless host of Necron Warriors and

swarms of Scarabs. Each portal confers an

additional hit and run attack to the Necron

vessel. These have a range of 10cm and, as

normal, can only be made against ships whose

shields are down. The usual restriction that

teleport attacks can only be made against ships

with less remaining Hull Points is waived, with

the exception that Necron Raider class vessels

do not carry enough Warriors to board anything

with more than 6 Hull Points remaining.

these are

Gauss Particle Whip

This is the preferred ranged weapon of the

Necron Raiders. A particle beam is projected

along a magnetic field across a short (at source)

arc, the arc is sufficient to crack the particle

beam like a whip. When a target is hit the beam

is energised focusing power similar to the

lightning arc batteries, but on a much smaller

target area. The particle whip is treated like a

lance except any rolls to hit of 6 bypass shields

and affect the target ship directly _

NECRON VESSELS

NECRON CRITICAL HITS TABLE

2D6 Extra

Roll Damage Result

Power Flow Disrupted. May not fire lightning arc or particle whip in port arc.

INERTIALESS DRIVE

Necron drives are capable of interstellar travel

without the need to enter the Warp. The drive is

fired whenever All Ahead Full orders are issued;

instead of obeying the normal rules for this

order the ship gains D6 x 10cm additional

movement and can make a turn for every 20cm

it travels.

DISENGAGING

Necrons will always prefer to disengage than

fight to the end. They do this by ‘fading out’, the

vessel in question dematerialises and drops out

of normal space. At the end of its Movement

phase any Necron ship may perform a fade out

disengage automatically.

At the end of a game, including normal Victory

points, count up the Necron losses using the

following modifiers:

• Any capital ship that disengages with no

damage whatsoever counts as 10%

destroyed.

• Any capital ship that disengages with any

damage at all or any raider that

disengages counts as 25% destroyed.

• Any capital ship that is crippled counts as

50% destroyed.

• Any capital ship that is destroyed but not

left as a drifting hulk counts as 200%

destroyed.

• Any capital ship that is destroyed and left

as a drifting hulk counts as 300%

destroyed.

NECRON REPAIR POINTS

Due to advanced nature of Necron technology all

Necron ships must expend double the normal

amount of repair points to repair hits and buy

new ships when playing in a campaign.

Power Flow Disrupted. May not fire lightning arc or particle whip in starboard arc.

Power Flow Disrupted. May not fire lightning arc in any arc.

Power Flow Disrupted. May not fire lightning arc or particle whip in any arc.

Drive Damaged. May not change facing until repaired. Permanently reduce the ship’s

Leadership by -1.

Drive Damaged. Reduce movement by -5cm until repaired. Permanently reduce the

ship’s Leadership by -1.

Inertialess Drive Damaged. May not use All Ahead Full special orders until

repaired. Permanently reduce the ship’s Leadership by -1.

Sepulchre Damaged (if present, otherwise roll again) . The ship loses the ability to

use its Sepulchre until repaired. Permanently reduce the ship’s Leadership by -2.

Command Core Damaged. Permanently reduce the ship’s Leadership by -3.

+D3

Power Surge. Permanently reduce the ship’s Leadership by -2.

+D6

Ruptured Power Core. Permanently reduce the ship’s Leadership by -2.

NECRON CRITICAL HITS

The unique nature of Necron vessels, combined

with their incredibly advanced methods of

manufacture, mean that they react to damage

rather differently than other vessels. For this

reason, Necrons use a special critical hits table,

as presented above.

REACTIVE HULLS

Necron ships are made of a unique sentient

metal. To represent these factors all Necron

ships with a reactive hull are immune to

Damage, Leadership and Movement modifiers

from solar flares, radiation, gas clouds and blast

markers. All Necron ships are Armour 6,

representing the difficulty of targeting them,

and in addition receive a special save against

each hit to represent the hull’s adaptive

qualities. The save is 6+ for Raiders, 5+ for

harvesters and Scythes and 4+ for tombships. If

the Necron vessel uses Brace for Impact then

the save is modified to 2+ but its stealth

properties are instantly compromised. A Necron

ship on Brace for Impact orders is reduced to

Armour 4. Last, but by no means least, all

Necron Critical repairs are made on 4 or more

as the sentient metal attempts to self repair.

EXK99-0002. Distance 10,000… 9,000…

8,000… Wait… that’s odd… augers are starting to

detect energy fluctuations… -subject gasps- by

the Emperor… that’s impossible, these readings

are off the scale! ABORT, get us out of here

n…”

- Final message, research craft God’s Eye

ARMADA

“C losing on unidentified spatial anomaly

NECRON VESSELS

NECRON CAIRN CLASS TOMBSHIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 pts

yet encountered by the Imperium.

Tombships are large and terrifyingly well-

armed craft, perfectly capable of defeating

any Imperial battleship currently in

service. Fortunately for the Necrons’

enemies, Tombships are by no means

always present in a Necron raiding fleet,

and so far have only been met on seven

occasions. In each case the tombship was

part of a large force, and so far no

tombship has been met that was not

escorted by at least three of the Scythe

class harvest ships described later. All of

the Tombships so far encountered have

been of the same general pattern, at least

as far as can be ascertained from the

reports of the engaging Imperial ships.

Whether there are different or larger

classes of tombship so far remains a

mystery, though one account of an

engagement between an Ork fleet and the

Necrons mentions a ship so big that it

dwarfed an Ork space hulk. Wheter this is

true or simply typical Orkish exaggeration

remains to be seen.

TYPE/HITS

SPEED

TURNS

SHIELDS

ARMOUR

TURRETS

Battleship/12

20cm

45°

(4+ save)

ARMAMENT

RANGE/SPEED

FIREPOWER/STR

FIRE ARC

Lightning arc

30cm

Left/front/right

Star pulse generator

20cm

(1 per enemy)

All around

Gauss particle whip

45cm

Left/front/right

Portal

10cm

All around

ARMADA

T ombships are the largest Necron ships

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