There have been a number of ongoing debates on other sites regarding the Necron Monolith and what it can or can't do.
One interesting offshoot is a question regarding Necron Warriors and how they arrive from reserve.
Here are (I believe) the relevant points.
The Necron Codex (page 18) under Reserves says; "And Warrior units in excess of the minimum required by the Force Organization chart for the mission being played may begin the game in reserve whether the Reserves special rule is in use or not."
The latest rules state that the Reserves special rule is used in all standard missions, so this part of the Necron rule is pretty much moot. Agreed?
The Codex continues with; "When they arrive they must emerge from a Monolith portal."
This was always taken to mean that in standard missions, If you chose to field move than 2 units of Warriors and you wanted to place them in reserve, you would also
have to field a Monolith. There was no choice in this. Agreed?
Now the latest Necron
FAQ had this to say;
Q. Can units of Necron Warriors enter from
reserve as normal or must they enter via a
Monolith?
A. If the players hold any units of Necron
Warriors in reserve, he must specify if they are
going to enter the game through the Monolith or
simply walk in from their own table edge, as
normal. If units of Warriors are using this rule
and all available Monoliths are destroyed, the
Warriors count as destroyed and may therefore
trigger the Phase Out of the on-table portion of
the army.
There are 2 distinct schools of thought on this.
The first is that this
FAQ does not change the Codex stipulation that Necron Warriors in excess of the minimum required by the
FOC (usually 2) and in reserve still
must come in through a Monolith. No choice.
My take is that the
FAQ changed that rule to say that the Warriors can
either emerge from the portal
or come on from the table edge. Therefore, it is possible, and in fact quite legal to field a large Necron force
without a single Monolith and still place any number of units, including any and all Warrior units, in reserve. The
only difference is that now if you
do have a Monolith and you
do hold any Warrior units in reserve, you
must declare
how they are going to arrive to your opponent (same as deep strike and outflanking) and that once declared you cannot change it.
So for example, if you were to declare that you were holding 4 Warrior units in reserve, and that they
all were going to arrive through the Monolith, and the Monolith was destroyed before they arrived, the Warriors would count as destroyed because they could not arrive from reserve.
But if in the same example, you declared that only 1 Warrior unit was going to arrive through the Monolith and the other 3 were going to arrive as normal, and again the Monolith was destroyed, only the 1 warrior unit would count as destroyed, the other 3 would arrive from the table edge as normal.
I thought that this was a good
FAQ and gave the Necrons a better option as far as placing Warriors and other units in reserve.
Thoughts on any of this?
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