Forge World Unearth the Deadly Necron Canoptek Acanthrites
August 13, 2012 by brennon
Check out these deadly Canoptek Acanthrites for the Necron forces of the 41st Millennium from Forge World! These are some pretty deadly looking cyber-beasties...
These Necrons are constructed for no other reason than to destroy those who would disturb their tomb worlds. Equipped with a phase sword sting in the tail and deadly cutting beams I would not want to be faced by one of these on the battlefield.
They remind me a lot of the machines from The Matrix, but with their own little Necron style to them. They have already made a few people leap for their wallets, so will you be doing the same?
Check out the prototype rules HERE.
What do you make of these?
I dont like the way Necrons are heading right now. I dont like their new style at all it looks like everything got just rounder and the general shapes are bigger with less details. Plus I dont like the change in character they have with them getting more and more human-like treats …I liked them more being soulless slaves execting the will of the Ctan. And its the same with these modells I am quite underwhelmed for a forgeworld release.
See I was a bit on the fence about the change but I really like the personality that the Necrons have now. It’s made them more interesting and allowed for a change in the way people model for them as an army. With every Overlord having his own personality and way of thinking/fighting you can really go to town on the accessories he carries and how he behaves on the battlefield. In my eyes the 40k world already had a soulless entity of destruction, and that was the Tyranids. They really don’t have a personality and are simply cogs in… Read more »
the problem I have is that I dont find their treats well chosen nor are they well transported in the stories and tidbits …they just seem like random villains with the most generic treats to make them cool ( for a younger audience) and I simply dont feel it . This could have worked but it was ( as most times in the era of Mat Ward) executed poorly and shallow.
I too have a problem with the new necron designs, I personally like the older models more than the recent ones, I can’t stand the look of the new vehicles, the only true necron vehicle is a monolith. I miss pariahs and the old wraiths. The same can be said with the fluff, I’ll give Ward credit for giving them a form of personality and doing well with certain parts of the codex (Trazyn), but I miss the overwhelming sense of dread anyone in the old black library books got when the word necron was even mentioned, the lovecraftian horror… Read more »
Matt Ward has read your comments and would like to inform you that in the next edition of Codex Necrons it will be revealed that the Necrons are not under control of the Blood Angels. Thanks for playing Warhammer 40,000.
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For the record, I quite like these seemingly Transformers inspired Insecticons with a dash of Matrix.
I really do like the look of these. I could be tempted but…I bought the skin wolves some time back and…..I have yet to cut them from the sprue and it looks suspiciously like failcast with a little more attention to mold quality so guess what these will be… Until someone reviews them my money stays where it is.
Is it me, or some Forgeworld stuff seem “cheap” now? Or have I been jaded by GW’s constant price hikes.
No, that’s just you! :O
I’ve always found FW stuff cheap. Perhaps that’s because im incredibly wealthy. I have many leather bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany. 🙂 I like to new release. I think i’ll buy 87 of them.
The models look really nice but 45 points for 1 with those stats? i think i’ll pass.
o.O what Stats should they have for you to take them then , its a solid 3 wounds with T5 and a inbuild melta ( given only S6 ) and a CC weapon that basically ignores every kind of save …. 45p is totally worth it …a terminator costs about the same and is way less impressive ( only major plus would be his 2+ AS).
ok 3 wounds and T5 is pretty good, but in what way does a void blade ignore every kind of save? it’s a CCW with rending and entropic. it’s good but not great.
for the 135 points minimum i’d have to spend on these guys i could get 10 more warriors, a pair of lords with res orbs, a pair of spyders with either fab claws or gloom prisms, 3 destroyers, 9 scarab bases, or with a few points more a D&D squad all of which would be way more beneficial to me.
I liked Necrons a lot more before they were all decorated up with various fancy hats and robes. I like these Canoptek Acanthrites, but not enough to overcome the over-deco of a lot of the newer guys. I agree with the soulless swarm of machines opinion above, too. Much more appealing to me as a bunch of Skynet Terminator types. I might find them more interesting with a little personality peeking through with the overlords, but as is… they are meh enough I’d have just ignored it. But the deco and mecha-feather boas and such now just pushes it too… Read more »
I do enjoy the new dex with the variety now in the book, however like @partisan said I did also prefer the C’tan being in command not the necron royalty lol. Also I did prefer the pure power of the C’tan, they were well worth the points back then, and I wish they hadn’t changed a lot but were still very expensive for balance.
Now they can’t even instant death a SM Captain, its one extreme to the other lol