Agonies of the necrontyr (homegrown rule)

[Beatnik cryptek]

Some necron overlords and lords are fitted with advanced bioneural frenquency transducers that broadcast on wavelengths matching the neural activity range of various living entities. The necron recalls it's time of flesh in a body that crawled with hell, tumors eating away at it, plagued by organ failures and decaying tissue. Charging it's synaptic pathways with memories of it's agonizing mortal existence the Lord fires these memories of its tortured life thru its tranducers, flooding the minds of it's enemies with the agonies of the necrontyr.

 

Necron Lord or overlord. At the end of the necron movement phase, pick an enemy unit within 12'' of the necron. The target unit and the necron both make Ld tests. If the necron makes its roll by more than the target unit, the target takes d3 mortal wounds as their minds are overwhelmed by the agonies of the necrontyr.

 

How many points should this by worth?

[Karhedron]

Seems more suitable as a stratagem IMHO or possibly a Relic.

[Brother Tyler]

I would look at the psyker powers that are closest to this in terms of how they work.

[Beatnik cryptek]

Yeah, I kinda wanted this as a non psyker power for necrons. Hmnn, make it more effective vs osykers maybe? Make it targetable on a psyker if in range abd tge osyker takes a 1 penalty to its ld test?

[NTaW]

Potentially as a one use item like the resurrection orb and priced higher? With Ld10 that's a decent lean on getting those MWs through against just about anyone other than characters.

 

With homebrew options though it's really about what you can sell your opponent on.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Necrons do NOT have psykers. They DO (or did) have Pariahs. A better explanation for the agonizer's effects, will be a negative psychic presence's natural effects on living beings; see Culexus assassins for comparison. Victims do NOT share in the Necrons' old agony, but in a new agony the Necrons created; you are free to have Necron Overlords imagine their victims will know how the Necrons themselves once suffered, though you should emphasize this is only the Necrons' imagination.

[Beatnik cryptek]

Potentially as a one use item like the resurrection orb and priced higher? With Ld10 that's a decent lean on getting those MWs through against just about anyone other than characters.

 

With homebrew options though it's really about what you can sell your opponent on.

Well I was careful to avoid calling it a psy power and gave it a technological explanation. I also kind of like the idea of the necrons essentially letting the 'upstarts' know what they went thru.