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The Silent King

(Entry)

Type: unit

Categories: Faction: Necrons, Faction: Szarekhan

EntryId: 4ed9-4e6f-9116-0b00

Hidden: false

Costs: 21 PL400 pts

Constraints:

max(roster): 1

Options (5)

Stratagem: Warlord Trait

Szarekh

Triarchal Menhir

Warlord

Warlord Trait (Szarekhan): The Triarch's Will

Rules (2)

Command Protocols

If every unit from your army (excluding DYNASTIC AGENT, C'TAN SHARD and UNALIGNED units) is from the same dynasty, and you select a NECRONS CHARACTER model to be your WARLORD, this unit is eligible to benefit from this ability and the following rules apply.  

After both sides have deployed, but before you have determined who will have the first turn, you must assign a different one of the command protocols to each of the first five battle rounds, and note this down secretly on your army roster.

At the start of each battle round, if any NECRONS CHARACTER units from your army are on the battlefield, the command protocol that you assigned to that battle round becomes active for your army until the end of that battle round. Each command protocol is made up of two directives. When a command protocol becomes active for your army, reveal it to your opponent and select one of its directives.  Until the assigned command protocol stops being active, while a unit that is eligible to benefit from this ability is on the battlefield, that unit benefits from the selected directive.

In addition, if all units from your army are from the same dynasty (excluding DYNASTIC AGENT, C'TAN SHARD and UNALIGNED units), select one command protocol that has not been assigned to a battle round (there will typically only be one). That command protocol is active in every battle round in addition to the one assigned to that battle round – select which directive your units will benefit from at the start of each battle round. Note that if this additional command protocol is the one described in your dynasty’s code, this means both of its directives apply to all units with this ability in your army in every battle round, in addition to the protocol assigned to that battle round.

Living Metal

At the start of your Command phase, each model in this unit regains 1 lost wound.

Profiles:

Abilities
Noctilith Beacons: In your opponent's Psychic phase, Szarekh can attempt to deny one psychic power as if he were a PSYKER.
Obeisance Generators: At the start of the Fight phase, if there are any enemy units within Engagement Range of Szarekh, then until the end of the phase, those units cannot fight until after all other eligible units from your army have done so.
Phaeron of the Stars (Aura): While a friendly NECRONS CORE unit or TRIARCH PRAETORIANS unit is within 6" of Szarekh, each time a ranged attack is made by a model in that unit, you can re-roll the hit roll.
Phaeron of the Blades (Aura): While a friendly NECRONS CORE unit or TRIARCH PRAETORIANS unit is within 6" of Szarekh, each time a melee attack is made by a model in that unit, you can re-roll the wound roll.
Voice of the Triarch: Once per battle, at the start of any battle round, if Szarekh is on the battlefield he can alter your command protocols. If he does, one command protocol that you did not assign to any battle rounds before the battle becomes active for your army for that battle round, instead of the one that you assigned to it.
Triarchal Menhir: While this unit contains any Triarchal Menhirs models, it does not count as a CHARACTER for the purposes of the Look Out, Sir rule and each time an attack successfully wounds this unit, that attack must be allocated to one of those models. The destruction of Triarchal Menhirs is ignored for the purposes of Morale tests. If Szarekh is ever destroyed, any remaining Triarchal Menhirs in this unit are also destroyed.
Preservative Auto-Torpor: If Szarekh has 8 or fewer wounds remaining, it cannot make attacks with its Staff of Stars and loses the Phaeron of the Stars ability. If Szarekh has 4 or fewer wounds remaining, it cannot make attacks with its Scythe of Dust and loses the Phaeron of the Blades ability.
The Silent King: If your army is Battle-forged, Szarekh must be your army's WARLORD. You receive 3 additional Command points if Szarekh is your WARLORD.
My Will Be Done (Silent King): In your Command phase, you can select one friendly NECRONS CORE or TRIARCH PRAETORIANS unit within 9" of Szarekh. Until the start of your next Command phase, each time a model in that unit makes an attack, add 1 to that attack's hit roll. Each unit can only be selected for this ability once per phase.
Relentless March (Silent King) (Aura): While a friendly NECRONS CORE or TRIARCH PRAETORIANS unit is within 6" of Szarekh, each time that unit is selected to make a Normal Move or Advance, until the end of the phase, add 1" to the Move characteristic of models in that unit.
Transtemporal Force Field (Silent King): Models in this unit have a 4+ invulnerable save.
Phaeron: This model can use its My Will Be Done one additional time per turn.

Explosion	Dice Roll	Distance	Mortal Wounds
Vengeance of the Enchained	4+	2D6"	D6

Modifiers:

set CP 3

1+ Warlord in The Silent King (recursive)

set hidden true

1+ Cult of the Cryptek in roster (recursive)

force is Boarding Patrol

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