The writing is on the walls, er pages. There maybe no denying the Necron Blood Angel 7th Edition Fist Bump.
The Necrons are coming soon and here’s why!
It may be purely coincidental that their is a rumored advent calendar book coming out the same day as the Blood Angel Codex release about the Necron Silent King, or in the grand scheme of things it all may just be interconnected.
Gather around let me tell you a tale from the Grim Dark Past …
You see the last Silent King (who indeed was Szarekh) of the Necronytr ruled over his people when they were tricked by the C’Tan and transformed into the soulless ones we know of them today.
After the defeat of the C’tan during the War in Heaven, he and a vast army of followers fled into deep space, perhaps the area known as the Ghoul Stars. He was rumored to be looking for a cure for his people to revert the process of biotransference and back into beings of flesh and blood once again.
While in the void recently, he encountered the Tyranids and immediately recognized that they posed the single biggest threat to his people. Because if they consumed all life in the galaxy, there would be no one to serve as the reverse hosts the Necronytr need to become living beings once again.
So Szarekh now seeks to re-awaken his people, the Necrons, and retask them to this purpose; the eradication of the Tyranid threat, and the enslavement of mankind for reverse biotransference.
Are these perhaps Baal’s unexpected allies? As Hive Fleet Leviathan threatens to overwhelm and envelope them, the Silent King may become Baal’s greatest hope.
Checkout this little teaser passage in the back of the Deathstorm campaign book that may even foreshadow the awaking of these allied forces.
“And from the shadows of the Phodian undercity an ancient evil has stirred, awoken by the coming of the hive fleet.”
Now in the latest leaks for the new Shield of Baal Exterminatus book, they talk about what happens when a Hierophant goes up against a C’Tan, that there is 18 new Detachments for the “Cryptan Alliance”, as well as new Relics and Warlord Traits for the Blood Angels, Flesh Tearers, and the Necron Mephrit Dynasty!
Has Szarekh’s Great Awakening come the Baal Sector? Only time, and the next White Dwarf may tell for sure…
What say ye, is it the End Times for the Baal Sector? -MBG
About the Author: Rob Baer
Rob Baer
Job Title: Managing Editor
Founded Spikey Bits in 2009
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About Rob Baer: Founder, Publisher, & Managing Editor of Spikey Bits, the leading tabletop gaming news website focused on the hobby side of wargaming and miniatures.
Rob also co-founded and currently hosts the Long War Podcast, which has over 350 episodes and focuses on tabletop miniatures gaming, specializing in Warhammer 40k. and spent six years writing for Bell of Lost Souls.
Every year, along with his co-hosts, he helps host the Long War 40k Doubles Tournament at Adepticon and the Long War 40k Doubles at the Las Vegas Open, each of which attracts thousands of players from around the world.
Rob has won many Warhammer 40k Tournaments over the years, including multiple first-place finishes in Warhammer 40k Grand Tournaments over the years and even winning 1st place at the 2011 Adepticon 40k Team Tournament. He was even featured for his painting in issue #304 of Games Workshop’s White Dwarf Magazine.
With over 30 years of experience in retail and distribution, Rob knows all the products and exactly which ones are the best. As a member of GAMA (Game Manufacturers Association), he advocates for gaming stores and manufacturers in these difficult times, always looking for the next big thing to feature for the miniatures hobby, helping everyone to provide the value consumers want.
While he’s played every edition of Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy (since 5th Edition) and has been hobbying on miniatures since the 1980s, Titans of all sizes will always be his favorite! It’s even rumored that his hobby vault rivals the Solemnance Galleries, containing rulebooks filled with lore from editions long past, ancient packs of black-bordered Magic Cards, and models made of both pewter and resin.
