More points changes from Chapter Approved 2019 have been spotted. Don’t miss the latest updates for Necrons in Warhammer 40k!
Necrons, next to Grey Knights are a faction that could use a good bit of help. So what looks to be changing for their army? Check out what’s been spotted on Imgur.
What looks to be legit images of Necron points changes from Chapter Approved are making the rounds.
Overall, it looks like (almost) everything is dropping about 10-20 points across the board. That’s not too shabby. Be sure to tell us how much cheaper your list just got!
But before we jump into the latest changes let’s take a look at the earlier points that spotted already as well:
GW’s Look At Chapter Approved 2019 Points Changes
For Dark Angels, specifically Ravenwing, their Bikers are dropping from 38 to 34 pts per model.
GW gave us two ideas on where Grey Knights were going. For a regular Strike Squad “after he’s been kitted out”, the average cost is going to be 17 pts. Meanwhile, a single Grey Knight Terminator is going to be averaging around 35 pts. It’s a bit of grey area on how they equipped a full squad with wargear in terms of finding the average. But 17/35 pts for a single model still sounds a little steep. They’re definitely going to need a lot more than that to see tabletop play again.
Necrons have one VERY good tournament list right now. Bringing in triple Doomscythes, triple Doomsday Arks, Immortals, and Destroyers, GW mentioned that some points changes would be making the less-taken units more appealing.
ou can look forward to some less-seen units finding new niches. Triarch Praetorians, for instance, have seen a chunky reduction of 26 to 20 points when armed with rods of covenant, or 22 points when armed with voidblades and particle casters.
Aeldari Flyers Get The First Previewed NERF
Aeldari Flyer spam has been annoying, although effective list to play against from time to time in 8th edition’s meta. With the ability of some choice units to pivot, move, and pivot, they can have two models switching spots consistently on the table while denying a huge footprint of the map that never changes.
The Crimson Hunter Exarch shot up 15 pts. Now costing 150 base, and the Razorwing Jetfighter for the Dark Eldar went up 10 pts, now costing 115 base. These changes might be on the smaller end of the spectrum. However, that could be all they needed to throw the rest of the Aeldari lists off-kilter. We’ll have to see how it really fleshes out on the tabletop.
More Chapter Approved 2019 SPOTTED!
Images showing the points changes in CA 2019 have been spotted. Seeming to come from Blood of Kittens, it looks like mostly Astartes, Chaos Knights, and Tyranids have been spoiled!
This post has been updated with the lastest point changes from both the BoK and Reddit. We will keep updating this page as new information becomes available.
Just the Point Changes
Daemons
Beasts of Nurgle 30
Bloodcrushers 40
Exalted Flamer 50
Fiends 37
Flamers 20
Burning Chariot 100
Exalted Seeker Chariot 70
Seeker Chariot 50
Skull Cannon 80
Soul Grinder 180
Feculent Gnarlmaws 85
Daemon Prince of Chaos 146
Daemon Prince with Wings 155
Daemonic axe 10
Hellforged sword 10
Malefic talons (one set/two sets) 0/10
Slimux 150
Infernal erap… 70
Kairos 250
Lord of Change 250
Lord of Change with sword 255
Masque 78
Keeper 210
Keeper aegis 220
Poxbringer 70
Rotigus 250
Shalaxi 220
Shalaxi aegis 230
Skarbrand 290
Skullmaster 90
Skulltaker 84
Bilepiper 60
Spoil…. 95
Sylleske 210
Bloodtrister 210
Bloodletters 7
Daemonettes 6
– Blue Horrors 5
– Pair of Brimstone Horrors 3
– Pink Horrors 7
Nurglings 18
Plaguebearers 8
Furies 7
Flesh Hounds / Gore Hounds 15/24
Hellflayer 70
Plague Drones 36
Screamers 23
Seekers 15
Blood Angels
Chief Librarian Mephiston down 15 points to 145
Commander Dante down 25 points to 150
Gabriel Seth down 25 points to 110
The Sanguinor down 50 to 130
Death Company down 2 points to 15
Death Company Dreadnought down 10 points to 70
Elites – Death Company Intercessors are 18 – This must be a new unit, not a CP upgrade.
Furioso Dreadnought down 10 points to 60
Primaris Apothecary down 8 points to 60
Reivers down 2 points to 16
Sanguinary Ancient down 9 points to 55
Sanguinary Guard no change – Angelus Boltgun down 3 to 0
Sanguinary Novitiate down 5 points to 50
Terminator Ancient down 21 points to 87
Tyranids
Terv 162 (-18)
Tox 125 (-15)
Warriors 18 (-2)
Tyrannocyte 50 (-25)
both Trygons are 10pts cheaper due to talon costs changing
Acid spray 20 (-5)
Impaler cannon 25 (-5)
Rupture cannon 35 (-14)
Chaos Space Marines
Cultists down to 4,
chaos terms 23,
blight lords 34,
chaos rhino 65.
Possessed down to 17,
warp talons 19,
raptors 15,
Sorcs 80,
disco lord 150
Genestealer Cult
-Demo charges from 5 to 10.
-Heavy mining lasers from 25 to 15
-missile launcher from 15 to 10
-clearance incinerator from 30 to 20
-Heavy seismic cannon -10
Eldar
Wraithblades Axe Shield -10
Wraithknight -45
Wraithlords -5
Hemlock -20
Spiritseers -10
These two sections are from the comments on Reddit, when folks have transcribed some of the images that were spotted recently.
Death Guard
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Cultist down 1 point
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Land raider down 20 points
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Terminator lord down 10 point
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Predator down 5 points
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Rhino went up 15 points (edit: too blurry, it could be 65 – which means its down by 5)
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Spawn went down 5 points
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Helbrute went down 20 points
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Malignant plague caster went down 15 points
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Blight haulers went down 15 points
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Possessed went down 3 points
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Poxwalkers went down 2 points
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Sorceror went down 10 points
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Terminator sorcerer down 2 points
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Typhus went down 20 points
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Plaguebearers went up 1 point
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Combi melta went down 4 points
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Entropy cannon went down 5 points
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Plague spewer went down 2 point
Dark Angels
- Asmodai 130 -> 110
- Azrael 180 -> 150
- Belial 150 -> 125
- Ezekiel 135 -> 110
- Sammael in Sabreclaw 216 -> 200
- Sammael on Corvex 183 -> 140
- Not sure about the numbers, but this is what I can get out of the image.
- Edit: You can see the heavy support units list and the wargear selection too, but the latter is unreadable.
- The heavy support points are:
- Devastator squad 11 (probably means that regural marines drop to 11)
- cherub 5
- Eliminator squad 18/19 (probbaly 18)
- Hellblaster squad 18/19 (probably 18)
- Hunter 80 -> 75
- Landraider 200 -> 180
- Landraider crusader 200
- Landraider redeemer 180
- Predator 90 -> ?? (can’t read it)
- Repulsor executioner 215
- Stalker 75
- Vindicator 125
Necrons Chapter Approved 2019 Points Changes SPOTTED
If you’re not well-versed with all of the current points for Necrons, a Reddit user Merdrach transcribed the changes for us all:
Named Characters:
- Anrakyr down 167 to 149
- Deceiver down 225 to 180
- Nightbringer down 180 to 155
- Illuminor Szeras down 120 to 110
- Imhotekh down 160 to 140
- Nemesor Zahndrekh down 150 to 125
- Orikan the Diviner down 115 to 100
- Trazyn no change 90 to 90
- Vargard Obyron down 125 to 115
Generic HQs:
- CCB W/Gauss Cannon+SoL down 155 to 135
- Cryptek W/SoL no change
- Destroyer Lord w/SoL down 120 to 105
- Lord down w/SoL 75 to 65
- Overlord down w/SoL 94 to 80
Troops:
- Immortals no change
- Warriors no change
Elites:
- Deathmarks down 17 to 14
- Flayed Ones down 17 to 13
- Lychguard w/ Sword ‘n Board down 28 to 26
- Lychguard w/ Warscythe down 28 to 26
- Triarch Praetorians w/ Rod down 26 to 20
- Triarch Praetorians w/ Sword and Pistol down 26 to 20
- Triarch Stalker w/ Heat Ray down 125 to 113
Fast Attack:
- Canoptek Scarabs no change
- Canoptek Wraiths down 48 to 42
- Destroyers no change
- Tomb Blades down 28 to 21
Dedicated Transports:
- Ghost Ark down 145 to 120
Heavy Support:
- Annihilation Barge down 120 to 110
- Canoptek Spyders down 65 to 45
- Doomsday Ark no change
- Heavy Destroyers down 50 to 37
- Monolith down 320 to 300
- Transcendent C’tan down 200 to 180
Flyers:
- Doom Scythe no change
- Night Scythe down 135 to 115
Lords of War:
- Obelisk down 380 to 350
- Tesseract Vault no change
Overall, it looks to be a pretty even (and much needed) spread across the faction ranging in the 10-20 point range as we said before. As Necrons only really have one solid competitive list right now and clung onto the meta in the beginning of 8th with LOW spam, these guys needed some love from GW.
Do you think these changes will bring them up to speed against all the other factions getting points drops as well?
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