Necron Lord (Dark Crusade)

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Dawn of War Commander Unit

Necron Lord
Race	Necrons
Version	Dark Crusade v1.2
Build Info
Hotkey L	Build Cost 175  0 Build Time 60 s Built From Dormant Monolith, Restored Monolith Unit Size 1 Requires Nothing Limit 1
Unit Stats
Hitpoints	1800/2
Armour	Commander
Morale	400/11/50
Unit Mass	25
Move Speed	16
Sight Radius	30 (cannot detect)
Attachable	No
Weapons
Ranged	Staff of Light
Melee	Staff of Light (melee)

Contents 1 Necron Lord 2 Tactics 3 Abilities 3.1 Teleport 3.2 Chronometron 3.3 Phase Shifter 3.4 Lightning Field 3.5 Solar Pulse 3.6 Mass Resurrection 3.7 Veil of Darkness 3.8 Nightmare Shroud 3.9 Essence of the Nightbringer 4 Weapons 4.1 Staff of Light 4.2 Staff of Light (melee) 5 Researchable Upgrades 5.1 Chronometron Research 5.2 Phase Shifter Research 5.3 Lightning Field Research 5.4 Solar Pulse Research 5.5 Phylactery 5.6 Resurrection Orb Research 5.7 Veil of Darkness Research 5.8 Nightmare Shroud Research 5.9 Essence of the Nightbringer 6 Dormant Monolith Add-ons 6.1 Awakened Monolith 6.2 Engaged Monolith 7 The Dawn of War Player's Guide

Necron Lord

On each planet there is only one Necron Lord. The Necron Lords can carry a variety of weapons such as the Staff of Light or Warscythe. Leader of the Necron ground forces, the Necron Lord stalks into battle with his staff. He can be upgrade with a number of artifacts enabling him to use various powerful abilities such as resurrecting fallen Necron infantry, blinding his enemies, or allowing the Essence of the Nightbringer to posses his body for a period of time.

The Kronus Necron Lord led the arising Necron forces in Dark Crusade.

Note: When the Necron Lord is destroyed his carcass remain where he fell, and when reconstructed that's where he spawns. This can be used, for example, to deep strike and enemy base with Flayed Ones. The Necron Lord's high health gives you plenty of time to summon Flayed Ones before the enemy overwhelms him, and he can be re-resurrected infinitely, as long as you have available energy.

Tactics

If the Necron Lord has the Mass Resurrection ability (which allows the Necron Lord to resurrect all nearby dead infantry except Pariahs), the player can build up their infantry Squad Cap to maximum, then group them together in one location. Then the player deletes them, rebuilds his infantry Squad Cap, and resurrects the dead units, allowing the Squad Cap to be passed (though resurrected units return with only 25% of their maximum hitpoints).

The Necron Lord's teleport ability can be used to quickly bring him into range of enemy targets to make good use of the other abilities available to him through the Forbidden Archive. This can be particularly devastating when Nightmare Shroud is used in the midst of clustered enemy ranged squads, quickly reducing the enemy's ranged firepower, though Solar Pulse can achieve a similar effect from a distance. This same tactic can be used with Chronometron to slow down fleeing troops so that necron warriors can finish them off.

Abilities

Teleport

	Teleport			Hotkey: J
	Requires	Nothing
	Target Types	Terrain
	Range	80
	Area of effect	None	Cooldown time	40 s
Effects	The Necron Lord teleports through intervening terrain directly to the targeted location. The Necron lord can teleport twice at full energy, requiring 80 s total to recharge.

Chronometron

	Chronometron			Hotkey: C
	Requires	Chronometron Research
	Target Types	All enemy units
	Range	0
	Area of effect	20	Cooldown time	70 s
Effects	Time around the Necron Lord slows down and enemy units within the area of effect get their movement speed reduced by 40%. The ability only lasts for 15 s, but refreshes every 2 s until 18 s, potentially extending the ability to 33 s long for a single target or slowing new units that fall within the area of effect during the refresh. Also has a passive movement speed reduction of 10% to all enemy units within a radius of 5 from the Necron Lord.

Phase Shifter

	Phase Shifter			Hotkey: H
	Requires	Phase Shifter Research
	Target Types	all friendly units
	Range	0
	Area of effect	10	Cooldown time	45 s
Effects	The Necron Lord and any friendly troops within the area of effect have their morale restored and become invulnerable for 15 s and gain 10 health regeneration per second. The health regeneration effect is tripled by the Phylactery for the Necron Lord only. During this time the Necron Lord and any other effected troops are also unable to attack enemy units.

Lightning Field

Bug: The charge limit for Lightning Field is not implemented in the game engine. Given enough time the Necron Lord can charge the ability high enough to instantly kill any unit in the game.

	Lightning Field			Hotkey: L
	Requires	Lightning Field Research
	Target Types	Anything
	Range	6
	Area of effect	5	Cooldown time	Variable
Effects	90% of the damage taken by the Necron Lord in melee is reflected back and also inflicted on the enemy. All of the damage taken by the Lord in melee adds by the ability's charge along with 60% of the damage inflicted by the Necron Lord in melee. The ability can store a maximum of 900 points of damage. The stored energy can be unleashed as a storm of lighting in a circle around the target when the ability has reached at least a 20% charge. When cast, the ability deals a flat 315 damage to all enemy targets at maximum charge, although damage scales smoothly as the ability charges up.

Solar Pulse

	Solar Pulse			Hotkey: P
	Requires	Solar Pulse Research
	Target Types	Target ground
	Range	15
	Area of effect	20	Cooldown time	70 s
Effects	Creates a Solar Pulse on the targeted location that blinds the enemy and guides the Necrons. Enemy units within its area of effect have their sight range and detection range reduced to 10% and are unable to use ranged weapons. Also, the Solar Pulse has a sight and detection radius of 15. The Solar Pulse lasts for 20 seconds.

Mass Resurrection

	Resurrection Orb			Hotkey: M
	Requires	Resurrection Orb Research
	Target Types	Friendly destroyed Necron Warriors, Flayed Ones, Wraiths, and Immortals
	Range	0
	Area of effect	26	Cooldown time	180 s
Effects	All destroyed Necron Warriors, Flayed Ones, Wraiths and Immortals within the area of effect reassemble and stand up with 30% of their original hit points. This ability also provides a passive 25% bonus to the chance Necron troops within a radius of 25 will get up on their own when slain. The Necron Lord cannot resurrect troops beyond the current maximum squad population plus 4 when casting this ability.

Veil of Darkness

	Veil of Darkness
	Requires	Veil of Darkness Research
	Target Types	All friendly units
	Range	0
	Area of effect	20	Cooldown time	Passive ability
Effects	A permanent passive ability that makes the Necron Lord and friendly units within the area of effect infiltrated as long as the Necron Lord has at least 50% health.

Nightmare Shroud

	Nightmare Shroud			Hotkey: N
	Requires	Nightmare Shroud Research
	Target Types	All enemy Infantry, Heavy Infantry, Commanders, and Daemon Medium
	Range	0
	Area of effect	15	Cooldown time	80 s
Effects	All nearby enemy infantry are forced to flee the Necron Lord for 10 s and any morale-vulnerable troops take 100,000 morale damage.

Essence of the Nightbringer

	Essence of the Nightbringer			Hotkey: S
	Requires	Essence of the Nightbringer
	Target Types	Self
	Range	0
	Area of effect	0	Cooldown time	300 s
Effects	The Necron Lord channels the essence of the unstoppable C'tan god the Nightbringer. After 60 seconds The Nightbringer manifestation disappears and the Necron Lord is returned. If the Necron Lord has Lightning Field researched, any charge on the ability will be lost.

Weapons

Staff of Light

	Staff of Light
Damage Per Second Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Morale Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High DPS Base Min Max Min.D Initial DPS: 14.1 27.6 23.0 20.7 16.1 11.5 9.2 4.6 2.8 NA 11.5 4.6 2.8 16.1 2.8 1.1 3 55.7 75.5 4
Cost	Default Weapon	Range	25	Setup Time	0 s
Build Time	Default Weapon	Accuracy	70%	Refire Rate	1 s
Area of Effect	0	Requires	Nothing

Staff of Light (melee)

	Staff of Light (melee)
Damage Per Second Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Morale Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High DPS Base Min Max Min.D Initial DPS: 34.4 85.9 85.9 85.9 85.9 45.8 34.4 28.6 114.6 NA 45.8 40.1 22.9 34.4 114.6 20.8 50 125 150 5
Cost	Default Weapon	Range	Melee	Setup Time	0 s
Build Time	Default Weapon	Accuracy	100%	Refire Rate	1.2 s
Area of Effect	0	Requires	Nothing

Researchable Upgrades

Max upgrades: 3 + Summon Nightbringer Research.

Chronometron Research

	Chronometron			Hotkey: C
	Cost	100	Research Time	0 s
	Researched From	Forbidden Archive
	Requires	Dormant Monolith
Effects	Gives the Necron Lord the Chronometron ability.

Phase Shifter Research

	Phase Shifter Research			Hotkey: P
	Cost	75	Research Time	0 s
	Researched From	Forbidden Archive
	Requires	Nothing
Effects	Gives the Necron Lord the Phase Shifter ability.

Lightning Field Research

	Lightning Field Research			Hotkey: L
	Cost	100	Research Time	0 s
	Researched From	Forbidden Archive
	Requires	Nothing
Effects	Gives the Necron Lord the Lightning Field ability.

Solar Pulse Research

	Solar Pulse Research			Hotkey: S
	Cost	125	Research Time	0 s
	Researched From	Forbidden Archive
	Requires	Dormant Monolith, Summoning Core
Effects	Gives the Necron Lord the Solar Pulse ability.

Phylactery

	Phylactery			Hotkey: Y
	Cost	150	Research Time	0 s
	Researched From	Forbidden Archive
	Requires	Awakened Monolith
Effects	The Necron Lord is affected in the following ways: Health Regeneration Rate is tripled. Ranged damage taken is halved.

Resurrection Orb Research

	Resurrection Orb Research			Hotkey: R
	Cost	275	Research Time	0 s
	Researched From	Forbidden Archive
	Requires	Dormant Monolith, Greater Summoning Core
Effects	Gives the Necron Lord the Mass Resurrection ability. It also increases the chance of nearby (within 25) Necrons to reassemble by 25%.

Veil of Darkness Research

	Veil of Darkness Research			Hotkey: V
	Cost	325	Research Time	0 s
	Researched From	Forbidden Archive
	Requires	Engaged Monolith
Effects	Gives the Necron Lord the Veil of Darkness ability.

Nightmare Shroud Research

	Nightmare Shroud Research			Hotkey: N
	Cost	350	Research Time	0 s
	Researched From	Forbidden Archive
	Requires	Engaged Monolith
Effects	Give the Necron Lord the Nightmare Shroud ability.

Essence of the Nightbringer

	Essence of the Nightbringer			Hotkey: N
	Cost	750	Research Time	60 s
	Researched From	Energy Core
	Requires	Nothing
Effects	Allows the Necron Lord to use the use the Essence of the Nightbringer ability.

Dormant Monolith Add-ons

Awakened Monolith

	Awakened Monolith				Hotkey: M
	Cost	300	Build Time	60 s
	Requires	Summoning Core
Effects	Moves the Necrons into Tier 2 with the following effects:</b> Increases the health of the Dormant Monolith by 50% to 7500 Cost of the Necron Lord increased by +50  (stacks with additional Awakened Monolith and Engaged Monolith add-ons) Allows for the production of Immortals The Greater Summoning Core can be built New upgrades are available from the Forbidden Archive Strengthen Powergrid can be researched

Engaged Monolith

	Engaged Monolith				Hotkey: M
	Cost	350	Build Time	60 s
	Requires	Awakened Monolith, Greater Summoning Core
Effects	Moves the Necrons into Tier 3 with the following effects:</b> Allows for the production of Pariahs and Heavy Destroyers The Energy Core can be built New upgrades are available from the Forbidden Archive Plasma Battery Storage can be researched Cost of the Necron Lord increased by a further +50  (stacks with additional Awakened Monolith and Engaged Monolith add-ons) Increases the health of the Necron Lord by 50% (does not stack)

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