Obelisk

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Dawn of War Building

Obelisk
Race	Necrons
Version	Soulstorm v1.2
Build Info
Hotkey L	Build Cost 25  Return Value 12  Build Time 25 s Built By Builder Scarabs Requires Strategic Point or Relic Limit None
Unit Stats
Hitpoints	2000
Armour	Building Low
Resource Bonus	+3 +3
Control Radius	20
Sight Radius	25 (detection 7 by Strategic Point or Relic)

Contents 1 Obelisk 2 Tactics 3 Abilities 3.1 Necron Obelisk 3.2 Wailing Terror 4 Add-ons 4.1 Fortified Obelisk 4.2 Heavily Fortified Obelisk 5 Weapon Upgrades 5.1 Obelisk Gauss Flayer 6 The Dawn of War Player's Guide

Obelisk

The Necrons are not limited by their ability to requisition more advanced soldiers and weaponry, but drawing troops and equipment up from the depths is a difficult task even for their powerful technologies. By constructing Obelisks on Strategic Points and Relics, they can focus on the needed components of their buried army more easily, exhuming them with greater ease and greater speed.

Although Obelisks are the primary means for the Necron army to improve their unit construction, reinforcement, and research times, Critical Locations also give a 10% reduction to all three modifiers.

Note: Unlike other Necron buildings, only two Builder Scarabs can repair an Obelisk at the same time.

Tactics

Unlike all other races, upgrading your Obelisks provides no resource bonus whatsoever. Obelisks are therefore merely a means of defense. The first upgrade allows the Wailing Terror ability, which is an area of effect attack that can outright kill some lightly armored squads such as Sluggas or Guardsmen. The second upgrade is an extremely potent long range turret that also retains the original AoE attack. However, it can be somewhat of a gamble creating and upgrading since there is no real return on your investment.

In most cases it is better to leave Obelisks unupgraded when they are near to your base and easy to protect. The cost of replacing an unupgraded Obelisk is extremely low and it's accomplished very quickly. So it should only be done if you have a surplus or you are facing lots of harassment by your base and you need extra protection. Obelisks far away, on the other hand, should be fully upgraded so as to keep your reduced time for construction and research effects. In addition, Gauss Turrets can be useful for protecting Obelisks, as they have extremely good anti-infantry and anti-vehicle attacks once fully upgraded, all for a cost of 50 power.

Abilities

Necron Obelisk

	Necron Obelisk
	Requires	Nothing
	Target Types	None
	Range	0
	Area of effect	Global	Cooldown time	Passive ability
Effects	When finished the Obelisk gives the following benefits (limit of 66% on all three): Research Time is reduced by 10% (does not effect Monolith, Obelisk, or Gauss Turret upgrade times) Reinforce Time is reduced by 10% Build Time for Infantry and Vehicles is reduced by 10% The time bonus displayed is the portion of the maximum 66% bonus achieved.

Wailing Terror

	Wailing Terror			Hotkey: D
	Requires	Fortified Obelisk
	Target Types	Any enemy units or structures
	Range	35
	Area of effect	5	Cooldown time	55 s
Effects	Sends out a powerful blast that inflicts damage and knocks down infantry (40-50 force).
Damage Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High Morale Min Max Min.D 127.5-157.5 170-210 170-210 170-210 170-210 127.5-157.5 42.5-52.5 127.5-157.5 127.5-157.5 1 1 1 1 127.5-157.5 1 85 170 210 1

Add-ons

Fortified Obelisk

	Fortified Obelisk				Hotkey: U
	Cost	75	Build Time	35 s
	Requires	Dormant Monolith or Restored Monolith
Effects	Enables the Wailing Terror ability.

Heavily Fortified Obelisk

	Heavily Fortified Obelisk				Hotkey: U
	Cost	150	Build Time	35 s
	Requires	Fortified Obelisk, Awakened Monolith
Effects	</b> Health is increased by 1200 Hitpoints. Enables the Obelisk Gauss Flayer weapon upgrade.

Weapon Upgrades

Obelisk Gauss Flayer

	Obelisk Gauss Flayer
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: 35.3 35.3 35.3 35.3 35.3 35.3 35.3 35.3 35.3 NA 35.3 35.3 35.3 35.3 35.3 6.7 25 250 280 5
Cost	See Heavily Fortified Obelisk	Range	35	Setup Time	0 s
Build Time	See Heavily Fortified Obelisk	Accuracy	80%	Refire Rate	3 s
Area of Effect	0	Requires	Heavily Fortified Obelisk

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