Tomb Spyder

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This article has been updated for Soulstorm. The Dark Crusade version is now archived.

Dawn of War Vehicle

Tomb Spyder
Race	Necrons
Version	Soulstorm v1.2
Build Info
Hotkey T	Build Cost 250  2 Build Time 60 s Built From Dormant Monolith, Restored Monolith Unit Size 1 Requires Greater Summoning Core Limit 3
Unit Stats
Hitpoints	3000/0
Armour	Vehicle Medium
Unit Mass	80
Move Speed	18
Sight Radius	30 (cannot detect)
Weapons
Ranged	None
Melee	2x Tomb Spyder Claw

Contents 1 Tomb Spyder 2 Tactics 3 Abilities 3.1 Harvest 3.2 Spawn Attack Scarabs 3.3 Death Explosion 4 Buildable Units 4.1 Necron Warriors 4.2 Flayed Ones 4.3 Immortals 5 Weapons 5.1 Tomb Spyder Claw 6 Weapon Upgrades 6.1 Particle Projector 7 The Dawn of War Player's Guide

Tomb Spyder

The dedicated servants of the sleeping Necrons, these machines have been busy keeping the Necron tombs safe from the eyes of outsiders as well as making sure the Necrons awake when ordered. Now above ground, they continue that servitude by reassembling fallen warriors.

Note: When a Tomb Spyder is destroyed its wreckage remain where it fell, and when reconstructed that's where it spawns. However, destroyed Spyders are resurrected in the order they were built. So if 1 was built and destroyed in your headquarters, three more would have to be built to bring back that first one. Every Necron player starts a normal skirmish with three such wreckages around their Dormant Monolith.

Tactics

When situated in the middle of melee combat, Tomb Spyders can be both quite destructive and disruptive, owing to their occasional omnidirectional special attacks which can knockdown all nearby infantry. A single area-of-effect attack can break the morale of even a courageous Space Marine Squad.

The Tomb Spyder is essentially the Necron walker. A very high damage close combat unit, it excels at destroying buildings. Its low health for a walker makes it an easy target for anti-vehicle attacks.

Tomb Spyders equiped with a Particle Projector can perform fairly well against flying units but are even more effective when creating Scarab Swarms (which quickly become large with a squad cap of 15 and a reinforce time of 4 seconds) which can easily overwhelm flying units in close combat. However, relying on these tiny machines can quickly drain the Necron economy. Maintaining the reinforcement rate of just one squad requires an power income rate of 63.

After combat is over, Tomb Spyders can turn dead soldiers into fresh troops, allowing for an unrelenting steady assault. While it is harvesting, it cannot attack. It can hold its harvested bodies inside and create new troops out of them when needed.

Note: The Tomb Spyder can only generate new harvested troops up until the current squad population cap +5. In other words, if the Necron player currently has a population cap of 16, he can use the Tomb Spyder to continuously harvest new troops until this reaches 21.

Because the Tomb Spyders are an important unit for the Necron army it can not be possessed by an enemy Lord Destroyer.

The best way to deal with Tomb Spyders is with ranged anti-vehicle units, taking advantage of their relatively slow movement speed.

Abilities

Harvest

	Harvest
	Requires	Nothing
	Target Types	None
	Range	40
	Area of effect	5	Cooldown time	0
	Cost	Variable
Effects	The Tomb Spyder moves to the nearest fallen Necron infantry unit in range and harvests the bodies within the area of effect one by one. Builder Scarabs, Pariahs, and the Necron Lord do not produce harvestable bodies. The Tomb Spyder has room for 10 bodies and can use them to build the following squads: Necron Warriors, consumes 4 bodies. Flayed Ones, consumes 5 bodies. Immortals, consumes 6 bodies.

Spawn Attack Scarabs

	Spawn Attack Scarabs			Hotkey: S
	Requires	Nothing
	Target Types	Own unit
	Range	0
	Area of effect	0	Cooldown time	10 s
	Cost	125  1
Effects	The Tomb Spyder sacrifices 30% of its health and creates a swarm of Attack Scarabs.

Death Explosion

	Death Explosion
	Requires	Nothing
	Target Types	Any
	Range	Self
	Area of effect	10	Cooldown time	None
Effects	When the Tomb Spyder is destroyed, there is a 25% chance that any units within the area of effect will be sent flying (30-45 force) and take 15 morale damage.

Buildable Units

Necron Warriors

	Necron Warriors
	Cost	4 Harvested bodies, 3	Build Time	0 s
	Squad Size	3/8	Limit	None
	Requires	Dormant Monolith or Restored Monolith

Flayed Ones

	Flayed Ones
	Cost	5 Harvested bodies, 3	Build Time	0 s
	Squad Size	4/8	Limit	None
	Requires	Awakened Monolith

Immortals

	Immortals
	Cost	6 Harvested bodies, 2	Build Time	0 s
	Squad Size	3/5	Limit	None
	Requires	Awakened Monolith

Weapons

The Tomb Spyder has two Tomb Spyder Claws but it is listed here only once out of convenience.

Tomb Spyder Claw

	Tomb Spyder Claw
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: 116.6 97.1 77.7 106.8 58.3 29.1 145.7 128.2 77.7 19.4 77.7 64.1 48.6 106.8 77.7 35 200 500 610 10
Cost	Default Weapon	Range	Melee	Setup Time	0 s
Build Time	Default Weapon	Accuracy	70%	Refire Rate	2 s
Area of Effect	0	Requires	Nothing

Weapon Upgrades

If upgraded with the Particle Projector the Tomb Spyder loses a Tomb Spyder Claw.

Particle Projector

	Particle Projector				Hotkey: P
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: 43.1 86.1 78.9 71.8 50.2 35.9 64.6 35.9 17.5 64.6 28.7 21.5 17.5 50.2 17.5 5.3 15.0 185 225 25
Cost	50	Range	40	Setup Time	0 s
Build Time	30 s	Accuracy	70%	Refire Rate	1 s
Area of Effect	0	Requires	Nothing

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