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This is SprueSentry strategy commentary, not official rules. The detachment rule, stratagems and enhancements below are taken from the free Necrons Faction Pack and were re-verified on 27 August 2026 against v1.2 of that pack, the version made legal for matched play by the 26 August 2026 balance update. Detachment Point costs and enhancement points are not in that document; the values here were checked against Munitorum Field Manual v1.3 (26 August 2026) and match it, but they move with every points update, so treat them as a planning aid and confirm them in the Warhammer 40,000 app before a game.
Necrons Monster units gain Distortion Fields (Aura): an enemy unit within 6" is unravelling, and every attack against an unravelling unit improves its Armour Penetration by 1. At the start of any phase a Monster may suffer 3 mortal wounds to extend its aura to 9". Each Monster must take a Necrodermal Binding and pay the points surcharge in the Munitorum Field Manual, and the detachment has no ordinary enhancements.
1CP, once per battle round. An unravelling enemy visible to your Monster takes a Battle-shock test at -1 and suffers D3+1 mortal wounds if it fails.
1CP. A Necrons unit (excluding Monsters) re-rolls Hit rolls of 1, and Wound rolls of 1 too against an unravelling target.
1CP, once per turn. After a Monster destroys an enemy that was unravelling at the start of the phase, a friendly unit within 6" activates Reanimation Protocols.
1CP. Models destroyed before they fight roll a D6, +1 if the attacker is unravelling; on a 4+ they fight before being removed.
1CP. When an unravelling enemy Falls Back out of Engagement Range, every model in it takes a Desperate Escape test, at -1 if it is Battle-shocked.
1CP. A just-destroyed Necrons Monster's Deadly Demise triggers on a 3+ instead of a 6.
C'tan Shard of the Nightbringer only. The model is eligible to declare a charge in a turn it Advanced.
C'tan Shard of the Deceiver only. Once per turn, an enemy stratagem used on a unit within 12" costs 1 extra CP.
Transcendent C'tan only. When it makes an ingress or advance move using Transdimensional Displacement, it can end that move more than 6" horizontally from all enemy units, and it cannot charge that turn if it ends within 8" of one. Faction Pack v1.2 rebuilt this around the Displacement move rather than a Deep Strike set-up, and tightened the no-charge band from 9" to 8". Every Transcendent C'tan beyond the first must take this binding.
C'tan Shard of the Void Dragon only. Once per turn an enemy Vehicle takes a Leadership test and attacks at -1 to Hit, and -1 to Wound as well if it failed.
The melee brawler, and the only carrier of Quantum Goad for Advance-and-charge.
See the box: price and offersThe anti-Vehicle specialist that also cripples an enemy tank each turn via Animus Damper.
See the box: price and offersThe control piece: Singularity Matrix taxes every enemy stratagem used near it.
See the box: price and offersThe flexible, repeatable shard; the Faction Pack tightened Transdimensional Displacement from 9" to 8".
Cheap scoring bodies that hold objectives while the shards tank, and benefit from the aura and the reanimation stratagems.
See the box: price and offersA low-model-count C'tan list badly wants cheap, fast objective-holders for the leftover DP.
How to play Pantheon of Woe in 11th edition — the 2-DP multi-C'tan detachment whose 'unravelling' auras give your whole army +1 AP against nearby enemies.
Sprue Sentry strategy commentary for 11th edition, not official rules. Games Workshop updates points and rules regularly; always confirm against the current official rules and latest update before a game.
Pantheon of Woe is the Necrons C'tan detachment: a 2-Detachment-Point package built around fielding multiple god-shards as your primary threats. It reflects Warhammer 40,000 11th edition (Necrons Faction Pack v1.2, legal for matched play from 26 August 2026), which prints its full rules.
This is SprueSentry strategy commentary, not official rules. The rule, mandatory bindings and stratagems below are confirmed from the current Faction Pack; the per-C'tan points surcharge lives in the Warhammer 40,000 app, so confirm it before list-building.
Your Necrons Monster (C'tan) units project a Distortion Fields aura: while an enemy unit is within 6" of a C'tan it is 'unravelling,' and every attack against an unravelling unit gets +1 Armour Penetration. At the start of a phase, each C'tan may take 3 mortal wounds to extend its aura to 9". So overlapping C'tan blanket the midfield in a bubble where your whole army wounds with extra AP. There's a catch: each C'tan must take a mandatory 'Necrodermal Binding' ability and pays a points surcharge — the detachment has no ordinary enhancements.
Instead of enhancements, each C'tan takes its required binding:
Take it when you want a low-model-count, Monster-heavy list built around multiple C'tan as your primary threats, and you're willing to pay the 2 DP and the per-C'tan points surcharge. It suits players who value a resilient, board-controlling brick of god-shards whose aura passively boosts the whole army's damage. At 2 DP it leaves 1 DP for a cheap support of scoring bodies.
Sample gameplan: deploy two or three C'tan (e.g. Transcendent + Nightbringer + Void Dragon) with a cheap objective-holding backfield. Advance the shards up the centre so overlapping 6" (or 9", paying 3 wounds) Distortion Fields blanket the midfield — every enemy inside is unravelling, so all your attacks gain +1 AP. Cripple the scariest Vehicle with Animus Damper, Advance-charge with Quantum Goad, chip units with Molecular Erosion, and when a shard falls, Disharmonisation Cascade detonates it on 3+. Punish Fall Back with Phase Melding and reanimate your infantry with Mass Transmogrification.
2 DP, leaving 1 DP at a 2,000-point game for a support detachment of scoring bodies — plus a per-C'tan points surcharge set in the Warhammer 40,000 app.
Cosmic Distortion: your C'tan project an aura that makes enemies within 6" (or 9" if the C'tan takes 3 mortal wounds) 'unravelling,' and every attack against an unravelling unit gains +1 Armour Penetration — boosting your whole army's damage.
No ordinary enhancements. Instead each C'tan must take a mandatory Necrodermal Binding (Quantum Goad, Animus Damper, Singularity Matrix or Reletavistic Tether), each carrying a points surcharge.
Multiple C'tan — the Transcendent C'tan as a flexible core, plus the Nightbringer (melee), Void Dragon (anti-Vehicle) and Deceiver (control) — backed by cheap Warriors or Immortals and Crypteks to hold objectives.
Written by Sprue Sentry, grounded in the cited sources. Original commentary, not Games Workshop rules text.