Pantheon of Woe: The 11th-Edition Necrons C'tan Detachment

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.

• Molecular Erosion (Command) — an unravelling enemy visible to a C'tan takes a Battle-shock test at -1 and, if failed, D3+1 mortal wounds. Chip a key unit before you commit.
• Entrophasic Aura Targeting (Shooting/Fight) — a non-Monster unit re-rolls Hit rolls of 1, and Wound rolls of 1 too if the target is unravelling.
• Mass Transmogrification (after a kill) — a nearby non-Monster unit reanimates when a C'tan destroys an unravelling enemy.
• Chronodistortion (Fight) — a fight-on-death save (better against unravelling attackers).
• Phase Melding (opponent's Movement) — punish an unravelling unit that Falls Back with Desperate Escape tests.
• Disharmonisation Cascade — a dying C'tan's Deadly Demise triggers on 3+ instead of 6.

Instead of enhancements, each C'tan takes its required binding:

• Quantum Goad (Nightbringer) — can charge in a turn it Advanced.
• Animus Damper (Void Dragon) — each turn, cripple an enemy Vehicle (-1 to Hit, and -1 to Wound if it fails a test).
• Singularity Matrix (Deceiver) — enemy stratagems on units within 12" cost +1 CP.
• Reletavistic Tether (Transcendent C'tan) — deep-strikes more than 6" from enemies; every Transcendent C'tan beyond the first must take this one.

• Transcendent C'tan — the flexible, cheaper core body; self-heals and teleports (Reletavistic Tether) to project the aura where needed. You can field several.
• C'tan Shard of the Nightbringer — a fast melee brawler (Quantum Goad = Advance and charge) that's near-unkillable under the aura.
• C'tan Shard of the Void Dragon — anti-Vehicle specialist that also cripples an enemy tank each turn.
• C'tan Shard of the Deceiver — a control piece that taxes enemy stratagems and repositions your shards.
• Cheap Warriors/Immortals + Crypteks — score objectives and screen while the C'tan tank, benefiting from the aura and reanimation stratagems.

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.