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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.
Friendly Necrons Titanic Fly units get +6" Move. Titanic models without Fly, such as the Seraptek Heavy Construct and Gauss Pylon, do not benefit. The detachment has the HYPERCRYPT tag and cannot be taken alongside another HYPERCRYPT detachment.
1CP. Attacks targeting a Necrons Titanic Fly unit have -1 AP until that attacking unit has finished attacking.
1CP. Pick a visible enemy unit within 12" of your Titanic Fly unit; that enemy gains +3" detection range, flushing out anything hiding from your guns.
1CP. An Obelisk or Tesseract Vault unit's Tesla Sphere weapons gain +1 AP for the activation.
Necrons model only. If the bearer's unit was set up this turn via a Monolith's Eternity Gate, its ranged attacks gain your choice of Lethal Hits or Sustained Hits 1.
Obelisk unit only, so a unit upgrade rather than a character enhancement. In your opponent's Battle-shock step, enemy units within 8" that are below starting strength must make a battle-shock roll.
Titanic Fly, so +6" Move, and its Eternity Gate is what Prelocational Optimiser keys off.
See the box: price and offersA durable centrepiece that gains the Move bonus and fires Tesla Spheres under Cosmic Storm.
See the box: price and offersGains the Move bonus, carries Mortality Shroud, and benefits from Cosmic Storm.
A 2 DP Destroyer core with a war engine bolted on; no shared Unique Tag.
Gives a slow elite melee core a fast, durable centrepiece for the leftover DP.
How to play The Phaeron's Armoury — the new 1-DP detachment that gives Necron Titanic Fly war engines +6" Move, plus defensive and Tesla-boosting stratagems.
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.
The Phaeron's Armoury is one of three new Necrons detachments in the Warhammer 40,000 11th edition Faction Pack (June 2026). At 1 Detachment Point it's built to add one durable, now-mobile superheavy — a Monolith, Obelisk or Tesseract Vault — to a larger list.
This is SprueSentry strategy commentary, not official rules. The rules below are confirmed from the current Faction Pack, re-checked against v1.2 (legal for matched play from 26 August 2026), which left this detachment's printed rules unchanged; the 1-DP cost is confirmed by the official Munitorum Field Manual v1.3 (26 August 2026), which also lists this detachment's enhancement points. Points updates move those, so confirm in the Warhammer 40,000 app before a game.
The detachment rule gives your Necrons Titanic Fly units +6" Movement — letting Necrons' biggest, slowest war engines reach the midfield fast and threaten objectives they'd normally never contest. Note the keyword requirement: it only helps *Titanic Fly* units (Monolith, Obelisk, Tesseract Vault). Titanic-but-not-Fly models like the Seraptek Heavy Construct and Gauss Pylon don't get the bonus. The detachment has the HYPERCRYPT** tag, so it can't be paired with Hypercrypt Legion.
(Points live in the app; confirm there.)
At 1 DP it's a cheap way to bolt one durable, mobile superheavy onto another detachment without committing your whole list to it. Because its rule and stratagems only affect Titanic Fly units, it does little unless you actually field one of the big engines — so take it specifically to make a Monolith, Obelisk or Tesseract Vault a genuine mobile threat. Mind the HYPERCRYPT tag: it can't pair with Hypercrypt Legion.
Sample gameplan: deploy your war engine and use the +6" Move to push it into the midfield turn 1-2, onto a central objective it's too durable to be shifted from. Blunt the first big threat each turn with Subsurface Quantumweave, teleport an infantry unit carrying Prelocational Optimiser through the Monolith's Eternity Gate to drop them with Lethal or Sustained Hits, and fire the Obelisk or Tesseract Vault with Cosmic Storm. Use Particle Pulse to flush out anything hiding from your guns.
1 DP, confirmed by the official Munitorum Field Manual v1.3 (26 August 2026); the Warhammer 40,000 app is the final word as points updates land. It's a support detachment to bolt onto a larger 2-DP core at a 2,000-point game.
Empowered Engines: your Necrons Titanic Fly units — Monolith, Obelisk, Tesseract Vault — gain +6" Movement, letting your biggest war engines reach the midfield fast. Titanic-but-not-Fly models like the Seraptek and Gauss Pylon don't benefit.
No. Both carry the HYPERCRYPT Unique Tag, and two detachments can't share a tag. Pair The Phaeron's Armoury with a non-HYPERCRYPT 2-DP core instead.
No. Its rule and stratagems only affect Titanic Fly units, so take it specifically to make a Monolith, Obelisk or Tesseract Vault a fast, durable midfield threat. Without one of those it does almost nothing.
Written by Sprue Sentry, grounded in the cited sources. Original commentary, not Games Workshop rules text.