Editing Canoptek Spyder (section)

==Hard Crunch==
As of 9th Edition, Canoptek Spyders have pretty much the same grab bag of diverse tricks as ever, with finally a good enough base statline to be worth putting in a list. In the transition from 8th, Spyders gained a whole two wounds, one attack and a good buff to both their weapons and abilities.

The baseline Spyder does lack most of these options : the two that you get for free are Scarab Hive, a neat if list-dependant ability to reanimate a [[Scarab]] for one unit within 6" as well as, oh yeah, [[Rape|5x S8 AP-3 damage 2 attacks]], allowing even the most barebones 60pt Spyder to maul both vehicles and elite infantry.

Everything beyond that costs extra points, but is mostly worth shilling for. Its ranged weapon, the [[Particle Beamer|Particle Peashooter]] peppers the enemy with blunt dice, having lost one strength since 8th and still having no AP. On the upside, the Spyder mounts two of them and they are each Assault 6 (doubled !), meaning 3 Spyders will make you throw a weighty 36 shots. With that volume of fire, raw statistics dictate that you're bound to make one of them stick at the enemy.

The next most useful tool is the 5pt Gloom Prism, a welcome psychic deny (something Necrons often struggle to find). It didn't use to mean much for the Spyder considering it was largely trash but it is now a welcome addition.

Finally and most situationally, Fabrication Claw Arrays provide the Spyder the ability to repair Vehicles within 3", D3 wounds at a time. Of debatable use - if your list contains a decent number of them it could come in handy, but do make that calculation ahead of time.

The absolute least you can do for your Spyders is give them a [[Cryptek|Technomancer]] that can enchance their rolls and maybe throw them buffs. The Spyder naturally feels most at home in a Canoptek-themed list where it can provide support to screening Scarab swarms and shower the mid-field with particles, but it can be worth considering if you take Arks of any kind, Triarch Stalker or for that matter the Silent King.

[[Category:Warhammer 40,000]]
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[[Category:Necrons]]
[[Category:Necrodermis]]
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