Editing Illuminor Szeras (section)

===9th Edition===

Now that the full 9th ed Necron Codex is out, we can see that the huge super-technomancer is... not worth it? The fuck?

At 160 points WITHOUT [[Cryptothralls|MURDERBUCKETS]], he's easily the most expensive out of all the Crypteks in the Codex. He does come with quite a bit for those points, however. His lance shoots at Assault D3 36", S8 AP-4 and [[Plasma#Doomsday_Blaster|does D6 damage (WHY GW)]], and does 4 attacks of S6 AP-4 2 damage in melee, but his special rules are where it's at. He's still has his psychic denial that makes perils trigger on all doubles, his Mechanical Augmentation can now hit ALL CORE UNITS, not just your troops choices, and can gains an additional use of the ability at the end of of the fight phase if he takes out 1 or more models.

Oh, and as a technomancer, he has Rites of Reanimation, which lets him reanimate 1 model from a Core unit (D3 if targeting Warriors), except he can use it twice without spending the CP.

Sounds awesome, right? Well, the problem isn't what this guy has, but what he lacks that other Crypteks can bring. Namely, the Chronomancer, that can just give out 5+ invulns. Speaking of invulns, Szeraz doesn't get one! [[FAIL|His model is huge now and you'd think he's give himself one, but tough shit.]] Compared to a regular Technomancer, he doesn't get the option to fly and repair models with the Cloak or buff Canoptek shooting with the Control Node. And remember, he costs as many points as a Catacomb Command Barge.

If you actually feel like paying the points required to field the scientific spiderbot, he seems to want blast out anti-tank shots at the start of the game, then be on the front lines, fucking shit up in melee and collecting enemy <s>bodies</s> samples, that way, his 12" psychic "denial" can do its work and so he can reuse Mechanical Augmentation after killing some models. That latter part is a bit difficult due to the aforementioned lack of any invulnerable save. The Cryptothralls you should also be bringing with any Cryptek can help prevent him from being blown off the board somewhat, but at 200 points, you could (and probably should) be running two regular Crypteks instead.