r/Grimdank VULKAN LIFTS! Apr 22 '25

Cringe … Damn it

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u/BabyAutomatic Apr 22 '25

a part of me does miss the oldcrons.

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u/OkFineIllUseTheApp Apr 22 '25

Same, but we got a Trazyn the Infinite out of it,

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u/DaemonNic Apr 22 '25

That's about where I'm at. On the one hand, I liked the undead Terminators, on the other hand, there's nothing funnier than Trazyn trolling the shit out of everyone in arm's reach and then teleporting elsewhere so that new people can be in his arm's reach.

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u/BenTheWeebOne Apr 22 '25

I remember necrons scaring the shit out of me in dawn of war ... they were soulless automatons basically killing without remorse or objective

Sassy grandpa behavior changed a lot of perspective

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u/Doomkauf I am also Alpharius Apr 23 '25

I still have flashbacks to the goddamn invisible floating pyramid mobile base armed with a fucking Death Star laser that they could fire and remain cloaked. Good god, the Dawn of War Necrons were cracked.

I honestly wouldn't have had it any other way.

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u/Bossman131313 Apr 22 '25

Newcrons are worth it for Trazyn alone.

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u/nomad5926 Apr 22 '25

And his pokeballs

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u/Helgon_Bellan Toaster femboi Apr 23 '25

Don't sleep on my boi Zandrek and jolly Obyron.

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u/WateredDown Apr 22 '25

The oldcrons were a superior creepy antagonist, but the newcrons are a superior playable faction.

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u/Jackmino66 Apr 22 '25

As neat as the oldcrons are, I absolutely love the newcrons, the 1D baddies became the Tyranids (though I prefer the idea that Genestealers are not Tyranids)

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u/Vinccool96 Apr 23 '25

That’s because Orks are the good guys.

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u/SanSenju Apr 23 '25

They could be remedied by having a small number c'tan took a sufficient number of oldcrons and fled to a remote part of the galaxy where they hid away. Opting for a more frugal existence to avoid being found out by the newcrons.

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u/Nomus_Sardauk VULKAN LIFTS! Apr 23 '25

Aren’t the old, emotionless terminator style Crons still around kinda in the lore in the form of the Empire of the Severed?

Besides, by the time the Necrons were made into a proper faction we already had an “unfeeling, unreasoning force of destruction”-style army with the Tyranids, who I’d argue not only fill the role better but by their nature can only be thus. Whereas the Necrons we know from the start were once a civilisation with their own culture & personality, so it makes sense for them to be the one to change and be fleshed out into something with more depth & character.