Restored Monolith
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Race | Necrons | ||||||||||||||||
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Version | Dark Crusade v1.2 Soulstorm v1.2 | ||||||||||||||||
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Unit Stats | |||||||||||||||||
Hitpoints | 10000/10 | ||||||||||||||||
Armour | Vehicle High | ||||||||||||||||
Resource Bonus | +10 | ||||||||||||||||
Unit Mass | 100 | ||||||||||||||||
Move Speed | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
Sight Radius | 60 (cannot detect) | ||||||||||||||||
Weapons | |||||||||||||||||
Ranged | Particle Whip, 4x Gauss Flux Arc | ||||||||||||||||
Melee | None |
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Restored Monolith
Not so much a vehicle as a mobile building, the Restored Monolith retains the production capabilities it had while stationary, but is finally able to join the battle itself, slowly floating into battle and firing powerful Gauss Flux Arcs and the ground-shaking Particle Whip at any enemy units that make the mistake of coming too close. Of course, the Restored Monolith doesn't need to wait for the enemy come to itself: it can teleport straight into the fight and begin annihilating the living.
Note: The Restored Monolith still retains all the unit construction abilities it had in its dormant state. Unlike the Dormant Monolith, it can't set a rally point or choose the attack stance of the units that pop out of the Restored Monolith. If brought down to 2500 Hitpoints it reverts to an Engaged Monolith and teleports back to where it was launched where it must be repaired before it can be upgraded again.
Tactics
Winter Assault
Monolith's appear in the final level for each campaign. They are much stronger then the usable version in Dark Crusade and Soulstorm (even Relic units are no match for them in ranged fights), but are still just as slow. For the Imperial Guard and Chaos, they are easy to deal with because in their versions of the final level, the player can use the secondary guns on Titan Dominatus, which will all but destroy the monoliths in single shot. The Eldar can also kill the first Monolith in a single hit with their Soul Stone, but for subsequent ones they need to capture the Titan's guns (unlike the Imperial Guard and Chaos, which have control of them when the Necrons appear). While the Orks lack the titan's guns, they can still deal with them easily since the Monoliths have little means of defending against melee attacks, so Nobz equipped with power klaws are excellent for destroying them.
Using a Restored Monolith
While not as much of a powerhouse as other teams' Relic creatures (unless the Restored Monolith becomes surrounded, allowing the Gauss Flux Arcs at its four corners to all fire on enemy targets), the Restored Monolith provides incredible disruptive power. Its Particle Whip can send infantry units flying, greatly reducing their capability to add their support to a fight while the Necron player's forces destroy enemy units.
While the centralized unit production of the Necrons initially is a problem in the early stages of a game, this same trait becomes one of their greatest strengths with a Restored Monolith, turning it into a complete nightmare to fight. The Monolith can produce the troops necessary to counter the enemy right in the middle of the battlefield and also functions as a teleportation target for Necron Warriors, Flayed Ones and Immortals (Immortals cannot teleport in Dark Crusade), allowing existing groups of those units to join a Monolith after it teleports into the fray. With a full time bonus Necron unit build and reinforce times can be quite fast (with the exception of the Necron Warriors), so as long as they have a good set of power generators the Restored Monolith can produce an unrelenting tide of new units. Combined with a fully upgraded Necron Lord equipped with the Mass Ressurrection ability and a large power infrastructure, a concentrated attack from a Restored Monolith in the hands of a skilled player can be almost impossible to stop.
The Particle Whip is death incarnate to infantry. The DPS values shown below don't account for the rather large AOE, which can often hit an entire squad, potentially reducing an entire squad to less than half health and nearly break their morale in just one shot. One very important aspect of the Particle Whip is that its AOE does NOT affect fellow Necron units, so even if the Necron support infantry is tied up in melee combat with enemy forces the Whip blasts will only harm the enemy. This is one distinct advantage that the Monolith has over the Imperial Guard Baneblade.
It is best supported by a healthy number of Immortals and/or Heavy Destroyers to take out enemy buildings and vehicles at long range. Its excellent sight radius will help all of its supporting army target long-range enemies, and a squad of free Builder Scarabs should be constantly repairing it as well as helping to detect infiltrated enemy units. It is the epitome of the Necrons: slow, but ungodly tough and unrelenting.
Despite the health display of 10000, the Restored Monolith will be reduced to its original stationary Engaged Monolith when the health gets below 2500.
Fighting a Restored Monolith
If a Restored Monolith has been built, you should focus all of your efforts into finding and destroying it before it gets to your base. The Monolith's weapons are not as effective against vehicles, though the Particle Whip can still do a decent chunk of damage with each shot. Your best bet is to have a good sized fleet of long range anti-vehicle vehicles backed up by a large number of jumping/teleporting melee specialists, like Chaos Raptor Squads or Tau Kroot Carnivores. The enemy will have a large number of Immortals and/or Heavy Destroyers around the Monolith which you will have to tie up in melee, otherwise they will flatten your vehicles. You can expect a wall of Necron Warriors and supporting Destroyers as well, and if things seem to be going your way you can expect the Necron Lord to warp in and cause hell, if it isn't doing so already.
Imperial Guard lack the quality infantry to deal with the supporting enemy infantry amidst the disruption from the Particle Whip, but a trio of Psykers can keep the Monolith permanently stunned using Curse of the Machine Spirit, allowing it to be taken down at leisure. However, it may be difficult to get the Psykers within range. Also, a Baneblade can singlehandedly fight a Monolith and usually come out on top, but the IG player must beware of supporting units (Warriors, Destroyers, etc.). That is why it is advisable to for Kasrkin, Ogryns, and Leman Russ Battle Tanks to brought up as well to handle these units.
The Tau XV88 Broadside Battlesuits, when entrenched, are also good as they cannot be knocked down by the Particle Whip. Shas'Vres should chain the use of their EMP Grenades to keep it locked down. Be careful of Flayed Ones being Deep Struck next to them though, as well as the teleporting Necron Lord whose Solar Pulse will temporarily turn the Battlesuit Team into a paperweight.
If a Restored Monolith teleports into your base, it should be dealt with promptly before it levels too many important structures. All of the weapons do flat damage to all targets, which means they do exceptionally high damage to building_medium and building_high, armor types that most weapons are weak against. In fact one tactic for Necron players, known by some as the Monolith Smash, is to teleport the Monolith into the middle of an enemy base and then teleport all available Necron Warriors, Flayed Ones and Immortals set on Building Only attack stance (Soulstorm only for the Immortals) to it as well, followed by the Necron Lord. This puts an entire army directly inside the enemy base, bypassing its forward defences, and unless the defender reacts quickly the base will be leveled in less than 30 seconds. If possible, intercept the Monolith in the field and damage it to the point that it can no longer teleport to trap it out in the open and away from your base, but don't let up on the attack as the Necron player will most likely have at least one squad of Builder Scarabs repairing it at all times. The only other option is to try and sneak a strike force into the Necron player's main base that is large enough that it could do some serious damage to their power infrastructure. This will force the player to teleport at least some of their supporting forces to their base to defend it, leaving the Restored Monolith more vulnerable. You can be sure that the strike force will be decimated but at least you may be able to take out the Monolith in the meantime, but expect the player's Necron Lord to bust out with one of his Essence abilities to make doing that as difficult as possible.
Abilities
Teleport
Deep Strike
Deepstrike | Hotkey: E | |||
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Requires | Nothing | |||
Target Types | Visible Terrain | |||
Range | Unlimited | |||
Area of effect | None | Cooldown time | Passive ability | |
Effects | When built the Flayed Ones don't automatically enter the battlefield but instead remain in the Monolith waiting to Deep Strike out. The Restored Monolith has capacity to store 5 squads of Flayed Ones. This allows the squad to enter the battlefield at any visible location. If desired the Flayed Ones can subsequently be loaded back into the Monolith to Deep Strike back out after a 10 s delay. | |||
Buildable Units
Infantry
Builder Scarabs
Builder Scarabs | Hotkey: S | ||||
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Cost | 0 0 | Build Time | 18 s | ||
Squad Size | 1/3 | Limit | 5 | ||
Requires | Nothing |
Necron Warriors
Necron Warriors | Hotkey: N | ||||
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Cost | 0 3 | Build Time | 30 s Build time increases with the number of Necron Warriors on the field | ||
Squad Size | 3/8 | Limit | None | ||
Requires | Nothing |
Wraith
Wraith | Hotkey: W | ||||
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Cost | 60 2 | Build Time | 45 s | ||
Unit Size | 1 | Limit | None | ||
Requires | Summoning Core |
Necron Lord
Necron Lord | Hotkey: L | ||||
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Cost | 175 0 | Build Time | 60 s | ||
Unit Size | 1 | Limit | 1 | ||
Requires | Nothing |
Immortals
Immortals | Hotkey: I | ||||
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Cost | 135 2 | Build Time | 36 s | ||
Squad Size | 3/5 | Limit | None | ||
Requires | Awakened Monolith |
Flayed Ones
Flayed Ones | Hotkey: F | ||||
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Cost | 120 3 | Build Time | 36 s | ||
Squad Size | 4/8 | Limit | None | ||
Deep Strike | Yes | ||||
Requires | Summoning Core |
Pariahs
Pariahs | Hotkey: P | ||||
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Cost | 200 4 | Build Time | 10 s | ||
Squad Size | 4/8 | Limit | 1 | ||
Requires | Engaged Monolith |
Vehicles
Tomb Spyder
Tomb Spyder | Hotkey: T | ||||
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Cost | 250 2 | Build Time | 60 s | ||
Unit Size | 1 | Limit | 3 | ||
Requires | Greater Summoning Core |
Destroyer
Destroyer | Hotkey: D | ||||
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Cost | 250 3 | Build Time | 30 s | ||
Unit Size | 1 | Limit | None | ||
Requires | Greater Summoning Core |
Heavy Destroyer
Heavy Destroyer | Hotkey: H | ||||
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Cost | 300 3 | Build Time | 30 s | ||
Unit Size | 1 | Limit | None | ||
Requires | Engaged Monolith |
Lord Destroyer
Lord Destroyer | Hotkey: O | ||||
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Cost | 350 3 | Build Time | 30 s | ||
Unit Size | 1 | Limit | 2 | ||
Requires | Energy Core |
Weapons
Particle Whip
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Cost | Default Weapon | Range | 55 | Setup Time | 0 s | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Build Time | Default Weapon | Accuracy | 80% | Refire Rate | 3 s | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Area of Effect | 7 | Requires | Nothing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes | The Particle Whip does not have a Fire on the Move penalty and does strong knockback (35-65 force). Does not do friendly fire. |
Gauss Flux Arc
There are four Gauss Flux Arcs on the Restored Monolith, one at each corner of the structure, but they are listed here only once out of convenience.
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Cost | Default Weapon | Range | 30 | Setup Time | 0 s | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Build Time | Default Weapon | Accuracy | 80% | Refire Rate | 1 s | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Area of Effect | 0 | Requires | Nothing |
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