Wraith

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Wraith
Race	Necrons
Version	Soulstorm v1.2
Build Info
Hotkey W	Build Cost 60  2 Build Time 45 s Built From Dormant Monolith, Restored Monolith Unit Size 1 Requires Summoning Core Limit None
Unit Stats
Hitpoints	500/1
Armour	Infantry Heavy Medium
Morale	Immune/-/-
Unit Mass	20
Move Speed	24
Sight Radius	20 (detection 20)
Weapons
Ranged	None
Melee	Wraith Claw

Contents 1 Wraith 2 Tactics 3 Abilities 3.1 Reassemble 3.2 Phase Shift 4 Weapons 4.1 Wraith Claw 5 Researchable Upgrades 5.1 Wraith Flight 6 The Dawn of War Player's Guide

Wraith

Fast and deadly creatures that can temporarily Phase Shift to avoid all damage. Wraiths don't have any ranged weaponry but are devastating in melee.

Wraiths start with a 40% reduction to ranged damage.

Wraiths can be repaired by Builder Scarabs, but only by one member of the [[Dawn of War: Squad System|squad]] at a time. Wraiths only naturally regenerate health when not in combat.

Note: Wraiths can uncapture Strategic Points, Critical Points and Relics, but not capture them.

Tactics

Although Wraiths have an easy time engaging enemy ranged squads in melee thanks to their ranged damage reduction, their actual melee damage is fairly low for their cost and they have no means of reducing incoming melee damage. Using Wraiths against melee troops is inadvisable even in Tier 1, and almost pointless in Tier 2. In addition, avoid using Wraiths against Marine Squads (loyalist and Chaos) and Ork Shoota Squads, because their squad leaders can kill them quickly with their respective upgraded melee weapons.

As the only Necron unit that can uncapture Strategic Points, Critical Points and Relics besides Builder Scarabs, Wraiths have an important secondary non-combat role in that they can uncapture these points from enemies. While not able to capture them on their own, this remains quite useful as it reduces the enemies economy and would not increase your economy even if they could capture it.

While generally not as useful as a squad of Necron Warriors in combat, Wraiths can nonetheless be quite effective against targets which are unable to deal effective damage to them due to their armor type. Wraiths are also fairly fast moving and can tie up enemy ranged infantry while Necron Warriors take them out from afar. Wraiths can also make incredibly good decoys both by using their Phase Shift ability, which temporarily makes them immune to all damage (a fact which will not deter enemy units from trying to do so anyways unless they receive specific orders), and the fact that their melee kill animation is extraordinarily long, a time during which they are also immune to damage (this however, rarely happens). Phase Shift also allows Wraiths to serve as effective scouts and detectors (they can detect cloaked items) for a larger force or for reconnaissance, such as deepstriking Flayed Ones.

Wraiths are perfect units to stop a Take and Hold countdown. With their phase ability activated, it is nearly impossible to kill them before they decap a point unless you have overwhelming firepower.

Abilities

Reassemble

	Reassemble
	Requires	Nothing
	Target Types	Own unit
	Range	0
	Area of effect	0	Cooldown time	Passive ability
Effects	Necrons have the uncanny ability to reassemble themselves even after taking severe damage. If the Wraith is killed there is a 25% chance that it will stand back up with 30% of its original Hitpoints.

Phase Shift

	Phase Shift			Hotkey: H
	Requires	Awakened Monolith
	Target Types	Own unit
	Range	0
	Area of effect	0	Cooldown time	45 s
Effects	The Wraith becomes invulnerable for 10 seconds. During this time the Wraith itself is also unable to attack enemy units.

Weapons

Wraith Claw

	Wraith Claw
Damage Per Second Values Infantry Vehicles Buildings Daemons Morale Base Damage Low Med High H.Med H.Hi Cmdr Low Med High Air Low Med High Med High DPS Base Min Max Min.D Initial DPS: 40.8 81.6 68.0 54.4 40.8 34.0 13.6 6.8 4.0 4.0 24.8 13.6 4.0 40.8 13.6 2 1 33 35 1
Cost	Default Weapon	Range	Melee	Setup Time	0 s
Build Time	Default Weapon	Accuracy	100%	Refire Rate	0.25 s
Area of Effect	0	Requires	Nothing

Researchable Upgrades

Wraith Flight

	Wraith Flight			Hotkey: W
	Cost	75	Research Time	30 s
	Researched From	Summoning Core
	Requires	Awakened Monolith
Effects	Wraith movement speed increased by 25%. Wraith Armour Class upgraded to Infantry Heavy High. Wraith's reduction to ranged damage is increased to 80%.

The Dawn of War Player's Guide

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