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[[Image:NecronMonolith.jpg|right|thumb|Necron Monolith]]
The '''Necron Monolith''' is a fearsome heavy support unit available to , and a key part of the immense arsenal of ancient technology used by the [[Necron]]s. It is a huge vehicle, armed Rules and armoured to the teeth. It combines background for the properties of transport craft, armoured destroyer and Necron power icon, although it ponderously moves across the battlefield. It has a large crystal at its centre which pulses with unholy life, powering mighty Monolith can be found in [[Gauss Flux ArcCodex: Necrons (3rd Edition)]]s, whipping out to destroy everything in its path. It can open a dark portal and transport Necron troops to the front line after landing close to the enemy troops.
==The Necron Monolith in the 41st Millennium== A Monolith is monumental vehicle, constructed from the same [[living metal]] as all other Necron vehicles. It fulfills the roles of transport craft, armoured destroyer and Necron power icon, sowing terror and destruction as it ponderously moves across the battlefield. The large crystal at its centre pulses with a sickly light, as it uses its Power Matrix used to power both its ordnance weapon system (the Particle Whip) and the dark portal that can open in its frontal section to allow for the transport of other Necron units.<sup>3</sup> The first wave of a Necron assault often consists of Monoliths being teleported to a planets surface to act as a bridgehead for invading forces, who deploy through the Monoliths' portals.<sup>3</sup> ==Design=====Armament===Each Monolith is armed equipped with four Gauss Flux Arcs and a Power MatrixArc Projectors, which allows allow it to either transport units or damage every nearby unit with coruscating arcs of sickly green lightning. In addition to this Gauss Flux Arc, if the Monolith has not recently deployed its portal (see below) it can discharge as the Matrix's energy in the form of a [[Particle Whip]]. It is made <sup>3</sup>===Dark Portal===In place of their firing a [[living metalParticle Whip]], a Necron Monolith is capable of opening a Dark Portal allowing it for the transport of Necron troops to shrug off weapons fire that would normally destroy any other armourthe front line. This has led portal can also be used to several complaints about the 'over-poweredness' of the Monolithrelocate nearby Necron units, although Necron players counter this by pointing out that its high point cost affects the number of Necron troops available who disappear from their current location and so reemerge through the number needed to destroy before phase out occursportal.<sup>3</sup>
==Monolith Phalanx==
==Sources==
*[[Codex: Necrons (3rd Edition)]]
*<sup>1</sup>:[[Apocalypse]]
*<sup>2</sup>:[[Apocalypse Reload]]
*<sup>3</sup>[[Codex: Necrons (3rd Edition)]]
==See also==
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