Nekro Virus - Mechs & Leaders Update - Twilight Imperium: Prophecy of Kings
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- čas přidán 4. 01. 2021
- Rulebreaker revisits the Nekro Virus - with a look at how things have changed for them since the release of the Prophecy of Kings expansion for Twilight Imperium 4th Edition.
Join us as we look through their Mech units, Leaders, and new possibilities.
Twilight Imperium 4th Edition Codex print file and rules are available at www.fantasyflightgames.com/en...
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Correction for Cabal synnergy: Dimensional Tear - the tech card/sheet specifically says 'This system is a gravity rift; your ships do not roll for this gravity rift' so no reason for Nekro to destroy themselves :)
Oh snap, that is true. That makes them much more viable.
@@RulebreakerBoardgames And on top the cabal are just not effected by their space dock rifts, normal rifts still effect them.
Yes, that is very true.
This videos are the highlight of my days at the moment 😁😁❤️❤️🙏🙏
Aw, that is genuinely lovely to hear, Niclas. Thank you. This is the highlight of my day today.
Me too!
Yup! I'm checking for more twice daily.... lol I'm so ready for lockdown to go away.
It's the highlight of my night when I get home from work and there's a new video up!
You guys are awesome, thanks for the kind words. I'm trying to regularly release a video every two days. That may slow down a little now that my kids aren't going to school for the next month, but I'm hoping I can keep it going, as I'm enjoying it a lot.
I bingewatched all your twilight videos. Love them! You're awesome
Thanks a lot!
A fun one that I experienced was a 3 health cruiser. They stole Ul's Saturn engine and the barony's 2 canceled hits tech. It was a nasty combo a 3 move 3 health ship with 2 capacity (they also used the hero to get the red regen tech)
Oh wow, that's great!
The agent is better than it seems; people often get so scared of you turning on them for tech they don’t trade with you, so this lets you turn the tokens you get a surplus of into the trade goods you won’t have.
Maybe too obvious to need mentioning, but those mechs synchronize very nicely with the Nekkro Flagship-making each mech in its system the equivalent of a Super Dreadnought ii that doesn’t count against fleet supply (against assimilated opponents). And as long as an opponent owns a faction tech, you can even gain the +2 in the middle of space combat. Spicy!
That is *AMAZING*
If you're fighting Saardak and take their universal +1, you've basically got War Suns just by jumping in with flagship and mechs. And if you get actual war suns with mechs, your opponents will probably call hax and flip the table.
Unit Upgrade technologies do not have a "specialty" (ie. even though they have various colored requirements, they have no 'color' themselves) and so you can't use the Hero to gain a unit tech, unfortunately. If you can nab Assault Cannon off of a red tech planet with it though, it will certainly *feel* like a universal unit upgrade!
Yes, this is true! You're absolutely right.
Went back and watched your old Nekro combo video and now i just want to try and play the Nekro again. Idk they just seem so much fun even though everyone hates you when you play them
Haha, yeah. That sums them up pretty perfectly, man.
The Hero is nasty and versatile; gaining juicy techs like Destroyer II or Warsuns; grabbing Infantry II to go with the flagship; stocking up on trade goods for scoring objectives - many possibilities!
The Commander is excellent as well, and the combo with the agent is perfect!
Those Mechs are going to prove very nasty seeing as you can switch out technologies during space combat so that during the invasion you gain the +2. Probably worth reserving one of the Assimilator techs for this purpose!
(Edited to remove Rex from the juicy options list - mistakenly put in due to a peculiar virus...)
Hero "Choose a planet that has a technology specialty in a system that contains your units." First sentence. You cannot choose Mecatol Rex.
The mechs with the flagship is just awesome.
Unit tech have no color so you can't take those unfortunatly :')
It would be fun to have an "all military race" game with the Sardakk the Nekro, the Vuil'Raith Cabal, the Barony, the Titans, and like the Naaz-Rokha
Woulndt L1z1x be more of a waring race than the Naaz Rokha or Titans?
Poor Sardak would be eaten alive I fear :p
Nekro, Vuil'Raith, Barony, Sardakk, Mehact, L1, Yin and Sol.
Let the galaxy burn!
A command token is worth less for nekros because it is easy for them to get so the agent is actually really good for them and in combination with the commander it is lot easier to get action cards which you can use with the agent still better than to throw some away because you have too much.
I never think a command token is worthless, but I get where you're coming from. They have probably got the best access to them in the game.
@@RulebreakerBoardgames Worth less not worthless. ;)
Hah, that's one of the most important spaces in a sentence I've ever seen! hah!
This race in the 3rd edition was my favorite thing to play. Im very disappointed with their new flag ship, i don't pick them anymore.because everyone would team up on the virus, that flagship could keep 3 players at bay, now fleets are no longer vulnerable
They were an absolute pain in TI3. Any game with them was a constant hassle to keep them in check.
Hello. One stupid question.... or more: So let's say I take Lazar which has a yellow tech specialty and use my hero. Does that mean I can then research any tech that has more then just 1 yellow with me not having any yellow techs? And what about those combined ones? Can I research a tech that has.. let's say 3 red and 1 yellow prerequisite?
No - you could only take any of the actually yellow technologies. Unit upgrades aren't any given color - even those with only 1 color prerequisite.
@@DarthRadical Understood :) Thank you
You mention that the hero's ability can be used to gain unit upgrades. Is that right? The instructions are to "gain 1 technology that matches the specialty of that planet", not to gain a technology with a prerequisite that matches the specialty of that planet. What am I missing?
Ooooh you may be right there actually! No war suns for Nekro without a fight then.
I'm not sure about new tech combos, but it's kind of fun that Nekro can steal the upgraded flagship tech from Nomad to completely change how their flagship plays.
Edit Fun combo:
- Nekro gets Assault Cannon
- bring Alastor + 3 mechs into combat with Nomad
- Use Alastor's ability to bring mechs into space combat
- Use Assault Cannon to kill a Nomad ship, gaining the Memoria II tech
- Use Memoria II's anti-fighter barrage, also the mechs are hitting on 4s
Steal the flagship is fun, but probably not as good as the one you have? Hmmm, maybe with a good mech combo it could be really interesting.
Wish you linked the original Nekro Virus video...
Can do. Would you like to see the originals in the video description or as a card on the video as it plays?
Necro hero question:
Can they pick their own system as well? Like they pick, nothing is there so nothing is destroyed, they get the combined cost, + the tech speciality.
Mordai II does not have a tech specialty, so it is not a valid target for the hero ability.
@@Mjolnirfall I meant whatever they conquer and own. Not mordai II. A system which card is owned by nekro player and has tech speciality.
Yeah, you just don't destroy any troops when you pick it. I think this will be the most common occurrence.
@@RulebreakerBoardgames Unless there's a tech planet with a bunch of stacked infantry, it wouldn't generally be worth the extra action to take it the following turn. Most commonly (IMO) the Nekro would take a planet, remove all infantry, and then use the hero the following action to get the technology.
So what would happen if the nekro virus gets both the dimensional tears and floating factory techs?
You can't pick 2 upgrades for one unit, but anyway funny idea ;)
You can only pick one upgrade per type but imagine how funny that's be!
Yassaril next?
They're coming up soon, but there are a few in the queue before them that are already filmed and going into editing next.
@@RulebreakerBoardgames cool!
The greatest fallacy when playing the Nekro Virus is playing to their lore. I.E. Acting like a douche right from the get go.
Be the friendly Nekro. Take trade. Give people commodities and "ally" with people. Ask for their lone destroyers, help the buddy that cannot research tech. Act like you are not a threat. Until turn 5 that is.
Genuine laugh out loud there!
Last time I played we had a Nekro player at the table. I was able to convince most of the other players that it was in our best interest to just not research tech. They can't get good tech if we don't research it, right? The Nekro player ended up having to take the Tech strategy card themselves for command counters (lol).
@@andreslozano3000 That's a great thing about the Nekro that other people ignore. They can be flush with command counters for the entire game.
Exactly. The Jol Nar are usually happy to take your protection in exchange for a few dead destroyers.
@@andreslozano3000 Getting 6 command counters (for 6 resources) isn't something to sniff at, and well worth a strategy card. The only reason Nekro might not take the Technology strategy card semi-consistently is that they're hoping a neighbor will get 2 techs for them to steal instead of 1. It's basically a better version of the Leadership card for them except it's late in the turn order (which isn't always bad).
Really - Nekro usually end up with at least as many command tokens as Sol. Whenever someone else plays tech, getting 2 command tokens for 4 resources is a steal.