at toughness 8 the nightbringer doesn’t need to worry about instant death.

A good thing to put with Gargoyles is the Parasite of Mortrex. Its an Independant character so it can join the unit and not be picked out and its an impressive character in its own right. yeah you have to convert it but its worth it.

Lets see… 60 attacks on 4+ is 30 hits and 10 automatic wounds. 20 rolls to wound at 4+ is 10 more wounds. Re-rolls bring 5 more 25 wounds at a 2+ save is 4 and one sixth wounds. With the nightbringer, 60 attacks on 4+ is another 30 hits and 10 wounds 20 rolls on 4+ bring 10 wounds again. No re-rolls for poison cause he’s a freakin’ god. 20 wounds on a 4+ save is 10 wounds. Nightbringer has 5. Although, i have seen the Nightbringer survive this, in a game I saw. He even destroyed the swarm… Read more »

Where is Warren?

Why should eternal warrior matter in that situation? It would prevent the nightbringer from geting forceweaponed (or boneswordes with Nids 🙂 ) if he has it (I don’t have my Codex here so I’m not sure about that), but with normal wounds he would still be dead.
I also like Gargoyles, planing to use some of them when I continue on my Nids. At the moment, they have prety low priority because I’m not sure in my colors anymore (I’t a Pain if you have to paint the body instead of drybrushing) and working on some other armys first.

force weapons cause instant death if you have caused a wound. most psykers are strength 4…….. which the chart says can’t hurt toughness 8. so like i said nightbringer doesn’t need eternal warrior.

My solution to synapse, take a unit of Shrikes with you Gargoyles and keep them close the whole game, also Shrikes are pretty good at combat too (they are like flying warriors!).

Whos the new dude?

I use them with the parasite, gives him a meatshield and the gargs with some synapse 🙂

Gargoyles on their flight base are generally large enough where a swarm of them will give a Monstrous Creature a cover save. Add to that a hive tyrant with wings to keep them in synapse, and it’s all good. Even better: give the hive tyrant the “Old Adversaries” power that let’s you reroll failed rolls to hit. 30 gargoyles = 60 attacks w/ rerolls = 15 auto wounds + 30 normal hits = 30 wounds = 5 dead terminators on average. It’s worth it! I usually take a Tervigon with them as well to give them feel-no-pain. It can be… Read more »

Okay so on 6’s a marine librarian could wound him with the blood angel librarian doing it on 2’s. I don’t know about skull taker but there’s a slim chance to encounter those models. If you do fight them with a nightbringer it could die. I get it. I’m just saying the nightbringers stats are really good. Don’t look to deep into it.

Couple of things, the Nightbringer is Initiative 5 as well. So your Gargoyles (with Furious Charge) would strike simultaneously, not before, the Nightbringer.

And the Nightbringer could just use Etheric Tempest to prevent any of the Gargoyles from making those attacks in the first place, IF the Necron player recognizes the danger. So thanks for pointing it out. For other big, nasty targets, without a “get out of jail free” ability however, it is still a great tactic.

nice tip.
I did not look at gargoyles with a good potential before

I surprised nobody mentioned that the gargoyles instinctive behavior is lurk, not feed, making them next to useless if they lose synapse.

Gargoyles do have great potential, but they don’t really shine unless you have something supporting them. I prefer shrikes myself, or sometimes a winged hive tyrant

Still… no sexy female assistant… I WILL KEEP ASKING! and one of these days it will be so….

wait, gagoyles have two attacks?