The Seraptek Heavy Construct

The Seraptek Heavy Construct is a colossal Necron war engine, a Canoptek guardian built to defend tomb worlds and, when called, to march to war. It’s one of the largest and most feared constructs in the Necron arsenal, a symbol of dynastic might that few armies can match.

Overview

It’s a massive Necron construct, sculpted in a mythic amplification of the scarab form. These war engines are the sole preserve of a dynasty’s royal armoury, considered priceless and often reckoned beyond the entire worth of noble houses.

Serapteks are revered symbols of dynastic power, reserved for only the most apocalyptic conflicts. They’re not common troops; they’re treasured relics that a dynasty unleashes when it needs to annihilate something utterly.

Why it matters

The Seraptek is a tomb world’s ultimate guardian. At the heart of many Necron complexes, these constructs sleep until intruders arrive, then awaken with frightening speed. Their generators thrum as they advance, optic lenses glowing, massive cannons swivelling to unleash pinpoint salvos.

In battle, they’re frontline engines of conquest, capable of meeting an Imperial Knight or Ork Stompa head-on and emerging victorious. As the Necron dynasties march out in ever-greater numbers, many Overlords have summoned their Serapteks to replace timeless vigils with active warfare.

Weapons and combat role

Serapteks are armed with a choice of devastating weapons. They can carry Synaptic Obliterators, Transdimensional Projectors, or a Singularity Generator. Each offers a different way to erase foes from a distance.

Up close, they lash out with impaling forelimbs, their energy-sheathed tips rending metal, flesh, and bone at a molecular level. That mix of ranged firepower and brutal melee makes them terrifying at any range.

• Synaptic Obliterators: rapid-fire salvos with sustained hits.
• Transdimensional Projectors: pinpoint shots that tear through armour.
• Singularity Generator: a blast weapon with devastating wounds.
• Forelimbs: melee attacks that ignore armour at a molecular level.

On the tabletop

In Warhammer 40,000 10th edition, the Seraptek is a Lords of War choice for Necron armies. It’s a towering model with a 10″ move, Toughness 12, 24 wounds, a 3+ save, and a 5+ invulnerable save. Its Objective Control of 10 makes it a strong holder of objectives.

It’s a Forge World datasheet, so it’s not in the standard codex, but it’s fully supported in matched play. Points cost and exact rules can change with updates, so check the latest datasheet before you field one.

Lore connections

Serapteks are part of the Canoptek construct family, alongside Tomb Stalkers, Tomb Sentinels, and Acanthrites. They’re organised into cohorts when deployed in numbers.

They were designed by ancient Cryptek conclaves to protect each world’s master program. That links them directly to the core of Necron tomb defence and the Cryptek orders that maintain it.

Key facts

• The Seraptek Heavy Construct is a massive Necron Canoptek war engine.
• It’s reserved for a dynasty’s royal armoury and used only in apocalyptic conflicts.
• It guards tomb worlds, protecting each world’s master program.
• It can be armed with Synaptic Obliterators, Transdimensional Projectors, or a Singularity Generator.
• In 10th edition it has Toughness 12, 24 wounds, and a 5+ invulnerable save.
• It’s a Forge World model, organised into cohorts when deployed in numbers.

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• The Stompa
• Cryptek
• Craftworld Eldar
• The Obliterators
• Imperial Knight
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