Reserves

Reserves is a deployment concept documented for both Space Marines and Necrons, but through different faction systems. Space Marines combine held forces with the Thunderhawk Relay to move troops rapidly toward a needed area. Necron units placed in reserve at the Tomb Citadel can emerge from a Monolith’s Eternity Gate at the active battlefront. These examples establish redeployment, not one universal implementation. The sources do not publish capacity, entry rules, delay, eligible units, visibility requirements, cancellation, cost, vulnerability or whether the two factions share any underlying limits.

Reserves supports the design problem of moving valuable or slow forces across a changing battlefield. For Space Marines, it complements fortifications and limited elite presence; for Necrons, it links the Tomb Citadel to a Monolith so slow units can reach a distant fight. The qualified pages present these as current faction tools, not as a shared mechanic inherited unchanged from earlier games. No previous implementation, revised capacity, altered delay, renamed command, balance adjustment, patch history or version comparison is documented for either faction’s use of Reserves.

The documented use depends on faction context. Space Marines use Reserves with the Thunderhawk Relay for rapid troop movement, while Necrons hold units at the Tomb Citadel for deployment through a Monolith’s Eternity Gate. Both examples solve distance, but the pages do not say that their inputs, limits or destinations are identical. No preferred unit, capacity, travel time, queue, retrieval rule or optimal timing is published. Guidance should explain each documented route separately rather than invent a common rotation or treating every reserve exit as interchangeable.