On the plus side, almost all of them saw points drops, except the Castigator. BIG bonus. Realistically, though theyre cheap you probably still want Leman Russes over them, since they get double the shots most of the time and can take Orders. The Death Guard get the Blight Drone, which is pretty cool, but nothing else. Hes still got two casts and denies and is still way nastier/tougher in a fight than most equivalents, so may still be the one of the better inquisition options. They also, while alive, provide a 5+ invulnerable save. In the same way as Space Marines, the Traitors also have to spend an additional CP if they want to take a Martial Legacy unit. Vindicator Laser Destroyer. On the whole, the Kytan is better as a unit, but still worse than it was in 8th edition because its a Lord of War and in 9th edition those are terrible if they cant be your Supreme Commander. Thats seriously spicy, and since neither goes up in cost on that build and some of their guns get marginally better, these are a much more appealing option. There isnt any massive rules changes, but some minor adjustments and a few buffs/discounts scattered around (or in the case of Venatari, a minor change with a HUGE impact). Orion Assault Dropship: Other than it has less attacks when degraded, entirely unchanged, same points etc. Grab all the rules for your Forge World collection in one place with the Imperial Armour: Compendium. Uraka, CorBax, and Mamon return, as well as some of the really big greater daemons. Hes armed with a heavy plasma cannon and dreadnought close combat weapon, and only costs 20 points more than an equivalently armed relic contemptor. Medusas of all flavours get a more functional boost some go up in cost slightly, but the damage on their big gun increases to d6, obviously very nice and much more scary to be up against when theyre well hidden. as well. Shane: The Golden Boys come out mostly on top, which considering half of their unit choices are coming from this book, is quite important. People are sad about the leviathan, but before the compendium he was approaching a Knight in points, had terrible rules, was more expensive than the loyalist version and his guns were average. Unfortunately, both of these get hit hard by being forced to take theInspiring Leader warlord trait. For the Eldar, the Revenant Titan getting a 4+ Inv save regardless of how far they move. So if you were debating trying it before, it is certainly more tempting now (but still D3 damage, ugh). This tradeoff is whatever right now; nothing you really want to take has Smokescreen. Moving over to cool giant monsters, theDimachaeron gets an astounding glow-up. The Warp Hunter is still way too expensive for how fragile it is, while the Nightwing gets a weird makeover from undercosted cheap option to trying to be a heavier flyer, and there just isnt a slot for what its doing. If any of them have game its probablyScabeiathrax, who benefits from having a whole bunch of nasty offensive options while being durable for their new cost. Carab Culln takes most of the generic leviathan nerfs (see below), and also loses out on both his feel no pain aura and most of the interest from the death-hold special rule it no longer lets you hit for mortal wounds and simply lets the heavy bolter fire with no penalty at units in engagement range. The first is that the units in the Chaos Space Marine section reference the
keyword, and where they do, they tell you to refer toCodex: Chaos Space Marines. YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. 1 - Imperial Guard and Imperial Navy, Vol. For their part, Death Guard get their own section with a single unit immediately following, so theres a good chance this is intentional and not just an error. Our full review and unboxing is up over on www.spruesandbrews.com #warhammercommunity #warhammer #warcry #miniatures #miniaturespainting #soulblightgravelords #vampire #paintingwarhammer #painting #gamesworkshop, Our Sunday evening painting stream is live on YouTube and Twitch! In the past, there were a few standout units that could be found in almost any army (looking at you contemptors and leviathans), and a lot of units that were just nowhere near usable. Similar to named characters in any other book, Forgeworld has mandated a specific warlord trait for them, unfortunately that trait is Inspiring Leader from the core rulebook, so youll never actually want to make one of these characters your warlord. We see quite a few units get tweaked to remove degrading profiles too, such as on the Blood Slaughterer. Whether you want to reclaim the galaxy with the Necrons, burn it to a cinder with the Chaos Space Marines, or convince everyone to join the Greater Good with the T'au Empire, this book contains the datasheets and the points values you need.. In Lords of War land the Cobra and Scorpion also both got respectable point cuts and arebetter than they used to be, but probably still dont have a serious role in lists. Last for this section, theTaunar almost certainly works out as a loser. TheMeka-Dread andMega-Dread both get quite a lot cheaper and that definitely works in their favour they dont have as many weird and wonderful options, but their defensive profile is just way more proportionate to their price if you feel like taking them. All of them got boosts and points drops. The big fliers all get slammed to BS4+ without much changes in their prices, and thats a pretty bad look for them. Kept the FLY keyword, otherwise unchanged. Blood Angels Sicaran Omega. Putting aside the insult that they cost the same as their loyalist counterparts, lacking the HELBRUTE keyword is a big problem and the added CP cost to bring them makes them more of a liability than anything. None of them.and all of them. The deathshroud cannons have also been augmented with Blast on both modes, and the big shots have also gone to flat damage two, while the inferno lance gains the new melta rule and is going to be able to deploy that straight out of deep strike. Hecaton Aiakos is the clear winner here. We have a look through the book in our YouTube video, or keep scrolling to see our full written review as we did into the datasheets and changes, and investigate what goodies are within! Games Workshop provided Sprues & Brews a copy of this book for review purposes. If there are units that I think are still worth it, Ill note them below. Nice of you to share! Sky Slasher Swarms also get a bump their stats and costs are unchanged, but they get built in deep strike. I never expected discontinued units to get rules in this book, its an unfortunate truth that we are only ever really going to get current tournament ready rules for models that Games Workshop still produce, however I am a little surprised that some units that you can still buy on the Forge World website do not get rules in this book that said, even with that small caveat there are an absolute truck load of units in this mighty tome! off-limits to Thousand Sons and Death Guard, Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Daniel "Skails" Rodenberg, Charlie B, "Primaris" Kevin Genson, Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones and SRM, James "One_Wing" Grover, Peter "The Falcon" Colosimo, Jeremy "Curie" Atkinson and Lowest of Men, James "One_Wing" Grover, Peter "The Falcon" Colosimo, Lowest of Men and Jeremy "Curie" Atkinson, Matthew "Rockfish" Herrington, Colin Ward, SRM, MasterSlowPoke, Jack Hunter and Liam "Corrode" Royle, Mike Bettle-Shaffer, Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones and BuffaloChicken, Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones and MildNorman, Codex Supplement Space Wolves: The Goonhammer Review, How to Paint Everything: Draculas (and other Vampires), incredibly official Goonhammer store on RedBubble. Credit: Jack Hunter. Instead, weve lasered in on our areas of expertise and pulled out what we think the winners, losers and other notable changes are for each faction, aiming to give you the lowdown on the things that matter most. Luckily the new Imperial Armour Compendium is here to solve both those problems, and GW have been kind enough to send us a copy. Really onlyStone-Crusher Carnifexeshere they cant be taken as broods any more and went up a bit in cost when they probably didnt need to. The Phantom Titan is also a loser obviously its not playable in Strike Force games, but even if you find yourself wanting to spend 3000pts on Titans in a game youre better taking two Revenants, as theyre vastly more efficient. Custodian Guard with Adrasite/Pyrithite Spears [CORE] : Pyrithite spears got the new melta rule of half range equals D6+2 damage, but also went up by 5 points, so a slight nerf overall. Change). These rules are better than what we used to have, and their costs do sit in a more realistic range than before, but paying 3 CP to take a greater daemon with no exalted abilities is weak sauce. We will be taking a look at some of these units in greater detail over the week once we have had a chance to crunch the numbers, but my initial reaction is positive here with some cool options for adding some fun units to bolster your Space Marine army. TheKustom Stompa gets its cost brought more in line with a standard one, which is a relief, and its Stompa lifta-droppa gets an absurd boost, going to 4d3 shots instead of 2d6, rolling 3d6 against T to wound and now doing d3+3 damage at AP-4 instead of just a single mortal. In an edition that prioritizes having bodies to take objectives and keep your opponent off theirs, spending several hundred points on a single tank thats going to have trouble moving around is already a tough sell, and adding a big additional CP cost is a tough pill to swallow. Caladius Grav-Tank: Lost the -2 to charge grav ability, kept fly. This will be a process as getting to all the factions, but for now you can find all the points including Forge World, Special Rules, Stratagems, Warlord Traits, Points, Search: The trove warhammer 40k codex. Why are there no pictures of the vehicles. Theycould be OK spammed withGunnery Experts. It also has a much more sturdy defensive profile, and an improved version of the thermal jets rule for stuff it flies over. It does still have an incredibly silly amount of firepower, some guns even getting better than before, but it also drops to BS3+, and I think honestly the dream is probably dead. We also see some sneak peaks at what weapons may look like in a future Astra Militarum book with a Vanquisher cannon being listed as S16, AP -4, D9 with +1 to hit Vehicles and Monsters I am suddenly very glad i went with rule of cool and armed my Krieg Leman Russ with a Vanquisher cannon! To start with, its bumped up to 30 wounds. Thankfully they do also get a small benefit in the ability for a vehicle to fire on a 4+ when they are killed, making it a danger at times to take out Krieg vehicles, especially ones with nasty weapons! Such a cool model and was great fun to paint up in a more modern scheme! [2], Warhammer Community: The Codex Show (posted 9/12/2020), Forge World Webstore: Imperial Armour Compendium, Warhammer Community: Inside Imperial Armour: Compendium (26/10/20), Vol. All of them can outflank, too even better. Ultimately, its a stronger unit, but its still a Lord of War. Given they can go after hordes very effectively as well, I think these have been priced pretty close to right. Unless youre set on bringing fancy weapon options, stick with the codex version. The Hades Breaching Drill can also finally carry Combat Engineers too, something that was overlooked in the previous index. Theyre still not amazing they dropped from being toughness 9 down to toughness 8, though picked up a bit of improvement in their guns. Such an awesome model and can't wait to paint more! Its great to see all these characters represented still, as a lot are from very old IA books. The Malanthropewins because it gets to continue to exist, and is even slightly improved in exchange for a 15pt increase. Aquilon Custodians [CORE] : Fists and bolter is 5 points cheaper!?!?! That makes them kind of losers overall. As with the Space Marines we see a number of points adjustments that bring both of these forces in line with each other. This makes the Exalted Daemons much easier to take in a game, and I cant wait to include them in lists again as they are some of my favourite models and deserve to be on the battlefield again! Sicaran Omega. A lot of the profiles have been tidied a little and they benefit greatly from this, as degrading profiles on low wound models like this was often a problem in the previous edition. Atomantic Shielding matches the contemptor, so only a 5+ invulnerable save rather than 4+, combining for an overall substantial drop in durability. If youd asked us to pick units that were at real risk of just getting nuked from orbit in a re-write this would have been high on the list, so it getting to keep doing its thing, only even better, is a huge relief for nid players.