The bad news is, the Kytan went up 10 points. Their Gas Bombs are still excellent and with the Grenadiers stratagem will be painful for anyone on the recovering end! The key difference is that theyre no longer HQs or Characters, so extremely stupid combos involving relics and warlord traits are banished to the shadow realm. #warhammercommunity #warhammer #warhammer40k #wargames #wargaming #tyranids #tyranid #gamesworkshop #citadel #citadelminiatures #hivetyrant #40k #warmongers #hobby #paintingwarhammer #painting #paintingminiatures #miniaturespainting #miniatures #90s, Busy day at Sprues & Brews HQ! Since you can double gun these, you definitely want to take this variant if youre planning on doing silly things withVisions in the Smoke,itsvastly better than the mainline one for that role. 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. Ill have to use my converted tech priest as a Warpsmith I guess. Combat Engineers have also had a rework with their shotguns becoming a lot less deadly, but getting a great rate of fire and the ability to pop up anywhere on the battlefield. Sicaran Omega. The impact was, shall we say, uneven plenty of choices were fine, but there were frequent issues with Forge World units having unintended interactions with newly released rules, and a few choices that were just a bit over-pushed that tended to be over-represented. The good news, however, is that all the various flavours of Death Rider actually might, theyre good with strong Serberys Raider energy to them. The Regimental Doctrine for Krieg was shown off on Warcom and is kind ofeh not really lighting up the world. Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings. Like the Rvarna, they do get a massive point cut, but here it comes with correspondingly massive decrease in capabilities. 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. Astral Claws Ultramarines with Rapid Assault and Hungry for Battle. Any weapons that Forgeworld doesnt currently make in 28mm are gone, so goodbye to reaver chainfists and carapace weapons that arent the apocalypse missile launcher and warlord carapace weapons that arent apocalypse launchers or laser blasters. On top of that, the -1 to hit these is now just always on, rather than only when they advance. The book itself is split into 4 sections broadly following the split of the old Imperial Armour Indexes Forces of the Adeptus Astartes, Forces of the Imperium, Forces of Chaos and Forces of Xenos. The deathshroud build feels like the play, and the fact that this loadout is over 120pts cheaper than in CA is kind of mind boggling. 47.8M . 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. It changes a reasonable amount the weapon goes to D2 rather than D3but the Nova charge mode is now just a flat 9 shots per fun (so 18 total), it goes up to S7 when you Nova it, and the whole package has come down a cool 110pts. Additionally they are now only 26 wounds instead of 27 (including the Lancer). Now your mileage may vary if you only collect one army, but as I have multiple armies with a wide and varied range of Forge World models across them I much prefer having them all in the one book. Also Available on Spotify & Google Podcasts, The Hive Tyrant was one of the first models I ever painted for Warhammer 40k, so when I saw an unpainted one on ebay I knew I had to paint it up in honour of it! The Dreadspear melee attack is now 3+D3 damage, vs D6 minimum 3, which is a nice boost, but it does lose Impaling Lunge so no more chance at mortals on the charge. While the dream of reloading a Deathstrike is there, and re-upping hunter-killer missiles nottotally irrelevant, we all know what this was used for re-rolls on a Baneblade and it doesnt do that any more. Lets look at how things shake out. Additionally all the Moirax went down to 12 movement like the Cerastus, again because reasons. Imperial Armour Compendium is an Imperial Armour book for the 9th Edition of Warhammer 40,000. Credit: That Gobbo. After all those words about the leviathan changes, this is a breath of fresh air. Chaos codex trove The Air, Water, and Fire element types can carry the following effects. of Forge World units that, at the time of printing, are supported. 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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. I hope this is something we see for other less known chapters in the future, even if it is in White Dwarf articles. Sky Slasher Swarms also get a bump their stats and costs are unchanged, but they get built in deep strike. Imperial Fists Fellblade. The Death Guard also get a Greater Blight Drone with the Death Guard keyword, making this fully compatible with the Death Guard book and the Plague Companies rules. Ultimately, it does still get hard-countered by some flavours of hordes, and any game played with it is going to be a knife edge of making sure you dont get charged by a melee killing machine, but in a similar way to the Taunar in 8th I can see people picking it up and running it to 3-2 finishes or the occasional 4-1. Unsure, but in the meantime it is very much still a Land Raider, with all the problems that entails. Acastus Knightsdrop to the point where you could squeeze one into a list a bit more reasonably, and gain some boosts to their guns in the form of Blast, but still really struggle to compete with Castellans. Likewise their Dreadnoughts also get the same damage reducing abilities to bring them inline! For the Eldar, the Revenant Titan getting a 4+ Inv save regardless of how far they move. Other Cerastus-Knights are all only 12 movement at top bracket now, which isnt a huge thing, but it is still a nerf. An Astraeus has 2 void shields, so it has a nice little buffer before it starts taking damage. Next up, Im a bit more tentative on this but Ithink Shadow Spectres end up more attractive as a general pick than they used to be. Weapon profiles and the stat line stayed exactly the same, its just firing half as many shots. 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. Loyalist Knight Atrapos. Then theres theGreater Brass Scorpion,which dropped 75 points while going up to 28 wounds It now also degrades in WS and BS, and so will always have 6 attacks to whiff with as it loses accuracy. Unless youre set on bringing fancy weapon options, stick with the codex version. Finally, for winners, theKill Tank looks surprisingly pushed at its new price, coming down 100pts for the bursta cannon build and a mighty 155 for the giga-shoota build. This isincredibly bad;for some units itll just limit to your ability to include multiples but more than likely itll just make some units unplayably bad, since theyre likely to be overcosted before you include the CP. 9th Edition Imperial Armour Compendium: The Goonhammer Review By James "One_Wing" Grover October 31, 2020 Forge World formed a key part of competitive play in 8th Edition, offering a wide range of additional options for some factions alongside some very cool models for players who wanted to try something different. 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. So yeah, 2+ save, and 5 points cheaper for what you probably were already doing with this unit. Solomon Lok never really saw play anyway, but Hector Rex was a popular choice because of how high you could juice him when you added a trait. We also get a nice two page spread telling the tale of the Death Korps of Krieg and the hellish world they herald from. Luckily the new Imperial Armour Compendium is here to solve both those problems, and GW have been kind enough to send us a copy. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Grey Knights get a variant of the Land Raider which has psycannons on it, for some reason with a different profile than seen on normal ones. Someone out there was listening, because this was always the fix it needed. I think it is fair to say however that there was a wide gulf in the balance and efficiency of these units. Start Competing: Chaos Space Marines Updated! Weve seen a bit of that thus far in 9th, with hangover 8th Edition rules throwing up a few very powerful choices in the Edition transition, while other units are complete trash at their Chapter Approved costs. The Hellcrusher claws have added a sweep mode for clearing out smaller units very helpful and the Scorpion cannon now fires 15 S5 1 damage shots instead of 10 S6 2 damage shots. 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! Brayarth Ashmantle keeps his strength 8, but drops from toughness 9 all the way to toughness 7. They all picked up a substantial number of wounds, with a warhound now having 50 wounds and a warlord 120, but dropped in toughness, with the warlord the only titan at T9. 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They also get the Termite added as a transport option, which also gives them an aggressive high strength close combat unit in the form of the drill itself! This has changed somewhat from the previous incarnation, and arguably is a little worse for your foot slogging troops. Each titan has a different number of void shields, from warhounds with 2 up to warlords with 8. Goonhammer and Stat Check are Teaming Up! The Death Korps also get a Regimental Doctrine and datasheets for their unique Death Rider models. The Imperial Knights get profiles for all Knight variants currently produced by Forge World including some much appreciated points cuts! 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. Remember that these Dreadnoughts dont currently get Legion Traits, since they arent INFANTRY, BIKERS, HELBRUTES, or CHARACTERS. Falchion/Fellblade As an unapologetic lover of all forms of BIG TANKs, I had to take a look at these too. We were very lucky to receive a copy of Imperial Armour Compendium a little early from Games Workshop to review and share the content with you all! Even Forge World armies such as the Death Korps of Krieg ended up in a weird limbo where they could use some units from the Astra Militarum book, but not all in exchange for getting access to a couple of unique units. If you are a fan of Forge World models and want the chance to use them in your games of 40k then you really should pick this book up, and while I understand that for pure Tyranid players it may seem a shame you have to fork out for the entire book, for those who collect multiple armies it is great having all these profiles collected in one place! The Barbed is a pricier beast, but has some mean guns and a 2+ save, making it a spicy Greater Daemon tier hitter. You Give Goonhammer Writers Serotonin. Shane: The Golden Boys come out mostly on top, which considering half of their unit choices are coming from this book, is quite important. Announcing The Goonhammer 2023 Global 40k Campaign. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful. All of the big tanks are surprisingly usable for their points and could easily be seen in an army if not for that 3 CP tax to take a superheavy auxiliary. Meanwhile, the Tantalus gets ahuge price cut in exchange for trading out the weird warlord no one cared about and is also pretty strong as Covens. The premium it pays for having built-in deep strike is massively lower than it used to be, and being able to deploy from the webway removes the worry about it getting punked straight off the board. Hazardsalso seem OK they get a substantial point cut in exchange for losing a single wound and thats probably a net positive, just about. The good news is, it gained 4 wounds. The one sting in the tail here is that hes returned with theSpeedwaaagh! Of the various suits, the Rvarna feels like the big winner. It retains the CORE keyword, and if you arm it with a kheres assault cannon or multimelta and dreadnought close combat weapon it costs the same as the codex version (well, and an extra 1 CP cost.). The Astra Militarum were the OG beneficiaries of Forge World units, and they retain a prodigious range, though some of their options have been archived off as part of this update (mostly very similar variants on existing units). Terrax-Pattern Termite. The Thousand Sons appear to get nothing, which sucks. Innocuous but also undeniably winners we have Tetras, which trade out their one shot, three tokens markerlight for a markerlight that just has heavy 3, while going down 5pts each to boot. Grav Pulsar Moirax now only deal 3 damage vs 3+ save, as opposed to the 4 damage is was before. Fundamentally, you spend 130pts on a unit and they have a very strong chance of popping out of DS and immediately picking up 100pts+ of Gravis models. You have to agree that is a massive amount of profiles available in the book! 11 named characters, most of which youve never heard of cover the above 5 chapters + the Salamanders. Still immunity to melta extra damage? 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! [2] It also includes : One Regimental Doctrine for the Death Korps of Krieg, designed to work with Codex: Astra Militarum [2] The second thing to note is that this section includes a single new Stratagem: The SmokescreenStratagem from Codex: Space Marines makes an appearance here, allowing units with the relevant keyword (mostly tanks) to pop smoke when shot at for 1 CP instead of having that ability for free in a more proactive use way. [[2], This compendium includes 222 datasheets, including super-heavy units and highly specialised troops. It got both cheaper and bump in firepower, making it an interesting option for someone who wants to go in on vehicles. Units have also had the CORE keyword added, setting them up to be futureproofed for a future Custodes Codex. The Sentinel has historically been the better unit, but the Stalker is nowso cheap that I actually might give it the nod as the superior option just as a throwaway push unit. If so, that sucks Drills at least were something Id have liked to see stick around in Death Guard armies, and the loss of them is a major blow to a lot of current competitive builds. Theres a bunch of stuff here that gets decent discounts or modest changes that make them a bit more usable without pushing them over into true winners. Throughout the week we will be taking a look in more detail at some of the changes in profiles across the armies, along with taking a look at the Death Korps of Krieg to see if they can finally compete on the tabletop with these new rules, so make sure to stay tuned to the site! Credit: Jack Hunter. Theyre still not amazing they dropped from being toughness 9 down to toughness 8, though picked up a bit of improvement in their guns. The Imperial Armour Compendium is available to pre-order from Friday. People! Most Ork vehicles that are tank-style, along with Mega and Meka dreads, gain the Ramshackle rule from Trukks, giving them a chance to reduce incoming damage to 1 on a roll of a 6. For the Space Marines we get a couple of new rules introduced the main one that is going to effect most peoples list building is the introduction of the Martial Legacy ability. Is that a hint of changes to come? 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. Acastus Knights! Depending on how the meta moves, this could help or hinder the Ares. This tradeoff is whatever right now; nothing you really want to take has Smokescreen. The double shooting Spiculus if you didnt move ability moved to the weapon, so functionally the same, and gained the dread -1D ability. BIG bonus. Orion Assault Dropship: Other than it has less attacks when degraded, entirely unchanged, same points etc. If there are units that I think are still worth it, Ill note them below. The Hornet is also -1 to hit all the time without having to advance. Time will tell. TheInquisition retain only their two Named Characters. 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.. The Imperium section of the book is fairly chunky and contains a shed load of new profiles and rules! Just like with their Imperial counterparts, we see updated profiles for every variant of Imperial Knight, giving the Chaos Knights access to a large pool of different chassis, these have also been tweaked in regards to points values in line with the Imperial versions! Nice buff, and considering they are my favorite troop unit, I am certainly not complaining. Imperial Armour Compendium 40k Rules Breakdown One of the best parts about the book in our opinion is that the points costs are at the end of each section! Back at the launch of the 8th edition of Warhammer 40,000 we saw a series of volumes from Forge World collecting together all the rules for Forge World units in the new edition of the game. Also the Adrathic option is slightly cheaper, so basically everything about Aquilon got better, except for the claw. Alright, onto the shared units, I guess. The 5 included chapters are as follows: Red Scorpions Ultramarines with Inheritors of the Primarch. Warhammer 40k - Imperial Armour . I had emotionally prepared myself for this, but it looks like I will, in fact, be needing to change the paint scheme on my Wraithseer before putting it on a tournament table even once, as they have completely changed but at least not necessarily to the point of being unusable. At the moment this profile only applies to the Macharius twin variant, however it would not surprise me to see that profile in the new AM book! Moving over to cool giant monsters, theDimachaeron gets an astounding glow-up. Such a cool model and was great fun to paint up in a more modern scheme! document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Also it still moves 14, see the Loser section. The Hades Breaching Drill can also finally carry Combat Engineers too, something that was overlooked in the previous index. The Kannonwagon and Kustom Stompa are the two that miss out, but its nice for the rest. There are a couple of grumbles about missing units that are still available that do not have profiles, and sadly a few formatting errors here in there with incorrect battlefield roles and power values, which is a little bit of a disappointment in a 40 book. tamarin st barth,

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