A hasty bit of rethinking and retooling, along with some new lore, saw the idea of a schism in the Imperium being born. These days the baleflamer is the clear move for the Lord Discordant, and getting D6+2 hits is just better than anything the Helstalker autocannon has to offer. You can also give them more shooting options with special weapons and a blight launcher in a 5-model unit, but these are just OK and again, the unit is pretty slow and not really more durable than a unit of Chosen. This means you cant run a Cultists-only army at least for now. In addition, Chaos Space Marines have Daemon Weapons, special Relic upgrades for weapons, most of which require a specific mark of Chaos. This is particularly a challenge when it comes to your Psyker characters: Youll typically want a Master of Possession, but will seldom want to waste his casts on doing Psychic Interrogation, forcing you to find a way to fit another psyker character into the army and that has to be an HQ choice. That HELBRUTE can shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, but it has to target either the closest enemy or a unit that targeted it (the target must be eligible, so you cant use this to pick off a CHARACTER). Its particularly valuable in Emperors Children, where you can almost guarantee a charge out of deep strike with. *This technically isnt supported by the rules, but this is what Games Workshop enforces at their own events, and what many TOs adopt. While well cover Abaddons impact on Black Legion armies in the legion article for them (spoiler: Hes a must-take), when Abaddon is your Warlord (and he must be if you include him), then he gains the AGENT OF CHAOS keyword, allowing you to mix him with other legions and armies in the Supreme Command Detachment. Add 1 to wound rolls for attacks made with melee weapons by models in that unit. On top of this, its lascannons have been replaced with twin soulshatter lascannons, which do D6+2 damage, making them much more consistent and useful. To build out some character in your force, wed recommend looking at a Sorcerer with Jump Pack, to be able to take advantage of more Psychic abilities while zipping around the board, giving Warptime to your troops in unexpected places, and keeping your opponent on their toes. With a slim choice of secondary objectives that mostly require interacting with your opponent, its on you to get out there and rip their limbs off, then beat them with said limbs. The mighty Leviathan offers a 2+ save over its Contemptor-bodied brethren, but still comes with the 1 CP cost and the challenge of being a unit that neither shoots nor fights well enough to be worth its cost. In addition, Psykers who take a mark get a free power related to the mark and those powers are pretty good. . These aren't bad choices, but they aren't without issues. As a fast melee option they dont hit as hard as Possessed, arent quite as fast and durable as bikes, and arent as cheap as Raptors, making them more of a finesse unit than a brawler.. As a unit, Cultists are fragile and they dont shoot or fight particularly well. Stratagem as well. Legionaries come in units of 5 models and come with bolt pistol and boltgun, plus 3 attacks and yes, 2 wounds. They get +1 to all hit rolls until your next psychic phase. Hes not worth taking, and its a shame they managed to make the standard army leader one of the most boring models in the book. Where youll want to watch out for this is with the factions special characters, many of whom have the CHAOS LORD keyword. Each subfaction has its own Traits, Relics, and Stratagems setting it apart from its traitorous siblings. Their hellflamers benefit from the Let The Galaxy Burn, meaning youre throwing out 4+2d6 S5 AP1 D2 autohits every turn. Pick a NURGLE unit within 18. Hes always got the AGENT OF CHAOS keyword, and if your army includes any CHAOS LORD models (which includes the likes of Abaddon, Lucius, Haarken, and Huron Blackheart, he can be included in a detachment without taking up a slot. Until the start of your next Psychic phase, roll a D6 each time a model in that unit loses a wound; on a 5+ it doesnt lose that wound. Let one of you sharpen his knife so his animal feels no pain. Its great for Terminators and Possessed, and particularly good against elite armies like Custodes that rely on having BS/WS 2+ and re-rolls to hit. as they are not a CULTIST MOB). Generally speaking, your army needs a mix of reliable backfield objective holders, typically 2-3 units who can hold objectives in or from your deployment zone, and midtable objective holders, who can contest the middle and bully enemy units off objectives typically 1-2 units which can do this reliably. Get Tabletop, RPG & Pop Culture news delivered directly to your inbox. The bearer gets +1 to their armour saving throws, has a 4+ invulnerable save, and the first time theyre destroyed, before you remove them from play, roll a D6 for each enemy unit within 3; on a 2-5 they take D3 mortal wounds, on a 6 they take 3 mortal wounds. Roll less than or equal to your Ld and you can fight normally. The CSM Land Raider comes with the same 2+ save, but has Toughness 9, making it considerably tougher to crack. As I said this is not a legal issue but it is a consumer rights issue and retailers are expected to act fairly towards customers in ways that arent explicitly backed up by legislation. This is solid for upping your damage output, though really youre just in it for Slaughter on your Khorne units. A unit of Traitor Guardsmen gives you 10 models at a cost of 60 points, with all but the Sergeants weapon options being free upgrades. Thats not something you actually want to do most games you want to be sitting on and controlling those objectives when your turn starts so you can score primary points. Death to the False Emperor isdead; long live its replacement, Let the Galaxy Burna rule applied if every unit in your army has the Traitoris Astartes keyword and theyre all from the same Legion. If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. They also enjoy the mortal wound protection that Word Bearers or Iron Warriors can bring. When enemy units take morale tests within 6 of your warlord, they roll 2D6 and take the highest result. For more on using them in those legions, see the relevant armies in each Start Competing article on that legion. Maulerfiends are fast, nasty beaters in melee that benefit from the bonus to hit that a Lord Discordant can provide, but dont necessarily depend on it. Its great for making multi-charges safer and the 12 range is really good when you consider most fights last abilities require you to get within 3. And, with a brand new 9th edition Chaos Space Marines codex to play with, theyre finally a flexible, competitive tabletop army once again. The big downside here is that hit modifiers cap at -1, so you may find this just doesnt matter in some situations or against armies that ignore modifiers or can stack multiple buffs to hit. Daemon Weapons are Relics, and so to take one youll need to spend CP to get one as normal in competitive play. There will be bloodfor the blood god. Youll almost always want to swap their bolters for chainswords, since having 4 attacks at AP-1 is significantly better than having an AP0 bolter against most of the games targets. It is time to release the following text, Games Workshop: "For the following datasheets in the 'Codex: Chaos Space Marines' or 'Codex: Heretic Astartes', or whatever we called it, replace the Wounds (W) characteristic of 1 (one) with 2 (two), and 2 (two) with 3 (three): Chaos Space Marines (p.128) (+4pts) Khorne Berzerkers (p.132) (+4pts) Rubric Marines (p.133) (+4pts) Plague Marines (p.132 . Its cheaper, but what you get isnt quite worth it. For example, if you run Mortarion in a Supreme Command detachment alongside a unit of Iron Warriors, your Iron Warriors will lose their Legion trait and no longer ignore cover or turn off Wound rerolls. At the start of the third battle round, you can choose to either remain in, During the fourth and subsequent battle rounds, your army (and all its units) is engaged in. As a unit their best value is loading them up with melee wargear like the cleaver and flail so they can do a bunch of high-damage wounds to opponents, but this just makes them a very slow melee unit in an army that is already flush with melee options that move faster and hit harder. Hellbrutes used to have some weird outside play when they had 8 movement as cheap, mobile melee threats but since every 9th edition Codex has dropped them back to 6 movement theyve become slow vehicles that neither have enough attacks nor enough shooting to be good enough to see play. Abaddons got the benefit of all four marks of Chaos, plus a 4+ invulnerable save and he cant take more than 3 wounds per phase. This is a unit that can reliably hold the middle of the table with support from a Master of Possession and can brawl with most of the games major threats. We invite you to delve into the darker side of the Warhammer 40,000 universe with us and learn just who the Chaos Space Marines are, where they come from, and how they play on the tabletop battlefield. Marks represent the benefits units get for devoting themselves to the Chaos powers. The Master of Possession is one of the games best psyker units, and Chaos Legionnaire units can take a psyker as well for additional versatility and the ability to toss out mortal wounds. Good for Obliterators. After many lifetimes fighting in the eternal war, countless losses (including his much beloved friend Argel Tal), and seeing his Primarch, Angron, become a Daemon Prince, Khrn has descended into a rage that will never end. Ah the poor Helbrute. One of those is probably a Master of Possession, and you wont be fighting with him, which leaves at most 2-4 characters to work with. Chosen come with 3 wounds and 3 attacks base, plus a boltgun and an accursed weapon. Full Masthead & Authors. The god prayers are all pretty solid, though, which gives a SLAANESH CORE or CHARACTER unit within 6 the ability to advance and charge is the clear winner of them for its ability to push units like the Lord Discordant into a turn 1 charge. Until the end of your Shooting phase, provided that unit does not move again it is considered to have Remained stationary. Custom40k Homebrew - Alternate activation, huge customisation, better balance and more fun! They also enjoy the mortal wound protection that Word Bearers or Iron Warriors can bring. It's very good but watch out for units with mortal wound defense. Weve put some sample lists in the separate pages for each legion, so you can find lists for a specific legion by heading to those pages. Its a good way to take down bigger targets, or give something a reason to avoid fighting you. In a non-Death Guard army Plague Marines lose Inexorable Advance, making them susceptible to difficult terrain and movement modifiers. Its great on Chosen and Biker units who dont get an invuln innately unlike Terminators and Possessed, and likewise solid on big characters who need to tank a few more hits. Because they have no weapon options to get higher AP or more attacks, Raptors do their best work in Creations of Bile lists, where the +1 Strength and Movement gives them a lot more value, or in Black Legion lists that run Haarken, where you can get full re-rolls to hit for the unit. On the table Cypher is not really a huge threat hes got a pair of pistols that combine for 9 shots, including 3 at S8 AP-3 2 damage, plus he can shoot after Advancing or Falling back. Their melee hits arent hard enough and their shooting is not good enough. This is pretty solid, and can make a fine stealth inclusion in a terminator, chosen, or raptor unit on a champion who can throw out some nastier-than-expected attacks. With the 9th edition codex release theyve become significantly more useful, owing to the fact that they have the CORE keyword and now get legion traits to take advantage of, but at the same time they see almost no use, because theyre an Elites option that doesnt offer better shooting than the Decimator nor better melee than one of the myriad other options in the book, and thats without costing you 1 CP to field. This volume 10 attacks total makes him an excellent target for the Flames of Spite Warlord Trait, and his Chainglaive is an excellent target for daemon weapons like Ulocca or Ghollax. || Tabletop Spotlight, Warhammer 40K: New Marine Weapon Profiles Confirmed. This is just very solid, and the ability to affect Daemon Engines is a nice touch that helps keep some of those relevant longer. You can find information on how to play them in their own Start Competing articles: World Eaters are the odd men out here, currently working off a White Dwarf article, but theyll move over to the own Codex group when their Codex releases in the future. This can throw a real wrench into your opponents plans, and against some armies can make a big difference. Seriously, I never really thought about how many freaking options they have. The Ogryns an interesting beater, but ultimately theres no shortage of good melee threats in the Elites slot for Chaos Space Marines. Until your next Psychic phase, that unit gets either +1 Strength or +1 Toughness. Note that some named Characters like Lucius and Abaddon enjoy getting powered up by this spell in their specific Legions, and its sometimes useful for making one model with an upgraded melee weapon like a Chainfist or Heavy Chainaxe hit extra hard. Chaos Space Marines have a solid psychic game, even if its not on the level of Thousand Sons. The Lord of Skulls is like a less mobile knight that trades access to Chaos Knight Stratagems and rules for the and DAEMON ENGINE KEYWORDS. Chaos Contemptors have been up and down for most of 9th edition, waxing and waning as the ways to buff them have come and gone. A Chaos Space Marines army can include a Chaos Knights Superheavy Auxiliary Detachment of Dreadblade Chaos Knights as AGENTS OF CHAOS. Up for pre-order on June 25, 2022 and released on July 2, the 9th edition Chaos Space Marines codex is now alive and kicking, and we can get up to speed on the long war. There are 9 original traitor legions, three of which Death Guard, Thousand Sons, and soon, World Eaters have their own codexes (and their own Start Competing articles). Thats not a bad profile for what you pay, and if you take an Ogryn, you use its Toughness for attacks against the unit and you have to allocate attacks and mortal wounds to the Ogryn first. Overall Obliterators are very good but not amazing and just dont really make the cut in most competitive lists, particularly because you can just punch things to death and in part because theyre slow and expensive. Then if the unit has not been destroyed, they take D3 mortal wounds. Its faster than either and has more range than the Vindicator but doesnt quite match the firepower either can put out, nor their durability. This is a fun way to tie up an enemy unit with a screen and still be able to shoot them, though it depends very much on a unit not just mulching a unit of cultists in a single go. , but are more valuable as forward combat units that crash into enemy lines early than as midtable objective brawlers. On the whole defilers are frustrating. Non-Cultist UNDIVIDED CORE or CHARACTER units in CHAOS SPACE MARINES detachments can be upgraded to have a Mark of Chaos, and every DAEMON PRINCE model. They are mini-terminators. 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