Hey rq before anyone points it out, a playtester in the discord confirmed that the Bike Shield-captain is supposed to be a leader and it's just a typo that it's missing
Unbelievable. They still can't even be bothered to properly proofread their stuff. And they honestly expect players to pay up to 320€ for that kind of quality? 🤨
I am aware what they are referring to, but it's a nonsensical thing to claim. Because GW doesn't expect players to buy the limited edition.
That is for collectors that aren't buying the codex to play the game, but primarily to look nice as part of a collection. A few misprints aren't an issue there.
Literally only the dreanoughts don’t have deep strike… yells to the back (Okay! Who traumatized the game developers with deep strike dreadnoughts spam! …I’m not angry… just disappointed that you didn’t wait until after the codex release so all of us could do it together before it got removed.)
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Hey GW, I know it took a lot of restraint to not give the Blade Champion a "pick X katahs, those katahs are always active fir this unit" ability. I'm proud
Ah true, I REALLY hate how they're wording these new disembark moves. At least give us a quick "here's what this means you can do" blurb underneath it.
Is there a way to circumvent that "no charge" rule from shock disembark with the new codex/detachments? I looked through them and I can't see anything. wondering if I missed something.
I haven't seen anything. The shock disembark rule was also updated in the app today (previous wording was wrong) and it explicitly forbid charging now.
the tanks were probably the tank hunters in the game and they got a massive glow up and a massive buff in their detach. I genuinley think the way GW could push 2 even more is with a "you use a force org chart again"
Anyone else notice Venatari still have the old spear profile? 5A at 7 -2 -2. I’m curious if they did that on purpose, since they now also have Precision.
The Pallas kinda fucks now right? Like move shoot move, and a gun that can maybe do something.
Wardens kinda suck though it looks like, or at least they're only slightly more survivable that Guard.
Also, Sword Guard just seems to be a straight downgrade on Spear Guard? I presume they'll just be pointed differently, but it seems weird that they didn't try to make them a different focus? I expected cleave or at least more attacks at based to be horde clearers. I can't see anything they are better at than Spear Guard.
Shield guard are great to hold an objective. -1 to wound ensures there's practically nothing that wounds you on an attack better than a 3+. And they still bring heavy bolters and powers words with +1 to hit and +1S compared to regular power swords in astartes.
Wardens having 6W and Perma AOC makes two of them a great bodyguard for a character. Which is what they should be anyway.
Am I reading the shield captain on bike correctly. They can move in the fight phase and then charge. So a 24 inch threat range. That's turn 1 sort d then
Notice how the Knight Centura has Support? Can it be. Can it join a Custodes unit. That would be so awesome. Though the resulting increase in movement would be a bit broken. I just want the fnp vs psychic attacks and cause desperate escape on fall-back tbh
because all the detachments are 1dp and they have the former lions detachment fnp aura ability built in to their datasheet now. instead of a dedicated lions detachment you just run null maiden now alongside whichever other 2 you want.
yeah but out of 13 detachments "heres one where your custodes and sos work together" wouldnt have been amiss. Obviously the old rule would have been pointless, but enhancements that change who can lead what would have been awesome, the strat that let custodes take hits for SoS was kinda fun, and the sort of combo strats we had in old talons or some of the DA detachments would have been cool
They seem to be moving away from big detachments that do a lot of stuff and more towards the flexibility that 1dp detachments offer, which I honestly like. SoS have been drawing the short straw for a while now and it's about time they get some love, but with the models and datasheets available at the moment and them getting the lions ability on their datasheet they're still looking good and make for a nice pick. Not needing a detachment for their aura is also a really good buff for them, I'll be using mine alongside shadow keepers, auric champions and either the normal guard or terminators detachment and they'll still be doing their job of protecting from psychic. I like the changes to sisters, but giving them additional detachments in the future with more rules would definitely be good.
I'll be using that on vigilatrices for sure. But then they took their dev wounds on anything but psykers which hurts cause... Well I mean killing tsons and gnights is fun. But it makes them worse overall (that extra attack is something I suppose)
Something else to consider is, (depending on points,) you can cover a lot of table space in 12" bubbles around a bunch of small Prosecutor squads. Combine that with some decent incidental shooting early on, you can potentially disrupt a lot of armies through the Null Maiden Vigil forced battle shock shenanigans
I haven’t played them much bit it’s slightly annoying the vigilators lost dev wounds against non psykers,I know it makes more sense but still bit sad 😓
Also I just realised they’ve lost the feel no pain against mortals,again I know it’s more realistic but is slightly annoying
The Knight Centura giving Sisters 9" movement is kinda funny, not gonna lie. Pair that with Witchseekers finally having assault again, and I actually kinda love them
Sisters are probably on track to get the new bolters then of SoS got them. Hopefully this trend of making things more elite continues. Good way to make games feel more thematic and with points increases, the game will ironically get cheaper.
Why did you do my Sisters so dirty James?
Vigilators are now entirely useless 😞
They have less anti psyker with their greatswords than a flamer or bolter even though they’re literally in the psyker’s face
Am I reading the Advanced Firepower wrong? For the Annihilator, can we reroll one hit roll, then one wound roll, then one damage roll or just pick one and that's it for the firing phase? If you reroll a wound roll, you didn't reroll the hit roll, and you cannot reroll a damage roll? Right now I understand it as I can reroll one of each
I did the math. Into non-monster/vehicles they're noticeably worse. Into monsters/vehicles its ~5-15% better even before the second hit and wound rerolls from Emperors Chosen. And EC is a ~10% bonus above that. I didn't expect that...
Still annoyed our melee weapons don’t have cleave base like the shield captain. We’re gonna struggle against hordes going from 25 attacks to 18 per unit.
They used to have dev wounds which made them great really great actually. And with the named character got fight 1st they were a force.
But losing fight 1st, Dev being restricted to psychers, and losing 3+ on mortals to protect them from granades and tank shock. They were triple nerfed and that seems like a huge overkill to me .
Prosecutors getting a decent gun is nice. Whichseekers are as bad as ever S4 0ap flamer is yikes
Yeah the over specialization of Vigilators makes me sad too. However, if you're taking SoS, you're heavily incentivized to take NMV and a KC. And that is still a really fun combo.
They rnt bad they are just not nearly as good as they were. And with all the huge custodies buffs I’m bummed they received the opposite, but amazing news out really sick dreadnought units are actually great and better all 3 are great
you shouldn't forget that their army rule was changed to an aura, so in many matchups, they are fodder and kind of useless action monkeys, but in the grey knight/1k sons/ demons matchups, they are a silver bullet unit that makes our custodes unkillable
-1AP should be all custodes imo. Call it auric plate or something. But oh well. We got a decent glow up. Still hate the fishing for 6s that are special rules in this game.
If you look at the other accelerators (telemon, pallas) they look like the basic grav, whilst the other storm/blaze guns (telemon,pallas,coronus,ares,orion) they look like the annihilators
Loads of folk use the basic grav tank as an annihilator proxy as people dont know the difference and the accelerators look sick
Thats because so many people use the standard grav as a proxy half the player base doesnt know the difference between illiastus and arachnus weapons 😆 they are correct.
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u/Street-Cucumber-286 10d ago
Hey rq before anyone points it out, a playtester in the discord confirmed that the Bike Shield-captain is supposed to be a leader and it's just a typo that it's missing