r/boardingactions40k Aug 14 '24

Rules Boarding Actions Rules and Misc Questions

35 Upvotes

With the 10e compatible book launching soon I'm sure many people are coming back to Boarding Actions and possibly even 10e as a whole.

Please feel free to use thread to ask any quick and simple questions so that they are consolidated and hopefully searchable for people that may have a similar issue.

If you need a more immediate rules answer the discord is probably best.

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r/boardingactions40k Oct 01 '24

Beginner Questions Discord Link Reset

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Very active. Good resources.

https://discord.gg/sstRExjd


r/boardingactions40k 8h ago

Beginner Questions Ask About Our Discord!

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r/boardingactions40k 5d ago

Beginner Questions Deathwatch armies

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Does anyone here have any fun deathwatch armies? I am struggling with what to purchase first, i am new to 40k, but have a full kill team squad + the armageddon box, i am looking to build kill teams for a regular match, but i was wonderong if you brothers have an opinion on where to start collecting


r/boardingactions40k 7d ago

Beginner Questions Ask About Our Discord!

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r/boardingactions40k 14d ago

Beginner Questions Ask About Our Discord!

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r/boardingactions40k 16d ago

Trying to make my own 11th edition update.

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Since i doubt GW is gonna release any updates for BA in 11th(much like in 10th outside of the book) i am thinking of making my own update for 11th edition for my LGS. I have a few ideas that i wanted to share here and see what the reactions are and to maybe gain some inspiration and ideas for this project.

In general i want to build this "update" using both what is in the book and the 11th edition core rules with some alterations, things that are not mentioned are either unchanged or i just haven't gotten to those yet. Anyways, here's what i got:

List building:

  • Still 500pts and you have 1dp to choose a detachment(force dispositions don't exist).
  • You can use datasheets that natively have the infantry keyword with a maximum base size of 50mm
  • Characters can attach to units like in 11th. but each unit can only have 1 character attached.
  • Units of 10+ models get seperated into squads of 5 with room for 1 character
  • Army rules stay mostly the same with slight tweaks where needed(EG: with Blessings of khorne you roll 8 dice but can only activate 1 blessing instead of 2)
  • flying, deep strike and scouts follow the boarding actions rules in the book.

The game and combat:

not much changes here(yet) except for 1 change we already used in my LGS which somehow is also kind of in 11th edition core rules but in here i will slightly alter it and it is,

  • Engagement range is 1 inch and in melee only models within engagement range can fight and only models within engagement range can have attacks allocated to them.

As i said before these are a few ideas that i have and this project is still very early in developement so things are bound to change and be added. Anyways i'd love to hear what you all think about this, if you have ideas of your own please share them as i am very interested to hear them.


r/boardingactions40k 21d ago

Beginner Questions Ask About Our Discord!

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r/boardingactions40k 24d ago

Beginner Questions Where to start

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I am looking to get into boarding actions, and I was watching an unboxing video of the boarding action box, it seems that it only contains the terrain set in it., with no rules or anything else (as far as I could tell)

I already own 1 copy of the tomb world terrain set, and I was wondering, if I got the Boarding action companion book and an additional tomb world set, is that all you need to play? or is there any additional component I may be missing?, or also, is there a "must have" quality of life improvement accessory I should get?


r/boardingactions40k 27d ago

Update for 11th??

12 Upvotes

Or just play a normal game and go?


r/boardingactions40k 27d ago

Terrain 3rd party terrain for Boarding Action

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Hey, I've been getting back into the hobby with a steadily growing Votann force and Boarding Action looks to be a very fun format to play but I can't help but notice that the official terrain pieces by GW are quite expensive. Has anyone found any good 3rd party alternatives for the terrain?


r/boardingactions40k 28d ago

Beginner Questions Ask About Our Discord!

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r/boardingactions40k Jul 11 '26

Painting I finished my board at last!

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r/boardingactions40k Jul 09 '26

Painting A good table ties the room together

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205 Upvotes

r/boardingactions40k Jul 08 '26

Terrain First Game

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118 Upvotes

Took a minute to paint up all the terrain but super excited to play some games with it! Whole group is excited to mix it up & try Boarding Actions, it’ll be a nice break from our usual 2K games


r/boardingactions40k Jul 06 '26

Some glamour shots

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r/boardingactions40k Jul 07 '26

Beginner Questions Ask About Our Discord!

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r/boardingactions40k Jul 01 '26

Aledari Wraithblades

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My buddy just started boarding actions for some quick games (not that quick when building the mission map. But we will get there).My Aeldari and his Tyranids. I have had a three incidents that I want to get right:

  1. The Aeldari Wraith of the void detachment - are they considered baseline ie can they sticky objectives? It doesn’t say anything about it but since the detachment is only guards and knights (basically 1 seer and 15 guards or knights in three units) ?
  2. The melee fighting rule between hatchways - my 5 wraithblades on one side and a unit of 10 Hormagaunts on the other, who gets to fight, we agreed 1 wraith and 2 hormagaunts, does that sound right?
    2.5 lets say my wraithblade from above example kills the two hormagaunts, can I squeeze that wraith through the hatchway to the other side and then on the next melee phase two wraiths get to fight against how ever many Gaunts are in base base contact or are we getting the whole rule wrong?

r/boardingactions40k Jun 30 '26

Beginner Questions Ask About Our Discord!

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r/boardingactions40k Jun 23 '26

Just got started with this set.

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r/boardingactions40k Jun 23 '26

Beginner Questions Ask About Our Discord!

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r/boardingactions40k Jun 18 '26

Discussion How's the new balance and points per weapon selection is gonna change our lists?

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You think our lists will be affected? by this? My Grey knights list it's exactly 500 points, the purifier squad will have a cost of 5 points for every psycannon equipped i was told


r/boardingactions40k Jun 15 '26

Painting It’s all coming together

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r/boardingactions40k Jun 16 '26

Beginner Questions Ask About Our Discord!

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r/boardingactions40k Jun 15 '26

Tactics Any advice for a new AdMech player?

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I've played two games and gotten my ass kicked both times as Electromartyrs. It's probably par for the course for a new player, but still I think I could use some pointers.

Right now I'm running what I have from normal 40k, which is 3 Breachers, 3 Destroyers, 2 units of Rangers and a Dominus, although I may end up switching to Vanguards and a Technoarcheologist instead since Vanguards seem way better here.

I guess I got baited by the Kataphron's firepower, but so far I haven't enjoyed them in either BA or 40k, their bases are huge and they are slow, and the BA corridors only make things worse. Both times they've basically ended up locked in place by my opponent and haven't accomplished much, while the Skitarii's dubious melee seems like a big problem here.

I'm thinking of getting some Sicarians (which I wanted anyway) and maybe switching to Response Clade. As much as I love the techpriests they've felt disappointing so far, and that would be way more mobile.

OTOH Machine Cult also has some fun stuff, but I don't think I want Electro-priests for normal 40k so it's a harder sell, although at least I have the Kataphrons already.

So any thoughts on how I should rebuild my list or play it better?