And if they survive a round of shooting and morale losses and are close to the edge of the table, you can bring back D3+3 of them with, A new addition to the 9th edition Codex, Accursed Cultists are basically groups of possessed Cultists and Mutants who trade any kind of ranged firepower for being annoyingly good in melee. This will not be a problem for you, generally speaking there are a very limited number of HQ slots for you to work with and youll rarely want to double up on these units. SLAANESH model only. This is probably the best of the Chaos Space Marine secondary objectives and even at its best its just so-so. And thats mostly due to the fact that the Malefic Discipline is just really, really good. It can go on any unit, but does its best work on big blobs of Terminators or Bikers (or Obliterators and Possessed in Emperors Children), where just having it makes the unit completely undesirable as a target. Most are not. Berserkers make a truly unholy number of attacks with chain axes when they get into close combat, whilst Possessed have great synergy with the Greater Possessed from your Start Collecting! Unfortunately, there just arent any AP-4 options for your characters, so the utility of this is limited by the fact that an AP-3 weapon swinging at a Terminator is going to drop to AP-2 with Armour of Contempt and as a result wont even get them on their invulnerable save. Its ability to deep strike and drop off 12 models is great to have, particularly for Emperors Children armies that can use. Ability helps nearby Traitor Guardsmen units automatically pass Combat Attrition tests, which isnt particularly valuable given they only come in units of 10. If you read through the whole thing, you have this authors eternal thanks. Being able to psychic action and still cast one power is pretty solid, and that makes this a decent pick for psykers who need to cast Psychic Interrogation. Chaos Marines have become much more durable in their 9th edition codex, with several ways to improve that durability such as the Black Rune of Damnation and the Mark of Nurgle. This is pretty situational, but will be helpful for those times you need to raise a banner and shoot, or shot while planting a bomb. Its 10-model transport capacity is great for moving a unit of 10 Chosen, Plague Marines, or Rubric Marines. This makes him an effective pair with any melee unit but also great when paired with Chaos Knights the Dog Walker list is the result here, where Abaddon accompanies a large number of War Dogs, giving them re-rolls to hit and sending them off with +1 to their charge rolls. A 6 Heroic is solid, and the extra attack is a nice little bonus. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Warhammer 40K Chaos Space Marine Spare Bits at the best online prices at eBay! The Lord of Skulls is a fairly tough monster, sitting on T8 and a 2+ save, plus a 5+ invulnerable save and daemonic regeneration. Legend has it the original version of this titanic battling game would have contained Imperium titans facing off against their Eldar counterparts but an issue with the models saw the Eldar being dropped from the box at the last minute. Roll less than or equal to your Ld and you can fight normally. 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. In case you missed the news from AdeptiCon, Games Workshop snuck this one in late last night. Fortunately for us, there are very few Chaos Space Marine units in that category. Its good for units that need to hold objectives in the open, like your 10-model terminator brick thats already loading up at the buff-et. While a unit is in a table quarter dedicated to a chaos god, they get +2 Ld unless they have a god mark other than the one you picked. Use in the Shooting or Fight phase when a TRAITORIS ASTARTES SLAANESH unit shoots or fights. Helpful for taking down vehicles and other big targets with the likes of Berzerkers as well. Instead the upgrades youll want to focus on are the heavy chainaxe, which gives you a nasty heavy hitter (basically an AP-4 power fist), and the balefire tome, which turns the unit into a PSYKER, with the ability to cast Smite and one of the first three powers in the Dark Hereticus Discipline Prescience is the best pick of those. Where the Apostles value really lies is in the ability to chant a prayer each Command phase the Apostle can chant one prayer he knows, and will do so on a 3+, or a 2+ if one of his goobers is still alive. 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. Look how they massacred my boy. By default, a Dark Apostle knows Dark Zealotry, which lets CORE/CULTIST/CHARACTER units within 6 re-roll hit rolls in melee. Each time this happens, roll 2D6, and if you roll under the wounds characteristic of the dead model, you get +1 Command Point. Its 10-model transport capacity is great for moving a unit of 10 Chosen, Plague Marines, or Rubric Marines. Each time an attack is made against that unit an unmodified 1-3 on the hit roll automatically fails, irrespective of any abilities that weapon or model may have, and the attacks hit roll cant be re-rolled. He was the Warmaster of all Space Marines until a combination of hubris, plotting, and a magic knife led him to the welcoming arms of Chaos. The bearer can perform a 6 Heroic Intervention, gets +1 Attack, and each time the bearer destroys an enemy unit with a melee attack, they get +1 Attack for the rest of the battle. Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings. AP 0 isnt great, and means that you typically dont want them trying to weight-of-fire big vehicle targets, but AP0 is often as good as AP-1 these days with Armour of Contempt in the mix. This is a fine ability, and will let you fish for 6s while Wanton Slaughter is active. On the whole, the Enforcer is just OK. This replaces a power maul, accursed crozius, or accursed weapon with one thats S+2, AP-2, 3 damage and its excess damage spills over to other models. Your Tzeentch unit can shoot that unit as though it were your shooting phase, provided it is an eligible target. Why wait for GW's ponderous feels-bad rules system? Thank You, Patrons. As a mele threat, Raptors are OK. World Eaters Killteam. fell bond to prevent their targets from getting Light Cover and youre set. Most 1W Marines go up 3 for the 2nd wound; Terminators went up 2 (or less, but treat it as 2) for the 3rd wound; Bikes went up 5. Start Competing: Chaos Space Marines Updated! The other character option in the Elites slot for Chaos Space Marines. . Cultist Mobs are the perfect unit for filling out a Battalion detachment and many CSM armies run one unit of Legionaries and two units of Cultists. Where youll want to watch out for this is with the factions special characters, many of whom have the CHAOS LORD keyword. This is really, really good re-rolling wounds is great, and this gives you the built-in ability to fish for mortals on 6s. But if you made a Defiler much better at one of those two things for cheaper, you just end up with Forgefiends and Maulerfiends. able to push out a crazy number of bolter shots, Chaos Bikers can make a great addition to an army as a mobile fire base capable of putting out heavy volumes of mid-range, mid-strength shooting. 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.. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Warhammer 40k - Chaos Space Marines - Chaos Space Marines Dreadnought at the best online prices at eBay! "Got you, Yugi! Only melee kills count, and against the armies that offer you lots of said juicy targets, youll often have, The Daemon Prince is more of a utility piece than a beaststick. Eventually he led the Red Corsairs in rebellion, taking over the planet Badab and making it his own personal kingdom. The champion can have a flamer-esque doom siren (S5 AP-3 1-damage sonic weapon) to top things off. Park it on an objective and when an opponent pops it youve suddenly got a big unit sitting on the spot. Each comes with a solid, if not amazing melee profile, brandishing an Accursed Crozius for 5 attacks at AP-1 and 2 damage, plus two goober attendants with Cultist profiles. and each time they make an attack with an Assault, Pistol, or melee weapon, an unmodified hit roll of 6 scores 1 additional hit. This was written in December 2022, after the release of. Having to use a Lord of War slot on this is, obviously, kind of terrible, but its also extremely hilarious, and has been pushed hard enough cost wise to make it at least fun to use. Until the end of the phase, each time an enemy model shoots, if that NURGLE unit is not the closest eligible target or within 12, then until that shooting is resolved, that model cant target that NURGLE unit. Or, if youre looking at making a World Eaters army, youll want more Berserkers. They get another prayer on top of that, plus an additional free one for their god if you give them a mark of Chaos. Its also one of the few ways to get hit re-rolls on your characters. If youre looking for inventive models that stretch the definition of a Space Marine, youre looking in the right place. Theyre particularly good in Word Bearers, where the legion has more tricks and abilities to make them more worthwhile, and a secondary objective that they can accomplish. Only melee kills count, and against the armies that offer you lots of said juicy targets, youll often have Bring it Down or Assassination to turn to instead. The Malefic discipline is the clear winner of the two from a power level standpoint, but there are some gems in the Dark Hereticus Discipline youll want to consider. This means that you cant take Abaddon and Haarken in the same detachment, hilariously. The Nurgle-dedicated troops of the Death Guard, Plague Marines have a host of options that make them durable, but very slow, melee threats. Unlike the other three cult units, Rubric Marines have real play in Chaos Space Marine lists outside of their parent legion, owing to the fact that their casting ability is decent and that they can tall take Warpflamers (with a Warpflame pistol on the champion). They make wonderful backfield objective holders if they can stay out of line of sight, they raise banners just as well as more expensive units, they make wonderful screens, and theyre garbage enough that shooting them will almost certainly be a waste of bullets for your opponent. Until the end of the battle those Cultists automatically pass Morale tests and they get +1 to hit in melee. If this unit has the ICON keyword, each time a model in this unit makes a melee attack, improve its AP by 1. Berzerkers (World Eaters, White Dwarf #477), Noise Marines (Emperors Children, Codex: Chaos Space Marines). From there on, what you purchase will depend on which legion youre intending your army to be from. Word Bearers Esoterist / Diabolist Credit: RichyP. Though as far as units go, Abaddon is still one of the games best individual units, and worth the cost. Add in that theyre T5 and 4 wounds each and youve got a unit thats great for dumping your last 25 points into. Chosen received a new kit and a massive overhaul in the 9th edition Codex, with a new datasheet that presents them as durable, versatile melee threats. 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. That said, it may not often be what you want out of your Dark Apostle. ". It also has a much more sturdy defensive profile, and an improved version of the thermal jets rule for stuff it flies over. Youll want to prevent these charges by making sure its got a proper screen. This is OK, but the number of situations where it matters are pretty small and usually you want other effects on your Warlord. Kind of like a ranged version of the Blade of the Relentless. The unit can have a heavy weapon or special weapon for every five models, though this typically wont be worth the cost outside of the odd meltagun here and there. 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. If youre taking a unit of these, its for the warpflamers, either in 5 or 10, depending on how you want to use them. On top of that he can intervene 6 and re-rolls wound rolls against characters. This article took weeks to write and ended up being more like a short novel in length, so theres probably something I missed or didnt get right. Youll also have to pay the 15 points to give them the Mark of Tzeentch, but its worth it for the unit. They tend to lack some of the long-ranged shooting options of other factions but make up for that with the ability to hit hard quickly. When you upgrade a unit, you increase its cost by 15 points and 1 PL, and it loses the CHAOS UNDIVIDED keyword and gains the relevant MARK OF CHAOS keyword, i.e. Plague Marines come with T5 and. Chaos Lord and Chaos Space Marines. Until the end of the phase, they get +6 range on their bolt weapons and each time a model in that unit makes a ranged attack with a bolt weapon, improve their AP by 1. 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