Add in the ability to outright kill a T4 model 50% of the time on top of that and its got some power. Just think how durable that will make units like Rubric Marines or Plague Marines. The beat their toughness rider isnt amazing but if you think about this as just a targeted D3 mortal wounds for WC 6, thats pretty solid just on its own. The boost to flame weapons is also particularly good, and is reason alone to consider adding Rubric Marines to your army, since having a unit of Warpflamers that can pop off 10d6+20 shots at AP-2 is very nasty. It also has a much more sturdy defensive profile, and an improved version of the thermal jets rule for stuff it flies over. This is another very solid durability buff, and can pair well with Nurgle Terminators who want the added durability. If you didn't see the news, Space Marines of all varieties are going up to two wounds. But here's the thing, you don't have to wait. If you beat the units toughness, one model in the unit is destroyed. 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. Chaos Space Marines only have two Dedicated Transport options: The lowly Chaos Rhino and the Terrax Pattern Termite Assault Drill. What good is a melee unit if you cant get it into melee? Note that weve split this article up, and are now covering the major Chaos legions in separate articles. Its not the best melee fighter, but it can do mortal wounds on the flyover and its blade struts are surprisingly nasty in melee. They basically run around with a 2+ save. Note that a unit with the CULTISTS or LEGIONAIRES keyword can only take the first three powers in this list, which will typically means youre taking a single unit with. The closest visible enemy unit takes D3 mortal wounds, then you roll a D6 for every other enemy unit within 6 of that unit takes a mortal wound on a 4+. Each time an attack is made against the bearers unit, it gets -1 to the wound roll, and the unit gains an Aura that causes Psykers within 18 to peril on any doubles. All of them increase your durability in different ways, but Delightful Agonies is the best of the bunch. Look how they massacred my boy. This baffling rule prevents you from overdoing it on Cultists, a thing no one is worried about. Their faction keywords become CHAOS, KHORNE, HERETIC ASTARTES, TRAITORIS ASTARTES, and . 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. If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. Pick a friendly CORE, CULTISTS, or CHARACTER unit within 6. Until the end of the phase, HERETIC ASTARTES models in that unit can reroll hit rolls for melee attacks made against ADEPTUS ASTARTES or SANCTIC ASTARTES units. Also note that taking an Icon does not give them the ICON keyword, so they wont get that wonderful AP boost, sadly. After the death of Horus at the hands of the Emperor aboard his flagship, the Vengeful Spirit, during the Battle of Terra that saw the conclusion of the Horus Heresy, the remnants of the nine Traitor Legions fled, along with the other Traitor Imperial forces that now served Chaos, into an area of the galaxy where the Warp bled into . In addition to having a decent statline with 6 attacks, the Daemon Prince must take a Mark of Chaos for one of the four Chaos Gods, giving him +1 Strength and attack if you Khorne or making him a Psyker if you take one of the others. Although the Heldrake can drop into Hover mode and reliably make a turn 1 charge with its 20 movement, with only 5 attacks that do 2 damage against most targets, its seldom going to do real damage, and because its an AIRCRAFT it cant actually hold anything in combat units can just make a normal move to get away. But the second and biggest portion of Let the Galaxy Burn comes in the form of the Chaos Space Marines equivalent to the loyalist marines Combat Doctrines titledWanton Acts. As we mentioned above, when it comes to melee, you cant do better than Berserkers or Possessed. Note that CULTIST units can only know the first three prayers on the list, i.e. Credit: Jack Hunter. Chaos Space Marines have access to quite a few Lords of War, two of which are surprisingly viable. Otherwise, you can always find the latest successful lists by visiting 40kstats. Likewise, build your army with a thought toward how it will score secondaries and which ones it will pick. Warhammer 40,000 - Codex Chaos Space Marines 2 Page 166 - Stratagems, Forward Operatives Change to read: . Chaos Space Marines look like Marines, but dont let that fool you: They have a very different feel and play style to standard Space Marines, with a much more aggressive melee-focused approach to the game. There are a bunch of different ways to kit him out depending on how killy vs. durable you want him to be, and there are plenty of different ways to use him in-game. Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings. On the other side it comes with a Defiler Cannon, which puts out D6 S8 AP-2 3-damage Blast shots, plus some other gun. This is very solid, though the limitation to LEGIONARIES units means youre not likely to use it very often, particularly outside of melee. You can use this twice in Strike Force games and three times in Onslaught games. They can take a mark of chaos but no icon, which limits their effectiveness and means youre either leaving them unmarked or taking Khorne/Slaanesh. On the whole these guys are interesting but as a T3, 6+ save unit missing Armour of Contempt theyre incredibly easy to kill if they get caught out of position. In 8th Edition, Marks of Chaos simply aligned your units with a Chaos God, allowing certain spells or rules to affect them. Instead, well cover each section with a general discussion of the good units, relics and stratagems, point out any traps, and then discuss how these pieces fit into a competitive army. Fortunately for us, there are very few Chaos Space Marine units in that category. The Dark Apostle is a solid include in a number of lists, but can struggle to find a place in your lists if youve gone heavier on Daemonkin than Core units. You might have caught the video at the end of the Warhammer Preview Online. Once per battle, at the start of the Fight phase, you can chug this Elixir to get +D3 Attacks and you cant lose more than 3 wounds in the phase. Stratagem as well. When Codex Supplement: Space Wolves is released, all of the rules within that will then replace and supersede this entire document, at which point none of the rules here can be used. The priest gets +3 Attacks and you improve the AP of his melee weapons by 2. Though as far as units go, Abaddon is still one of the games best individual units, and worth the cost. Helpful for taking down vehicles and other big targets with the likes of Berzerkers as well. Thats pretty narrow, but thats the only circumstance that can make this worth taking. Note that Abaddon, despite being an Agent Of Chaos, has an exception to still gain the Black Legion trait when included in a pure Black Legion army. Pick one visible enemy unit within 9 of the caster. This is a massive blow to anyone who wanted to soup in non-traditional ways. Chosen come in units of 5-10 and can be given several different weapon options, including combi-weapons and double accursed weapons, though most of the time youll be kitting them out for melee, giving them a couple of power fists if you upgrade them at all. Also, the power that Slaanesh psykers pick up Delightful Agonies is very, very good and helps make your most durable units even harder to remove. Chaos Space Marine armies have long included specialty cult units like Berzerkers and their Codex has rules for including those in your army. As a unit, Cultists are fragile and they dont shoot or fight particularly well. One saving grace was that you could (hopefully) pick off a few of them on the way in or at least before they got to swing if you were really lucky. Chaos daemons share some of the same leathery wing style. Inside the codex youll find rules for Black Legion, Word Bearers, Night Lords, Iron Warriors, Alpha Legion, Emperors Children, Red Corsairs, and Creations of Bile. Editor: Danni Button, Adam Harrison Leader of the loyalist Red Corsairs, he was assigned to patrol the Maelstrom, a much smaller area of warp instability like the Eye of Terror. In this section well cover the main rules for the army, starting with the factions army-wide special rules, then diving into the Stratagems, Warlord Traits, Relics, Secondary Objectives, and Psychic Powers available to all Chaos Space Marines. But the real value is the Blastmaster, which can pick between a 48 Heavy 3 S8, AP-3 3-damage mode (which ups to 4 damage at <24) or a 36 Assault 6 S5 Ap-2 1-damage model (which ups to 2 at 18), either of which are very nasty. And yet, 2-3 units of cultists make their way into almost every Chaos Space Marines army, because at 50 points for the unit of 10, theyre some of the cheapest Objective Secured models in the game. When it comes to shooting, youll already have some Obliterators which will consistently put the fear of the dark gods into your foe but, for true versatility, you cant go wrong with some Havocs. A freelance writer, his words can also be found on Green Man Gaming and Fanatical. Nothing, so get grabbing some Chaos Cultists. Traitor Space Marines can select from two Fire Teams: either a team of 3 Chaos Space Marines or 8 Cultists, but can only take one cultist Fire Team in total, so you can't take a 16-model team. Two guys with chainswords, one guy with a heavy chainaxe, one guy with a balefire tome, and the champion has a power fist. It makes even less sense with a Cultist HQ, as it seems like an all-cultist army should be possible. Until the start of your next psychic phase, that unit has a 4+ invulnerable save. Havocs made a splash on their initial release but have struggled to find a spot in Chaos Space Marine armies, primarily because their weapon options leave a bit to be desired Heavy Bolters, Autocannons, and Reaper Chaincannons are just all kind of meh, while Missile Launchers and Lascannons are a bit too variable to depend on. box. This is just a solid buff and helpful for taking out really tough targets like Knights or other CSM Terminators without having to spend 2 CP on Veterans of the Long War. When a unit with this ability Remains stationary during the Movement phase (or is a TERMINATOR or BIKER) fires a Rapid Fire bolt weapon, it can make double the number of attacks. And then even more Berserkers. With the recent updates to Lords of War in the GT missions pack and the FAQ allowing passengers to climb out the turn it arrives, the Kharybdis is much more playable, but still too expensive to be competitive. Roll one D6, adding 1 to the result if the psychic test was an unmodified 10+. . Pick a CULTISTS MOB unit within 6 of a battlefield edge or your deployment zone. If you happen to have them in an Emperors Children list, they also get the Slaanesh keyword, and become a solid target for. This got a big glow-up, and is great for increasing your damage output. The action is one that an INFANTRY or BIKER unit can attempt at the end of your movement phase if its wholly within a table quarter that hasnt been dedicated yet and is within 3 of the center of that table quarter. Look, this is really, really good. 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. If that target had 10-19 wounds, score an extra VP, and 2 extra VP if it had 20+ wounds or was the enemy Warlord. Wont make your warlord any better in combat, but will help keep them alive and can be helpful on bigger units like the Lord Discordant, where its functionally similar to having 50% more wounds. 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. On top of that he can intervene 6 and re-rolls wound rolls against characters. Try to build an army that will reliably be able to score at least two secondaries regardless of the opponent or situation, and then make your third pick contingent. This is just too situational to matter and will only even be on the table if you have missile launcher havocs. 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. The one exception is when you really want to take an action secondary in a matchup like Abandoned Sanctuaries against Harlequins, where none of the other actions make any sense. This allowed the box to contain two sets of human-style titans, with one set belonging to the traitorous forces of Horus and his heresy. Warhammer 40K: Chaos Marines Are Getting 2 Wounds (Finally) Adam Harrison 3 Minute Read Mar 24 2022 Advertisement In case you missed the news from AdeptiCon, Games Workshop snuck this one in late last night. At T5 and 3 wounds with a 5+ invulnerable save, Possessed have enough durability to weather a bit of shooting, particularly with help from Cursed Earth and Pact of Flesh, but are more valuable as forward combat units that crash into enemy lines early than as midtable objective brawlers. Im sure there could be some deep tactical analysis of all the chaos units and how their stratagems would go even further to enhance their abilities. The one exception is in Iron Warriors, as they have some great buffs for him and are heavily incentivized to surround him with units that he can support. At the end of the battle round, score 2 VP for each Character, Monter, or Vehicle model destroyed that round by a Traitoris Astartes Character from your army. When enemy units take morale tests within 6 of your warlord, they roll 2D6 and take the highest result. This is one happy Chaos player! 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. Eventually he led the Red Corsairs in rebellion, taking over the planet Badab and making it his own personal kingdom. What makes these guys tough is their All is Dust ability. These are your heavy weapon troops, and can come equipped with a wide array of weapons, meaning youll have some swiss-army-knife ranged support for your battlefield adventures. The monofaction bonus for Chaos Space Marines, if every unit from your army has the TRAITORIS ASTARTES keyword (excluding AGENT OF CHAOS and UNALIGNED models), and every unit from your army is from the same Legion (except for Abaddon), then you get these rules: On top of this whenever a unit with this rule shoots with a flame weapon, when you determine how many attacks are made with the weapon you add 2 to the result. 'No plan survives contact with the enemy. 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. To the Disco Lords detriment, hes no longer the force multiplier he used to be: His previous +1 to hit aura has been replaced with the ability to give a single VEHICLE +1 to hit in melee for a round, or alternately he can curse a vehicle, hitting an enemy vehicle for a few mortal wounds. 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. In a list that can get it the Iron Warriors Legion trait, it is going to be very tough to deal with as it pounds holes in the enemy army with its firepower. Possessed got new models with the 9th edition codex and immediately became superstars in the new book. Start Competing: Chaos Space Marines Updated! If youre taking Warp Talons, the ideal method is a five-model squad that starts on the board and can harass and tie up key enemy units and trade up against potentially nastier targets. Its value is largely tied to your characters, your ability to keep them alive, and their ability to destroy enemy units in melee. Rejoice! As much as I hate these abilities that punish a single faction, this is pretty money, in particular because space marines are still relatively popular, and any buffs to the faction will make them more prevalent. Best on a Daemon Prince or Lord Discordant. This is, good its easy to cast and incredibly useful for keeping Terminators, Possessed, or Obliterators on the board, or just healing back wounds on a durable Character and making your opponent throw up their hands in exasperation. So how do you want to load these guys out? This is probably the best of the Chaos Space Marine secondary objectives and even at its best its just so-so. PRIEST models in your army know the. One model in that unit regains D3 lost wounds, and if you picked a CORE or DAEMONKIN unit that isnt at its starting strength, you can immediately return a destroyed model to the unit at full wounds. The only question is whether your army needs him as part of its gameplan. The lowly rhino is still on the expensive side but has fringe play as a transport for key units in the new Codex. Pick a TRAITORIS ASTARTES TZEENTCH PSYKER then pick one: Either they can manifest an additional power this phase, or they can do a psychic action and still manifest one psychic power this phase. As a mele threat, Raptors are OK. 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. Pick a TRAITORIS ASTARTES HELBRUTE model in your army hit by one or more of those attacks and not currently in Engagement Range of an enemy. Youll want to prevent these charges by making sure its got a proper screen. Its cheaper, but what you get isnt quite worth it. This means that you cant take Abaddon and Haarken in the same detachment, hilariously. As a result, the Mark of Nurgle really doesnt see much play outside of characters, where it can give you access to an incredibly powerful daemon weapon option for bigger melee threats. You can score a maximum of 3 VP per turn from this secondary objective. Its not amazing but its very solid, but the reason it makes lists so often is that extra little aura: Friendly PSYKER units within 9 get +1 to cast. Finally, every CSM player can let out a sigh of relief. While some forces, such as theImperiumor theEldar, fight desperately against the encroaching tide of Chaos, otherWarhammer 40k armies like these infamous Heretic Astartes choose to fight for it. This is a unit that can absolutely trade up, and loves to use Veterans of the Long War to take down bigger targets. Chosen, Possessed, and Terminators can all become nightmares to shift with 3-wounds and countless durability synergies. The remaining 7 are covered in Codex: Chaos Space Marines, along with two additional Legions, the Red Corsairs and Creations of Bile. Chaos itself has existed in the setting as long as sentient beings have drawn breath, but for Chaos Space Marines we have to look instead to three select individuals: the Emperor, WarmasterHorus Lupercal, and Lorgar, Primarch of the Word Bearers legion. Their primary function is to threaten objectives, screen, and annoy. This gives the unit -1 to be wounded by incoming attacks and essentially turns them into an incredibly tough unit capable of bullying enemies off objectives. Use at the start of any of your phases other than the Command phase. Been covered in other threads, but I am not sure it was us that was bamboozled. With the most recent FAQ updates, the passengers can now get out of them the turn they arrive on the table. 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