Codex: Chaos Daemons

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Exploding 6s is always good, and this feels like a potent effect in the Combat Doctrines model, while still feeling distinct. There are certainly going to be some situations where you would prefer the AP boost, but the nice thing about exploding 6s is that it’s always good, so you don’t hit the failure cases of running into invulnerable saves where extra AP is irrelevant. As you’d expect, there are also a whole bunch of effects in the book that let units either participate in a different Wanton Act than the rest of the army, or activate multiple at once. Happily for everyone except Chaos players, GW did have the foresight to add a rider that if you’re participating in multiple acts that affect the same weapon type (e.g. an Assault weapon when carrying out both Massacre and Slaughter ) you still only get one extra hit per six. That means no completely nonsensical combos, but this is still a strong ability overall, and very welcome! Use this after a Chaos Character from your army summons a unit of Daemons using a Daemonic Ritual. That character can immediately attempt to summon a second unit of Daemons using Daemonic Ritual. Make sure you’re alerted to all future skull-taking and bloodletting opportunities by signing up for the Warhammer Community newsletter. We’ve not even talked about Bloodthirsters yet… The skies darken and the storms gather as the time of Chaos descends upon us – rejoice, brothers and sisters for the Summer of Chaos has truly arrived with the upcoming release of Codex: Chaos Space Marines. After two full years’ wait, the Heretic Astartes finally have a book of their own – but was it worth the wait? All units in your army with the HERETIC ASTARTES Faction keyword excluding CHAOS CULTIST units gain the LEGION DISCIPLES keyword.

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If manifested, select an enemy unit that is within 18″ of the psyker and visible to it. Until the start of your next Psychic phase, subtract one from the target unit’s Toughness characteristic. All Greater Daemons can now be hidden behind terrain. Keepers, Bloodthirsters, Great Unclean Ones, and Lords of Change don’t have the Towering keyword. This means they can be hidden behind terrain from alpha strikes. Given the high mobility of 3 of the 4 God’s Greater Daemons, starting behind terrain and then popping out to dominate the midboard seems like a smart plan. Even though Be’lakor technically isn’t a Greater Daemon, this definitely applies to him too. The Feculent Gnarlmaw gives nearby Nurgle units Stealth, helping them stay on the board versus shooting. This isn’t a bad rule to have access to, but its very points dependent. Unless the Gnarlmaw is less than half of the points of a walking Daemon Prince, you’ll probably just find the points for the Daemon Prince instead. The Daemon Prince has the same rule while also being a very powerful piece in its own right. OC0 means that the Gnarlmaw’s Infiltrate rule isn’t as useful as it could have been. For Noise Marines, these same rules apply if you’re taking them in any Legion other than Emperor’s Children, but when you do go full Fulgrim they become Troops and can gain a Legion trait.Khorne Monster Model only. The wearer gets a 4+ invulerable save and can attempt to deny one psychic power in each enemy Psychic phase. Death Guard players had to wait months longer than planned, but when the codex did come, it came along with some extra goodies – primarily the long-teased and fundamentally foul Lord of Virulence model, and a Death Guard Combat Patrol starter box – the first of its kind for a Chaos army.

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Games Workshop released Codex: Chaos Daemonson September 3, 2022, having teased new daemonic saves and abunch of miscellaneous rules for the faction in the run up to the release. Most of the rest of the book is dedicated to the rules for running these armies, including rules for combining different Chaos Daemon forces together. There's also a new rule that allows players running a Chaos Space Marines group to include one unit of Chaos Daemons in their army, as long as that unit doesn't consist of more than 25% of the total point total allocated to your army. So, does this matter? As of the point changes in War Zone Nephilim, it seems pretty likely that it does, because Plague Marines have an incredibly legitimate datasheet now that all the upgrades are free, and there’s bound to be some sort of build that wants them given the absolute ocean of Legion rules in this book. Rubricae with Warpflamers could also be extremely nasty thanks to Let the Galaxy Burn. Even if it doesn’t blow up the competitive scene, this feels like a solid bit of rules writing – It lets you bring the classics along without making you jump through too many hoops, but does enough to make the units feel different here than they do in their home legions. You cannot include more CHAOS CULTISTS units than HERETIC ASTARTES INFANTRY units in each Detachment in your army. The World Eaterstied off all the Warhammer 40k Chaos factions– and in fact, all the codexes for 9th edition. And as our writer Tim Linward says in his World Eaters Codex review,they might be the very best codex of the edition.Tzeentch model only. The wearer has a 4+ invulnerable save. In addition, once per game you ca re-roll a single failed saving throw for the wearer, but if the re-roll results in a 1 the wearer is immediately slain. Blue Horrors got a surprisingly huge glow-up. They now Infiltrate, and have OC1 unlike Nurglings. They also have a 4+ invuln like Pinks, and gain an additional rule for -1 Leadership for nearby enemies. That doesn’t mean you have to run Undivided. Far from it! If you love running your mono-faction Nurgle Daemon, Tzeentch Daemon, Slaanesh Daemon, or Khorne Daemon army, you are more than welcome to do so. You’ll receive the benefit of a more synergistic army, with the buffs you’ve brought benefitting a higher proportion of your army. For example, when a unit like Plague Drones gives wound re-rolls to every Nurgle Daemon unit in your army, you’re incentivized to bring lots of other Nurgle Daemons when you’re bringing Plague Drones. You’re just not punished if you also want to bring a Lord Of Change for some additional ranged damage, or some Seekers to cap objectives. GW shied away from releasing any hard-and-fasttimings for upcoming codexes after that, as the underlying production issueshampering book releases persisted. Mike P: The Grandfather’s blessings are often not appreciated at first, but they always reward his followers in the end. The Mark of Nurgle is no exception. I wasn’t a huge fan at first, but have found it very potent on all the T4 bodies in Chaos Space Marines. The fact that you get -1 to Wound if Strength = Toughness is very valuable since there is a fair bit of Strength 4 out there, as is the mini-transhuman against S8+ anti-tank weapons that normally crumple low-toughness power-armoured bodies. I’m going to rate it a 9/10 so Don and I’s scores average out to a perfect 7/10 : A truly blessed score for fans of Nurgle. Slaanesh

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The Grey Knights and Thousand Sonsreleased in August 2021, followed by a standalone release of the Orks codex in September. Rules for Traitor Guard. We know; the new models are cool as hell. But if there’s a plan for them in 40k proper, it’s not in this book.An Army of Renown must first adhere to all restrictions laid out for that Army of Renown, it must be Battle-forged and it must not include any Specialist Detachments. A Disciples of Be’Lakor is an Army of Renown. Use this at the end of your Psychic phase. Select a Tzeentch Daemon Psyker from your army; it can immediately attempt to manifest one additional psychic power this turn. Codex: Chaos Daemons is a boiling cauldron of otherworldly viciousness, unleashing nightmare hordes that bring ruination to all who stand in their way. Of course, all four of the Dark Gods are represented in the new book – they just don’t dare show their faces on Khorne’s special day. Deepstriking closer now relies on the Shadow Of Chaos, not Leadership. This also means we don’t get to deepstrike 3” away from enemies while in our own deployment zone. Deepstriking 6” away from enemies in our deployment zone is still pretty cool, however. One of the big new differences between Chaos Space Marines armies and the likes of Thousand Sons and Death Guard are the role played by Cultists. In addition to having better Cultists – and CSM Cultists retain Objective Secured, unlike their Thousand Sons/Death Guard counterparts – there are two new cultist units to play with – an HQ/force multiplier in the Dark Commune and a melee threat in the Accursed Cultists. It’s not quite enough to really build an all-cultist army at higher points values, but the units have some interesting roles they can fill. 5. Chaos Marine vehicles got a facelift

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The Eldritch Omens box set, released in February 2022,had already dropped some brand new plastic models for the Chaos Space Marines’ Warpsmith character and Chosen unit. These joined the faction’s previous batch of updated model kits, released in and around the Shadowspear box set in 2019. Khorne generals who take a moment to cut through the red haze of violence can couple this with the Frenetic Bloodlust Stratagem. Usable in either player’s Fight phase, this slavering surge lets you aggressively move a BLOODLETTERS CORE unit towards the nearest opponent – dashing onto an objective, cutting off an avenue of retreat, or just closing the distance for next turn’s charge.Blessing. If manifested, select one friendly DISCIPLES OF BE’LAKOR unit (excluding MONSTER and VEHICLE units) within 12? of this PSYKER. Until the start of your next Psychic phase, enemy models cannot target that unit with ranged weapons unless that unit is the closest eligible target to the firing model or it is within 12? of the firing model. My personal favorite is Daemonic Invulnerability. This is just some good old-fashioned Daemonic fun, letting one of your units reroll invulnerable saves of 1 for a Shooting Phase. Want to soak an entire army’s worth of damage? Pop your once-per-game 3+ invuln on your Daemon Prince, and then sprinkle Daemonic Invulnerability on top. Results nearly guaranteed.