Dark Apostle (Warhammer 40, 000 S.)

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The boy who would become Erebus was born to common parents on the world of Colchis in the late 30th Millennium. Even at a young age he felt it was his purpose to manipulate, deceive, and sow discord among his fellows. He felt a thrill testing his own limits with such immoral acts, which as a boy first manifested in his teasing and torturing of Colchis' desert scorpions.

If you want to catch up with your Word Bearers reading, in the absence of the fabled Book of Lorgar, grab the epic Word Bearers omnibus by Anthony Reynolds. As a servant of Lorgar, Erebus was among the young Colchisians who was transformed into a Space Marine of the Imperial Heralds Legion in the first intake of native Colchisians shortly after. By the time Lorgar renamed the XVII Legion the Word Bearers, Erebus had already set into motion the Dark Gods' plans to stop the Emperor from initiating a new golden age for Humanity that would see their influence greatly diminished. Cheap Melee Trading. Five models with chainswords, the Mark of Khorne, and an Icon. These guys come in at S5 on the charge and AP-2 and if you’re in something like Creations of Bile they get even nastier. A Master of Possession from a Daemonkin Ritualist Specialist Detachment can serve as a focal point for a powerful Stratagem that augments the already formidable combat prowess of your Possessed and Greater Possessed to new levels of horrible! The Word Bearers are among the most skilled practitioners of all the Traitor Legions in the dark art of summoning and binding Daemons to suitable hosts – after all, Argel Tal and the Gal Vorbak were the first examples of this practice during the Horus Heresy, so it’s fair to say that the Legion set something of a precedent in the field of possession!Melee Combat. Chaos Space Marines have some of the game’s best melee threats – Possessed, Abaddon, Chaos Space Marines, Lords Discordant, Masters of Executions, and Chosen are all absolutely nasty threats, and you can make most of them even better with relics, warlord traits, and upgrades. Known as a Kronos Star Fort, it possessed enough firepower to destroy half the Word Bearers' crusade. But the true strength of this system's nigh-impenetrable defences lay in its ability to rapidly receive reinforcements from across the galaxy within solar hours as a result of the wormholes that existed within it.

Tzeentch: Mutating Invocation (Aura) – While a friendly TZEENTCH CORE or CHARACTER is within 3”, roll a D6 each time a model in that unit would lose a wound; on a 6, that wound isn’t lost. This is a solid little buff that pairs well with the failed save ability for the mark, but won’t stop you from dropping your mark’s damage zero ability on your first failed save. C+ Noise Marines don’t see much play outside of Emperor’s Children, where they really enjoy being Troops and getting the Legion Trait to ignore modifiers to hit which offsets their Heavy penalty. In those armies they’re typically taken as units of 5 with a Blastmaster and chainswords on the rest, or potentially a power fist on the champion. They can be solid mid-range support in other armies, though many armies may find Havocs are a better play thanks to the legion trait. That said, a unit of 5 noise marine with sonic blasters and a blastmaster isn’t a bad unit to have for mid-range fire support in more casual environments. Rubric MarinesPsychic Utility. Four guys with chainswords or bolters (it doesn’t really matter), and one with a balefire tome and Prescience. This unit is out there to provide some extra value where needed while Advancing to hold objectives and support other units. You will typically also give this unit the Mark of Slaanesh so it has access to Delightful Agonies. Sorcerers have some value but ultimately just don’t make the cut when placed next to the far superior Master of Possession, the more versatile Daemon Prince, or the more useful Dark Apostle. The Terminator variants are a bit more durable and better at fighting thanks to being able to take a Force Axe (again, options in the new book leave much to be desired), and have a bit more casting utility thanks to the Chaos Familiar giving them a single re-roll to cast per game. Master of Possession The Warp’s Malice – This relic bolt pistol has 18” range, is Pistol 2, and S5, AP-2 2 damage, plus in Wanton Massacre or Slaughter it becomes Pistol 4. As an added bonus, whenever it rolls an unmodified hit roll of 6, it just does 2 mortal wounds and the sequence ends. Kind of like a ranged version of the Blade of the Relentless. Not bad, given how much you get, but ultimately not good enough to make your list unless you have some way to get hit re-rolls or guarantee hit rolls of 6. B- The Battle of the Boros Gate in ca. 999.M41 proved to be a defeat for the forces of Chaos, but a personal triumph for Marduk, who uncovered and unraveled a ploy by the Dark Apostle Kor Phaeron to eliminate the loyalists of his rival Erebus for control over the Word Bearers Legion.