Games Workshop - Warhammer 40,000 - BOARDING PATROL: Leagues Of Votann

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This box can be used to assemble a variety of units – the recommended build for Boarding Action games is five Einhyr Hearthguard, ten Hearthkyn Warriors, and either an Einhyr Champion or five Cthonian Beserks. While most of what you need to know about playing Boarding Actions is to be found in the regular 40K ruleset, for which you can read our guide here, Mission Setup Set Overwatch: This can be performed in the Movement Phase, and allows the unit performing it to fire Overwatch against enemy units. Rules for playing Boarding Action games of Warhammer 40,000 can be found in the Arks of Omen: Abaddon supplement. Additional rules for Leagues of Votann Boarding Patrols can be found in Arks of Omen: The Lion. Finally, the fact that Games Workshop has chosen to do all the gaming content for the Arks of Omen storyline rather than throw a wrench into competitive play with all sorts of weird new rules hidden in sold-out campaign books is an excellent move on their part.

Azrael isn’t the only Chapter Master given the Primaris treatment – Commander Dante has barely tied a bow on the apocalyptic invasion of Baal and he’s already off finding more enemies of the Imperium to destroy. Someone really needs to give the guy a holiday. Vashtorr the Arkifane The size of Boarding Actions armies is also very different from the kind of 40K games that have become the standard of competitive play: The points limit for a Boarding Actions army is 500 points (as opposed to the regular 1500 or 2000 points, and your army uses a special detachment called a Boarding Patrol Detachment, in which you can take the following: If you want to, you can use Boarding Actions missions as part of a Crusade campaign – there are just some elements of it, such as some Agendas, that won’t work with Boarding Actions. This makes Boarding Actions especially suited for players in a gaming club (where someone else has already bought all the expensive scenery) starting their first foray into 40K, since you can slowly build up your force and enjoy watching it gain experience through the Crusade rules, while also playing with your smaller army in a setting that matches that smaller scale. Movement and Distance

In addition to this, it replaces Warlord Traits and Relics with Enhancements (of Age of Sigmar 3.0 fame), which range from giving you extra Command Points or rerolls to deploying outside your entry zone. Boarding Patrol: Leagues of Votann provides a balanced force of technologically advanced warriors, ideally suited to seizing resources and victory in games of Warhammer 40,000 – especially in the dense and deadly Boarding Action missions detailed in the Arks of Omen series – and will save you money compared to buying the kits separately. Operate Hatchway: This can also be performed in the Movement Phase, and allows a unit to try to open a door in the Boarding Actions terrain. If there’s an enemy unit on the other side of the door trying to prevent you from opening it and passing through, you roll off to see if you succeed.

Overall this is a really great start to any Votann army. It gives you some key core units and some harder hitting ones. From here you can expand in different ways depending on your personal preferences. The fact that all but the bikes are usable as a Boarding Patrol is just a bonus. If you decide to go the route of these vertically challenged armoured warriors, this is the place to start.

If you haven’t seen GW’s statement, you can find it here. And I’d recommend going to watch it, because the James Workshop video they put out with it is legitimately hilarious and self-aware: