Horde armies in aos are especially nasty. Keep in mind that there is a model and implementation of this already. I feel like a lot of the fear surrounding the changes are from those that are unfamiliar with aos
Sly Marbo is back with rules for Shadow War: Armageddon: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/05/03/shadow-war-armageddon-one-man-armies/
Edit: Also apparently teasing a new model for him aswell
Depends on the unit size and Ld. Ld10 Nids or Grey Knights are functionally immune to the tests for 5 man units. Even if they lose 4 dudes, the worst they'll roll results in 0 losses. Naturally other things can modify that, but as that goes both ways I'm going with base rules.
I finished Honour Guard. It took a bit longer than I would have liked though. I was surprised to see the thing I wanted addressed so quickly; when I read your comment, I figured that it would pop up in two or three books, like long enough to kind of forget that Criid has his kids. I imagine this won't be the last time Kolea, Criid, and the kids come up though.
Did you think we were finished with Cadia?
Think again.
We saw the fall of the fortress world as the catalyst that began the events of the Gathering Storm. Abaddons greatest Black Crusade smashed against the defences of the planet in overwhelming force, but not before the worlds defenders enacted a devastating toll on the attackers.
The planets stubborn defence also bought the Imperium precious time to entrench forces on neighbouring worlds and systems; siege works were dug, artillery emplaced, and weapons raised to the sky to await the coming onslaught.
Abaddon was successful though, and following the fall of Cadia (and possibly, because of it) a great warp rift rent the galaxy in half, allowing the forces of Chaos to launch their attacks across the entire length of the Imperium.
As they dispersed, though, their strength around the Cadian Sector as well as in and around the Eye of Terror itself thinned. Many warbands of Traitor Legionaries and renegades, some in direct disregard of the Despoilers orders, used the opportunity to bypass the defenders of the Gate entirely and launch their attacks on more vulnerable worlds elsewhere in the galaxy.
This has left huge numbers of Imperial defenders deployed around Cadia awaiting a coordinated Chaos second wave that may never come. There are whispers in Imperial Sector Command of the possibility of retaliatory strikes, of claiming back some territory lost in the recent war, and even of reclaiming the ruins of Cadia herself.
Poised around the Eye sits a force of Space Marines rivalling that of the Legions of old, entire Knight Households, and of course, the orphans of Cadia themselves more than 200 regiments of Astra Militarum shock troops eager for vengeance.
Cadia may have broken; the Guard, have not.
Were sure a few of you Imperial players have been itching for retaliation since the Storm came to Cadia. Maybe your time is now
Well be back tomorrow with more news on the new edition, when we look at how the biggest models in the game will work.
Are we going to get The Rock: Cadia Edition?
The new Warhammer 40,000 will give infantry a chance to shine. There is stuff you just can't do with very well with vehicles, bikes and walkers, like hold ruins, use cover effectively and swarm the battlefield in numbers to claim every objective.
One thing that is certainly going to help infantry out is the fact that everything can harm everything in the game. We've heard already that characteristics don't cap at 10 anymore, so the old 10×10 strength vs toughness table was in for an update. In the new edition, there's a simple but elegant system to find out what you need to wound:
So, you can see that while even the humble lasgun has a chance to take down the biggest foe, you'll need a lot of small-arms fire to really threaten the big stuff. We've already seen the profiles of a Space Marine, a bolter, a lascannon and a Gorkanaut, and now we know all the steps to work out just how such a Shooting phase might go. Some quick maths tells us that we'd need over 500 bolters firing at that Gorkanaut to bring it down, whereas you'd need just over a dozen lascannons. So, while you might occasionally chip the odd wound off with bolters, lasguns or shootas, you might find that your standard infantry guns are better used elsewhere.
Not a problem though, because in the new Warhammer 40,000, models in a squad can fire at different targets. So, this means your Tactical Squad can have your boys with bolters deal with that onrushing Hormagaunt horde, while the flamer bathes a nearby Lictor in prometheum fire, and the squad's krak missile takes an opportunistic pop-shot at that onrushing Carnifex – just as you always imagined they should!
Infantry is going to have a lot to offer a cunning general in this edition.
Tomorrow, we'll take a look at how characters work, join us then.
Wait. Are Space Marines really not properly proportioned? I thought I was crazy, because I always thought they, and most all space marine and types like them looked really goofy, especially their faces for those without helmets. Like...the heads were the same giant size as helmets.
