Although a bit expensive for a transport, the Chaos Terrax-Pattern Termite makes up for it by being a hilariously annoying target once it arrives on the table, demanding opponents deal with it as well as its deadly contents. Can be used twice in Strike Force games and three times in Onslaught. Useful for adding some Cultist models onto an objective in your Command Phase to score some more Primary points. Theres a lot more to Chaos Space Marines than just understanding the units; if you want to be successful you have to put them all together in a way that will work for you on the table. but there are plenty of other units you might want to put forward, like Havocs, Noise Marines, or Obliterators. As a unit, Cultists are fragile and they dont shoot or fight particularly well. Mutated Invigoration can also be huge for buffing T4 units to T5, and Warp Marked can help delete key units off the table. Abaddon comes with three Warlord Traits, most of which make him nastier in melee if hes not boosting Black Legion units, and his Despoiler aura gives nearby CHAOS CORE units +1 to charges and re-roll hit rolls of 1. Each time you complete this action pick one of the Chaos gods to dedicate the table quarter to (if the unit is marked they have to pick their mark god). Use in any phase when a TRAITORIS ASTARTES NURGLE unit is picked as the target of an attack. This is going to do its best work on Raptors and Chosen, where you can pile up a bunch of S4 and S5 attacks that might otherwise wound on 4s or 5s. 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. This is a very solid upgrade on your unit, and the ability to just sit there and tank a million attacks from something like a knight or the Yncarne can absolutely swing the game. If you happen to mark the unit, you can also get the god-themed power for the unit as well. As with the rest of these articles, the idea is not to give an exhaustive review of every unit and option. A Codex arrival is often a tumultuous affair, and this enhanced Chaos Space Marines Codex was no different, with a ton of changes which may completely alter how you approach your traitorous army. Warlord Trait, and his Chainglaive is an excellent target for daemon weapons like Ulocca or Ghollax. Our final recommendation for your starter Chaos Space Marine army is a Chaos Rhino. These combine to make the annihilator a much better tank than it was, and slightly more worthy of consideration, but still not really worth taking over a Vindicator or Land Raider. This works best in something like Black Legion or Emperors Children where you have a way to mitigate the -1 to hit, and theres reason to consider. Pick a unit within 18. Ah, the mighty Chaos Cultist. So, about those 2 Wound Chaos Space Marines? Hes always got the AGENT OF CHAOS keyword, and if your army includes any CHAOS LORD models (which includes the likes of Abaddon, Lucius, Haarken, and Huron Blackheart, he can be included in a detachment without taking up a slot. Pick a visible enemy unit within 18 and roll 3D6. Rejoice! That unit gets +1 Toughness. Its also solid on Raptors, who enjoy having S5 attacks, though youll find most of the units you really want it on cant take icons. Whats more defensive than a meat shield? 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. If youre taking one, going double Grav with volkite chest guns is probably the play, but be warned that your dreadnought is super vulnerable to charges since its depending on double blast weapons. Where the Apostles value really lies is in the ability to chant a prayer each Command phase the Apostle can chant one prayer he knows, and will do so on a 3+, or a 2+ if one of his goobers is still alive. If youre taking one, the Vokite battery is probably the best pick, supplemented by an Aiolos missile launcher. You can also run them as 10 mutants with 3 torments, giving them more ablative wounds to recur every turn the mutants dont count for morale when they die. Until your next Psychic phase, each time a friendly DAEMONKIN or DAEMON ENGINE unit makes an attack against that unit, it gets +1 to wound. At 75 points for the minimum size unit of 5 mutants and 3 torments, the Accursed Cultists unit is bit on the pricier side to just be cheap slot fillers when compared to regular cultists (and losing actions is a big blow), but they have the potential to be quite a bit more durable and can act as midtable objective holders (they still have ObSec), with the ability to trade up pretty effectively if they get the drop on someone. Havocs work best in Black Legion (+1 to hit against closest eligible target), and Iron Warriors (ignore cover), and have some play in Emperors Children, though in that case youll take Blastmasters instead. Lets you manifest one additional power per phase, and each time you manifest a power you add 6 to the effects. Once an also-ran to the Dark Hereticus Discipline, these are now the money powers for Chaos, and there are several here that youll want to include in every army you field. Chaos daemons share some of the same leathery wing style. It makes even less sense with a Cultist HQ, as it seems like an all-cultist army should be possible. cost wise to make it at least fun to use. . They basically run around with a 2+ save. This is a good way to punish units coming in, but even having this depends on having Tzeentch units that have meaningful shooting. The Master of Executions is basically designed to be a mortal wounds machine, and pairs well with Hatred Incarnate (+1 attack/strength on the charge, re-roll hits), to let him fish for mortal wounds and get the extra attack, and also with Ulocca, which lets him generate extra mortals on the hit rolls that dont immediately become two mortal wounds. Alternatively you can try and pad out a detachment with cheaper options like the Kytan or the Brass Scorpion but more than likely youre better off going Chaos Knights if you want to take that many big machines. Considering basically every army gets rerolls to hit or hits on 2s or 3s with their dangerous units, this prayer is a near auto-include for most lists. Bell of Lost Souls℗ is a registered trademark of and their inbuilt re-rolls to wound to wound T6-9 targets 75% of the time. The main issue with the Dark Commune is that as a Cultist unit, its locked out of the best Prayers and Dark Hereticus powers. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. The mighty Leviathan offers a 2+ save over its Contemptor-bodied brethren, but still comes with the 1 CP cost and the challenge of being a unit that neither shoots nor fights well enough to be worth its cost. to ensure that youre wounding your targets on a 2+/3+ with multiple units in your army on the same turn. 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. This is also great, and something youll use frequently if youre playing with the likes of Maulerfiends and Decimators. 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. That chaos symbol could probably give you tetanus and its not even that Nurgly. They also enjoy the mortal wound protection that Word Bearers or Iron Warriors can bring. By default, a Dark Apostle knows Dark Zealotry, which lets CORE/CULTIST/CHARACTER units within 6 re-roll hit rolls in melee. The Mark of Slaanesh is just really, really good. But now? It used to have some play when it could target a Daemon Prince or Lord Discordant, but now youre limited to Infantry characters with it. Thats more than fine, given how unlikely it is youll want to take more than two of these. If your legion doesnt have great passive buffs for Legionaries, youre probably going this route. 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. Note that, per the FAQ, the Liber Hereticus relic will not increase the range of this aura. Cadia, the bastion world guarding the Eye of Terror, has fallen, and a vast storm of warp energy has ripped the galaxy in two. KHORNE, TZEENTCH, NURGLE, or SLAANESH. Pick a friendly unit within 18. are both solid, with the latter being extremely useful for keeping your black rune Terminator brick on the table. You can swap out the gorestorm for an ichor or daemongore cannon, while the hades gatling cannon can be swapped for a skullhurler. Then grab your eight-pointed star and strap in because Chaos Space Marines may be the army for you! Marks represent the benefits units get for devoting themselves to the Chaos powers. If this unit has the ICON keyword, each time a model in this unit makes a ranged attack, improve the AP of that attack by 1. The other character option in the Elites slot for Chaos Space Marines. And speaking of gross. And while the Destructor doesnt get anything else on top of that (and its AP-1 autocannon isnt really worth discussion), the Annihilator got a boost in the form of a twin soulshatter lascannon for its turret, giving it D6+2 damage shots up top. They really need a Rhino, Dreadclaw, or other transport to get them to the fight, but they can be properly annoying to handle and theyre great for going up against tougher units with damage reduction. 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. But ultimately you have to really ask if these guys are better than Chosen, who at 3 points more hit at higher AP and come with an extra wound and get your Legion Trait. and secondary objectives. I don't know if they ever actually said it was coming with the, "I thought a thing that was never said was happening and now I'm angry and making a thread. This is primarily a review of the units and options that are specific to Chaos Space Marines, but Chaos Space Marines can be combined with Daemons and Chaos Knights in interesting ways, and well talk about those as well. In addition, Psykers who take a mark get a free power related to the mark and those powers are pretty good. In addition to giving you special rules, Legions also give you access to Stratagems, Warlord Traits, Relics, and Secondary Objectives. Daemon weapons saw a large change with the new Codex; now they upgrade weapons more generally, adding cool effects. ", "All you 40k people out there have managed to more or less do something that I did some time ago, and some of my friends did before me, and some of their friends did before them: When you saw the water getting gakky, you decided to, well, get out of the pool, rather than say 'I guess this is water now.'". With this new codex, Games Workshop has doubled down on giving each Chaos Space Marine Legion a different playstyle and feel from those of its peers. Still, there are a few basics that every Chaos Space Marine army can benefit from, so lets take a look at them. Do you think that Imperial space marines are kind of lame? Fleeing into the Eye of Terror, a giant rent in reality caused by the fall of the Aeldari Empire, the traitors escaped the loyalists wrath, and continue to plot, plan, and lick their wounds, waiting for a time they will be able to wreak revenge on the Imperium once again. Specifically, there are 4 powers that are eminently playable in the mix, with two that you want to build around Pact of Flesh and Cursed Earth, specifically. Chosen arent an every list type of unit since they compete with the more durable Terminators and the faster Possessed, but theyre great midtable units that have a lot of the same deadliness of terminators at a heavily discounted cost. Hellbrutes used to have some weird outside play when they had 8 movement as cheap, mobile melee threats but since every 9th edition Codex has dropped them back to 6 movement theyve become slow vehicles that neither have enough attacks nor enough shooting to be good enough to see play. Stratagem in a pinch), so the real value here is on the extra prayer. Abaddon was strong enough in his 8th edition form; in 9th hes an entirely new type of terror, an extremely difficult-to-kill murder machine that can help buff units in any Chaos army, not just large blobs of Cultists. If youre taking Obliterators, theyre best used in Black Legion and Iron Warriors or Word Bearers, and theyre the platonic ideal of a target for Pact of Flesh. Thats the most reliable weapon on the model, however. Which trait a unit get depends on which legion theyre from. If you beat the units toughness, one model in the unit is destroyed. Do you like playing the bad guys? In Emperors Children they can roll a 6+d6 charge out of deep strike, which significantly increases their effectiveness. Theyre OK in melee, but not good enough to be a real threat. This costs 2 CP if the model is TITANIC. After all, the Heretic Astartes have two Wounds now, too We've still got loads more to show you from the forthcoming Chaos Space Marines codex - sign up for our newsletter to get the latest heretical updates straight to your inbox. Speaking of which. If youre taking a unit of these, its for the warpflamers, either in 5 or 10, depending on how you want to use them. Having the mark of Slaanesh also means they can be blessed with Delightful Agonies, giving them a 5+ feel no pain on top of 2+ save and -1 to wound. Their faction keywords become CHAOS, KHORNE, HERETIC ASTARTES, TRAITORIS ASTARTES, and . 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. This isnt bad, but having a gun with Blast means that while the Defiler is in melee, a thing it is ostensibly here for, it cant shoot. Well youve got a few options, though youre still probably only taking a single big unit: Word Bearers Chaos Cultists Credit: RichyP. 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. On its surface this objective seems pretty solid, but once you start playing with it you quickly realize that scoring it is contingent on letting your opponent take objectives so you can kill them off those objectives or take them. There isnt really a place for them in most armies but there have been some successful lists that run 1-2 units of them when the strategy calls for a more aggressive approach, or one thats not running Raise the Banners High. YouTube Video VVVQUWRYUHAySjhEbUQwemhRaU12RW5BLmJIRHlaSHdWSGo0, YouTube Video VVVQUWRYUHAySjhEbUQwemhRaU12RW5BLkljNTFsVTk3OU1J, YouTube Video VVVQUWRYUHAySjhEbUQwemhRaU12RW5BLnM5cTZxWHU1aEZr. This was written in December 2022, after the release of. Credit: Jeff Scarisbrick. Otherwise, Psyker has a 4+ invulnerable save and can only be hit on a 4+, but his real value is just being on the table. This got a big glow-up, and is great for increasing your damage output. Also great for healing the damage youve done with the Master of Possessions. * We know youve been waiting patiently, and your time is soon! On top of that, the Mark of Slaanesh gives you the Murderous Perfection Stratagem, letting you change a die roll for a hit/wound/damage to a 6 in the Shooting or Fight phase, while Excessive Cruelty lets you punish enemy units attempting to Fall Back by consolidating 3 or shooting the unit leaving. My favorite one is running it alongside your Word Bearers and using Hexagrammatic Ward to 0 out of the damage from a Railgun into your un-obscurable KLOS. They come with lasguns, but up to three models can replace theirs with a special weapon, though you cant double up on these. The Legion Trait rules apply to all of your units (with the exceptions listed above), not just your INFANTRY, HELBRUTES, and BIKERS, as used to be the case. Use in the opponents Psychic phase, after a test is passed for an enemy PSYKER unit and after any Deny attempts are made. Maulerfiends are fast, nasty beaters in melee that benefit from the bonus to hit that a Lord Discordant can provide, but dont necessarily depend on it. This volume 10 attacks total makes him an excellent target for the. And now with two wounds they are going to last even longer vs small arms fire. The Lord Discordant is an absolute blender in melee, coming with 6 attacks base that hit at S6, AP-3, 2 damage but with +1 to wound on the charge, plus another 8 attacks from the Helstalker and his tendrils. Each time a model in this unit makes a melee attack, if the models unit made a charge move, was charged, or performed a Heroic Intervention this turn, add 1 to the Strength characteristic of that attack. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. You can score a max of 5 VP per round from this objective. Use in your Shooting phase when a unit shoots. This article took weeks to write and ended up being more like a short novel in length, so theres probably, I missed or didnt get right. This is a huge upgrade in value for Dreadclaws, which now give you a relatively inexpensive way to put your units in reserves and drop them on the table turn 1. What good is a melee unit if you cant get it into melee? On the table Cypher is not really a huge threat hes got a pair of pistols that combine for 9 shots, including 3 at S8 AP-3 2 damage, plus he can shoot after Advancing or Falling back. If you've been scammed I suggest reporting it to the police. It wont help you on Psychic Interrogation sadly, but the extra cast is also very strong for your marked Master of Possession. This means that against armies which have an easier time scoring, youll be racing against the clock to wipe them out before they can put a game out of reach. This is a pretty good way to get splash damage, though at WC 7 its a bit trickier to cast. Granted, it has a bit more value in the current meta, where Harpies and Sunshark Bombers are more common, but even with it hitting on 2s and doing 4 damage per swing to those targets its unlikely to actually kill one in a single round of combat. ", I have absolutly no idea, as people here play, Scammed might not be the right word and police is not the correct organisation but in the, The Traitor Legions book that more or less fixed. Note that it will not let you bypass the restriction on being able to fight a unit you didnt charge. To build out some character in your force, wed recommend looking at a Sorcerer with Jump Pack, to be able to take advantage of more Psychic abilities while zipping around the board, giving Warptime to your troops in unexpected places, and keeping your opponent on their toes. Thats not something you actually want to do most games you want to be sitting on and controlling those objectives when your turn starts so you can score primary points. You can upgrade the Traitor Sergeant to have a plasma pistol and a power sword at a cost of +5 points for either option, neither of which youre likely to take. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Chaos Space Marines - Dark Apostle - Singles - Warhammer 40,000 at the best online prices at eBay! Eventually they managed to reform through strength of will alone, and that strength came from one of the Sons of Horus most powerful and fearsome warriors: Abaddon. Were not going to waste time talking about the Warhound, Reaver, and Warlord titans here. Theyre fast, durable, and hit like a freight train, dumping out insane amounts of AP-2 firepower. 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. Use at the start of any of your phases other than the Command phase. 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 . If they can fit a second psyker character in its usually a Daemon Prince, who will spend his cast opportunities on Psychic Interrogation. Youll almost always want to swap their bolters for chainswords, since having 4 attacks at AP-1 is significantly better than having an AP0 bolter against most of the games targets. Hope to . This is fine, if unexciting. Chaos, in the 41st millennium, throws a wide net over malcontents, wizards, heretics, and many others who choose to throw their lot in with dark gods. If theres a downside to this, its that you cant combine it with a Mark of Chaos. Once during that phase, when resolving an attack made by a model in that unit, you can change the result of a single hit roll, wound roll, or damage roll to be a 6 (note that if the die is a D3 then a 6 counts as a 3). You also dont have to put it into deep strike its tough enough that if youre taking multiples they can just roll forward against some armies and weather the damage, though how much you can get away with this will vary wildly by army. Chaos is coming. Weve lost the psyker-specific traits from Shadowspear, but whats here is a solid set of traits. Theyre an absolute Nightmare in Creations of Bile, where having 10 movement and the ability to fight on death makes them a scary, mobile threat. Let's take a look at those cult troops and just imagine the possibilities. If theres a downside to Abaddon, its that hes a single model with a 6 move, and as such isnt particularly mobile himself, especially when compared to many of the other melee threats in the army. This pairs well with the Mark of Tzeentch to give you two 4+ invulnerable saves to hand out per turn, but chances are you wont need Skeins if you have this. Specifically, the Black Rune of Damnation, a relic which can be given to the squad champion with the Trophies of the Long War Stratagem. ALL THE CHAOS REVEALS! Chaos Space Marines have a number of interesting Elites choices, most of them specializing in melee combat or mid-range shooting. Not only is a new codex coming that brings much-anticipated updates to the rules for Heretic Astartes, there will be a slathering of new miniatures to reignite your blasphemous fervour. Note that Cultists have the TRAITORIS ASTARTES keyword to mark them as of the same faction, but no longer have HERETIC ASTARTES, so they dont get Armour of Contempt. KHORNE model only. This can be given to a CULTISTS model. Until the end of the phase, that unit can target the enemy even if it is within Engagement range of other units, and when shooting that enemy, you cant re-roll the hit roll, plus unmodified hit rolls of 1 score hits against the friendly unit instead (you resolve these after hits to the enemy unit). The priest gets +3 Attacks and you improve the AP of his melee weapons by 2. With the rise of Primaris Space Marines, he may now have all the new material hell ever need to twist Chaos Space Marines into new forms, finally perfecting his lifes work. 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. Cypher is an interesting unit. That said hes perfectly capable of raising banners, and thats half his value in some of the Chaos Knights lists he showed up in alongside Abaddon. 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. These guys come with several abilities packed into one: The Mindwitch gives them a Psyker for a single Deny/Cast attempt, the Demagogue gives them a miniature Dark Apostle, and the Iconarch gives them an aura to give Cultists the ability to re-roll hits of 1. PRIEST models in your army know the. The net result is a unit thats just good enough to see play, and often will, sometimes as a 2-of or 3-of, depending on the list. ability, which prevents it from doing actions or being in a Transport but gets you back either 3 destroyed mutants or 1 dead Torment each command phase. Editor: Danni Button, Adam Harrison In similar fashion to the Land Raider, the Chaos Vindicator gets an upgrade in Codex: Chaos Space Marines, gaining an extra wound and trading out its gun for one thats AP-4 and Heavy D3+3 shots, giving it a ton more consistency. Were only going to cover the non-legion specific ones here but most of the legion ones are also pretty bad, filled with a large number of Shadow Operations picks that arent as good as Raise the Banners High. And what about Khorne Berzerkers or Noise Marines how much more effective will they be? However, this doesnt mean that they arent worth taking to the contrary and as well see, these units can be very powerful in standard Chaos Space Marines armies, though some more than others. It also gives you access to the Chaos Space Marine version of Transhuman Physiology, which can make your Characters much more durable in a pinch. The Imperial Armour Compendium updated these to be 115 points and be able to arrive on the battlefield turn 1. Pick a friendly DAEMONKIN or DAEMON ENGINE within 18. Chaos Space Marines only have two Dedicated Transport options: The lowly Chaos Rhino and the Terrax Pattern Termite Assault Drill. When enemy units take morale tests within 6 of your warlord, they roll 2D6 and take the highest result. Space Marines have Chapters, Chaos Space Marines have Legions. BoLS Interactive LLC. It also can benefit from the Smokescreen stratagem for -1 to Hit, making it surprisingly annoying for opponents to deal with. Its ability to deep strike and drop off 12 models is great to have, particularly for Emperors Children armies that can use Honour the Prince to make sure an arriving unit can immediately complete a charge. Still harder to get than youd like, Obliterators are tough, versatile fire support on units that can absolutely also dish out a beating in melee. Pick a friendly CORE, CULTISTS, or CHARACTER unit within 6. Each time an Attack is made by this daemon weapon, if the attack wounds the target, they take a mortal wound in addition to any normal damage. Armies leaning very heavily into Daemonkin or Daemon Engines might even want to consider running 2 Masters Of Possession for access to more of these powers. Once per turn, the first time a saving throw is failed for this unit, the Damage characteristic of that attack is changed to 0. On the whole, the Lord Discordant is still one of the armys best units, and has gotten better thanks to now being 9 wounds and protectable with Look Out, Sir. Chaos Space Marine armies have long included specialty cult units like Berzerkers and their Codex has rules for including those in your army. Scourge of a thousand tables. Pact of Flesh is a reliable way to recur and heal bully units like Possessed and Black Rune Terminators, while Cursed Earth keeps your Possessed on the table and makes them harder to charge. Goonhammer and Stat Check are Teaming Up! If youre taking a unit, you should absolutely give them an icon, and you may as well give them plasma pistols as the only upgrade you can take on them. Its 10-model transport capacity is great for moving a unit of 10 Chosen, Plague Marines, or Rubric Marines. Youll want to prevent these charges by making sure its got a proper screen. Cultists come in units of 10-20 models and come with your choice of autopistol and close combat weapon or cultist firearm, which is basically a lasgun. Having to use a Lord of War slot on this is, obviously, kind of terrible, but its also extremely hilarious, and has been pushed hard. And thats before you remember that oh yeah, Raise the banners is typically an easy 10+ points. Like the Black Rune Of Damnation, its best use is giving it to a non-Characters unit leader to make a model that hits much harder than expected and comes with ablative bodies. What remains is a bunch of resin tanks that arent worth your time, despite looking very cool. 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. Youll also have to pay the 15 points to give them the Mark of Tzeentch, but its worth it for the unit. A rhino full of berzerkers will do some serious work, and even a unit of 5 has a real chance of trading up when it throws out 26 Attacks. In addition to having a decent statline with 6 attacks, the Daemon Prince. 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