The Land Raider Excelsior is a specialised variant of the Adeptus Astartes Land Raider that serves a command and control function for a Space Marine planetary assault as well as a role as a heavy main battle tank and armoured transport. Because Blasters had 18″ range Archons could act as a nasty thorn waiting in Drukhari lines to prick anything that came too close and helped them play herohammer in the late game. They don’t even have Grand Alliance keywords, so in short they were designed for use only in open or narrative play and that’s fine. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Full list of Space Marines units sharing same Battlefield Role follows: Rapid Fire weapons are versatile weapons capable of aimed single shots at long range or controlled bursts of fire at close quarters. Things they no longer make models for. The rest follow a similar pattern. No such luck. These are fun conversion options that I’m sad we’ve lost, given how little they mattered competitively.
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It is our mission to bring you the latest from the miniature wargaming scene, from narrative missions, hobby how to tutorials, battle reports, unboxings and reviews, retro flashbacks, news, rumors and more. *Wings Note: I realise this is still slightly up in the air, I’ll cover it in my section.
One_Wing: Blasters on Archons is the big deal here, and honestly taking the option out is probably why they’ve been able to pit up such a precipitous point drop. One_Wing: I have had a heavy bike character Wolf list come at me at an event in the hands of a good player so I suspect this does actually matter. It seriously makes no sense, given that all those bits come packaged on the sprue in the Terminator Chaos Lord/Sorcerer box) If they want mobile sorcerers, the Thousand Sons still have the Exalted Sorcerer on Disc of Tzeentch as an option. RagnarokAngel: Look at these dorks in power armor complaining about retired models.
I’m going to have a quite brew and have a bit of a think about what we are losing vs what we are gaining from consigning these units to the dusty halls of history. • This model can additionally be equipped with 1 storm bolter. Power axes are now power swords.The big choppa you used to be able to take is a klaw now. actually lack of the Skaven keyword and are named. If you select two, subtract 1 from. • This model can additionally be equipped with 1 hunter-killer missile. • This model can additionally be equipped with 1 storm bolter. Legends has been in the discourse since NOVA and with how the Marine book was suspiciously not printing some index options we all kind of saw the writing on the wall. This basically turns into a nasty T8 captain that you can run down the field with everyone else in your army while the Rhino Primaris sits in the back…probably on an objective somewhere. Naramyth: I remember Iron Priests on Thunderwolves were a thing in 7th but I don’t remember seeing one this edition.
My only real niggle is a few weird inconsistencies inevitable in the first run of this sort of thing. RagnarokAngel: Was hoping for Vect rules here for posterity. Show legendary datasheets Show index datasheets Show Forge World datasheets Show index wargear options Faction Settings. Ironically, after chopping up my one to turn him into an Archon I probably now need one again. Initially they were supported with a free warscroll primer, they even had Grand Alliance keywords so if you wanted to run, your Brettonians as a pure Order force that was a valid strategy. In fact, the one thing I would change about 8th ed is giving HQ units back some of their options. One_Wing: Uriah got the glowing endorsement of “probably don’t bother with him over a basic missionary” when I reviewed him so, uh, I think sisters players will cope. puts on a chef hat, kisses fingers Just the most half-assed nonsense. There’s a smorgasbord of Blackstone Fortress characters that really have no business being in competitive 40k. If I was ever going to play Eldar, this change has killed it for me. I guess they were gaunt guns?
Stuff that’s got a modern equivalent. There was a point where they tried to give them points but that seems to have gone away over time. Eldar are gonna have to eat overwatch like the rest of us. Those datasheets just got re-published in Chapter Approved 2019. There is some -4 and -5 AP are out there but it’s very rare. Ok, Maybe just Legion of the Damned, but their whole datasheet is gone. DAMAGE. After months of speculation, Games Workshop finally released its new “Warhammer: Legends” rules, putting several older models to bed and effectively removing them from tournament play, if not our hearts.
joining the sa forums will remove this big ad, the annoying underlined ads, and stupid interstitial ads!! On that note, it is just the tiniest bit salt-inducing for everyone else losing bike characters that Orks do get to keep the Warboss on Warbike option just because it happens to have a Forge World kit kicking around.