Games Workshop - Warhammer 40,000 - Astra Militarum Army Set (ENGLISH)

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I love the idea of a smaller and more compact gaming experience where things don't get blown off the table on turn one. Making things a lot more claustrophobic might be just what you need to see the likes of Terminators or Howling Banshees shine. Shatterer of Wills: The morale ability siren is sounding! This gives one enemy unit you hit -2 Ld for the turn! That’s not nearly enough to justify the slot here! That’s why we have the siren! D Preliminary Bombardment – 2CP: Use before the first battle round begins. Roll a dice for each enemy unit on the battlefield, and on a 6 they suffer 1 mortal wound. The impact here is tiny for the cost, and this just isn’t worth it. D

The Astra Militarum can only accomplish its mission of defending the Imperium of Man through disciplined volleys of massed lasgun fire, deftly-crewed columns of armored fighting vehicles, and proper application of fierce bayonet charges. No equipment or personnel are above sacrificing in the pursuit of your objective. Astra Militarum Commanders, Inquisitors, and Planetary Governors must regularly send droves of a civilization’s finest soldiers to die upon nameless hills in defense of a single planet amongst millions. Such is the will and dedication required amongst mortals to stand in the face of the ancient evils and inhuman terrors assailing the Imperium. So long as the Imperium stands, the Astra Militarum will stand to defend it. Relic – Pietrov’s MK 45: Relic bolt pistol with AP-1 and D2, but more importantly prevents more than one model fleeing from VALHALLAN units within 6″ The new codex includes a total of 31 new Astra Militarum Stratagems. Two of these have already been previewed by GW on November 8:Vicious Traps and Acceptable Losses. Concentrated Fire – 1CP: A Heavy Weapon Squad gets +1 to hit and wound against a single target but all have to target it. Boy is that a hefty boost, yowza – the obvious place to put this is on a Lascannon team, where it leaves them wounding anything they shoot on 2s, and probably hitting on 3s re-rolling 1s (or even better if they’re Cadian). Heavy Weapon teams with good guns have always been unreliable glass cannons and thus not appeared in lists, but removing the “unreliable” from that equation is a serious draw to include one squad. Any strat powerful enough to make a bad unit good has to get at least a B+ and that seems like a good spot for this – the three model cap still puts a ceiling on it, but the power is there.Who needs flesh and blood when you have a Leman Russ Battle Tank – or six – to park on objectives and blast lesser creatures to dust? The Astra Militarum are receiving major reinforcements with the Cadia Stands Army Set , which comes with a massive 28 entirely new models, a very fancy special-edition codex, a set of datacards, and transfers. HEAVY SUPPORT: Leman Russ battle tank (battle cannon, lascannon, multi-melta sponsons, heavy stubber) 220pts Sadly, someone has to bring up the rear, and here it’s the Mordian Iron Guard. They’re just kind of bad – none of this is anywhere close to the power level of the good regiments (or honestly really any of the others).

Because of the weaknesses discussed above, The Astra Militarum has some serious issues competing with the top-tier armies out there. The codex has an easy time taking objectives but a difficult time holding them, with T3 models and your damage dealers being relatively fragile. The army has the ability to compete, and probably pull some favorable matchups on Tier 2 and Tier 3 armies, but right now it really struggles against the top-tier stuff out there. Overall though, the army is relatively healthy. It needs some weapon updates and some points drops, but otherwise, it’s not completely broken. Tanks are complicated, weapons can break and jam – but manpower is a resource that never fails. The Imperium lives and dies on the sacrifices made by its fearless* infantry, and whether you need to overwhelm mutants, heretics, or aliens, there’s no better weapon than a few hundred warm bodies loaded up with lasguns. The Emperor’s Benediction: A 3-shot AP-1 D2 bolt pistol that can character-snipe for a Commissar or Lord Commissar. Cute, but underwhelming, and the short-range makes the sniping pretty irrelevant. C The new age of the Astra Militarum begins with the Cadia Stands Army Set, stuffed with entirely new models, an achingly beautiful codex, and plenty of datacards.Few Competitive Units: Unfortunately, this faction is pretty overcosted right now. There are a few dead units in the book that are wildly overcosted looking at you Baneblades, but most things are probably about 5-10% overcosted right now, resulting in some lists that often feel just out of reach of some of the upper tiers. Every time I hear that it upsets me that GW didn’t allow the clear Chaos victory in The Eye of Terror campaign to have any effect on the setting’s narrative. Alongside the new way of playing Warhammer 40,000, you'll also find some new gubbins to help theme a particular force. Basing kits and more have been previewed over on the Warhammer Community Blog showing off the ways you could make specific 500-point elite forces for use in Boarding Actions. Arks Of Omen - New Supplement!

Even their special weapons platforms and Imperial Guard tanks aren’t as well armoured as some other forces’ equivalents, so you’ll have to keep an eye on damage if you want to succeed. Details are naturally thin on the ground so far, but GW says the Battery can be equipped with “large-bore cannons, multi-missile launchers, or heavy, overcharged lascannons”. Gunnery Experts: When you roll to determine the number of shots for a weapon on a VEHICLE, you can re-roll one of the dice. This is the VEHICLE half of Catachan, and obviously good with tanks. A Forwards, for the Emperor!: You may shoot with a unit even if that unit Advanced this turn. Another handy thing you might need to do from time to time.Set towards the end of the Sabbat World’s Crusade, this anthology follows the legendary Gaunt’s Ghosts and includes the novels The Warmaster and Anarch , and the short stories This is What Victory Feels Like (Forever the Same) and From There to Here . Can the Tanith First and Only continue their successes on Urdesh, or will the forces of Chaos emerge victorious? Regiment>: The standard “Chapter Tactics”-granting keyword most 8th Edition Codex. Nearly every unit has this except for Scions and other units not drawn from an Astra Militarum Regiment in the lore, such as Abhumans and Imperial Navy elements. Resplendent in golden armour atop his cybernetic horse Konstantin, Lord Solar Leontus is effectively the new ‘big boss’ of the Imperial Guard. The stream also mentioned that the new Kasrkin’s 40k rules function a bit differently than regular Guardsmen. As fitting their veteran status, the Kasrkin are capable of using not one, but TWO Regimental Doctrines.

Guard warlord traits are pretty easy – if you don’t know what you should be taking, Grand Strategist is a very safe bet. If you have more of a plan, Old Grudges looks good. Despite the absolute avalanche of options outside this table, you can’t go too far wrong with that. Implacable Determination: Your warlord and one unit within 3″ of them can auto-advance 6″. I’m honestly surprised, reading this, that it’s never received wording clarification on trigger timing, especially as Guard has a trivial way to advance out of phase. The fact that this is the first time I am noticing this should key you into the fact that it’s probably not that great. Another one that does, to be fair, probably merits the occasional second look with progeny, but not much of one. C The Death Korps of Krieg don’t have as many rules as the other regiments but have their own Doctrine in the Imperial Armour Compendium that’s worth pointing out here. You’re never taking this trait unless your force to for playing Death Korps, which is great news because it’s really terrible. Mediocre Melee: The best melee unit Astra Militarum can bring to the table is Bullgryn. They’re pretty dang tanky if you have the right buffs on them but really can’t go toe to toe with a dedicated melee threat. For a fun thought exercise, roll a full Bullgryn squad into a Blade Guard Veteran squad with Transhuman, Dark Angels Terminators with Storm Shields, or Death Guard Terminators. The results are pretty depressing. Weapon Expert: Improves the AP of turret weapons by 1. This is a nice improvement on most weapons. Also good on a punisher, helping make up for their price hike by charging them up. This has been downgraded a bit from our last update of Start Competing since it was hit particularly hard by the loss of Hammer of Sunderance (RIP 2019-2020). BCalled Cadia Stands, this Army Launch Set is the start of a huge overhaul for the Astra Militarum range, bringing new and highly detailed kits to the battlefields of Warhammer 40,000. Oh! I forgot you do get one other choice on each model. You can chose to give them a bed roll on the majority of the models, soooo that’s something. While none of the regiments are outright bad, this is one of the slightly weaker ones simply because it doesn’t lean in that well to what Scions are trying to do. The redeploy is cute, but given it doesn’t allow you to pull units into deep strike it would mostly be good on Tauroxes, which are overpriced at the moment. The strat is mostly aimed at them too. The doctrine is extremely swingy – sometimes it’s actually great, but will also sometimes do nothing, and you generally want an ability that’s going to be useful most of the time from a faction trait. The relic is hilarious but doesn’t ultimately pull these up for competitive play. 32nd Thetoid Eagles Regimental Doctrine – Resolute Heroism: When shooting at the closest target, an unmodified hit roll of 6 scores an additional hit.