Achillus Dreadnought [CORE]: Got the main changes from the Galatus, 9 wounds, -1D taken, extra attack. At 125 points per model, theyre almost a steal and I could very easily see them getting play in an outrider with lots of Myphitic Blight-Haulers. I had emotionally prepared myself for this, but it looks like I will, in fact, be needing to change the paint scheme on my Wraithseer before putting it on a tournament table even once, as they have completely changed but at least not necessarily to the point of being unusable. Ill have to use my converted tech priest as a Warpsmith I guess. Warhammer 40k . Moving over to cool giant monsters, theDimachaeron gets an astounding glow-up. Also the Adrathic option is slightly cheaper, so basically everything about Aquilon got better, except for the claw. Corbax isnt bad, but hes not exciting, either. Hes still got two casts and denies and is still way nastier/tougher in a fight than most equivalents, so may still be the one of the better inquisition options. While were going to dig into the highlights and lowlights of individual units below, our overall impression is that there was a significant smoothing over of the entire book. Hellforged Leviathan Dreadnought. Offensively, the melta cutter increased from d3 shots to 5 shots and picked up the new melta rules, and the termite drill loses the complicated mortal wound thing in exchange for a straight damage increase d3+3 against most targets, and a colossal d3+6 against vehicles. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. What stats do the turbolaser have? The book itself is split into 4 sections broadly following the split of the old Imperial Armour Indexes Forces of the Adeptus Astartes, Forces of the Imperium, Forces of Chaos and Forces of Xenos. 173.9M . Next up, Im a bit more tentative on this but Ithink Shadow Spectres end up more attractive as a general pick than they used to be. Engineers are less exciting they lose their weird super shotguns and are basically kind of boring. Grab a brew and paint/chat with us! Grey Knights get a variant of the Land Raider which has psycannons on it, for some reason with a different profile than seen on normal ones. Credit: Jack Hunter. Remember that these Dreadnoughts dont currently get Legion Traits, since they arent INFANTRY, BIKERS, HELBRUTES, or CHARACTERS. How many wounds? A nice little boost overall. Now yes, that nearly in the previous sentence is a little ominous as there are a couple of strange exceptions. Across the board most special rules have moved from being specifically written out on datasheets to referencing back to Codex: Space Marines. If one of the shields takes damage but isnt destroyed, itll regenerate at the beginning of your command phase, which is cute but is unlikely to regularly happen in practice as most decent alpha strikes will go through both of the shields. The Astra Militarum were the OG beneficiaries of Forge World units, and they retain a prodigious range, though some of their options have been archived off as part of this update (mostly very similar variants on existing units). Brayarth Ashmantle keeps his strength 8, but drops from toughness 9 all the way to toughness 7. The Adeptus Mechanicus get updated profiles for the Secutarii with rules keying off the new Titan Legion keyword that has been added for Titans. It also helps that the statline is still fine theyve gone to 9W rather than 12, but are at least non-degrading, and get the always-on ability to ignore AP-1, a nice extra upside. With the new edition of the game now out in the wild, Forge World have released a similar book this time containing the rules of nearly every unit they currently produce. Also Available on Spotify & Google Podcasts, The Hive Tyrant was one of the first models I ever painted for Warhammer 40k, so when I saw an unpainted one on ebay I knew I had to paint it up in honour of it! Theycould be OK spammed withGunnery Experts. Imperial Fists Fellblade. How many primaris can it transport? Welcome to the Imperial Armour Compendium . Las-rippers bump up to 36 range, strength 9, and D6 damage, so theyre very nearly a twin lascannon, and the plasma eradicator trades a point of strength to upgrade from d3 to d6 shots, gain blast, and pick up a point of damage. 13 - War Machines of the Lost and the Damned, Imperial Armour - Apocalypse I (Second Edition), https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Imperial_Armour_Compendium&oldid=487737, Datasheet entries for two new Factions bespoke to this book . So if you were debating trying it before, it is certainly more tempting now (but still D3 damage, ugh). of Forge World units that, at the time of printing, are supported. A vindicator: cool. Grav Pulsar Moirax now only deal 3 damage vs 3+ save, as opposed to the 4 damage is was before. Imperial Armour Compendium - Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum Ares Gunship: ARES-GATE continues, with a 20 point increase, and the attack changes from the Orion. If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. PDF Warhammer 40,000 - Imperial Armour Compendium.pdf - 9th Edition There are two wide-reaching rules for marines. They also get the Termite added as a transport option, which also gives them an aggressive high strength close combat unit in the form of the drill itself! At a high level, you generally see: With that out the way, on to the factions. Depending on how the meta moves, this could help or hinder the Ares. Their Phoenix Lord, Irrylith, is less exciting, mostly just being a damage dealer, but isntawfully statted for what he is, certainly looking more appealing than, say, Fuegan. The Kannonwagon and Kustom Stompa are the two that miss out, but its nice for the rest. Pallas Grav-Attack: Lost the -2 to charge grav ability, but is 10 points cheaper. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful. Back at the launch of the 8th edition of Warhammer 40,000 we saw a series of volumes from Forge World collecting together all the rules for Forge World units in the new edition of the game. Leviathan Dreadnought. People are sad about the leviathan, but before the compendium he was approaching a Knight in points, had terrible rules, was more expensive than the loyalist version and his guns were average. - Warhammer 40K BOOKS COLLECTION - Internet Archive We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website. Terrax-pattern Termite Assault Drill-Credit: Pendulin. Credit: Jack Hunter. Trojans are the other huge loss. The Regimental Doctrine for Krieg was shown off on Warcom and is kind ofeh not really lighting up the world. Our latest podcast is now live with two fantastic interviews (post on the website appearing shortly) and we have filmed the first part of our first battle for our Crusade campaign! Whether you want to reclaim the galaxy with the Necrons, burn it to a cinder with the Chaos Space Marines, or convince everyone to join the Greater Good with the T'au Empire, this book contains the datasheets and the points values you need.. The Imperial Armour books have also featured a few less well known successor chapters over the years, and Imperial Armour Compendium features suggested chapter tactics to best represent the way they fight I love this and gives players a framework towards designing their chapter to best fit the lore and narrative of the army as reflected in Warhammer 40k literature! Someone at Forge World really loves drills. Over the next few weeks, well be diving much deeper into these new rules and how they shake things up for each faction and make no mistake, theyshake things up in some pretty big ways. Agamatus Custodians [CORE]: No weapon or stat changes, but the base chassis is 5 points cheaper which is swell. There isnt any massive rules changes, but some minor adjustments and a few buffs/discounts scattered around (or in the case of Venatari, a minor change with a HUGE impact). Coronus Grav-Carrier: 15 points cheaper, lost -2 to charge and kept fly (like the other grav vehicles). Out of the other units, theTesseract Ark also got cheaper (especially if you swap the cannots to particle beamers) but its tough to say if it truly ends up as a winner because of the change to Quantum Shielding, which is definitely a major downgrade on it. That probably still isnt pushing them to the top tables. The Tarantula Battery also makes the move to a Fortification slot, making taking 3 units of these very tempting for some objective defence! Boo. Blood Angels Sicaran Omega. All of the Forge World Chaos Space Marine characters, including the Chaos Hellwright, on and off his Dark Abeyant. Of the various suits, the Rvarna feels like the big winner. The Death Korps also get a Regimental Doctrine and datasheets for their unique Death Rider models. 9th Edition Imperial Armour Compendium: The Goonhammer Review By James "One_Wing" Grover October 31, 2020 Forge World formed a key part of competitive play in 8th Edition, offering a wide range of additional options for some factions alongside some very cool models for players who wanted to try something different. Like the Rvarna, they do get a massive point cut, but here it comes with correspondingly massive decrease in capabilities. Thats especially true because. Atomantic Shielding matches the contemptor, so only a 5+ invulnerable save rather than 4+, combining for an overall substantial drop in durability. Any weapons that Forgeworld doesnt currently make in 28mm are gone, so goodbye to reaver chainfists and carapace weapons that arent the apocalypse missile launcher and warlord carapace weapons that arent apocalypse launchers or laser blasters. Sky Slasher Swarms also get a bump their stats and costs are unchanged, but they get built in deep strike. I absolutely do not think doing so is a good idea for your army, but its in a similar spot to a few other things now where it probably isroughly costed right for what it can do, its just that factors of the mission design still keep it non-competitive. The Trojan now has a fun rule that allows One Shot weapons to fire again so, for example, you can use one to reload a Deathstrike allowing it to fire a second time! Carab Culln takes most of the generic leviathan nerfs (see below), and also loses out on both his feel no pain aura and most of the interest from the death-hold special rule it no longer lets you hit for mortal wounds and simply lets the heavy bolter fire with no penalty at units in engagement range. This isincredibly bad;for some units itll just limit to your ability to include multiples but more than likely itll just make some units unplayably bad, since theyre likely to be overcosted before you include the CP. All the titans are winners. Lets start with my beautiful special explodey boy, the Kytan Ravager. Already very good, the Terrax picks up several buffs that cement it as the premiere way to transport firstborn marines. The Dreadclaw Drop Pod and the Chaos Terrax Pattern Termite are the big winners here, both being nasty threats that help deliver Chaos Space Marines to the battlefield in interesting ways. off-limits to Thousand Sons and Death Guard, Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Daniel "Skails" Rodenberg, Charlie B, "Primaris" Kevin Genson, Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones and SRM, James "One_Wing" Grover, Peter "The Falcon" Colosimo, Jeremy "Curie" Atkinson and Lowest of Men, James "One_Wing" Grover, Peter "The Falcon" Colosimo, Lowest of Men and Jeremy "Curie" Atkinson, Matthew "Rockfish" Herrington, Colin Ward, SRM, MasterSlowPoke, Jack Hunter and Liam "Corrode" Royle, Mike Bettle-Shaffer, Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones and BuffaloChicken, Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones and MildNorman, Codex Supplement Space Wolves: The Goonhammer Review, How to Paint Everything: Draculas (and other Vampires), incredibly official Goonhammer store on RedBubble. You Give Goonhammer Writers Serotonin. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again. Todays Forgeworld Preorders Imperial Armour Compendium andNecromunda! Sicarans in general also bumped up to a 2+ save, making them surprisingly durable, and took a substantial points cut. Its much more interesting now with 6 shots in either standard or supercharge, at strength 8, ap-3, and 2 damage in standard mode, bumping up to strength 9 and damage 3 when supercharged. He did also get whats probably a downgrade in being declared a Terminator, but if you were planning on warping him in anyway its much of a muchness. If youd asked us to pick units that were at real risk of just getting nuked from orbit in a re-write this would have been high on the list, so it getting to keep doing its thing, only even better, is a huge relief for nid players. for open , narrative and matched play. The Gargantuan Squiggoth can also fall back and charge and even move over other units as it they were not there, something lacking in the current sheet making it easy to pin then down. (LogOut/ Tau also do very well in the points department with the Rvarna getting a big points cut, we also see a number of weapons tweaks too, with increased damage and strength here and there across the range, perhaps pointing at any future upcoming changes in a new book on the horizon. Imperial Armour Compendium 40k Rules Breakdown One of the best parts about the book in our opinion is that the points costs are at the end of each section! Rob: Surprise! 11 named characters, most of which youve never heard of cover the above 5 chapters + the Salamanders. So stay tuned for those articles and in the meantime, if you have any questions or feedback, drop us a note in the comments below or email us atcontact@goonhammer.com. Falchion/Fellblade As an unapologetic lover of all forms of BIG TANKs, I had to take a look at these too. The Custodians get the profiles that have previously available on the Forge World website, not massive updates for these outside of some points adjustments, but all the Dreadnoughts including the Telemon have been given the same rule as Astartes Dreads allowing them to reduce damage of incoming shots by 1! Credits: That Gobbo. Imperial Armour Compendium is an Imperial Armour book for the 9th Edition of Warhammer 40,000. The Thousand Sons appear to get nothing, which sucks. A welcome an unexpected change, in addition to the fact that the Solerite Gauntlet is now flat 2 damage (fuck you D3 damage). The good news is they might do OK at that up front, they are now a real psyker, getting access to smite and knowing one power from the Rune of Battle discipline. 1 - Imperial Guard and Imperial Navy, Vol. The Firepike is now 15 range, so a 3 boost which is neat. They no longer give hit re-rolls, instead repairing a vehicle and reloading any once-per-battle weapons. Really onlyStone-Crusher Carnifexeshere they cant be taken as broods any more and went up a bit in cost when they probably didnt need to. Whats awesome is that they dropped from costing 900-1000 points down to only 600, so can actually be used (if you can stomach spending 3 CP for a superheavy auxiliary detachment and an additional 1 CP for Martial Legacy). Innocuous but also undeniably winners we have Tetras, which trade out their one shot, three tokens markerlight for a markerlight that just has heavy 3, while going down 5pts each to boot. Warhammer 40k - Imperial Armour . Finally, the dark horse that I am hoping doesnt turn out to go anywhere of the units in this book with titan in their name, the Revenant Titan is probably closest to being decent in a Strike Force game. Wings: Seriously, this thing is off the charts good now, to the point where I wonder if the melta shots change is a typo this seems to out-compete most main battle tanks, never mind transports. He is still the only leviathan remaining with WS and BS 2+, but even at his new lower points cost doesnt offer much. Throughout the week we will be taking a look in more detail at some of the changes in profiles across the armies, along with taking a look at the Death Korps of Krieg to see if they can finally compete on the tabletop with these new rules, so make sure to stay tuned to the site! Start Competing: Chaos Space Marines Updated! The Imperial Armour Compendium is available to pre-order from Friday.