Chaos Space Marines have access to some great character options in the form of Daemon Princes, Lords Discordant, Dark Apostles, and Sorcerers, to name a few. Note that some named Characters like Lucius and Abaddon enjoy getting powered up by this spell in their specific Legions, and its sometimes useful for making one model with an upgraded melee weapon like a Chainfist or Heavy Chainaxe hit extra hard. Generally speaking your best bet is to be able to score one of Psychic Interrogation/Warp Ritual reliably, Raise the Banners High, and then ideally a kill secondary, though if No Prisoners/Bring it Down/Assassination arent good options, then youll have to look at either Engage on All Fronts, Rise to Glory, or The Long War. His fall led many other legions to go with him, either manipulated to Chaos side, or drawn through promises of power beyond imagination, more often than not aided by Primarchs simple hatred of the Emperor himself. Not only are they getting a model refresh with frankly beautiful new zealots to populate your battle theyre also getting backup in the form of daemonically twisted Accursed Cultists and the dedicated Cultist HQ unitDark Commune. 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. Units of 1 are fine but units of 3 (if you can spare the points) bring some extra value for being able to score on Engage on All Fronts. Well take that deal every single day. This got a big glow-up, and is great for increasing your damage output. , have to be upgraded to have the Mark of Tzeentch, and never get a Legion Trait. Chaos Space Marines have been a staple of the setting going all the way back to the original Adeptus Titanicus board game. You can also give one a Vox-Caster for free, in which case they count as being in range of a Traitor Enforcer (see Elites) if theyre within 24, though again this isnt super important. This turns him into an especially deadly counter-charge threat, as staying more than 6 away from him is a real challenge. AP 0 isnt great, and means that you typically dont want them trying to weight-of-fire big vehicle targets, but AP0 is often as good as AP-1 these days with Armour of Contempt in the mix. Hellforged Leviathan Dreadnought. The poor, unloved Defiler is yet another of the Chaos Space Marines many in-between units, vehicles that can do both shooting and melee, but arent quite good enough at either to be worth taking for that alone and which charge you for both in the points cost. You can use this twice in Strike Force games and three times in Onslaught games. All Rights Reserved to their respective owners. After many lifetimes fighting in the eternal war, countless losses (including his much beloved friend Argel Tal), and seeing his Primarch, Angron, become a Daemon Prince, Khrn has descended into a rage that will never end. Hes great as a front line threat and able to charge in and take out key targets, punching up. As an added bonus, this model is a WARP LOCUS, so he can drop in any Daemon codex units that have tagged along a mere 6 from the enemy. Unfortunately, as an HQ character theres almost no way they see play over your other HQ options, making them a casualty of the limited number of HQ slots you can field. That said, a unit of 5 noise marine with sonic blasters and a blastmaster isnt a bad unit to have for mid-range fire support in more casual environments. The Imperial Armour Compendium updated these to be 115 points and be able to arrive on the battlefield turn 1. If you pick this, keep a Dark Gods tally and add 1 each time you do the secondary action. 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Unlike the other three cult units, Rubric Marines have real play in Chaos Space Marine lists outside of their parent legion, owing to the fact that their casting ability is decent and that they can tall take, (with a Warpflame pistol on the champion). Black Templars vs. Night Lords. They come with a missile launcher and twin heavy bolter by default but you will never use this loadout; instead youll either opt for full shooting (twin lascannon or multimelta + missile launcher), the midrange hybrid (multimelta + power fist), or the all-melee variant (fist + scourge or double fists), putting the Helbrute at between 105 and 125 points in cost. If youre trying to make them work, consider large units as a replacement for large units of Chosen, where you trade off the extra wound for the toughness boost and damage reduction. While a friendly CORE, CHARACTER, or CULTISTS unit wholly within 6 of this PRIEST, each time a ranged attack is made against that unit, that unit is treated as having the benefits of Light Cover. Goonhammer and Stat Check are Teaming Up! Bell of Lost Souls℗ is a registered trademark of In Night Lords armies hell typically take Night Haunters Curse in order to get the free 6 to hit once per turn. This is fine, though the positioning restrictions make it really difficult to use effectively. Word Bearers Contemptor Dreadnought Credit: RichyP. Apply the point costs; does that even things out enough for a stopgap measure to make the next 6 to 12 months less sucky for Chaos, or merely solve one of the many issues? Its ability to deep strike and drop off 12 models is great to have, particularly for Emperors Children armies that can use. Chaos Space Marines look like Marines, but dont let that fool you: They have a very different feel and play style to standard Space Marines, with a much more aggressive melee-focused approach to the game. This wont affect auras (per the FAQ), so Cursed Earth isnt getting buffed, but it can give some powers incredibly long range, such as Smite, Pact of Flesh, and Warp Marked. Giving Terminators T5 is great, and giving a Land Raider T10 is hilarious. Good stuff. Forget Benediction of Darkness, which has a very difficult wholly within rider, this is what you want for durability boosts. Rejoice! The bearer can perform a 6 Heroic Intervention, gets +1 Attack, and each time the bearer destroys an enemy unit with a melee attack, they get +1 Attack for the rest of the battle. Use at the end of the Reinforcements step of your opponents Movement phase. With the recent updates to Lords of War in the GT missions pack and the FAQ allowing passengers to climb out the turn it arrives, the Kharybdis is much more playable, but still too expensive to be competitive. These are your heavy weapon troops, and can come equipped with a wide array of weapons, meaning youll have some swiss-army-knife ranged support for your battlefield adventures. Note that Psykers cant have the Mark of Khorne. lets you cast an additional power or action and cast), and shoot units arriving from deep strike. We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website. You also want to give one a Cyclone missile launcher if youre taking one to maximize its output. Each time a model in that unit makes an attack, it is considered to be engaged in all three modes at once Wanton Destruction, Massacre, and Slaughter. overhaul in the 9th edition codex, getting an entirely new profile that its cousins in Codex: Space Marines and even Death Guard/Thousand Sons lack. And then even more Berserkers. Weve lost the psyker-specific traits from Shadowspear, but whats here is a solid set of traits. This also does nothing against daemons, and armies like Harlequins that rely on invulns are generally a bunch of small units that youre often killing anyway when you focus on them. Its not quite enough to justify the unit cost, and so Forgefiends dont often see competitive play, but note that it is significantly better than what a Defiler can put out with ranged attacks. Also note that taking an Icon does not give them the. One of the most interesting aspects of Traitor Guardsmen is that they have the CULTISTS keyword, meaning they can be affected by abilities and stratagems that work on Cultists such as the auras of the Dark Apostle and Dark Commune (though note that they cant be brought back with Tide of Traitors as they are not a CULTIST MOB). They are mini-terminators. 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. 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. Until the end of the phase, reduce incoming damage on that target by 1. Similar to Thousand Sons, they dont come with a mark baked-in, so you have to spend the 15 points to upgrade them, but this actually makes them (hilariously) even more resilient, making them T5 with -1 to wound on incoming attacks that are S5 or S10+. If psychic powers arent your thing, what about praying to the dark gods for help? Generally speaking you want to give your Terminators the Mark of Slaanesh, as the ability to fight first makes them a nightmare to charge and get stuck in with, and the Mark of Nurgle doesnt stack with the Black Rune. If Chaos has a direct human form, it may be in Haarken Worldclaimer, who takes a savage glee in battle, with his vast army of jetpack-borne Chaos Raptors. KHORNE, TZEENTCH, NURGLE, or SLAANESH. Get +1 to your Psychic tests and each time you make a Psychic test, if you roll an unmodified 9+ to cast, the power or action cant be denied. 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. PSYKER model only. Hes not a particularly strong fighter in melee, and his axe, while solid at 2 damage, isnt good enough to really make him worth it. There will be bloodfor the blood god. If this unit starts the Fight phase within Engagement Range of any enemy units, it fights first that phase. Perfect forthe melee-fighty stage of your battle plan, Wanton Slaughter gives exploding sixes for Assault, Pistol, or melee weapons. ability. Another great buff, and one that you can use instead of. This is solid for upping your damage output, though really youre just in it for Slaughter on your Khorne units. But his real value is his. It wont help you on Psychic Interrogation sadly, but the extra cast is also very strong for your marked Master of Possession. Credit: Jack Hunter. This is pretty solid, moreso than the +1 to hit it used to be, and it pairs very well with the Black Legions Legion Trait, which gives +1 to hit when shooting the closest eligible target. Easy to cast, targeted mortal wounds. The typical soup play is a Vanguard detachment running a Fluxmaster and three units of flamers. Potentially valuable with Plague Marines as the unit tying up the enemy. 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). He comes with 6 attacks base and the Axe of dismemberment, a S7, AP-3, 2 damage weapon that does 2 mortals every time you roll a 6 to hit (and the sequence ends). The main issue with the Dark Commune is that as a Cultist unit, its locked out of the best Prayers and Dark Hereticus powers. They come with 3 attacks and chainswords, plus a -1 Leadership aura. No-one is immune to the siren song of Chaos not even, of course,the Imperiums elite guardians: the Space Marines. On top of that you can give him a Techn-virus injector (do this), to give him +1 damage against VEHICLE units. But I dont think we need to go there to make the point Im trying to make here: Two wound Cult Marines are going to be amazing. Chaos Lord and Chaos Space Marines. This is great, and being WC 6 makes it easy to cast. The most gracious, benevolent rules writers have. Thats a chaos something. The remaining 7 are covered in Codex: Chaos Space Marines, along with two additional Legions, the Red Corsairs and Creations of Bile. On most tables your Executioners can act as reliable backfield objective holders and still be a potent threat. Based strictly on the old Aspiring Champion plastic model from the 7th edition version of the Dark Vengeance starter kit, the Exalted Champion comes with an exalted power axe, a combi-melta, and an aura to re-roll wound rolls of 1 for nearby units, making him more like the space marine Lieutenants he resembles. , and each time they make an attack with a Heavy, Rapid Fire, or Grenade weapon, an unmodified hit roll of 6 scores 1 additional hit. You can score a max of 5 VP per round from this objective. SLAANESH model only. Although theyll often disappoint you in melee with their 4+ to hit, they can surprise and their big value in Codex: Chaos Space Marines is that they heal back to full health each time an enemy unit shoots or fights them but doesnt kill them. On the other side of things, Masters of Possession have access to the. Otherwise, you can always find the latest successful lists by visiting 40kstats. Each mark confers certain abilities on the unit, based on the mark and their equipment. 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. This is still a Mark youre going to want to have access to in most lists, because its Chaos Space Marines only access to a Stratagem to Deny the Witch, though Abaddon will be most lists backdoor way into getting access to that. He was the Warmaster of all Space Marines until a combination of hubris, plotting, and a magic knife led him to the welcoming arms of Chaos. Again, another unit thats just OK but lacks the raw power to make your list. Youll use this sometimes to increase damage or reduce variance against a key target, but its a lot harder to justify given how limited CP are for CSM in general. 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. You can find more on the math behind the marks and how they affect play in our. The priest gets +3 Attacks and you improve the AP of his melee weapons by 2. Being able to just tank your first failed save is a very solid trick on models with a 2+ save and Armour of Contempt for protection, and being able to give your melee attacks the ability to ignore saves isnt bad. Chaos Space Marine armies have long included specialty cult units like Berzerkers and their Codex has rules for including those in your army. Indulge yourself; it will please Slaanesh. The main use for this is for giving Light Cover to qualifying units like Lord Discordants, Contemptors, or Helbrutes that are Vehicles and dont normally get Light Cover from terrain. While there are other ways to soup, including lists that run Abaddon, Mortarion, and Magnus, the most common and popular ways to soup for Chaos Space Marines are to either include Chaos Knights in the army or a detachment of Chaos Daemons. For example, if you run Mortarion in a Supreme Command detachment alongside a unit of Iron Warriors, your Iron Warriors will lose their Legion trait and no longer ignore cover or turn off Wound rerolls. 2 Wounds confirmed! Each time an attack is made with this daemon weapon, if you score a hit, that weapon automatically wounds the target and enemy models cant use any rules to ignore the wounds they lose. With the way 9th edition games are structured, you need 1-2 units that can reliably work in the middle of the table and bully enemies off objectives and for CSM, Terminators with the Black Rune are that unit. Each time this Warlord fights, if it charged or made a Heroic Intervention this turn it gets +1 Strength and +1 Attack, and the Warlord can re-roll hit rolls in melee. Marketing Manager: Mars Garrett This means that you cant take Abaddon and Haarken in the same detachment, hilariously. This baffling rule prevents you from overdoing it on Cultists, a thing no one is worried about. On the whole these guys are interesting but as a T3, 6+ save unit missing Armour of Contempt theyre incredibly easy to kill if they get caught out of position. units in a CSM Detachment, using their datasheet from Codex: World Eaters (or, at the time of this writing, White Dwarf #477), in which case they are always Elites. Animated suits of armor stolen from the Thousand Sons, Rubric Marines pack a mean punch thanks to their AP-2 ranged weapons and come with a Psyker who can toss out mortal wounds. Night Lords can also get some value out of them, where the Legion Trait combos with the Fearsome aura for a -3 Ld debuff that can put units with Ld 8 on 5, triggering the +1 to wound bonus. If you beat the leadership of that enemy unit, then pick one: Either that unit cant perform actions and any actions it was doing immediately fail, or it cant fire Overwatch or Set to Defend, and fights last in the Fight phase. 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