While we’re 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.
In addition to being recommendations and not rules, they’re just kinda boring. Minotaurs – Imperial Fists with Duellists and Stalwart chapter tactics.īlood Ravens – Ultramarines with Stalwart and Knowledge is Power.Īstral Claws – Ultramarines with Rapid Assault and Hungry for Battle.Ĭarcharodons – Raven Guard with Stealthy and Whirlwind of Rage. Red Scorpions – Ultramarines with Inheritors of the Primarch. It’s unfortunate that these are just presented as a recommendation, as they effectively mean nothing and people will continue to play with whatever rules they want. The second rule isn’t really a rule – it’s a set of recommended traits and parent chapters for various Forgeworld created chapters. It’s much easier now to drop in a single thing without needing to fill out an additional slot, but you’re less likely to be taking multiple. Generally, this replaces the old Relic rule – now each time you include a unit with this rule in a detachment the Command Cost of that detachment is increased by 1. First up is the Martial Legacy special rule. There are two wide-reaching rules for marines. With that out the way, on to the factions. It’s clear that GW took the time to go through almost every option and assign it a cost that made it at least functional, and that’s very much appreciated! The good news, and a compensation for the previous change in some cases, is that there are a lot of discounts in this book, both keeping some of the units that take a stat nerf useful and giving a lot of the options that used to be clearly costed as narrative only a cost that’s actually broadly reasonable for their capabilities, opening up a lot of options for more casual tournaments. Adding to this, a lot of options now have specially named versions of their weapons to remove the old problem of updates elsewhere automatically knocking on. Forge World units that overperformed with force multiplier effects, either because they bundled too much into a single package or had weaponry that operated on a different balance plane than everything else tended to be the main culprits for dodgy/overpowered interactions. This is the bit that’s going to make some people sad but is probably going to be a relief going forward. Things like Contemptor and Leviathan Dreadnoughts have profiles and damage outputs much more in-line with their mainline equivalents. Less extreme divergences from mainline units.In addition, marginally different variants of units have largely been removed.
Many of the weird, fiddly abilities units used to have are gone, replaced by either streamlined versions or baked in to weapon profiles. There’s a clear set of principles running through all the changes in this book, which are generally very healthy for the game but might make owners of a few units a bit sad. We’ll be following up further on some factions over the next few weeks, so make sure you keep an eye out for those if you’ve got a particular set of units in mind. Instead, we’ve lasered in on our areas of expertise and pulled out what we think the winners, losers and other notable changes are for each faction, aiming to give you the lowdown on the things that matter most. This book is absolutely stacked with content, and up front we have to be clear – we are not going to go through every single datasheet line by line, as there’s far too many for us to possibly do that.
Luckily the new Imperial Armour Compendium is here to solve both those problems, and GW have been kind enough to send us a copy. We’ve seen a bit of that thus far in 9th, with hangover 8th Edition rules throwing up a few very powerful choices in the Edition transition, while other units are complete trash at their Chapter Approved costs. The impact was, shall we say, uneven – plenty of choices were fine, but there were frequent issues with Forge World units having unintended interactions with newly released rules, and a few choices that were just a bit over-pushed that tended to be over-represented. 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.
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