New SM Codex: Legion of the Damned!?

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**krazynadechukr**

Tried to preorder e-codex from BL,4x now. 4 cards. All responses say "declined." (and yes these are my cards)Anyone else have problems?

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ah, finally got it! downloaded LotD codex!

**Neith**

fullheadofhair wrote:
For those of us that are curious any chance someone can tell us what units makes up the army list? No point values etc - I am just curious as to what they have for FA, their Elite type choices and Heavies.

The only entry is Damned Legionnaires, which are Elite. No HQ/Fast/Heavy. It's quite a small Codex, but the Damned Legionnaires squad is pretty customizable and if you use them as a primary detachment you have Warlord Traits and so on. I can't imagine it'd be a very interesting army to play as a primary but bringing some along as allies could be interesting.

**shade1313**

Neith wrote:
fullheadofhair wrote:
For those of us that are curious any chance someone can tell us what units makes up the army list? No point values etc - I am just curious as to what they have for FA, their Elite type choices and Heavies.

The only entry is Damned Legionnaires, which are Elite. No HQ/Fast/Heavy. It's quite a small Codex, but the Damned Legionnaires squad is pretty customizable and if you use them as a primary detachment you have Warlord Traits and so on. I can't imagine it'd be a very interesting army to play as a primary but bringing some along as allies could be interesting.

**haroon**

Neith wrote:
fullheadofhair wrote:
For those of us that are curious any chance someone can tell us what units makes up the army list? No point values etc - I am just curious as to what they have for FA, their Elite type choices and Heavies.

The only entry is Damned Legionnaires, which are Elite. No HQ/Fast/Heavy. It's quite a small Codex, but the Damned Legionnaires squad is pretty customizable and if you use them as a primary detachment you have Warlord Traits and so on. I can't imagine it'd be a very interesting army to play as a primary but bringing some along as allies could be interesting.

So no troop choice? Then how do you play it as your primary?

**Slayer le boucher**

Legionnaires squads are scoring units in a Primary detachement iirc.

**tomjoad**

This is exactly what all the promotional comments GW have made said the Codex would be, so it's not exactly disappointing, but this doesn't sound like something that'll be a huge seller, either.

I don't really think that's too bad a thing, though. Obviously, I want them to offer something that excites ME, and this really doesn't, but it excites a LOT of other people, as this thread attests. The sort of customization that GW have been offering us is kind of cool lately, and aside from D weapons and Dataslate Formations, nothing seems to be broken, so I'm plenty glad to see them on this path.

**Azazelx**

So how is it different to the entry in the SM Codex?

**urzaplanewalker**

I just got the codex. There doesn't appear to be any way to take an army entirely of Legion. They still all must deep strike with normal reserve rolls. O.o

**krazynadechukr**

squad of 5 to 10 for reg games, squads of 10 for apoc games....

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**SickSix**

urzaplanewalker wrote:
I just got the codex. There doesn't appear to be any way to take an army entirely of Legion. They still all must deep strike with normal reserve rolls. O.o

But they specifically stated you can take them as primary detachment. WTF?

**urzaplanewalker**

SickSix wrote:
urzaplanewalker wrote:
I just got the codex. There doesn't appear to be any way to take an army entirely of Legion. They still all must deep strike with normal reserve rolls. O.o

But they specifically stated you can take them as primary detachment. WTF?

You can... but if you don't take an ally you lose.

**Kirasu**

Typical.. 17$ (CORRECTED) for a book that is just a copy paste from codex SM and yet they can't even foresee the problem with an entire army that is kept in reserve..

**urzaplanewalker**

Kirasu wrote:
Typical.. 41$ for a book that is just a copy paste from codex SM and yet they can't even foresee the problem with an entire army that is kept in reserve..

$17

**Ferrum_Sanguinis**

Some good news for those (like me) tempted to buy some resin LotD models now, apparently GW are now using FW type resin instead of failcast for their models.

http://natfka.blogspot.com/2014/02/changes-found-in-finecast-resin.html

via a reader here on Faeit 212
So I dont think I saw an official notification from GW that finecast was gone now but I received my 10 legion of the damned guys today and they are a dark grey plastic/resin much like the FW mini's.

See pix attached, I saw a warp spider in this material too today and its really good stuff, not a single fault in any of the 10 I ordered.

I actually found a few old finecast bits and these newer models are a slightly lighter shade of grey, and I can only exainplain the colour and lack of faults on it being a new material.

Though I did start second guessing myself but it seems to be harder to drill and than the older stuff.

It just feels more like the harder FW resins. The store manager seemed very interested in how good these were and I was like this does now look like finecast.

Who know either way I have never seen so many faultless models in one place ever

**evildrcheese**

Are the LotD a special allied attachment ala Inqusition or do they take up your allies slot? Can Sisters of Battle use them? Is there any rules for how they act with the inqusition?

D

**urzaplanewalker**

They are a detachment like Inquisition.

Their ally chart looks exactly the same as the Imperial Knights.

**livanbard**

Ok now lets make a list of Imperial Knights, Inquisition and LOTD. I rather see a full codex. Are at last differences from the C:SM version?

**urzaplanewalker**

1 REALLY good relic. 35 points for 1 of your sergeants. Totally worth it. Rules for how many units you can have per attachment. Pretty neat lore stuff. Some cool missions. Appoc formation.

my new 1850 list is:
Primary:
2 Knight errants
1 Knight Paladin

Detachment:
4 5 man Legion of the damned squads(Converted from tactical marines because I am NOT paying $100 for a 10 man squad) (melta, heavy bolter, sergeants have grav pistols and power weapons) One squad has that insane relic.

**Mr Morden**

urzaplanewalker wrote:
They are a detachment like Inquisition.

Their ally chart looks exactly the same as the Imperial Knights.

thanks - do either both Include Sororitas and if so at what level?

**urzaplanewalker**

Man... all the sisters players. All Imperial is battle bros.

**Mr Morden**

urzaplanewalker wrote:
Man... all the sisters players. All Imperial is battle bros.

Thanks - its just sometimes they don't mention the digital codex's by name ............

**thunderingjove**

Very very cursory look through the book. How is a warlord to be determined, when there are no HQs? Do you just select a sergeant are your WL?

**stubacca**

I like the idea of using them, I wanted some to use with my Assaulty Flesh Tearer list. Death Company Dreadnought, 10 x Death Company and 10 x of these guys.

They provide something a little different to Death Company but some definite drawbacks, like they can't run, overwatch 0_o (is that against GW to mention that?) in that case, they can't jog and fire into the air...?

Which I find a bit odd in the fluff considering they're supposed to be super elite? Granted, gaming wise they'd be totally OP

**Troike**

What's the fluff like? Any good?

**H.B.M.C.**

They could have at least included the rules for Sergeant Centurius... but of course not, because there's no model to sell.

**aka_mythos**

That's a shame... Poor Centaurus condemned to the shelf and the annals of history. GW could have at least done what they did for the Iron Hands supplement and given them the relics to effectively create characters.

**Heliodore**

But page 6 of this thread mentions this:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/s/i/at/at2/2014/2/25/790158854dd6b37950a34f7b41fcab84_5394.jpg

Isn't that the Sgt. Centaurus relic, or something else, or wrong info?

**d3m01iti0n**

LotD wasnt selling well, but GW came up with a great way to dupe the masses into buying them.

**aka_mythos**

Heliodore wrote:
But page 6 of this thread mentions this:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/s/i/at/at2/2014/2/25/790158854dd6b37950a34f7b41fcab84_5394.jpg

Isn't that the Sgt. Centaurus relic, or something else, or wrong info?

Ok. Didn't see that post. I don't really have any intention to buy this supplement short of rave reviews. It just sounded like the only content was a copy and paste of the unit entry from Codex:SM

**krazynadechukr**

My first e-codex, and I feel so dirty. $17 gone. Several pages are just a picture of single painted figures and the facing page is blank. Several pages have single paragraphs, or even single sentences. They repeated a couple pictures here and there too, making me think I jumped back a few pages. Also on some scenarios it says you need a companion codex (like sentinels) to play. If you condense it all down, and print it (double sided), you'd have about 19 pages.

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If condensed to useful info, you have about 11 pages...

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Imho