techsoldaten wrote:mmmm there's a big fluff section, a section with pictures of models, and a section with rules and missions.
The fluff is pretty much in line with what already exists. It talks a lot about Abaddon going on walkabout after the retreat to the Eye of Terror, and lays out a lot of detail about Black Crusades. It's kind of tedious reading through all of this.
The models are the models, it's like bigger pictures of everything in the Codex. There's nothing new there, really, except most things are painted black. The
DV models look pretty nice.
On thing about the models: at this size, you can really see how people picked out the details. Could be useful for painters looking to do exactly what they do in the books.
The rules are laid out the same way as what's in the Eldar book. A short description about the changes to the
FOC, talk about the terminators and the elites, then the warlord traits and the artefacts.
Each of the artefacts is kind of cool, but yeah, they are expensive.
- The Crucible of Lies lets you trade one point of T for rerolls for invulnerable saves of 1.
- The Spineshiver blade is a Daemon weapon that gives you +1 I.
- The Last Memory of Yuranthos gives you one more psychic level plus a Nova blast power that is kind of meh. S4
AP 5 and the range expands the more psychic points you put into it.
- The Eye of Night lets you shoot a large blast weapon, but it's heavy and it's S5
AP 4.
- The Skull of Kerngar gives you eternal warrior and adamantium will.
- The hand of darkness, well, it's a power fist that strikes at initiative and does instant death.
Past that, there are city of death strategems, planetstrike strategems, altar of war missions, and echoes of war missions. Some of them are interesting.
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There is one other section to point out, it's at the start of the "Black Crusades" section. It gives advice on how to compose your force.
So, there's 3 ways they think you should run a Black Legion army:
1) Buy a ton of
CSMs. Quote: "The humble Chaos Space Marine unit is often overlooked in preference to its more specialist counterparts."
2) Buy a big unit of Chosen. Talks about how icons multiply their tabletop efficiency.
3) Buy the upgraded Terminators. Calls them undisputed terrors, heart of any attack, unleashing their fury, etc. Mentions that 2 units of 10 terminators basely costs half your points total in a 1500 point game.
