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No more Sniper Vet Tacticals?

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/07/09/buy-a-knight-win-a-knight/


buy a knight, chance of winning a titan.

 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
No more Sniper Vet Tacticals?

No, thank god.


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 reds8n wrote:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/07/09/buy-a-knight-win-a-knight/


buy a knight, chance of winning a titan.

Other way around mate.

..

...err...just testing.

But.. aren't Knights also Titans these days?

Custodes summary:

*Nerfs to Preternatural skill.
*Shields are +1 to invul.
*Shields no longer allow rerolls.
*Valdor lost 1 attack.
*Dreadspear is 20 points more expensive.

*Boltodes are now assault 3 instead of heavy 3 - such buffs, wow.
*Power talons are +2S instead of +1. - and the point of that waaas? +1 was still enough to wound Marines and T3 on 2+...Punch through AV13 on 6?

I guess this brought Custodes from top tier to somewhat middle up.

And still no rules clarifications on Horus Orbital bombardment.

 CragHack wrote:
Custodes summary:


*Boltodes are now assault 3 instead of heavy 3 - such buffs, wow.
.

I'm hoping that this is a sign of how the stats will work in their 40k Rules. Assault Heavy bolters with decentish AP, and a combi-weapon underslung will make 40k Custodes awesome.

 cuda1179 wrote:

 CragHack wrote:
Custodes summary:


*Boltodes are now assault 3 instead of heavy 3 - such buffs, wow.
.

I'm hoping that this is a sign of how the stats will work in their 40k Rules. Assault Heavy bolters with decentish AP, and a combi-weapon underslung will make 40k Custodes awesome.

Especially if they can take a misericordia.

 Midnightdeathblade wrote:
And still no rules clarifications on Horus Orbital bombardment.

Keep the faith! They finally resolved the WE 'free' chainaxe issue...almost six years later.

 cuda1179 wrote:

 CragHack wrote:
Custodes summary:

*Boltodes are now assault 3 instead of heavy 3 - such buffs, wow.
.

I'm hoping that this is a sign of how the stats will work in their 40k Rules. Assault Heavy bolters with decentish AP, and a combi-weapon underslung will make 40k Custodes awesome.

It'd definitely make them interesting, especially if the disintegrator beam ends up dishing out mortal wounds like you'd think it would.

It needs to be something bonkers like AoS breath weapons where there’s no stat-line; you just roll to hit and it deals D3 mortal wounds. Or it deals 1 MW to the wielder on a 1 on the hit roll.

I really hope it doesn’t deal mortal wounds, reliable damage would be far more valuable.

changemod wrote:

 cuda1179 wrote:

 CragHack wrote:
Custodes summary:


*Boltodes are now assault 3 instead of heavy 3 - such buffs, wow.
.

I'm hoping that this is a sign of how the stats will work in their 40k Rules. Assault Heavy bolters with decentish AP, and a combi-weapon underslung will make 40k Custodes awesome.

Especially if they can take a misericordia.

Quoted for truth.

A unit like this, deepstriking, could nuke and area around them of infantry. Even if there was anyone around them to counter-assault them, having 3 strength 5 attacks each with power knives doesn't exactly make them tempting targets.

 cuda1179 wrote:

 CragHack wrote:
Custodes summary:


*Boltodes are now assault 3 instead of heavy 3 - such buffs, wow.
.

I'm hoping that this is a sign of how the stats will work in their 40k Rules. Assault Heavy bolters with decentish AP, and a combi-weapon underslung will make 40k Custodes awesome.

That actually turns them from unusable in 30k to kinda mediocre in 30k. I was surprised they weren't Assault in the first place.

changemod wrote:

 Looky Likey wrote:

changemod wrote:

Apower101 wrote:
https://whc-cdn.games-workshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Horus-Heresy-General-Errata-and-FAQ-v1.0.pdf

https://whc-cdn.games-workshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Horus-Heresy-Custodes-Errata-v1.0.pdf

FAQ for Heresy is now out

Oh my god that still doesn’t have rules for the misericordia

At least they addressed why:

Forgeworld wrote:The Misericordia is a symbol of office for the Legio Custodes; it has no in-game use and can be ignored on any unit entry which lists it as a piece
of wargear

They spent ten thousand years in the palace installing power fields in their knives, huh.

Yeah, to turn them into (illuminated) badges of office.

changemod wrote:

Apower101 wrote:
https://whc-cdn.games-workshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Horus-Heresy-General-Errata-and-FAQ-v1.0.pdf

https://whc-cdn.games-workshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Horus-Heresy-Custodes-Errata-v1.0.pdf

FAQ for Heresy is now out

Oh my god that still doesn’t have rules for the misericordia

Someone didn't read the general FAQ.
https://whc-cdn.games-workshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Horus-Heresy-General-Errata-and-FAQ-v1.0.pdf

 Looky Likey wrote:
At least they addressed why:

Forgeworld wrote:The Misericordia is a symbol of office for the Legio Custodes; it has no in-game use and can be ignored on any unit entry which lists it as a piece
of wargear

It's such a lazy excuse though. Optional knife is now a symbol of office? What? Not, say, something iconic and unique, like oh, a guardian spear, or armor festooned with eagles and thunderbolts, or being supermen taller than the astartes, emperor's elite is identifiable by inert, glued to scabbards, gilded toothpicks?

frankr wrote:

changemod wrote:

Apower101 wrote:
https://whc-cdn.games-workshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Horus-Heresy-General-Errata-and-FAQ-v1.0.pdf

https://whc-cdn.games-workshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Horus-Heresy-Custodes-Errata-v1.0.pdf

FAQ for Heresy is now out

Oh my god that still doesn’t have rules for the misericordia

Someone didn't read the general FAQ.
https://whc-cdn.games-workshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Horus-Heresy-General-Errata-and-FAQ-v1.0.pdf

Well, if we’re talking about not reading external things that give context, people have already replied to me on that a few times...


It’s also a bit ridiculous to put it away from the other custodes FAQs, and still doesn’t qualify as giving rules. If the original intent was for it to be a flavour detail that does nothing, it shouldn’t have been a rule in the first place.

 Irbis wrote:

 Looky Likey wrote:
At least they addressed why:

Forgeworld wrote:The Misericordia is a symbol of office for the Legio Custodes; it has no in-game use and can be ignored on any unit entry which lists it as a piece
of wargear

It's such a lazy excuse though. Optional knife is now a symbol of office? What? Not, say, something iconic and unique, like oh, a guardian spear, or armor festooned with eagles and thunderbolts, or being supermen taller than the astartes, emperor's elite is identifiable by inert, glued to scabbards, gilded toothpicks?

10' guy dressed in solid gold shows up in Emperor's Palace carrying a spear the size of a lamppost and asks to be let in. Custodeus points to a sign "No Misericordia, no service'.

I can't tell you how many assassinations have been foiled by that simple precaution.

 Irbis wrote:

 Looky Likey wrote:
At least they addressed why:

Forgeworld wrote:The Misericordia is a symbol of office for the Legio Custodes; it has no in-game use and can be ignored on any unit entry which lists it as a piece
of wargear

It's such a lazy excuse though. Optional knife is now a symbol of office? What? Not, say, something iconic and unique, like oh, a guardian spear, or armor festooned with eagles and thunderbolts, or being supermen taller than the astartes, emperor's elite is identifiable by inert, glued to scabbards, gilded toothpicks?

Of course its lazy, its FW/GW we are talking about, did you expect something else?

My guess is that they forgot to give it rules first time around (or usual copy and paste error resulting in the rules going missing from the printed version), then decided the boys in gold had enough cool stuff (as everybody was complaining at every FW event I went to directly to the rules team) so weren't going to give them any additional wargear. Or, my other guess, is that it'll do something when the Emperor shows up.

Memory is probably failing me but can anyone recall any actual mentioned combat use of the misericordia in the Heresy novels ?

Another day, another round of LCTB - this time some Fantasy and Renegade Militia

Don't forget the Enhanced Edition AOD rulebook!

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Horus-Heresy-Age-Of-Darkness-Eng-ipad-2018

Just for 39.99 this book will get you new zoomable pictures, 360 degree pictures of miniatures, more panoramic pictures and, obviously, very handy links to the store!

The iPad books are better, IMO, than the regular ebook format. I don't know what the reasons are for them being iPad only, but the internal links between army list entries, weapon stats and special rules make them nice and easy to use.

another FW army bites the dust

Got the Manaan's blades command set. Love the dwarf command set, but can't justify it as it just doesn't fill any real need in my dwarf army.

As always, surprising their line of renegades seems to be on its way out the door.

A nice new series of unreleases.

Forgeworld Friday must be the only day of the week where a store's offerings regularly shrink.

They have to save this week's release of Legion themed rhino doors till Sunday so the open day has something new to release as an exclusive.

I got my rogue psykers and apostate preachers a while ago as my first dip into forgeworld just because they looked cool. It's a shame to see them going.

 Looky Likey wrote:
They have to save this week's release of Legion themed rhino doors till Sunday so the open day has something new to release as an exclusive.

Okay, but they generally reveal these exclusives a week in advance. I’m not holding out hope there’ll be anything exclusive now.