Hello everyone !!

Age of Sigmar Warhammer Underworlds Beastgrave is going on pre-orders next week.

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Beastgrave Playmat

Neoprene and Mat ! haaa If Aeraunotica had one :(

Counter Set

It's not saying if they are cardboards, plastic or Acrylics. Anyway Counters are currently a very under exploited side of the hobby by GW.

Beastgrave Primal Lair set (terrain)

Full review planned this weekend !

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Bob.

Hello everyone !!!

I had a Vision sent by the Emperor ! He showed me the Sons of Nocturne in all their Burning Splendor !

Warhammer 40000 Salamanders codex rules for you ! By the Emperor throught me :D

Cast of Characters

2 heroes :

• Adrax Agatone for : 2*12 + 5 + 3*37 pts

Adrax Agatone is the current Captain of the Salamanders Chapter's Third Company. Before ascending to the rank of Captain, he was originally the Sergeant of a Tactical Squad.



• Vulkan He'Stan : 2*12 + 5 + 3*37 - 10 pts

Watch the World Burns

Whilst the Tactical Doctrine is active, Flamer and Melta weapons get +1 to wounds rolls.

Promethean Psychic Discipline

Nothing super OP but it's in line with the other Psychic Discipline. Still Flaming shield and Dragon skinns (fake name) are good buff.

• Fire blast : Wv 6 , chose a point, one mortal wound on a 4+ within 3"


• Flaming Shield : buff one friendly unit, -1 to hit and charge roll


• Hands that burns a lot : Each hit deal 1 mortal wound instead


• Dragon Skinnnss : buff +1T


• Fury : d3 mortal if 2d6 > T


• Dragon Form : -2 LD debuff 12"

Loots

Hmmm some sexy loot, as expected by the master Artisans !

• Sigil : +1A and OPB +1A within 6'' aura buff (it's unit within 6'')


• Dragon Slayer Hammer :S*2 Ap-4 Dmg 3 -1 to hit +3Damge on a 6 to wounds


• Boltgun : S5 ap -2 D3


• Magic tome : +1 Casting Psychic power from the Promethean Disc


• The Mantle : -1 on wounds roll


• Magic Helm : +1wounds -1ld debuff within 6''
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• Combi flamer : Normal but with -1ap and dmg 2

Warlord Traits

• +2S (it's Vulkan one !)


• 6+FNP and heal 1 at start of turn


• Grant Defender of Humanity to a friendly


• +2T


• Reroll number of flame attack within6" (It's Adrax one)


• Once per phase, one attack Auto Hit !

Wow i hope there is a Stratagem to Stack 2 warlord trait for +2s and +2T ^^ (there is )

Stratagems

• Rise from the Fire ! : on a 4+ come back with 1 wounds


• Relentless: one unit count as stationary if not run


• Stand your ground : +1 Save against Dmg 1 weapons


• Tau Overwatch : Select one unit that can Overwatch ennemy charging friendly within 12"


• THE BUFF GUY(or gal) : Get a Second warlord Trait !!

The Vision sent by the Emperor was not complete sorry! :D

That's it for the Warhammer 40000 Salamanders codex rules. I hope this vison was sent by Big E and not by one of the chaos gods!

Check our other reviews here :
Warhammer 40000 Space Marines Codex 2019 Review
Warhammer 40000 Ultramarines Codex review
Warhammer 40000 White Scars supplement codex review
Warhammer 40000 Iron Hands Codex Review
Warhammer 40000 Raven Guard Review

Edit : Most of the names for abilities, trait and relics have been changed to protect the source.

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Bob.

Hello everyone !!

Today on pre-orders are 2 new codex supplements for Warhammer 40000 Space Marines Armies. Raven Guard and Iron Hands, this post is about the Raven Guards. I mean who doesn't love Space Ninja?

Introduction

This codex is a thin(80 pages) hardcover book. It's standard GW quality so there is nothing wrong about it.
The 3 main parts of the book are The fluff, the model's pics and the rules!
If iron Hands codex was the hammer this one would be a scalpel ^^

fluff

The first 40 pages of the book are dedicated to the Chapter presentation. It's quite complete with a lot of details on the different companies and units. There are also details on the what happened at isstvan V, Ravenfall, the Genetic Manipulation Corax tried to do and some other stuff. Decent fluff.

Oops

Yea sure Precognition

It's always hard to swallow that Near Precog Primarch were at Isstvan 5 ^^

An army of Heroes !

In this section, we are shown different Space Marines Models Painted in black ^^

Rules

One new general ability, a few warlords traits, some relics, more stratagems, and 6 psychics powers.

Surgical Strike

This power is at the Heart of a Raven Guard game plan ! Snipe/take out Aura & buff bot and then clear the rest of the army. it's a sound plan considering the amount of popular buff combo. Still, I am not sure that +1 to hit and wound is enough to allow this plan. But it' a good start !

Warlord Traits

There are 6 extra Traits that you can choose from.

• No overwatch on the warlord (it's Shrike one)


• Redeploy one inf unit and infiltrate


• Buff bubble : Run and Charge within 6"


• Unmodified 6 deal 1 additional mortal wound


• Fly when falling back, charge and shoot after fall back


• Teleport your warlord once per game 9" from ennemy

Off course the Run and Charge is strong but the No overwatch is super handy to tie in strong firebase

Relics

2 list here, one for Raven Guards: Relics of Ravenspire and one for Successor & Raven Guards: Special Issue Wargear.

Relics Of Ravenspire

• Ebonclaws : ap-3 d3, reroll wounds and one extra attack (replace 2 LC)


• Shadow armor : Ignore ap if ap is -1 and unmodified hit rolls of 1 2 3 always fails


• Raven Skulls : One reroll per turn


• Raven Fury : Jump Pack, run and charge, reroll charge and Mw on 4+ during a charge


• Ex tenebris : Assault 3 stalker bolter, can snipe, +1 hit, ignore cover


• Super Knife : s+1 ap-2 d1, 1 extra attack, Damage 3 vs Characters

Yea nothing crazy. Still, Ex tenebris is decent to snipe frail target.

Special Issue Wargears

Mantle : 5+ FNP
Artificer armour : 2+/5++
MCW : +1dmg to one weapon
Digital weapon: one extra attack dealing 1mw if hit
Magic Cloack : 3+ invul in terrain ^^

Stratagems

Raven Guard have a good selection of Stratagem ! you are going to need CP a lot I think.

2 pages of Stratagem, most interesting are :

• Infiltrators 1cp : before first round, free move but must end more than 9"


• Raven Blade 1cp : Choose one ennemy unit, reroll charge on it


• Lay Low the Tyrants 1cp : +1 to wounds against Characters or Non vehicule with 4 wounds or more


• Remain unseen 1cp : Choose one unit, If you didn't shoot with the unit, it get -1 to hit. Kind of cool to hold an objective


• Ambush 1cp : Infiltrate at the end of the movement phase


• Strike from the skies1cp : One jump pack unit can run and charge and +1 to charge distance

As you can see you have a large selection of Infiltration and Movement tricks. Can you pull off assassination and stuff with them? it's all about your skill to play the game so in a sense it's interesting.

This Stratagem is going to be great with Smash Captain or JP units going after sturdy target.

let check the Umbramancy Psychic table now

Umbramancy Psychic

There is one effective combo here: Envelloping Darkness. Prevent Overwatch and minus 1 to hit roll. Then use Shadowstep to Teleport back to safety, or charge, or do something cool. It's vital if you plan to charge into an Iron Hands bastion waiting for you with a 3+ reroll 1 overwatch salvo.

That's it for the Raven Guard rules lets check the unit now!

Unit

Kayvaan Shrike

He's a quite strong actually, very good pistol sniping and dealing extra mortal wounds on 6+ (so 5+ against characters). Powerful charge potential, 7 attacks on charge with +1 +1 to hit and wounds vs characters, stack nicely with lay low the tyrant for another extra +1 on wound rolls. As the claw allow wound reroll at worse it's 3+ with reroll.

Chapter Master bubble and Charge reroll bubble help as well.

Conclusion, good stuff & Combo

Target Sighted Stratagem from the Space Marines codex is vital, it will cost 3CP but allow Stalker Intercessor to snipe and deal extra mortal wounds on 6+ (so 5+). It's expensive but with the new Stalker bolt rifle, you will get a lot of value out of it. Don't forget to split shooting if you need to.

Scout Squad with sniper rifles and camo cloak they are not very expensive, they infiltrate, shoot at 36", Snipe, deal mortal wound on 6+, get a 2+save in cover and -1 to hit. If Dev doctrine is up you also get Ap -1

Eliminator Squad Off course Eliminator are awesome with Raven Guards. They are Amped up scout ! At 63 points only per unit they are always a good investment.

To conclude, the game plan for Raven Guards is removing Characters asap and charge in with: Smash Captain, Vanguards, Phobos ....

Any question ? ask away !

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Bob.

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Hello everyone !!

Rippa SnarlFangs is an Underworld faction coming soon after Beastgrave!
They are Wolf Riders !!!!!!

Awesome!

ps : (Will do a Beastgrave review when Nda lift next Saturday)

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Bob.

Hello everyone !!

Today on pre-orders are 2 new codex supplements for Warhammer 40000 Space Marines Armies. Raven Guard and Iron Hands, this post is about the Iron Hands, aka the Big Indestructible Gun Line ^^

Introduction

This codex is a thin(80 pages) hardcover book. It's standard GW quality so there is nothing wrong about it.
The 3 main parts of the book are The fluff, the model's pics and the rules!

fluff

The first 40 pages of the book are dedicated to the Chapter presentation. It's quite complete with a lot of details on the different companies and units. There are also details on the demise of Mannus, His friendship with Fulgrim...To be honest I learned a lot of stuff on the sons of the Gorgon in this book. Interesting!

An army of Heroes !

In this section we are shown different Space Marines Models Painted in black ^^ This part was better than the rest of the codex because of all the cyber hands that are looking so nice on these Primaris Marines !!

Rules

The codex have , One new general ability, a few warlords traits, some relics, more stratagems, and 6 psychics powers.

Calculated Fury

This on is Powerfull and was revealed in the Iron hands preview.

Reroll 1 and ignore move penalty for Heavy weapons when the Devastator Doctrine is active!

Rerolling one is already good when you hit on 4+ but the combination of both bonuses allow to move forward a still get a 3+ with reroll 1, it's an incredible safety net!

Remember that it stacks with the Iron hands Chapter Tactics from the Space Marines Codex, so each unit in the army have

• Fnp 6+


• Overwatch on 5+


• Vehicle count double life for wounds chart


• Ignore malus from moving for Heavy weapons during Devastator Doctrine


• Reroll 1 with Heavy Weapons with Devastator Doctrine

Wow ! what a list ^^

Warlord Traits

There are 6 extra Traits that you can choose from.

1) repair 1 dmg each turn on a vehicle or buff your repair to 1d3+1
2) Deny the Witch 24"
3) Fnp 5+
4) Consolidate 6'' (Feirros have this one)
5) 6 give extra attack on the same target with the same weapon
6)Target Protocol: One friendly unit can: reroll 1 hit, 1 wound and 1 damage roll.

Warlord trait are ok for the most part.

The last one is very strong if you are shooting with one super big gun like a Repulsor Executioner with a Heavy Laser. ie : 4 Shots, rerolling 1, and one free reroll, Strength 10 rerolling one wound roll and Ap -5 ,rerolling one damage roll (D6). It feels this warlord trait was written for this tank lol.

Relics

2 list here, one for Iron Hands: Relics of Medusas and one for Successors & Iron Hands: Special Issue Wargear.

Relics Of Medusas

• Axe :Replace a power axe : S+3 ap -3 D3


• Primaris only: +1T, reduce wound by 1 to a minimum of 1 (stack nicely with the warlord trait granting fnp on a 5+ for some super tanking ^^)


• Mind forge : Replace a force weaopn : S*2, ap-3, d3


• Combi Melta with assault 2 melta


• Ironstone : Already leaked, reduce dmg by 1 (minimum 1) targeting vehicle in a 3" bubble


• Gorgon chain : 4+ inv and -1 to wound rolls


• Helm : 5+ cashback on command point

The ironstone is bonker is you want to play the tank bubble! and you want, but more on this later ^^

Special Issue Wargears

Mantle : 5+ FNP
Artificer armour : 2+/5++
MCW : +1dmg to one weapon
Digital weapon: one extra attack dealing 1mw if hit
Teeth of Mars : Chainsword with S*2 against vehicle (ap -2 dmg2)
Haywire bolt : mortal wound when shooting
Data Spike : Techmarines only, Roll 2 when repairing keep best

Yea better ignore these for the moment ^^

Stratagems

2 pages of them like in any other codex , Lot of good choice here most interesting are :

• 1cp Double hit on a 6 to wounds


• 1cp Fnp goes to 5+ on one infantry unit. Choose , when the unit is targeted


• Machine Empaty 1cp : use it after repairing, you can repair again even the same vehicle (WTF)


• Overwatch on 4+, and you still reroll 1 ^^ with heavy weapons

So using the Named Forge Father Techmarines you can heal 6 wounds on a Repulsor each turn, interesting ^^

let check the Technomancy Psychic table now

Technomancy Discipline

Maybe my favourite Psychic table of the Different Marines Codex !
The 3 super good one are :

1) Blessing: until the next psychic phase target vehicle model get +1 to hit. Last the opponent turn so bring overwatch to 4+ or 3+ rr1 with the Stratagem (Do you see where this is going ?)
2) Psy Armor: Select one unit, +1 armour save (doesn't work on invulnerable save) but stack with cover
3) Reforge: Charge value 5, heal d3 dmg on a vehicle ^^

One tank can be repaired 3 times? ho and he get fnp 6+, and can reduce damage by 1 with the relic and he counts double life for the damage chart. I hope that is all ? (this isn't ^^)

lets check the one unit in the book !

Unit : Iron Father Feirros

Good news Iron Father Feirros is completely BONKERS !

A bit more than hundred points, decent stats, sturdy enough with a 2+/5+ T5 7wounds and fnp 5+ & 6+ (i guess both doesn't stack ?). The buff he grant are very good :

• Signum array : BS 2+ to one friendly unit


• Repair at 3wounds


• 5+ invulnerable at 6''

What happen if Feirros and a Techmarines are hiding behind 2 Repulsor :

• 5++


• Reduce dmg by 1 with the stone relic


• 2 repairs, +1 extra repairs with stratagem


• 6+ fnp


• Count double wounds


• reroll 1


• overwatch on 5+


• one of them can get BS 2+


• Warlord trait granting 1 hit/wound/dmg reroll

Already Impressive but maybe add a Psyker for funsy ^^

• One extra Repair spell


• +1 save spell


• +1 to hit spell ! Also not it's also working with melee attack ^^ Hello DREADNOUGHT !

Honestly, i'll also park nearby a Devastator or Primaris with Heavy Plasma to benefit from the 5+inv getting a BS2+ and reroll 1 for extra fun. Also there is a stratagem that allow nearby infantry unit to shield Charaters that take damage so it's good to have Bodies around.

Don't forget to mix a Chaplain even if it's already overkill ^^ check the Space Marines Codex review for what Chaplain can now do.

Conclusion

It's a strong codex!
Stack buff on tanks, heavy weapons infantry, snipers, Intercessor with Stalkers bolters and watch the enemy Melt ^^
Also from a Meta point of view, if your opponents are preparing for killing Primaris infantry (so good ap and Dmg2) and you spam tanks, yours are nearly invulnerable thanks to the Stone Relic droping Plasma damage from 2 to 1 ^^

Also maybe having 1 or 2 drop pods with Multi Melta devastator inside for removing the biggest threat for your tank is good too ^^

I know I only talked about the Tank Bubble, but there is a lot of room for refining. This is a very strong codex granting a very effective firebase, a lot of tanking and even some melee power-ups.

As usual, any question ? ask away !

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Starting on the Raven Guards review right now !

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Bob.

Hello everyone !!!

Age of Sigmar Warcry First Errata/FAQ have been released !

What are the big change you ask ? :

• Vertical Distance are now rounded UP, so you take damage when falling from first level
• Cover change: If you are more than 1" away when attacking you ignore the cover within 1/2 of you. yea the precedent wording was weird but i am sure now some others situations are getting weird. ie : I attack someone in cover from 1.1" distance and I am 0.5" of the cover, I effectively ignore the obstacle
• Onslaught NERF : Limited to attack with range 3 or less ^^
• amended four of the victory cards to make them more enjoyable to play

Apart from the cover change, it's a good errata!

Age of Sigmar Warcry errata

Age of Sigmar Warcry errata GW page

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Bob.

Hello everyone !!

Today on Pre-order at Forgeworld :

New Daemons for Horus Heresy and Some hobbit Shirrif ^^

Ruinstorm Daemon Brutes

Ruinstorm is such interesting Army/fluff/lore. I just imagine they could do the same for Warhammer 40000 and the big rift.
If you are interested in the luff of Ruinstorm check here

Models look cool and I love the painting.
Price is 92€ and ship from 20/09/2019

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-EU/Ruinstorm-Daemon-Brutes-2019

Shirriffs™ of the Shire™ – Holfoot Bracegirdle and Robin Smallburrow

On a lighter note, you can also pre order Cute Shirriffs hobbits for the Shire Army list ^^

https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Holfoot-Bracegirdle-And-Robin-Smallburrow-2019

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Bob.

Hello everyone !!

Short presentation of Iron Fatehr Malkaan Feirros ! :

Iron Father Malkaan Feirros is one of the oldest living warriors in the Iron Hands, and once even counted the current Chapter Master, Kardan Stronos, as his pupil. He has been a leading voice on the Iron Council – a conclave comprised of the Chapter’s Iron Fathers – for longer than anyone can remember, and through him the values held by the Iron Hands are kept in balance.

Feirros has long believed that to sacrifice all emotion in favour of cold logic is to make the same mistakes that have plagued the Iron Hands since the loss of their Primarch Ferrus Manus. To that end, he has resisted the level of bionic replacement so readily embraced by many of his battle-brothers. By contrast, when the opportunity to cross the Rubicon Primaris was presented to Feirros, enhancing his strength and endurance through biological rather than mechanical means, he took the plunge without hesitation.

Also he's the one cutting the Hands of the Iron Hands ^^

Moar Buff

Combined with the Iron Hands already impressive buff bubble it's starting to be meta bending ^^ I'll do some math when I review the Codex (Saturday) but the Iron Hands tank are super sturdy ^^

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Bob !!

Hello everyone !!!

Season 3 of Warhammer Underworld is going on pre order the 21 september. After Release Season 1 cards will rotate out.

Let's check details of Warhammer Underworld Beastgrave in the How to play video by Becca Scott.

Some screenshot from the video :

Hyped yet ?

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Bob.

Hello everyone !!!

Following the preview from yesterday about the Iron Hands Codex. Today is the Raven guard ! To be Honest the Iron hands mini codex feel super strong, and i wonder if the Ninja Space Marines are getting the same power level.

Raven Guard Chapter Tactics

• While more than 12" from the shooter you gain cover


• If already in cover and not a vehicule -1 to hit for the shooter

Raven Guard Chapter Tactic is fluffy and strong already i am not sure what to think of Surgical Strikes :

Being limited to Tactical Doctrine mean it doesn't work during the first turn. It affect with shooting and melee attacks. It's actually very strong against some list that uses very big Characters! or with Eliminator

Warlord Trait

Very cool for a Smash Captain

Relics

Ok i get the message, i'll make a Smash Captain !

Psychic Power

One Raven Guard Character, so it's interesting to TP the RR bubble or Launching the Smash Captain ^^

Stratagem

Expensive but it's super strong with Vanguard Jump Pack unit or Maybe a Primaris one ?

Conclusion

Actually The Raven Guard fluff interest me so into the book, but heh the content is light ^^

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Bob.