Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again. That means these are as tough defensively as the Grand Masters (they got the extra wound too), can benefit from most buffs in the book (including Unyielding Anvil for ObSec), and can sometimes actually hit harder in the fight phase than the Grand Master version thanks to having Hammerhand as their power. Overall, youre very likely going to want at least the first two of these most of the time, and some lists might want to apply a third to create a combat monster. It now just grants a flat 4++, which is. You want to hit hard, hit fast and leave no witnesses. And there you have it folks the Grey Knights. Well have to go ahead and feed that one into Hammer of Math and see which one comes out ahead. Your basic stubby boxnought is probably better here than in most places, as theyre a Psyker with the ability to boost their own saves with, , and if youre running as Preservers can be upgraded to be extra spicy in a fight with a buff to Movement, re-rolling charges, and +1 damage in the first round of combat. While these stand out, the other five Brotherhoods definitely arent useless, all having at least some interest to them. deadly in a fight. This also brings down the book keeping involved in actually playing this army quite a lot, no more trying to remember which power Strike Squad number 3 was loaded with. Servant of the Throne (20pts) is much more hero-hammer focused and allows the bearer to, once per game, activate a 3+ Invulnerable Save for a phase when they are chosen as the target of the attack and yes reader you can put it on a GMDK. If they are then it is, of course, outrageous. Taking a unit or two of these to shore up your objective play and ensure you can apply early pressure seems very good in particular, they give you great additional reach for, Hell yeaahhhhh. Still, its a very low Warp Charge, which does make it more appealing. The Aegis is the replacement for the old Brotherhood of Psykers rule, and gives all Grey Knights Psykers +1 to their Deny the Witch attempts (which returns from 8th) and all units a 5+ ignore wounds against mortal wounds, replacing the old +1 to cast. Daemon Slayer does what it says on the tin its a flat +1A, and Daemons cant take Invulnerable Saves against the Warlords melee attacks. Strike Squads, Purgation, and Purifiers all went up to 17 pts base which is huge in what is considered an already overcosted army. This is also strong if you end up bringing Grey Knights in soup and dont want to make one of them your Warlord, as it gives you partial coverage on that trait at a key moment. Purifiers lose an attack as well and Storm Bolters are much improved with Rapid Fire 2 in terms of raw damage. If your army is Battle Forged, each detachment can only include models from one BROTHERHOOD, the new sub-factions. Voldus is essentially just a straight-up better foot Grandmaster (though all pale in comparison to Draigo), and Sterns Zone of Banishment is now more strictly upside, so this can be a nice additional bump for picking this Brotherhood. I can just about see situations where an opponent revealing a choice of, might give you pause, but often youre going to be able to anticipate that ahead of time. The three biggest standouts are probably, (20pts) essentially gives the bearer the ability to activate the. Finally, you get an extra wound and inch of movement at full health. Grey Knights don't rely as much on their Tides as they did in the previous version. An Apothecary, but in Terminator Armour and with a big sword and fully five attacks. All of this on an objective where, on six marker maps, you never have to go past the halfway line to maximise. Realistically, this means having one stave in your units provides extra flexibility, and theyre free so go ahead and do that. What if you wanted the hit rolls to be boosted as well though? Hes slightly cheaper, keeps his same melee profile (i.e. We take you through all the biggest nerfs and buffs to the Grey Knights army along with the core strategies and thoughts on list creation. It grants the warlord access to a new Psychic Action that allows them to apply a 4+ invulnerable save to a friendly vehicle. These arent as deep as the subfactions in some armies, but the additional powers are free real estate, and there are three Brotherhoods where the combination of tools really stands out. Its cool just on baseline, but why is it so hilarious? Grey Knights are short of units that both have powerful guns and can synergise with their suite of abilities, so these might occasionally be worth a look with multi-meltas. This rules, and it combines a lot of elements of good secondaries. If you just want a robot guy to sit at the back and plink away, then sure you probably still pick this, but its a real shame that the upgrade angle is closed off. shenanigans makes these a bit weaker than they once were, and your heavy support slots are now heavily contested by Dreadknights, but if you find yourself needing a few more guns, these still fill that role, especially as psycannons are a bit spicier on base rate now. In this Warhammer 40k battle report we talk through the Custodes army list and the secondary objectives that work . You get one-shot effects to switch off Overwatch, shoot a unit that arrived from Reinforcements, and trigger a Heroic Intervention from non-characters, and the more unique and potentially very spicy ability to Overwatch on a 4+. up before getting stuck in (and you may well want to, it slaps), they can. Neat stuff. of OK? With only oneits a tough sell (unless this is where GW reveal that. Thatsfine, but because many of the games most mobile units rely on Advance or Charge boosts, flat halving of movement is always a bit less powerful than it sounds. hilarious? If you just want a flat output boost this is probably your guy, as Grand Master re-rolls are likely coming from either Draigo or a GMDK. Even better, unlike a lot of similar objectives theres no rider that your opponent cant be within 3 of the objective when you do it, so when things are on a knife-edge its very tough for them to stop you from squeezing points from this. I can just about see situations where an opponent revealing a choice of Attrition or Stranglehold might give you pause, but often youre going to be able to anticipate that ahead of time. Realistically, this means having one stave in your units provides extra flexibility, and theyre free so go ahead and do that. Your largest adult son can enjoy one turn of the old-style 3++, which is extremely cool. The Grey Knight Codex has a, of options that further boost your Denies, and a few that boost your casting, while the Thousand Sons have a, of boosts to casting, and only a few for Denies. They arent the only cool options, and a lot of these feel like theyre worth experimenting with. This rules, and it combines a lot of elements of good secondaries. Hammer of Righteousness is a nice clean +1 to wound in the first round of combat, never bad, while Nemesis Lord offers an alternative way around higher toughness by making your attacks with Nemesis weapons auto-wound on a 6 to hit. For a two point premium over Strike Marines, you get the same great baseline, but with a 12 move that essentially has FLY, Ethereal Castigation as their power for sneaky shooting shenanigans, and the TELEPORTER keyword that unlocks various strats. You pick a visible enemy within 12, and then all attacks made against it with Nemesis and Psi weapons are at +1D until your next psychic phase. Essentially, 10pts extra on your Dreadknights is now going to substantially magnify how much of a headache they are to have on the table very much what you want. Having a baseline effect that works in any game is good design (especially as this is Draigos mandatory trait), but youre still. Meanwhile, the 5+ invulnerable save provides a defensive option thats relevant in far more of your games, and one thats genuinely transformational for a bunch of the otherwise boring Marine vehicles and also powerful on a few Forge World choices. : boosts the range of Psi weapons and allows Nemesis weapons to score mortal wounds on an unmodified 6 to wound. Youve also got two Rhinos, which can either have all the Strikes or two Strike Squads and the Purifiers. Its maybe not the strongest list out there, falling off after two near-mandatory picks, but having super. available brings up the standards quite a bit all by itself. The, returns in a re-vamped form to protect you from Perils its now just a flat 9 aura of do not suffer Perils. Finally, you get a couple of Litanies to shut down your opponents tricks Intonement for Guidance still allows you to ignore all hit roll modifiers, while Refrain of Convergence is a swanky new toy that dispels any ongoing psychic powers and opponent has cast on one of your units, and also makes them immune to further powers, mirroring the Sisters version. All of those need quite specific metagames to be great, but the anti-Daemon ones are particularly aggressively priced, which makes the barrier before you start considering these a bit lower. Psychic Epitome instead boosts the psychic might of your army each Psychic Phase the warlord can empower one nearby friendly Psyker to do +1MWs with any Witchfire powers. 18 MB, Warhammer 40K codex Grey Knights 2011. More on that later. : Grants the unit a hit re-roll when shooting, and ignores the benefits of cover. Ironically, this book has solved the problem the old one had where anti-Daemon tools took up too much of the real estate and power budget (I really like moving a lot of this to one of the Tides as a choice) but in its place theres an excessive focus on Denies, too much caution in the combos theyre given access to, and too much nervousness about treading on the Thousand Sons toes. huh. The majority of units now have a keyword to replace, and a few abilities (notably re-roll auras from Grandmasters, Brother-Captains and the boost from Brotherhood Ancients) now key off it. Rounding things out, you get two thematic options in Daemon Slayer and Psychic Epitome. Lets dig in. As is, you want one most of the time, will sometimes want to squeeze a second in, and beyond that will have to console yourself by taking the regular ones, which are also much improved. These kick ass. Realistically, Swordbearer Grey Knights might be the best place to run non-Achilles Land Raiders and Stormravens. All of this on an objective where, on six marker maps, you never have to go past the halfway line to maximise. are just gone. As per the standard for codex books in 9th edition Warhammer 40k, it contains: Grey Knights lore and background (26 pages) A 'showcase' section of photos of painted Grey knights models (ten pages) With the basic troops of the army being so much deadlier it is, of course, possible that youre happy just having a Chaplain kicking around for the hit re-rolls in a fight, but our read is that youre going to want to be plowing as many points into units as possible. Description Warhammer 40k Codex Space Marines 7th Edition (current) Account 157. They don't get Shock Assault, but the extra attack has been built into their statlines so they're overall better off. Grey Knights have two standout assets Strike Squads and Nemesis Dreadknights. Finally, you get a couple of Litanies to shut down your opponents tricks , still allows you to ignore all hit roll modifiers, while. The rule of thumb is that any of the power armoured units and both flavours of Dreadknights are better, characters are mixed, and everything else looks a bit iffy. This section at the end is where I can get a bit more opinionated about what the book means, and highlight any areas of disappointment or serious balance concerns arising. Joining the trend set by the Thousand Sons and Death Guard, Grey Knights get some mini-Subfactions, representing the eight different martial traditions within the chapter. but also considerably more skippable than it either used to be in 8th, or in comparison to how strong some other pure army bonuses are in 9th. On JamesEdition you can find luxury homes in le . Front and centre of that, sound the fanfares people because theres a, lets any number of your Psyker units (mercifully, only Characters) perform a psychic action to purify an Objective Marker within 3. Its amazing what access to a good invulnerable save will do for you! Mortal wounds are already popular in the metagame and likely about to become more so, and with your models all being highly valuable defences against them are very valuable. Its general assembly is made up of elected business leaders and acts to represent and defend the interests of businesses with public authorities, as well as taking positions . Being able to, a redeploy on one of these without needing to cast Gate is very spicy, and the keyword also grants the option to fall back and shoot/charge for a mere 1CP with. There are some cool new options to replace them, and the baseline quality of some models has gone up a lot, but if you played the Grey Knights heavily in the glorious window between Ritual of the Damned and the pandemic starting, you should probably steel yourself for some disappointments as you go through this book for the first time. As youd expect from Grey Knights, theyre also. The biggest losers from that process feel like Terminators of both the regular and Paladin variety losing Redoubtable Defence is a spectacular blow, and unlike some of the other big losses (most notably Bring Down the Beast) there isnt anything else in the book that quite fills that gap. New rules for upgrading your characters with gifts from the Prognosticars, offering gifts of foresight to swing the battle at key moments. The Aegis is considerably less useful on these than some Chapter Tactics out there, and Grey Knight Chaplains arent nearly as exciting as regular Marine ones, which leaves these far weaker than their counterparts in some other chapters. The incinerator also ends up effectively flatly upgraded, dropping to D1 but going to 2d6 shots, making it more flexible. No witnesses. Secondly, this book has clearly been developed in parallel and as a mirror to Thousand Sons, and loses out badly in the exchange. The fact that they have much more flexible damage dealing capabilities and reach compared to Land Raiders means that if you, keep one alive and kicking, its much more challenging for the opponent to overcome. Pretty much everything else just keys off GREY KNIGHTS or GREY KNIGHTS CORE. Grey Knights still only have one Fast Attack option, but its a good one Interceptors are very strong. Grey Knights still only have one Fast Attack option, but its a good one Interceptors are very strong. Fundamentally, some of the stuff here is what makes the army tick and you want it. the regular flavour, which means you can still load him into a detachment alongside a Dreadknight. The Need to Know was something I was hugely excited about when I started reading, then flopped with a sad trombone noise halfway through. Theres a considerable amount of shuffling and consolidation in the Grey Knights stratagem section, and sadly this is the place where the biggest losses will probably be felt from their old set of tricks. Some of the Brotherhood powers are things you could imagine wanting to multi-cast, but its far from all of them and having to both activate this and give up whatever else you were going to do is a pretty steep opportunity cost, especially with the escalating warp charge. changes to a rather more exciting version thats plausibly worth a look. Most lists are already going to be taking that Warlord trait, but Grey Knights are often going to end up all over the board, so being able to draw on this in an emergency is great (and the price is good). Depending on what guns the opponent is packing, you can either keep the Purifiers together as a single block for maximum Untained and Unbowed/Sanctuary tarpitting, or Combat Squad them for a big damage spike from two casts of Purifying Flame. Losing the old version of Astral Aim is another big sting to the army, as it shuts down quite a number of nonsense combos. best place to run non-Achilles Land Raiders and Stormravens. Some of the splashier Sanctic effects have also been moved to this one. Its reasonably costly at 2CP, but opening up +1 to hit for, targeting a specific unit as well as +1 to wound for the vehicles lets you pull off a, of a gank with ranged firepower, especially when you throw. If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. While this Tide is dominant for your army: Another strong psychic power that was previewed on WarCom here, and some neat utility tricks to back it up. Crusade rules, including the ability to create and hunt a custom Daemonic Nemesis. This also brings down the book keeping involved in actually playing this army quite a lot, no more trying to remember which power Strike Squad number 3 was loaded with. The former can hit hard and hit anywhere, while the latter provide more of a sturdy anvil that can occupy parts of the table for a prolonged period, and act as an initial spearhead for you. Finally, if Daemons need smote, then Tide of Banishment is obviously strong, especially as it works on ranged attacks too most Daemon hordes do not like massed bolter fire with RR1s attached. 1d4chan.net is a back up made by someone (not sure who) in response of 1d4chan.org being down in that time. Its. At the extremely aggressive price point of 22pts each, you get a Marine with built in deep strike, a storm bolter and a powerful melee weapon (the basic force sword is now S+1 AP-3 D2, so youre laughing) and the ability to either Smite, now in full-fat form, or give their unit melee wound re-rolls with. Grey Knights end up with a significant amount of their tools just not, anything too much of the time, and some of that space needed to go on big, splashy effects that are widely applicable. Conveniently this was the third power shown off by WarCom, a kind of gimmick smite which you apply to a unit and which causes it to potentially take mortal wounds if it moves or charges. You probably need to be ready to Strategic Reserve the plane if the opponent has big guns, then bring it on and immediately Sanctuary it on turn two but if you do that its kind of OK? If youre trying to build competitive lists, these and Dreadknights are your bread and butter. Treacherously, the Thousand Sons have probably nosed ahead with the best single Secondary in this pair of books, and a better rounded selection overall, but Ritual is definitely still good and will help the faction a bunch. excited about when I started reading, then flopped with a sad trombone noise halfway through. Thats going to inform how you play the army youre going to want to use these more durable anvil elements (probably accompanied by some units in Rhinos) to make an initial push into the mid board, then go in all guns blazing over turns two and three when your reserves can start arriving and taking the enemy apart. Its now +1 to Advance and Charge rolls for the Warlord, and if theyre in Engagement Range of an enemy unit any of your other units that charge that unit also get +1. THATS_NOT_LASAGNA 2 yr. ago. It is now locked to only targeting Psykers, so no more teleporting a Land Raider, but gains 6 of extra range for a massive 18 reach, making it extremely flexible. He also provides a RR1s to hit aura for all Grey Knight CORE units (rather than being Brotherhood locked like a regular GM), is a 2-cast Psyker, and has the new version of, in place of his old re-roll aura (presumably why the price went down). More on that later. Grey Knights have the standard allocation of six warlord traits to pick from, and there are definitely some goodies. Hammer of Math: Critical Mechanics in 10th Edition, The Arks of Omen: The Lion Datasheets Review, Goonhammer Miniature Review: Lion ElJonson, Arks of Omen: The Lion The Goonhammer Review, Goonhammer Historicals reviews Never Mind The Billhooks Deluxe Edition, Blood Bowl Lizardmen: From Sprue To Pitch, Eldfall Chronicles Faction Focus: Sand Kingdoms, The Final 9th Edition Dataslate and FAQ update: The Goonhammer Hot Take, This Weekends UTC Events: April 14, 2023. Theres also the, , which is a bit pricier (30pts) but might have some potential. have powerful guns and can synergise with their suite of abilities, so these might occasionally be worth a look with multi-meltas. At baseline, the expectation is that two of the DKs go into deep strike and the GM and one regular start on the table. Welcome back to our spin-off show in the Conclave Podmatic Universe: Voices in the Warp! We finish up with another new entry in Ghostly Bonds (WC5), which halves the move characteristic of a targeted unit. Grey Knights are Space Marines and thus benefit from their iconic And They Shall Know No Fear and Bolter Discipline abilities. each turn. You get one-shot effects to switch off Overwatch, shoot a unit that arrived from Reinforcements, and trigger a Heroic Intervention from non-characters, and the more unique and potentially very spicy ability to Overwatch on a 4+. This is super, super cool, and the power level is real expect this to be a common pick. Paladins are souped up Terminators, with an extra attack, more special weapons and the unique trick of being able to freely pick two Sanctic powers. That tilted balance extends to their abilities. For this Warhammer 40k 9th edition battle report we will be using 2000 point strike force armies along with the Games Workshop Warzone Arks of Omen: Grand Tournament mission pack. The splashier stuff lives here, starting out with Gate of Infinity (WC7), which is still mostly the same, allowing a unit to be redeployed. Third and finally, if youre playing against Daemons you can thoroughly ruin their day with, , an uncomplicated kill Daemons, get points secondary and itll sometimes be worth a look into Death Guard and CSM lists with lots of Daemon Engines too especially if either Magnus or Mortarion is present, since those bag you 5pts all on their own. Announcing The Goonhammer 2023 Global 40k Campaign. Tide of Shadows has a pretty obvious impact but is no less strong for it if you lose the roll-off you can throw it up for a bit of extra durability out the gate, and its particularly strong on Nemesis Dreadknights, who have a base 2+ save to layer it on top of. Its reasonably costly at 2CP, but opening up +1 to hit for everything targeting a specific unit as well as +1 to wound for the vehicles lets you pull off a hell of a gank with ranged firepower, especially when you throw Empyric Amplification into the mix. Too long have Daemons terrorized the tables of 9th Edition uncontested. . With two known you could either take two of the somewhat situational buffs or one buff and one of the matchup-specific options. Most of the Infantry units also have the Combat Squads ability. Layering these two effects on top of the other improvements these have received makes a spearhead of a GMDK and three regular ones look like the real deal both in Grey Knights lists and plausibly in soup. to drop a 4+ invulnerable save on them and ways to boost their output despite them not having CORE, they end up way closer to viable than in most places. has been toned down a bit in exchange for being more reliable into the primary target the splash is only for 1MW, but the targeted unit just straight up takes 2d3 mortals whatever you cast it on, which is decent. ), access to the Purifying Flame psychic power and a free fight on death. Your list can only include one Grand Master and one Brother Captain from each BROTHERHOOD, and each detachment can only contain one of each of these. by default, and buying the Teleporter is only required to unlock the redeploy and Fall Back/Shoot/Charge stratagems (which you probably do want to do). Both neat in the right matchup, but therein lies the problem a lot of stuff here is narrow. Sanctuary (WC6) also returns, and sadly theyve finally put a sword through the heart of the OG source of bullshit invulnerable save combos. Most of the Infantry units also have the Combat Squads ability. He's still ridiculously tanky in combat and in the hand-to-hand encouraging 9th edition, he's a proper beast. Stern joins Voldus in being locked to the Wardmakers, and for a small price premium on a regular Brother Captain you get an extra attack and two special abilities. Tide of Escalation is probably the biggest change, and sadly is probably a bit of a miss. In the majority of cases these are effectively part of unit datasheets, with only Paladins being both able and interested in free picking (and almost certainly taking Armoured Resilience and Ethereal Castigation). That means if you want three of your Strike Squads to all Hammerhand up before getting stuck in (and you may well want to, it slaps), they can. looks legit, and its good to see that you no longer have to feel obliged to put half the Grand Masters of the entire order on the table every game. 4. Being able to have. In exchange for fielding Brotherhood detachments, you unlock some extra options. heeroyuy79 2 yr. ago. $5. Grey Knights have the standard allocation of six warlord traits to pick from, and there are definitely some goodies. A Grand Master Dreadknight with both of these traits via Exemplar of the Silver Host feels pretty real! ), access to the. You select one of these to be active at the start of the first battle round, and can change to a different one later on with the Warp Shaping power (with a new rider that you cant switch back to one that was active earlier in the battle). It does feel like some sort of cast boost is conspicuously missing though, and the Sanctic Shard should probably have been left alone.. As some of the finest Psykers in the galaxy its only fitting that Grey Knights get multiple psychic disciplines, with both the Dominus and Sanctic Disciplines returning from 8th. We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website. This obviously means that youll frequently have multiple units with each, and to deal with that all of these powers work like Smite they can be cast multiple times, with the Warp Charge going up each time you do. , where its a jump from 42% to 58% a considerably bigger boost, and starting to push to a pretty happy place. Taken as a whole, this ability is fine but also considerably more skippable than it either used to be in 8th, or in comparison to how strong some other pure army bonuses are in 9th. With the removal of lots of other options for boosting this, that can be very clutch, and its priced to move at 15pts. Warlord: Unyielding Anvil, Exemplar of the Silvered Host First to the Fray Theyre also, rather than belonging to a Brotherhood, which does place some limitations on what you can do with them and basically requires you to bring Draigo if you want any hope of them having re-rolls to hit. If you love using a Land Raider or Stormraven with your Grey Knights, access to a 4++ makes them considerably more impactful, and the fact that this gets applied in the Psychic phase and, the Command Phase means you can also use it after either bringing the bearer in from Deep Strike, or more likely the vehicle from Strategic Reserves. Nemesis warding staves no longer give a melee invulnerable save, but if a unit contains, you can now throw up a 5+ invulnerable save (or 4+ for Terminators) against shooting with. These run you 20 extra points per model over the Strike Marines, and all that gets you is an extra wound and point of save (and I guess technically the ability to take a special weapon without losing the melee attack). : The Purifier Smite is now its own power, dealing a flat 3MWs to the closest enemy, or d3+3 if you roll an 11+ (and Purifiers get +1 to cast it). . As ever, for both this book and the Thousand Sons well be bringing you a separate Crusade review next week, so check that out if you want to discover whether your Brother Captain is a bad enough dude to hunt a Bloodthirster.
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