A key thing to remember when building armies for 40K 9th Edition, as in its predecessor, was that some of your units’ rules and abilities may depend on them being part of a detachment (or sometimes a whole army) composed entirely of units that share a givenkeywordin their rules. All yo...
In the lore of Warhammer 40k, the Code Chivalric is a complex web of laws and customs that defines Knight society. On the tabletop, Imperial Knights players will select an Oath they will pursue during the battle. This isn’t part of army building – you’ll make the selection after readin...
The new army rule for 10th edition T’au is ‘For the Greater Good’, and it completely replaces the ‘Markerlight’ system the T’au used in eighth and ninth edition 40k. T’au units can act in pairs to co-ordinate fire on an enemy unit that both can see. One T’au unit become...
Warhammer 40k 10th Edition Tyranids rules The Tyranids have two main army-wide special rules in Warhammer 40k:Synapse, andShadow in the Warp Synapse The Tyranids are a massed horde controlled by the gestalt psychic entity known as the hive mind. The malevolent intellect of this superorganism is...
TheSeventh Editionwas released in May 2014 and is heavily similar to the Sixth, but the rulebook is in three separate volumes and there are more liberal army building list rules. Eighth Edition (2017) TheEighth Editionwas released in June 2017. It continued the advancement in the timeline seen...
Army building itself will be much simpler – you pick a Warlord unit, and then you’re limited to a maximum of three copies of any other unit, or six for certain core troops. This is similar to the current Arks of Omen detachment system. The core game rules have been given something...
To prepare you to lead a Knights army of your own, this guide has details of Imperial Knights tactics, stratagems, information from theirWarhammer 40k 10th editionIndex army rules, and a run-down of the main Knight classes and their weapons. Time to sally forth!
Whether it’s balanced or not we can’t say, but it’s thematically fitting for the Harlequins, which have always been depicted as one of the smallest and most powerful fighting forces in the 40k universe. The Detachment grants a simple army-wide boon, ‘Luck of the Laughing God’, whic...
TheChaos Space Marines army rulesin 10th edition are simple. Whenever you fight or shoot with a Chaos Space Marines unit, you can choose for the unit to gain one of two weapon abilities, either Sustained Hits or Lethal Hits. Both abilities grant you a bonus when you score a critical to-...
s skirmish wargame Infinity have beenavailable online for freefor over a decade, along with anonline army builder. Steamforged Games makes itsWarmachine rules availablein a free, and very functional, application. The core rules and army building tools forKings of Wararelikewise free online, while...