Warhammer 40k Black Legion Supplement Pdf To Word
Greetings all, I’ve been busy assembling a whole bunch of Heresy Night Lords. Inspired me to have a crack at using magnets, to make the most out of my kits and I have taken to it like a pig in sh&.t. I decided not to bother with WIP shots, as it’s all pretty standard stuff. I’ll post some up when I finally get around to painting them.
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The reason for this article is that GW, the cheeky chaps that they are, have updated the Black Legion Codex Supplement. I bought the iPad version the day of release last year (or whenever the hell it was) and I felt pretty disappointed by it, the fiction was alright but the rules were minimal and lacklustre.
My main gripe was with the artefacts available to characters, which also consisted of the vast majority of rules from the ‘dex, they seemed over priced for what they had to offer. For instance the Skull of Ker’ngar, at 40 points you get Eternal Warrior and Adamantium Will.
Alright Eternal Warrior is boss, but at 40 points lets compare that to the 50 point Shield Eternal. The loyalists nab a 3, Adamantium Will and Eternal Warrior for just 10 points more than the Skull! I shan’t bother ranting like a heretic fanboy but the Chaos Codex is showing its age now, it’s a sixth edition Codex in the world of seventh. Although the heretics have received some cool new toys in the form of dataslates the core issue remained. Chaos Space Marines are the weakest element of the Chaos army. In a nutshell it comes down to the lack of And They Shall Know No Fear (ATSKNF).
Whoa, don’t get me wrong, Chaos shouldn’t have that rule. I’m not suggesting that Chaos Marines should have faith in the Emperor (Alpha Legion?). No, simply that for equivalent points, the loyalists all benefit from an incredible rule that has consistent game wide affects.
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Auto rallying, not being destroyed from a sweeping advance and acting as normal once rallied. Whereas the traitors can pay points to receive +1 leadership (and 5 CSM cost 5 points more base than a 5 man tactical squad). So when the Black Legion supplement came out I was disappointed. On an army wide basis this main flaw remained firm and the extras we did get did not compensate to make the CSM list more competitive. I’m not expecting the filth of the 3.5 ‘dex but if loyalists are going to get their own (arguably better) Obliterators in the form of Centurions then I expect more than an AP3 Daemon Sword that gives me +1 Initiative.
Seriously, that’s a thing. I might as well take the mark of Slaanesh (for the +1 Init) and literally any other Daemon Weapon, like the Murder Sword (Ap 3 normally with the potential for d6 attacks like a regular daemon weapon, nominate a character at the start of the battle and your sword goes batshit against that character giving you x2 S, AP 1 and Instant Death! Oh and it’s only 5 points more than the spine tingly sword).
So I lied, there was a bit of a rant. I’m a heretic at heart, even bought the t-shirt at Forgeworld to prove it. New Formations Bringers of Despair – Abaddon and his closest Terminator friends rock up with +1 WS and BS (not Abby, he’s hardcore as is). The Chosen of Abaddon – Enjoy 1-4 Lords or Sorceres, each one must take a unit of chosen or termies to stick with for the game but for as long as the Lord/Sorcerer is alive the his squad they’re Fearless, because no f.&ks are given. Screw you ATSKNF, our sorcerers just grew a pair.
Oh and all the Lord/Sorcerers in this detachment get a free roll on the Boon table (re-rolling spawn or apotheosis, because Abs hangs around with the cool guys). The Hounds of Abaddon – Chaos Lord, 1-3 Khorne Berserkers, 1-3 CSM; 1-3 Raptors, Warp Talons or Bikers (in any combination). Once per game you can run and charge with the lot of ‘em and whenever a unit makes a charge roll on 8 or more the unit gets +1 strength (because Khorne likes it when Marines man up and get stuck in). Daemon Engine Pack – A Warpsmith with his two pet Forgefiends or Maulerfiends (in any combination). This is an odd one, you can nominate a character before the game begins. Your big dogs gain preferred enemy against said character and if you slay the bastard you regain a lost hull point.
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Also your Warpsmith cares, if he’s within 12” of one of his pets at the start of the shooting and/or assault you can nominate said Fido to use the Warpsmith’s Weapon Skill or Ballistic Skill. Cyclopia Cabal – I really like this one for numerous reasons. Here we have 3-5 Sorcerers (they don’t have to form a unit, but I’ll get on to that), they gain one special ability/psychic power, Shroud of Deceit. It’s a warp charge 3 psychic power, you nominate one sorcerer to channel it and any Sorcerer including the first generate a free dice for that power only if they are within 12”.
It has range 30” from the channeller, you nominate a non vehicle unit. If successfully cast and not denied you get to immediately shoot with the deceived unit as if they were your own squad. So, your enemy rolls on to the board with his graviton canon toting Servitor Destructors, sweet, let’s shoot them at your his own Land Raider. It’s a great psychic power that should be useful in most games but there’s an added bonus (sort of). Let’s combine all of those Sorcerers in to one unit, stick a fearless character in, say a Lord, and attach all said characters to a 20 man cultist squad. Choose Biomancy for all your Sorcerers (and hope to roll Endurance on one).
Now you have a twenty-six man unit that can potentially have a 4+ FNP save with Eternal Warrior for your characters. Plus five dudes are rocking around with force weapons and only one of them needs to get the power off to activate it. I recommend sticking a spell familiar on the channeller to make the most use out of the Shroud of Deceit (as effectively the warp charge for it are free, so you might as well pay 15 points for the re-roll to make sure it goes off). This is by no means a death star but that’s not the point, just think of the awesome conversions and havoc you can reek with a unit like this on the board. There’s the crux of it as well, how much Chaos can you cause and what will you cause it with. The traitors should always give you options to mess about with. The Tormented – Daemon Prince with 2-5 units of possessed, pretty sure I heard those groans from here, but hold on.
These possessed come with +1WS, +1 I and rending; sure they’re still not Wulfen but at least they’re a bit more viable now. Shame they still don’t know how to hold two close combat weapons. Warning, if the Prince wanders off further than 18” the possessed do become somewhat senile. Like dementia as opposed to slavering killers. Black Legion Warband – Last up is the Black Legion Warband, here we have one Lord, 0-1 Sorcerer, 2-6 CSM, 1-3 Termies or Possessed (any combo), 1-3 raptors, talons or bikers (any combo) and 1-3 Havocs or Helbrutes (any combo).
When your characters take down a character thanks to the Champion of Chaos special rule (in a challenge) you roll twice on the boon table and can pick either one or both results. This detachment also has the Thirst For Glory rule, this one is nice. In a phase if one Black Legion unit wipes out an enemy unit all remaining Black Legion units may re-roll failed to hit and to wound rolls of 1. This is damn good.
So if you blow up a rhino in your shooting phase your whole warband gets a (pseudo) universal preferred enemy rule for the phase. This also applies to the combat phase (I think your enemies, as well as your own). Overall I’m really pleased with the above detachments, I think they add some needed depth to the CSM army and they make a vanilla list a bit more flexible. It might not be the new ‘dex that we’d like but it’s a decent start. What’s more as a digital user this update was free. Sadly this doesn’t help those that bought the hardcopy; however I’d recommend checking online for the full rules once it’s been released in earnest, as lets face it, it’s pretty harsh to buy effectively the same thing again for what is just an update.
Oh and there are tactical objectives for the Black Legion (can’t remember if they were in the old version, if not, they are now). There might be other updated information but the artefacts look basically the same (I think the Nova artefact was tweaked). It looks like the Crimson Slaughter ‘dex should be receiving the same treatment, although I didn’t buy that one, might now. So, we should have some more formations to play with soon.
If you have any questions or comments feel free to drop me a line, if not, I hope the article’s been of some use. As always, have an ace one all. Ed Image Sources: Black Legion Codex Supplement. Used for the sole purpose of entertainment, reporting news and reviewing the updated Codex for non-commercial use.
All rights reserved by Games Workshop. Hmmmlooks quite interesting, though not entirely sure why they’re giving the supplements an update? This could mean we’ll be seeing a new CSM codex some time this year after all!? I’ve heard rumours kicking around and I think the CSM is the only Codex so far that hasn’t been given the formations treatment properly. Even Daemons got a little update with the Wulfen release. Regarding the Crimson Slaughterit’s another lacklustre supplement with 1 entire page of rules, so be careful. Though the artefacts are a bit betterThanks for the plug by the way!
Cheers for the comment and you’re welcome for the mention, I found your article pretty damn useful. I’m hoping CSM’s do get a new Codex, I’d heard a few bits and pieces but you always have to take these rumours with salt(ed caramel).
The fence is where I’m firmly sat about purchasing the updated Crimson Slaughter rules. On the one hand I don’t want to support a product that I feel is overpriced for what you get (as you say, not a lot of rules). However, I do want to have access to formations that could make the army more enjoyable to use. A fortnight ago I played a 3 way all vs all 40k kill points game. I used CSM allied with Daemonkin, Ferg used Nurgle’s CSM and Alex used Space Wolves. It was 1250 points each.
Fergana I combined forces and worked together from turn 2 after we realised the Wolves were out for blood. Alex annihilated us both, without losing a single unit. His 1250 took out 2500 points of Chaos within 4 turns. A fairly extreme example but no less frustrating! Anyway, essay over, haha. Hope you’re having an ace day.
So the new Black Crusade Detachment and its formations have been leaked from the imminent Traitor’s Hate book and I thought I’d share my thoughts on them. First thing I notice is that it says that as an exception to the normal rules units chosen as part of the Detachment AND the formations all receive associated Command Benefits and special rules. In the Restrictions it states “Only the datasheets listed here can be included in this Detachment and all units must have the Chaos Space Marine Faction”. Being new to the use of Formations I consulted with a fellow All Scar and was very happy when he confirmed that Legion formations could be included as additional Detachments (points allowing).
But, back to the task at hand. Command Benefits Lord of Chaos – If this is your primary detachment you can reroll for Traits. Same as for the basic CAD, useful.
Death to the False Emperor – all units get Hatred (Armies of the Imperium), in addition units can take Veterans of the Long War for free. Firstly we don’t have a detail on what classes as Armies of the Imperium, just Space Marine forces or will it include Guard etc as well. Secondly, WOW, the compulsory tax of the Legion just got made a bonus – happy camper here. Path to Glory – choose a model with Champion of Chaos at the start of each friendly turn and roll for a Chaos boon (can use his Favoured Scions rule too if he has it).
Double-edged sword really, I’ve only remembered to use the rule a few times so far and on at least 2 occasions have gotten Spawn results. But that’s part of the fun of Chaos, so I’ll be using this as often as possible but probably just on Aspiring Champions where possible. NOTE: Where the formations list Chaos Lord or Sorcerer you may use the equivalent “Special” characters such as Abaddon and Ahriman etc. 0-5 Command – Lords of the Black Crusade, either a Chaos Lord, Sorcerer or Daemon Prince. 1+ Core – Chaos Warband, Maelstrom of Gore or The Lost and the Damned. 1+ Auxiliary – Helforged Warpack, Veterans of the Legions, Cult of Destruction, Heldrake Terror Pack, Fist of the Gods, Raptor Talon, Terminator Annihilation Force, Favoured of Chaos, Trinity of Blood, and Spawn (1-3 units of Chaos Spawn).
So the Formations: Core: Chaos Warband 1 Chaos Lord 0-1 Sorcerer 1-3 Chosen, Terminators or Possessed 2-6 Chaos Space Marines units 1-3 Raptors, Talons or Bikers 1-3 Havocs or Helbrutes Restrictions: None Favoured Scions: when rolling for Boons, roll twice and choose either OR both results. Objective Secured: ALL units in the Warband get this rule. So the obvious comparison is to the Legion’s Warband formation. Only difference in composition is Chosen are in the 1-3 Elite slot.
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Favoured Scions is a double for the Favoured of the Warmaster, but Objective Secured replaces Thirst for Glory. I’d probably prefer this version as having all units with Objective Secured is a better option as most games are now Maelstrom games. Maelstrom of Gore 1 Chaos Lord or Kharn the Betrayer 4-8 Khorne Berzerkers Restrictions: Lord must be given Mark of Khorne for FREE. Blood Crazed: Units have Fleet and add 3” to charge distances. Red Rain: Once per battle at start of movement phase summon Red Rain. Every unit locked in combat is allowed to pile in and fight as if it was the fight sub phase but enemy units cannot fight back.
They can still fight normally in the assault phase of the same turn. Again, as with the Legion supplement, why is the only god specific formation Khorne – where’s the love for Tzeentch, Nurgle and Slaanesh. Is it simply because they want to boost sales of the lack lustre khorne units – maybe.
It won’t however entice me. If I want to include a Khorne formation I’ll use Hounds of Abaddon. After checking, I realise this is a re-hash of the Apocalypse formation of the same name in the Pandorax book. The Lost and the Damned 1 Dark Apostle 4-9 Chaos Cultists Restrictions: None Tide of Traitors: Each time a unit of Cultists is destroyed roll D6, 4+ and you place a new identical unit in Ongoing Reserves. They gain Outflank and count as members of this formation.
Prophet of the Gods: The Apostle’s Zealot rule applies to all Lost and Damned units within 6” of him. Cheap troop units to capture/deny objectives, cultists are generally underused, but I can’t help but wonder if allied Renegades and Heretics are a better option. Auxiliary: Cult of Destruction 1-3 Warpsmiths 3-5 Obliterators or Mutilators Restrictions: None Empyrionic Guidance Rituals: At start of movement phase each Warpsmith can perform the ritual on one unit of Oblits or Mutilators within 8”. Oblits get to shoot twice, Mutilators attack twice. The first of 3 formations to include the Warpsmith.
I’m not sold on this one as it hinders the Deep Strike of the Oblits if you want them to benefit from the Ritual. Favoured of Chaos 1 Daemon Prince 3-5 Possessed Restrictions: None Baleful Nexus of Warp Energies: Units of Possessed within 12” of the DP at the start of the Fight sub-phase get all 3 mutations rather than just 1.
Much better than The Tormented from the Legion supplement, though has a minimum of 3 possessed units. Might be tempted to give this one a try at some point. Fist of the Gods 1 Warpsmith 3-5 Predators, Vindicators or Land Raiders Restrictions: None Dark Wards: all vehicles within 12” of Warpsmith have 6+invulnerable save. Unholy Blessings: Warpsmith gets +1 bonus to repair vehicles in this formation.
The second outing for the Warpsmith and the first to include the CSM vehicles. It’s not quite the squadron rules we were hoping for (perhaps they’ll be in the book too, but I doubt it) but certainly an interesting option.
Doesn’t specify if Land Raider includes any available variants though (as usual they seem to ignore anything from the Forge World books). Heldrake Terror Pack 2-4 Heldrakes Restrictions: None Rising Terror: Enemy units suffer -1 Ld within 12” of 2 Drakes, -2 for 3 Drakes, and -3 for all 4 Drakes.
Merciless Pursuit: Vector Striking targets that are Pinned, Falling Back or have Gone to Ground, target suffers D6 St 7 AP2 hits instead of 1. This is what Chaos Marine players have been waiting for, not the ridiculous one from Death from the Skies but a proper Drake formation. I expect we’ll be seeing a lot of these in use, but I think unless its massive point games most of us would just field the 2 Drakes. Helforged Warpack 1 Warpsmith 3-5 Helbrutes, Maulerfiends, Forgefiends, or Defilers Restrictions: None Master of Mechanical Warpcraft: While the Warpsmith is in play the Warpack can reuse their Deamonforge rule repeatedly.
Warpack Alpha: Nominate one of the Warpack as the Alpha. They gain the Character type and a 4+ invulnerable save. If the Alpha is destroyed the rest of the Warpack gain the Rage rule. And the third Warpsmith formation. This one I do like, mainly because it includes Defilers, and the option to make one a character with 4+ invulnerable is bonus. Also there doesn’t appear to be a “within range” requirement for the Warpcraft rule.
Raptor Talon 1 Chaos Lord 3-5 Raptors or Talons Restrictions: Lord must be equipped with Jump Pack – for FREE. Predatory Warriors: Can charge on the same turn they arrive from Deep Strike Reserve, but count as Disorganised charge when they do. Cacophonic War Cries: Enemy units charged by 2 or more Talon units must subtract 2 from their Ld until end of the turn. I know Jon will be salivating at this one, and rightly so. The special rules go some way to mitigate the use of Warp Talons now, as before they couldn’t benefit from their blinding landing ability as unable to assault. I expect we shall see a fair few Night Lords forces being unleashed soon. Veterans of the Legions 1-4 Khorne Bezerkers, Thousand Sons, Plague Marines or Noise Marines Restrictions: Unknown Special Rules: Unknown This just feels like a shoe horn to get the god squads included.
Though I’ll wait and see what Restrictions and Special Rules come with it as this is the only one not leaked – yet. Terminator Annihilation Force 1 Lord or Sorcerer 3-5 Terminators Restrictions: Lord or Sorcerer must be equipped with Terminator Armour for FREE.
Targeted for Annihilation: Before deployment nominate one enemy unit. This formation has Hatred against it and can make a shooting attack against it immediately after they deep strike, this doesn’t stop them shooting again in the shooting phase either at the same or a different target. Target Updated: If the nominated unit is completely destroyed, you can immediately pick a new unit as replacement target, this can be done each time the target is destroyed. I quite like this one, though I think I’d probably use the Bringers of Despair and Chosen of Abaddon instead. Trinity of Blood 3 Khorne Lords of Skulls Restrictions: None Rampage.
Apoplectic Storm: Start of their movement phase, enemy units locked in combat with them suffer a number of St 6 Ap 4 hits equal to the number of models in the unit. These hits have Ignore Cover and Soul Blaze and are randomly allocated. Crashing Volleys: Weapons used by a Trinity have twin-linked if attacking a target already attacked by another member earlier in that Shooting phase. I don’t want one Lord of Skulls, why would I want three? Again, this is a re-hash of a Pandorax Apocalypse formation. I think I’ll wait to see the Chaos Knights rules and options in Traitor’s Hate for a Lord of War option thanks. So, do these options fill you with dread, do they get you excited to be the badass’s of the Galaxy once again?
What are your thoughts? Says: Think about deep striking 5 Terminator Squads with combimeltas, VotLW, and Chaos Sorceror with Last Memory of Yuranthos and Spell Familiar. We’re fighting against virtual Gladius with Rhinos and Droppods. You nominate a single Rhino/Droppod, blast it with combimeltas, then you nominate, instanty, another one and you can fire again with remining combimeltas and so on till you run out of combimeltas. Next, in the Psychic Phase you blast with Sunburst to burn some SMs, and finally you shoot again with terminators to finish off remining squads.