Aggressors are a surprisingly good pick for Space Wolves, who really like using the Lone Wolf Stratagem on them when opponents can only wipe out 2/3 of the squad with their new profiles. For most players, the Start Collecting box (with the Shadowspear models) is a pretty good deal, and a great starting point regardless of which legion you’re playing. While Chaos Space Marines certainly have some better shooting options, such as Obliterators, Contemptors, and Havocs, it’s not the army’s strongest area.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Finally if you want to bring anything from the Forge World library of Chaos models, such as the Kytan Ravager, Blood Slaughterer of Khorne, or the Hellforged dreadnoughts, you need this book. The only place you can actually get Venomcrawlers, Greater Possessed, or the new Obliterators, the new SC: Chaos Space Marines is a pretty decent deal, even if those were available elsewhere. The most dubious unit in the set is the Burning Chariot, but depending on how you want to roll, you can use the Exalted Flamer from it separately instead. With your Battalion Detachment’s required slots filled out, we reckon you deserve to treat yourself.

B Grade products may arrive with or without cellophane and may have sustained varying levels of cosmetic damage to the box.They can be either members of the original 20 first founding legions or renegades, recently turned through violent rebellion. The only weak point here is Watch Captain Artemis – like Ahriman in the Thousand Sons box, you’re probably only going to want one of this guy, although he’s good fodder for conversion into something else especially with the array of options on the Deathwatch Kill Team sprues (and upgrade sprue! For your additional Troops units, either add in a second unit or two of Chaos Space Marines for some heavier firepower or even some Chaos Cultists to hold objectives and protect your deployment zone. We’ve talked about the rules a bit in our general Getting Started article on the rules, but I’ll go into a bit more depth here. Tactical Marines just don’t have much value when you’d rather run Scouts or Intercessors, the Terminator Captain doesn’t bring much to the table when you have other, more mobile, better-equipped, cheaper options, and the Venerable Dreadnought is only OK.

I built one squad with chain swords and bolt pistols and the other with bolters and a rocket launcher. Thanks to the army’s trait, they want to be up close and taking out enemies at a short range to get those +1 to hit bonuses, then charge in and finish the target off. The rules for the Alpha Legion tend to favor versatility and subterfuge, and they have several rules that can apply to Cultists by virtue of just being INFANTRY-keyworded, though you may find they don’t necessarily want to run a ton of cultists. The Trygon/Mawloc is the standard pack-in for a lot of GW Tyranid bundles it appears, but you’re probably going to build it as a Mawloc, the more useful option of the two and a unit that’s pretty cheap for how disruptive it can be. Once you’ve got that, you’ll almost certainly jettison the Helbrute at some point and look at better options like another Venomcrawler or a Vindicator.I can’t stress enough that this is going to cause you short-term wallet shock and long-term disappointment as which units and strategies are “good” changes, but then you probably already knew that.