BoLS News/Rumor Roundup 10-5-2014
Dark Eldar are here, Haemonculus Covens are coming and Chaos is near! Catch up on this week as we gear up for the new week!
But let’s start with the new Forge World killer Tau Battle suit!
via Forgeworld
TAU XV109 Y’VAHRA BATTLESUIT £72.00
Rushed into deployment after the success of the R’varna battlesuit, the XV109 Y’vahra is a Class 10 battlesuit designed for devastating shock assault. To facilitate this role, the Y’vahra is equipped with a triple barrelled phased-plasma flamer capable of vaporising even hardened ceramite, and a massive EMP discharge cannon designed to incapacitate enemy war engines. The complex vectored thruster array incorporated into the Y’vahra’s impressive armour allows it to traverse the battlefield in long graceful bounds, slamming into the greatest concentration of the enemy and reaping a heavy toll in lives before jetting away.
The Y’vahra battlesuit originates with the same Earth caste engineer as the R’varna, Fio’O Ke’lshan Sho’Aun, infamous for his resistance to the will of the Ethereal Council as much as his genius at weapons design. The Y’vahra represents a disturbing paradigm shift in the tactics of the pragmatic Ke’lshan Sept, in whom long years under near constant attack by alien forces has bred a stubborn pragmatism and siege mentality. The new XV109 is clearly a design intended to carry the fighting to the enemies of the Ke’lshan, perhaps marking a new stage of expansion on the Tau Empire’s neglected eastern border.
Complete multi-part resin and plastic kit designed by Blake Spence. Experimental rules for the XV109 Y’vahra can be found here. This model is available to pre-order now and will be despatched from Friday 10th October.
Haemonculus Covens $49.50
Inside this 80 page supplement you will find the sinister history of the Haemonculi of the undercity, revealing their gruesome deeds within Commorragh and on the battlefields of the wider galaxy. There are additional rules that work alongside Codex: Dark Eldar from which you can create a sinister Covenite warhost to unleash in your games of Warhammer 40,000. Plus a showcase of beautifully painted Citadel miniatures that depict the menacing colour schemes and iconography of the Covens. Finally, this book includes new missions, allowing you to recreate some of the most important of the Haemonculi’s realspace raids and employ the favoured tactics of the Coven lords.
The Archons are the masters of the Dark Eldar Kabals. Regal and monstrous in equal measure, each wields the power to enslave worlds and destroy civilisations. Archons have fed upon the pain of so many others that it takes true atrocity to invigorate them, so they must lead ever more raids against realspace.
This 11-piece plastic kit makes one Archon clad in Kabalite armour inscribed with runes. The Archon carries a husk blade and splinter pistol, while the cloak of skin and the trophy rack mounted upon his pack proudly display the bounty of horror he has reaped in battle.
This 10-piece plastic kit makes one Succubus equipped with an agoniser and archite glaive. The Succubus carries a trophy rack which demonstrates her prowess in battle, and is sculpted with cables in her neck which deliver her much needed combat drugs.
The Dark Eldar Coven Supplement contents:
From a 100% reliable source wishing to remain anonymous (confirmed by pics):
Power from pain – by turn number.
1 – nothing
2 – Fearless
3 – Fear, Fearless
4 – Fear, Fearless, it will not die
5 – Fear, It will not die, zealot
6+ – Eternal Warrior, fear, it will not die, zealot
This is a straight copy from the book – yes some of the powers are omitted on purpose as they are not listed in the chart every turn
Warlord chart
1 – talos & chronos reroll FNP rolls of 1 within 12”of warlord
2 – warlord plus any grotesques he joins gain it will not die
3 – add or subtract 1 from reserve rolls
4 – If your warlord is slain by an attack/weapon with AP 1 or 2 or with the ID rule, gain D3 VP
5 – Warlord plus wracks he joins gain FNP4+
6 – Warlord gains preferred enemy
Artifacts
10pts – pick one of the following at the start of your turn which lasts until your next turn – IWND, fleet, poisoned 4+, rampage (used each turn)
10pts – fighting in a challenge – opponent suffers -5 to initiative
25pts – 8”range, S1, AP2, assault 1, blast, instant death, no effect on vehicles (used as a grenade in shooting phase)
10pts – Additional D6 attacks at S3, AP- at initiative 10, grant an additional pile in move at this step, no bonus applicable for furious charge, rending etc
20pts – IWND 4+, only wounded by poisons special rule on 6
35pts – +1 to FNP rolls, negate first wound suffered if it has the ID rule but when this happens, the item is lost
Coven Detachment
Required – 2HQ, 2 Elite
Optional – 4HQ, 6 Elite, 4 Heavy Support
Units that are available in the detachment – Urien, Haemonculus, Raider (DT only), Venom (DT only), Wracks, grotesques, talos, chronos
Benefits – if this is the primary detachment you can reroll warlord chart from this book. All enemy units within 12”of 1 or more models from this detachment suffer -1LD
7(!!!) formations as well!
1 – urien or haemy plus 2 units of grots – d6 roll at start of game for grots – +1S, +1T, fleet, shred, rage, 4+ FNP
2 – 1 haemy, 1 chronos, 2 units of wracks – all wracks gain precision strike, wracks treat turn 1 higher for pfp. if haemy is the warlord he gets trait 4 automatically
3 – 2 units of wracks in 2 venoms – if a unit in this formation scores first blood, gain D3 vp rather than 1. Wracks must start embarked an in reserve. Deployed turn 1 via deep strike
4 – unit of 5 Talos – gain scout. Score an extra vp for any non vehicle unit killed in combat
5 – 1 haemy, 1 Chronos, 1 Talos – form a single unit. Characters may not join it outside of this formation. Talos and chronos gain +1ws and init. If haemy is warlord, gain trait 1 automatically
6 – 1 haemy, 3 units of wracks with raiders. Master of pain from haemy confers to all units in this formation within 12″. Warlord trait 5 if haemy is warlord
7 – all 6 formations as above in 1 formation – called the carnival of pain. Urien form formation 1 has his master of pain rule confer to whole formation. All non vehicles reroll 1’s to wound in combat
HOLY MOLY – that unit of 5 Talos is AWESOME! Talk about an Electric Football army!
IMPERIAL ARMOUR 13 – CHAOS
Forgeworld confirms a new book aimed at the dark twisted hearts of traitors and heretics across the galaxy!
via Forgeworld:
via Warseer’s Pushkin 2-4-2014
IA13 is called War Machines of the Lost and the Damned. It is written by Andy Hoare and edited by Talima Fox.
It will be released in Summer/Autumn 2014.
The book will contain an updated Chaos Renegades list similar to the one found in the Vraks trilogy, along with numerous chaos vehicles/war machines including updated versions of the Horus Heresy vehicles for the traitors to use in regular games of 40k. It’s unclear whether this will be a variant of the ‘Defenders of Vraks’ list in IA1, the servants of slaughter list in IA6 or the servants of decay list in IA7. I imagine it will be a reworked version of all three. (i.e. quite chaosy but without the campaign specific units like the Alpha Legion). Talima described the list as being the renegade version of what the list in IA12 was for the Death Korps of Krieg – make of that what you will!
The art book was on display at the open day and had pictures of a Chaos Thunderhawk, Chaos Stormeagle and the Anvilluss pattern and Kharybdis assault claw.
Speaking to Andy Hoare he mentioned the rules for the Horus heresy era war machines would be updated to reflect the ten thousands years that they had spent in the warp and the access to munitions that the chaos legions had. He gave two examples, the first being the missile load out on the Storm Eagle, instead of the tempest rockets load out it will have access to Balefire missiles.
The second example was the class M2KB Landraider. Instead of the explorator augatory web which is designed for scanning enemy positions and co-ordinating forces, however due to the corruption of the warp this is now used to intercept enemy positions and thwart their movements. It will be interesting to see the rules for this.The greater brass scorpion of Khorne and the decimator engine also had new renders on screen in the graphics part, which suggests that updated rules for these models.
It’s also worth noting that HH3: Extermination contains references to Iron Warrior specific siege tanks used during the battle of Paramar and the dark mechanicum using stalk tank like units to hunt the raven guard survivors on Istavaan, so it will be interesting to see whether these units crop up in either future HH books or IA13.
I am speaking to my friend who was also chatting to lots of the designers about this and many other things, so ill ask him if i’ve missed anything!
CHAOS IS COMING!
Latest news doing the rounds confirms the Chaos is returning on the heels of Dark Eldar. Here’s the details:
via Warseer:
So the more recent chaos rumors said 3-5 weeks of chaos, incorporating the WFB “End Times” Volums 2 carrying on the story after Nagash’s return.
There is an Archaon volume said to be coming, but that’s not enough to fill 5 weeks, so there are other sources saying to look for some other Chaos kits that will be useful to both 40K an WFB. So I would expect some new deamon minis as well.
That’s it for now!
Loken
