Codex Traitor Legions: First Details
The first concrete info on exactly what is included in Codex Traitor Legions is here:
via GW 11-28-2016
“Each of the nine gains Legion-specific rules that are thematic, characterful and powerful in the game. They reward a player that picks units appropriate to that Legion’s way of war.
Special rules with names like “The Butcher’s Nails”, “Many Heads of the Hydra” and “Iron Within, Iron Without” bring the well-loved background of the Heretic Astartes to life, and will be available to any detachment or formation pledged to the appropriate Legion (much like their loyalist brethren have access to Space Marine Chapter Tactics).
In addition, every Legion gets a Warlord Traits table, Chaos Artefacts and a dedicated Detachment of Formations, further rewarding armies that mirror the Legions as they appear in the background.”
What is Means?
We’ve been speculating for some time that this may be the return of the CSM 3.5 Edition codex, mixed in with the recent Astartes Angels of Death book. We will have to wait and see, but the old 3.5 codex covered all the 9 legions in only 18 pages of rules. The new Traitor Legions codex will be at least 100+ pages, so I think we can expect some rich rules and detail in there.
Angels of Death clocked in at 128 pages, and similarly covered:
- A Unique Detachment
- Legion special rules
- Warlord traits
- Relics
- Tactical Objectives
For each of the following chapters:
- Iron Hands
- Salamanders
- White Scars
- Raven Guard
- Imperial Fists
If you recall, Angels of Death also collated together all the new Astartes formations from earlier supplemental codexes and campaign books such as the two-part Tau campaign. It sure sounds like GW is taking this exact model and applying it to the CSM codex, in effect making it a 2-volume single CSM “mega codex”.
This will be both good and bad. GW won’t have to retread all the old units, and can focus only on the new Legion stuff people want and make them as powerful and fluffy as they can. Rules with names such as “Iron Within Iron Without” is a good sign that GW is reaching back into the fluff to give each Legion a strong connection to their background. On the other hand being based on the existing CSM book means you are saddled with some of the sub-par units in that book (looking at you default CSMs). But then again, you can make up for a lot of sub par units by handing out enough free special rules (Demi-Glaive). It is almost Christmas after all.
~ What Chaos Legion are you most excited about?
