Warhammer 40K: Emperor’s Children Crusade Rules Preview
The Emperor’s Children are gearing up to go on Crusade. But their motives are very different than most other armies.
Games Workshop is really leaning into the combat drugs stimms aspect when it comes to the Emperor’s Children. These fellas are juicing and I don’t mean fruit. Their new Crusade rules are pushing the fact that they want to start fights on distant planets to find new ingredients for their combat stimm fix.
” The Emperor’s Children, however, are not most people, and all they really want to do is concoct the most outrageous combat stimms imaginable and try them out on unsuspecting prey. How very Slaaneshi of them.”
Emperor’s Children Crusade Rules
Apparently, the Emperor’s Children are big fans of Walter White. Either that or GW’s been taking notes from MMOs because the Emperor’s Children are hunting down ingredients of different rarities.
Sorry, I’m getting flash backs of grinding for hours for rare drops in MMOs. Anyhow, you can certainly say the Emperor’s Children are going to be cooking with those ingredients.
“Once you’ve amassed some choice ingredients, it’s time to get creative. Codex: Emperor’s Children contains 12 different recipes split between Army and Personal elixirs that affect your entire force or a particular Character respectively. You can equip as many as you want at the start of the battle, then at the beginning of a round of your choice the whole lot gets slammed back in one go.”
So what sorts of benefits will these “elixirs” grant your forces? Forget about that and check out these names:
Skorflense and Anfrak Silk? Yeah…sure. Sanctus Vi? Thrynicine? Uh huh…
While these do have some potent power-ups they have some drawbacks. You don’t get to take these in moderation — it’s all in one go, folks. These benefits also only last for one battle round so it better be when you’re ready to party. Additionally, you don’t get to equip the same ones back-to-back in battles as your warband gets bored of the same buzz. And you might as well chug-a-lug in that battle because these elixirs have a short shelf life once you take them to battle; they are lost at the end of any battles you bring them to.
It’s also worth noting that just because they like to cook, they are also big on tracking what they are consuming. The codex has some pages to help you (the player) keep track of all your concoctions. They might like to party, but they also like their bookkeeping!
There’s also Boons of Slaanesh to get. Just be careful with that chart.
“Just, you know, don’t go too crazy. Roll the same boon twice and it’s curtains for your hero, who explodes into a gibbering Chaos Spawn and gets to spend the rest of their short existence flailing across a battlefield on a motley collection of arms, legs, and tentacles. Tragic, but amusing.”
The Emperor’s Children Crusade rules sound kind of wild! It feels a little bit like Breaking Bad mixed with some MMO grinding. But I know at least one patron saint of partying that will want to hang out with the Emperor’s Children when they go on Crusade…
I do Thrynicine!
No sex, but lots of “Combat Stimms” and Rock-n-Roll!
