Warhammer 40K: Top 5 Wants for 10th Edition Codex: World Eaters
Goatboy here with a top 5 things I want to see changed in the new World Eater codex, headed your way real, real soon.
I won’t lie to you – I am very excited about this new codex. I think a new shift in how the World Eaters army is set up is needed. While we are not getting all the new miniatures I would want – it does seem like will be getting a fresh new set of ideas. Let’s go over the top firve things I want to see updated in the book and see how close I get when it finally releases.
5. World Eaters Should Play Differently Than Emperor’s Children
Overall the new EC army sorta feels like a weird World Eaters book. It’s very fast, designed to pressure you early, and seems well pushed to a close ranged style of army. That feels very World Eater-like which has me hoping the actual WE army shifts in this new Codex. While I want it to be a pressure army I want it to be a more brutal style of feel that removes some of the elegance that EC has and replaces it with brutality. Khorne’s Legion has to hit you hard in the mouth and make you think – OWWW – can I survive another haymaker like that!?
4. Emphasize World Eaters Daemon Engines
World Eaters is one of the few Codexes with a Titanic Engine of destruction and its current rules are somewhat lacking. The Lord of Skulls – aka the Killdozer of Blood – feels like a weird little option in the index. Yes, it can do some things but it really feels slow and a bit lackluster when you compare it to the other options in the index. I want this guy to be a cool centerpiece model designed to wreck buildings, wreck enemies, and just go ham on the battlefield. I just hope there is a detachment that helps amplify these jerks into the true engines of destruction and maybe let these guys move a bit faster than the dreaded 8″ they are working with now.
3. Make World Eater Terminators Scary
Oh my lord I hope we don’t see teensy 5-man Terminator squads in this book. I also hope we have some kind of cool way to make them truly butchers. It seems we won’t be getting any kind of Terminator character which is a shame but at the very least make these guys cool as heck. I just finished a squad of 10 and have another 10 that I need to “fix” to match the current build outs so please let World Eater Terminators be cool.
2. World Eater Daemon Princes Better Be Cool
The Emperor’s Children princes both have their places in the new book and I hope the Khorne ones do too. It is a model that got a fancy new update and needs fancy new rules to brutalize the battlefield with yelling, bad a$$ armor, and angry attitude. At the very least makeWorld Eater Daemon Princes usable and points efficient enough to show up.
1. Make Berserkers Matter!
Berzerkers are the bread and butter of the World Eaters lore and while they seemed alright in the Index they really need some kind of glow up in this book. These means a pile of Stratagems, cool character interactions, and just a unique way to play the game. I don’t know if that means more exploding hits, more exploding lethal hits, or just more hits. They really need to be cool again and make the player want to take a pile of them instead of just playing “all Eightbound all the time” like we see right now. Angron needs to lead a pile of jerks in red and gold armor again.
What do you think? Do my wishes sound alright? I know I didn’t talk about Eightbound and I hope they are still good in this new book. I just really want the army to have a new identity that makes it fun to play some different things. We’ll just have to wait and see how it rolls out in the end.
Skulls for the Skull Throne
