Warhammer 40K: Top 5 Stratagems from the New Dataslates
Goatboy here and we got a nice little gift last week – four new Detachments for Custodes, T’au Empire, Orks, & Chaos Daemons. These are the top 5 new stratagems you’ll be seeing on the tabletop.
We got a nice little gift last week. We got 4 new detachments, updated Daemon Index, and a new Dataslate. All of these are amazing new things to add to 40K and it is an exciting time to be playing the game we are currently obsessed with. Let’s list the top 5 new stratagems I feel will be used pretty heavily from the new Detachments. (download here on the GW site)
5. Index: Chaos Daemons – Shadow Legion
Binding Shadow – 1CP
The ability to pick two units for 1 CP and put them into Reserves with an army that basically has all your units gain Deepstrike is amazing. You can easily redeploy to shoot with your Havocs, go grab an objective, or set up a free Rapid Ingress with a Chaos Lord and his Legionaries. The only “issue” is you can only pick up one Heretic Astartes and 1 Daemon choice but all of this for 1 CP is amazing.
4. Codex: T’au Empire – Experimental Prototype Cadre
Threat Assessment Analyser – 1CP
We know how powerful Dark Pacts can be for CSM – so giving a unit Dark Pacts to shoot for T’au (Sustained 1 or Lethal 1 – or both if you want your guns to be Hazardous) seems pretty good. Amplifying your units shooting is just a powerful ability and this whole detachment is pushing your guns shooting better.
3. Codex: Adeptus Custodes – Lions of the Emperor
Swift as the Eagle – 1CP
The ability to have reactive moves is powerful in any army but Custodes love those that help push their chunky units onto objectives. It just feels like a powerful option to have your unit get targeted, maybe not die from the shooting, and then get to move/hide/get closer is just powerful. Leaving this at 1CP is great too and just an amazing tool to utilize in your Custodes army.
2. Codex: Orks – More Dakka
Call Dat Dakka – 1CP
Hey your Orks get to shoot back at the enemy if they get shot. This one would be higher if the Ork units that are utilizing this detachment were not a bunch of squishy infantry but lucky for use it is an Ork unit so it could be any tough option that got some pop shoots into them. Just being able to shoot at the enemy again seems like a powerful thing for 1CP and something you can keep in your back pocket when the shooting didn’t kill all your Lootas.
1. Codex: Orks – More Dakka
Get Stuck In, Ladz – 1CP
This is probably the best Stratagem we have seen for the Ork army in a long time. This is a simply, put a unit into Waaagh in your command phase. It activates a 5+ inv save, advance/charge, and reroll charges for a unit. It also activates any other Waaagh abilities the unit might have as well – things like Morkanauts +1 to hit, Meganobz Feel No Pain, and your Characters extra punchy attacks profile. It feels like a Stratagem that should just be a default in every Ork detachment and one of those awesome things that hopefully still stays as brutal whenever GW gets back to “fixing” More Dakka to be a bit more fair.
~Good luck out there on the tabletop!
