Games Workshop Warhammer 40,000 Chaos Space Marine Vindicator

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To the Disco Lord’s detriment, he’s no longer the force multiplier he used to be: His previous +1 to hit aura has been replaced with the ability to give a single VEHICLE +1 to hit in melee for a round, or alternately he can curse a vehicle, hitting an enemy vehicle for a few mortal wounds. This latter ability is pretty solid against larger vehicles where you’re more likely to get close to the 6-wound cap. Being a second caster with a single cast. He’s often the perfect caster for Psychic Interrogation or Warp Ritual, as giving up his cast is a lot less of a problem than giving up two or three casts with the Master of Possession. On the whole, the Lord Discordant is still one of the army’s best units, and has gotten better thanks to now being 9 wounds and protectable with Look Out, Sir. He’s great as a front line threat and able to charge in and take out key targets, punching up. There are a bunch of different ways to kit him out depending on how killy vs. durable you want him to be, and there are plenty of different ways to use him in-game. He’s really a unit you can fit into most lists. Cypher As an added bonus, this model is a WARP LOCUS, so he can drop in any Daemon codex units that have tagged along a mere 6” from the enemy. Flamers and Bloodletters love getting close to the enemy, but do note he is restricted to Warp Locus-ing units from the same God if he is anything besides Undivided. Dark Apostle Sorcerer ( Balefire Acolyte) • Warpsmith • Dark Apostle • Master of Possession • Master of Execution • Lord Discordant • Warsmith • Apothecary • Infernus Abomination

The Deimos Pattern is an early type of Vindicator used by the Space Marine Legions during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy, although many are still operational in the service of Space Marine Chapters in the 41st Millennium.The Terrax-Pattern Termite can now transport Secutarii models in addition to Infantry models, making Hoplites much more useful now that they can ride the drill into midfield as a transport option. You can include NOISE MARINES units in a CSM Detachment, using their datasheet from Codex: Chaos Space Marines, in which case they can only gain a Legion Trait if every unit in their Detachment (excluding AGENTS OF CHAOS and UNALIGNED units) is from the EMPEROR’S CHILDREN Legion (also, they become Troops in an Emperor’s Children Detachment). Note that Noise Marines come with the Mark of Slaanesh built into their points cost, so you don’t need to pay additional points for their mark. The Wargrinber and Chaos Warbringer can now replace its Quake Cannon with a Volcano cannon. So go nuts with that if you want. Librarian ( Epistolary • Codicier • Lexicanium • Primaris Librarian • Vanguard Librarian) • Chaplain ( Reclusiarch • Primaris Chaplain • Judiciar) • Apothecary ( Primaris Apothecary • Apothecary Biologis • Helix Adept) • Techmarine The Vindicator has been in use by Imperial forces since the Great Crusade, and it has hardly changed since those turbulent days so long ago. The Space Marine Legions that sided with the corrupted Warmaster and primarch of the Luna Wolves, Horus Lupercal, used their Vindicators against the Loyalist forces of the Emperor during the Horus Heresy.

The Fellblade’s HE shells’ damage was corrected to 2. The Chaos version already had its HE shells listed this way, and it looks like that was the correct version for once. RIP Fellblade, this is a real bad change. Units that disembark from a TRANSPORT model that made a Normal move this phase count as having made a Normal move themselves; they cannot move further during this phase. Such a unit also cannot declare a charge in the same turn, but can otherwise act normally in the remainder of the turn. First retrofitted into the heavily armoured Deimos Pattern Vindicator chassis during the dark days of the Horus Heresy, several Space Marine Legions took to fielding this variant as a mainline battle tank, proving itself on many occasions as an able tank hunter. Knights got a few text updates that correct typos on the Moirax and Styrix datasheets, specifically for their degrading profiles, but nothing substantial changed. Likewise, some similar adjustments were made to the titans. There are also three additional powers you can access if your Psyker has the Mark of Tzeentch, Nurgle, or Slaanesh. All three of these are good and they’re free, so you aren’t really forced to choose between them and anything else. All of them increase your durability in different ways, but Delightful Agonies is the best of the bunch.The Vindicator is an Imperial siege tank based on the Rhino chassis used by many Space Marine Chapters that boasts the most powerful weapon of its type in the Adeptus Astartes' standard armoury, the Demolisher Cannon. It is highly valued and can only be issued to company officers whose units have been tasked with a specific tactical requirement.

World Eaters are the odd men out here, currently working off a White Dwarf article, but they’ll move over to the “own Codex” group when their Codex releases in the future.Ritual Offerings (1 CP). Use when an enemy unit is destroyed by a CULTISTS unit. Until the end of the battle those Cultists automatically pass Morale tests and they get +1 to hit in melee. Solid if you’re running lots of big Cultist blobs, which you won’t be doing. C The Vindicators under the control of Chaos Space Marine warbands are usually armed with either pintle-mounted twin-linked Bolters (Combi-Bolters) or other Combi-Weapons. Vindicators in use by Chaos and Renegade warbands that have recently betrayed the Imperium, or recently captured Imperial Vindicators, may be armed instead with a Storm Bolter or even a Hunter-Killer Missile Launcher. They can also be armed with a Havoc Missile Launcher, an ancient weapon system that has long fallen out of use in the Imperium. Clarification that transported units can suffer losses if the transport model dies. This is a pretty obvious and simple fix.

Note that you cannot replace the keyword with DEATH GUARD or THOUSAND SONS unless you’re working with Forge World units from Imperial Armour Compendium. Cultist Mobs are the perfect unit for filling out a Battalion detachment and many CSM armies run one unit of Legionaries and two units of Cultists. You don’t want these guys anywhere near melee if you can help it so give them cultist firearms instead of close combat weapons. If you really want them to be able to fight you should take Accursed Cultists instead. Accursed Cultists Chaos Space Marines have four options at the Troops slot and they’ve all got some value, ranging largely from “utility” with Legionaries to “being dirt cheap” with Cultist Mobs. Legonaries Heretic Astartes - The Traitor Legions of Chaos Space Marines that defected to the service of Chaos during the Horus Heresy and Renegade Astartes newly arrived at their allegiance to the Ruinous Powers use the Vindicator in the same way as Loyalist Astartes; namely as a heavy support vehicle during urban and dense terrain battles. Chaos Rhino • Chaos Predator • Infernal Relic Predator • Chaos Vindicator • Chaos Land Raider • Chaos Land Raider Proteus • Infernal Relic Land Raider Achilles • Land Raider Hades Diabolus • Relic Sicaran Battle Tank • Maulerfiend • Forgefiend • Defiler • Brass Scorpion • Blood Slaughterer • Blight Drone • Foetid Bloat-drone • Kytan • Plague Hulk • Venomcrawler • Myphitic Blight-hauler

The Iron Warriors maintain enough to field them in entire squadrons. The Iron Warriors, masters of siegecraft and heavy munitions, are infamous for fielding entire "linebreaker squadrons" of Vindicators emblazoned with Chaos symbols and adorned with the defaced statuary of Imperial cities that have fallen to their assaults. Chaos Vindicator Laser Destroyer added. Chaos Space Marines got a new datasheet for a missing entry: The Chaos Vindicator Laser Destroyer, a Vindicator that replaces its demolisher cannon with a big laser. It costs 175 points and matches the entry that Space Marines have. It’s overcosted for what it does. This is your option for bog-standard Chaos Space Marines, though thanks to Kill Team: Nachmund, they now have a ton of options and ways to be kitted out that make Legionaries useful includes in a Chaos Space Marines army. While they’re not the most efficient units in the codex, they definitely have some real play depending on your Legion and playstyle. There’s only one noteworthy change here and it’s that the points values lines for Nobz on Warbikes were removed for a pair of Killsaws, Kombi-weapons with rokkit launcha, and kombi-weapons with skorcha. While normally that would mean they’re free, the unit can’t actually take those options, so this is just cleaning up confusion. Tyranids Sorcerers have fallen out of vogue in the 9th edition codex, in part because the Dark Hereticus discipline they draw from just doesn’t bring much to the table any more now that Warptime was nerfed. On top of that, Legionary squads being able to take psykers means they can often fill in similar gaps, and that means that Sorcerers are really only as good as your need to cast powers 4-6 from the Dark Hereticus tree. Which is to say, not very high.