This Ultramarines Storm Speeder Hailstrike is intended for use as a mobile anti-infatry platform with its Onslaught Gatling Cannon turret weapon. If your army of Necrons all hails from the same dynasty and is led by a Character with the Noble keyword, then at the start of the game, you can secretly assign one of six command protocols to utilise during each battle round. After revealing your selected command protocol, you’ll need to choose which directive you will activate. Any of your units within 6″ of your Characters will then benefit from that directive. With careful strategy and forethought, command protocols can really throw off your opponent while giving you a massive advantage. The mysterious Crypteks are about to bring another string to your tachyon bow – OK, so a tachyon arrow doesn’t need a bow to fire, but you catch our drift! In fact, they’re about to bring four strings! There are now four, fully fledged varieties of Cryptek, divided according to their hypertechnological specialisation, and each benefits from their own datasheet replete with a plethora of thematic rules. The Plasmancer that made its debut in Indomitus was just the start! Where the Lancer hunts the largest prey, Reapers stalk the smallest. Armed with twin heavy onslaught gatling cannons for 24 Strength 6 shots, Reapers wipe light infantry off the board and have enough shots to remove heavier models. the secondary and upgrade weapons fit right into the primary mission so add them on as well. Gladiator Valiant

There are thirteen Chapters with Chapter Tactics listed in the Space Marines codex. These traits apply to all units except SERVITOR and BEAST units. The traits are as follows: Dark Angels Uncompromising Fire – 2CP –One INFANTRY unit in your army that is performing an action can shoot without that action failing. Very handy for something like Deploy Scramblers, where you might want to deep strike a unit in and be able to shoot something and still do the action. B+ This is a whole new section for 9th edition, and there’s lots going on here. Chapter Command represents the top-ranking officers in the Space Marine army, the highest respective person in their role, such as the Chapter Master or Chief Apothecary. These are upgrades to existing units that you’d take, making them more powerful and giving them access to new warlord traits and relics. Rules for these were first introduced in Faith and Fury for 8th, but they’ve been changed significantly here from that first iteration. The biggest change is that the upgrades for your chapter leaders are now paid for with regular-old army building points rather than by using stratagems for CP. They all return here, plus there’s a new section for Chapter Masters to come into their own, with some light restrictions – Deathwatch can’t take Chapter Masters and Blood Angels can’t take Chapter Ancients, since those already exist in different forms in their individual supplements.Predator ( Annihilator • Destructor • Baal) • Land Raider ( Phobos • Crusader • Redeemer • Achilles • Prometheus • Terminus Ultra • Ares • Excelsior • Wrath of Mjalnar • Angel Infernus • Solemnus Aggressor • Anvilarum) • Vindicator Laser Destroyer • Repulsor • Repulsor Executioner • Gladiator • Astraeus Scions of the Forge. Models with this trait that have a damage table always count as having twice the number of wounds remaining for the purposes of their stats on the table. Fine but if you want this, you really should just play Iron Hands, where the other half of their tactic complements this better than anything else in the Successor list. C But what’s all this talk of ‘command protocols’? Well, consider it one of the perks of biotransference which enables Necrons of high status to impose their will upon those who serve them. It may sound harsh, but don’t worry – for you, this is definitely a good thing! Here’s how it works…

Duellists. When fighting in melee against INFANTRY or BIKER units, unmodified To Hit rolls of a 6 always hits and automatically scores a Wound. Can’t be combined with Whirlwind of Rage. Helps pretty much everything go through hordes more efficiently, but the limited scope of targets makes it a lot less appealing than Whirlwind of Rage. Would be more useful if there were more high toughness infantry out there to fight. C This list has solid core of Dark Angels units and a mean gunline it can setup. It’s still got a little mobility with the faster elements and don’t be afraid to “deepstrike” in those Deathwing Terminators either. Just try not to leave them unsupported. Don’t forget you can carve-up this list as needed for any detachment requirements you might need to hit. The Burning Blade: Replaces power swords (of either regular or master-crafted flavour) with a weapon that gives S+3, AP-5, D2. Combined with Imperium’s Sword, you can have a guy charging around at S8 with this. Very competitive with a power fist or hammer now, especially with the AP-5 meaning that targets without invulnerable saves will simply melt away. B+ Furthermore, they can be given an item of Cryptek Arkana for a nominal cost in Power or points, representing the wondrously esoteric techno-magic of the ancient Necron empire. Not only can these items be very handy in a tight spot, but they offer a versatile way to top up or round out your army list. As a master of temporal manipulation, a Chronomancer, for example, can be equipped with a means to slow your enemies to a crawl at crucial moments – but more on them later! Hellblaster Squad • Eradicator Squad • Aggressor Squad • Eliminator Squad • Suppressor Squad • Desolation Squad • Infernus Squad • Firestrike Servo-turret • Hammerfall BunkerThese units are your bread and butter. The goal is to be strong enough to work without Oath of Moment, and to become monstrous when given it. Long-range Marksmen. Add 3″ to the range characteristic of Rapid Fire and Heavy weapons (but not flame weapons) for units with this tactic. If you’re looking at lists from before this book came out you will probably see a lot of this, particularly on Raven Guard Centurion lists from 8th and, in 9th, Salamanders Successors. The former are dead and buried and the latter don’t need this any more, since flamers – the main reason to use it, so you can fire them out of deep strike – are a) 12″ range now and b) excluded anyway. Without that it’s merely fine. B- This Character is a natural holder for the Tome of Ectoclades Relic that allows a once per game second Oath of Moment use, making the turn that you go in much more powerful. The bearer must be on the board to use this ability, which has some tension with the Teleportarium Stratagem, so the Watch Master naturally holds it well due to their likeliness of being on the board as they are faster than any other units thanks to Advance and Shoot/Charge. This works especially well with the Bike typically brought in a Proteus Kill Team, but don’t underestimate the reach anywhere. Deathwatch Units fall into a few categories, Support Units, Characters, and Damage Dealers. It’s important in any list to have a mix of everything in a list, for as good as your damage dealers can be, they don’t hold ground very well, and they rarely want to take a turn off to score a mission action or similar. Damage Dealers

Land Speeder: The humble Land Speeder provides a movement 14, and offers a very useful buff of Ignore Cover and +1 to hit for blast weapons vs a visible target to the Speeder. This combines very well with the BS4 of the Frag Cannon, and the Castellan/Vengor Launchers equipped by Desolation Marines Relic of the Chapter – 1CP –Use before the battle if your Warlord has the Adeptus Astartes keyword. One ADEPTUS ASTARTES CHARACTER can be given one Chapter Relic. You can only use this once per game in Combat Patrol/Incursion, twice in Strike Force, and three times in Onslaught. All the normal rules for relics apply – you can’t double up on Relics and you can’t give a character more than one. Some subtle changes to the functioning of this from previous iterations – firstly, you can only use it if you have an ADEPTUS ASTARTES Warlord, so you can’t soup Marines in with something else and get their Relics. Secondly, you’re restricted on the number of uses by the game size. Also, in the Matched Play and GT formats, you must write this stuff down on your list rather than being able to decide at the table. Deathwatch are a marine army, and they inherit the problems of Space Marines when it comes to putting models on objectives and expecting them to stay there. Your deployment zone objective is usually safe with Desolation Marines, but No Mans Land tends to be a wholly different problem. The usual approach is to put small infiltrating units like the aptly named Infiltrators onto the safer neutral objectives and then allowing your opponent to pressure you and take an early lead. At this point, while focussing on damage dealing while you have the most available to make use of Oath of Moment, you can remove their scoring assets while setting up your second wave to take over that control in the late game. Tremor Shells – 1CP –Use when a THUNDERFIRE CANNON shoots; until the end of the phase it has -1 to wound, but if it hits a unit that is not TITANIC and cannot FLY then until the start of your next Movement phase that unit has half movement and -2 to advance and charge rolls. A slightly simpler effect than it used to have, but also finally worded properly so the second half of it actually works. Thunderfire Cannons aren’t the terrors they used to be but having exactly one to sit behind terrain and blast this at things isn’t the worst plan possible. B Land Raider/Land Raider Crusader/Land Raider Redeemer/Land Raider Proteus (FW)/Land Raider Achilles (FW)

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Purgatorus: A relic which can replace all the different kinds of bolt pistol. 3 shots at 18″, S5, AP-3, D2. GW are really, really trying with making relic guns worth taking, and if you really have nothing else you want to take, this goes on just about anyone. C