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Select an enemy unit on the battlefield and roll a D6. Use this Stratagem when you set up a unit from your army that has the Cult Ambush ability in ambush. Place four ambush markers for that unit instead of one. If you have used this Stratagem, then when you reveal ambush markers, once there are no units from your army remaining in ambush, remove all of your remaining ambush markers from the battlefield.

Use this Stratagem at the start of your Psychic phase. That model cannot attempt to manifest any psychic powers this phase. Use this Stratagem at the end of your Movement phase. Remove that unit from the battlefield. If the battle ends before this unit is set back up, it is destroyed. Use this when a Tyranids Character from your army is slain; the Hive Mind compels it to one final attack, and it can immediately either shoot as if it were your Shooting phase, or fight as if it were your Fight phase before it is removed from the battlefield.

Use this Stratagem when you set up a unit from your army that has the Cult Ambush ability as reinforcements. Up to 10 models from that unit that are armed with Grenades can throw a Grenade this phase, instead of only one model being able to do so no more than five of these models can throw demolition charges.

Use this Stratagem just after your opponent has spent CPs to use a Stratagem, but before the effects of that Stratagem are resolved. On a 6 the Stratagem they were attempting to use is not resolved, cannot be attempted again this phase and the CPs spent are lost. Until the end of the phase, each time you roll an unmodified hit roll of 6 for an attack by a model in that unit, that model can immediately make an additional hit roll against the same target using the same weapon.

These bonus attacks cannot themselves generate any further attacks. After this unit has resolved all of its shooting attacks this phase, it can immediately make a move as if it were your Movement phase, but cannot charge this turn. Use this Stratagem at the end of the Fight phase. That unit can immediately fight again. These reflect the unique strategies used by the forces of the Genestealer Cults on the battlefield.

Use this Stratagem at the start of your Shooting phase. Until the end of that phase, autoguns models in that unit are equipped with have a Type characteristic of Assault 2. An enemy unit can only be selected as the target of this ability or the Priority Target Sighted ability once per phase.

Until the end of that phase, add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of models in that unit. The same model cannot be selected by this Stratagem more than once per battle. That unit can attempt to manifest one additional psychic power in your Psychic phase. In addition, until the end of the turn, that unit can be chosen to charge with even if they Advanced this turn.

Use this Stratagem in the Charge phase. Until the end of that phase, that unit can be chosen to charge with even if it Advanced this turn. Until the end of that phase, weapons with an Armour Penetration characteristic of -1 or -2 are treated as having an Armour Penetration characteristic of 0 when resolving an attack against that unit.

Until the end of that phase, when resolving an attack made with a clearance incinerator, heavy mining laser or heavy seismic cannon by a model in that unit, add 1 to the wound roll.

Where this is the case, you must, if you are playing a matched play game or are otherwise using points values, still pay the cost of the weapon that is being replaced.

Model with bonesword only. Add 1 to saving throws made for the bearer against ranged weapons. In addition, enemy units cannot fire Overwatch at the bearer. Model with an autopistol or liberator autostub only. Model with a cultist knife or Sanctus bio-dagger only. The Crouchling follows all the normal rules for a Familiar with the following additions: whilst the Crouchling is alive, the Patriarch or Magus it accompanies knows one additional psychic power from the Broodmind discipline and adds 1 to any Psychic tests it takes when attempting to manifest a psychic power from the Broodmind discipline.

Model with Jackal sniper rifle or silencer sniper rifle only. Increase the Attacks, Toughness and Wounds characteristics of the bearer by 1. You can either roll a D6 to generate their powers randomly re-roll any duplicates results , or you can select the psychic powers you wish the psyker to have. Until the start of your next Psychic phase, the target cannot fire Overwatch, fights last in the Fight phase even if it charged, and must subtract 1 from its hit rolls.

Models cannot attack themselves, but they can attack other members of their unit. If the result is less than the highest Leadership characteristic in that unit, it suffers 1 mortal wound, otherwise it suffers D3 mortal wounds.

If your opponent has units that have charged, or that have a similar ability, then alternate choosing units to fight with, starting with the player whose turn is taking place.

Add 1 to the Strength and Attacks characteristics of all models in that unit until the start of your next Psychic phase. Until the start of your next Psychic phase, halve the Movement characteristic of models in that unit and halve any Advance or charge rolls made for that unit rounding up.

Until the end of the turn, when resolving an attack made with a weapon against that unit, improve the Armour Penetration characteristic of that weapon by 1 for that attack e. AP 0 becomes AP Think about it this way: say a certain unit ends up being too good, like Windriders with Scatter Lasers. So six months down the line, they decide to fix that. This allows them to individually adjust the price of the Scatter Laser if that weapon is too good in general or of the Windrider if it is the platform, not the weapon that is overperforming.

Condensing page count and layout saves GW money, which means they can afford to sell things for less. I admit, it's not exactly convenient- but at least everything you need to calculate points values is there on one page spread, and if they do put out an app the way they did for AoS it will be fairly trivial to calculate things at that point.

The point vaguelycertain is making is that the windrider may be fine, and the scatter laser may be fine, but the combination may be over the top, and this method does not allow them to tweak for that. It allows for a closer tweak than any other feasible method, though. If the problem is the combination of Scatter Laser and Windrider, changing the Windrider's price allows them to fix things with minimal collateral damage.

Sure, I'm just pointing out that you seemed to be addressing everything but the point of concern, which made the conversation between you two rather pointless, not a conversation at all in fact.

I do think there are other feasible methods that make even more sense, the glaringly obvious one being not requiring the purchase of a codex to access an individual units updated data card, but I don't really care that much either way.

Exactly this. I think it's very bizarre that they didn't just put the data cards into an easily editable electronic format and make them available freely online, then just update them as needed. Obviously some people prefer hard copy, but I think we're well beyond the point where it's worth worrying about trying to keep hard copies up to date, so if they bother selling that at all they should really focus on making it available as cheaply as possible so it's not a big deal when it becomes obsolete.

I think the idea is that under this system the can change upgrade and model costs without reprinting the entire book. Whether or not this is the most efficient way to accomplish that goal, well, at least they are trying. I think I have read it wrong now having checked out more. The grasping tongue can only be taken by the haurespex as far as I can tell yet it has points for it. So it only makes sense if you pay per model and then add everything you want the model to be armed with.

Almost all models are more expensive now, barring basic troops, but that's just how it is. I'm not sure if the Haruspex is good or not, but it makes a LOT of attacks up to twelve with its Maw, potentially, plus in theory four more bonus ones and can regen wounds pretty quick. You pay for everything on each model. So a Termagant has its own base cost plus a Flesborer. A Space Marine Bike pays for it's own base cost plus twin-linked Bolter. If you replace anything, you don't pay for that anymore.

Yeah I am too Rick. I hope the true rule book actually explains how match play is supposed to be worked out to make it nice and clear. It is pretty clear about most things. There are some small issues that could probably use an FAQ, but for the most part things are fairly obvious.

And yes, the BRB is much more explicit about how a lot of stuff works than the limited shots we've seen so far. I honestly a little bit disappointed because the points are very expensive..

TL devourer nerfed old dakkafex not as good , TL deathspitter improved direct improvement over TL devourer for a bit more points , Trygon and Tervigon buffed — not sure how points efficient they are.

Tyrannofex is crazy with fleshborer hive — 40 S5 shots at 18 inches when standing still. Genestealers improved. Multiwound models like warriors are better since double S weapons won't always kill them.

Swarmlord has some awesome rules. Things like Zoathropes and tyrant guard being in squads of three are kind of annoying though. Overall, some interesting changes.

Being able to charge the turn you deploy should be a good change. Should of kept life drain and just got extra wound on a roll of 6 I think. Im etill trying to discern whether or not tervigons spawned termagants cost points, its not listes in the ability as any poinrs cost for summoning is in other abilities chaos demons. But I cant find any definitive source. I think it will cost points if you put up another Unit. Is cult ambush really worth that many extra points for an identical model?

This are and we have nothing really hard hitting…If the Swarmlord and the Genestealers get wiped out…well…. I would take Adrenal over or perhaps in addition to Toxin on the Hormagaunts. Yeah, I've been feeling the same way.

For the first time in awhile both feels like it could be pretty tempting as well. Between Trygon tunnel, Onslaught, and Hive Commander you've got a handful of tools to get them in quickly. Trygon tunnel with Adrenal and some Command Points sitting is a pretty big threat for the opponent, to be sure. But like other melee armies, Tyranids are really gonna need some good ways to break bubblewrap units outside of melee. I wonder if Cult Ambush is restricted by the same Reserve Rules only half of the army can enter from reserve.

Kinda feels they've lost a lot of options this edition. GSC can no longer play a "bounce on, bounce off" game for the entirety of a match, but that's a good thing. It was incredibly time-consuming and added too much complication to things. They still have powerful HQs with superior protective abilities, cheap units with good hitting power, interesting ally options, and plenty more. The watering down of Cult Ambush and losing the ability to remove your troops from the table sucks all the character out of the army.

Well done GW. Blandhammer strikes again. Man if turning every game into a six-hour marathon match of "wait what is a five again which unit was that for how many guys were left in it" is the only way for you to have fun, you are probably struggling with problems bigger than warhammer.

It just says "A psyker cannot attemt to manifest the same psychic power more than once a turn. Nope, sorry- in matched play, each spell excepting Smite can only be cast once each turn, regardless of who does so. Necrons — 8th edition Full leak. Notify of. Vote Up 0 Vote Down. June 1, PM. CA is there in front of the psychic powers.

Vote Up Vote Down. June 4, AM. The Exocrine seems really good. Question: Why does the Try on have 3 pairs of scything talons? Does that do anything? No One. Just the way he's modelled, doesn't do anything more than 2 mechanically.

June 15, PM. June 2, AM. Well this is what I thought, but the 7PP for 3 cost on the dataslate seems to make sense too. I wonder if this is the same for any other armies? Did anyone notice that the Harpy and the Hive Crone can't even land? Yeah, no airborne rule. Really no idea how that is supposed to work.

Hey, Puppy, "stop being an ass". Vote Up -2 Vote Down. June 2, PM. The only other thing to note here is that Familiars got rounded up to 15pts each. Taking one to turn into The Crouchling. Is still fine. The news is a bit less good for the legendary hand-flamer bomb — the flamers themselves go up a point each, taking you to ten points a model.

Coupled with no longer playing in an ITC format where bleeding kills from small squads is really bad, I expect to see more small squads packing saws, and fewer hand flamer bombs. Luckily, those got punted pretty hard, so having to plan to go through a whole army of them is a much smaller consideration.

Brood Brothers I expect to see less of — one of the key uses of them was to fill out mixed detachments where their lack of Cult Creed was meaningless anyway.

Finally, Neophytes. One extra point a model here is good too, though there are some side-grades in their equipment. However, the mining laser and seismic cannon both go down two points to 10, which is good. Realistically, the mining laser is still king here — take it and enjoy it.

While you do thus end up with a slight downgrade in the output of the squads without the nearly-free webbers on top, that means model units of these with lasers only climbs up to 80pts instead of 74pts, which is extremely below rate and means there probably is still an angle on Bladed Cog lists flooding parts of the board with them. The characters, largely, are fine.

All of them went up 5pts, and that basically changes the calculation on none of them — if you were going to take one you still do. The only possible exception is the Sanctus, who loses quite a bit of utility to no longer being able to flex-pick the Gift From Beyond , especially as it also gets weaker with the wound modifier cap.

The reduction in the ability of enemy characters to safely screen out the backfield also makes it much harder for many opponents to play keep-away on them. Unit-wise this section is, sadly, more of a bust. They also lost access to their Specialist Detachment too. Finally, our other disappointment here is Metamorphs. These got extremely aggressive point cuts in CA, taking them to the edges of playability, really only kept out by the low value of the Elites slot. In addition, metamorph whips which let them fight on death would be extremely good in 9th missions, as they threaten to prevent an enemy that tries to fight them off an objective from taking the point back, messing with both secondary and primary scoring for the opponent — exactly what this army now lives and dies on.

Sadly, presumably in recognition of this fact, these got slapped with a massive cost increase, jumping from 7ppm to 11ppm base. Their other weapon options also all went up in cost, making the whip the only game in town.

The news is good for the Ridgerunner and mixed for the bikes. Ridgerunner first. This gets a very modest increase and remains extremely cost effective, with the chassis going up 5 and the two heavy stubbers by 3 each.

Atalan Jackals are much more of a mixed bag. The bad news up front — these got an above rate point hike on the base model, jumping up to 14pts each while the wolfquad goes to 20 and also takes a sting on heavy stubbers.

The price you pay to field large units of these is now considerably higher, and the reason the GSC list we mathed out for our Chapter Approved review looked so bad was that it was running the absolute maximum number of these possible. There is a tradeoff for that though — these are exceptional at playing the 9th Edition missions and slot nicely into a role the army needs something to fill. Thanks to the FAQ, Rusted Claw or build-your-own with the equivalent trait bikers also get a new trick.