Dreadnoughts still don’t have the HELBRUTE keyword, so none of them get legion traits. This also means that they largely don’t matter, outside of a few potential exceptions.

At T5 and 3 wounds with a 5+ invulnerable save, Possessed have enough durability to weather a bit of shooting, particularly with help from Cursed Earth and Pact of Flesh , but are more valuable as forward combat units that crash into enemy lines early than as midtable objective brawlers. They’re a fast, durable unit that can put out a ton of damage and they’re almost always a problem opponents have to deal with. Chosen Our goal is to build upon and consolidate the great work already being done by other community members across various forums, reddit threads, and hobby blogs, and bring together a comprehensive library of all these useful Build Instruction booklets.

Mark of Nurgle

Now it’s time to add some highlights to make the details stand out. Take a lighter metallic color like Ironbreaker and carefully apply it to the raised edges and prominent areas of the Vindicator. This will give it a more pronounced and dynamic look. Picture the scene – foul Traitors/foolish Loyalists (delete as appropriate) cower behind their latest fortress. Your squadron of Deimos-pattern Predators , though great at tearing other tanks to tatters, aren’t cutting the mustard against such enormous ramparts. You need something bigger! You need something that hits like a haymaker from the Emperor’s own fist. You need a Vindicator. At the start of the third battle round, you can choose to either remain in Wanton Massacre or be engaged in Wanton Slaughter. The Badab War - The Exorcists Space Marine Chapter and several other Space Marine Chapters used Vindicators during the Badab War against the Secessionist forces of the Tyrant of Badab and his Renegade Astral Claws. I’ve built my Vindicator with the Laser Destroyer, but these are the parts for the Demolisher version. You’d need to magnetise some or all of these if you wanted to swap things over.

The Vindicator, a formidable vehicle derived from the Rhino Standard Template Construct, represents another impressive addition to the Space Marine arsenal. While sacrificing its transport capacity, the Vindicator compensates by equipping reinforced armor, enhanced internal bracing, and increased ammunition storage. These modifications are essential to accommodate the mighty Demolisher cannon prominently mounted on the front hull, bolstered by robust recoil suppressors. Aeldari got a single update that alters the verbiage on the Hornet’s equipment confirming that it is equipped with two Hornet Pulse Lasers and not Shuriken Cannons as originally printed. This had the effect of not allowing Hornets to replace the Shuriken Cannons originally due to the wording of the replacement options… it’s a really dumb but necessary fix. Astra Militarum 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.Melee Combat. Chaos Space Marines have some of the game’s best melee threats – Possessed, Abaddon, Chaos Space Marines, Lords Discordant, Masters of Executions, and Chosen are all absolutely nasty threats, and you can make most of them even better with relics, warlord traits, and upgrades. Tearing through the armour plating of enemy vehicles, the Vindicator Laser Destroyer array was a potent weapon of destruction. Codex Adeptus Astartes - Dark Angels (7th Edition) (Digital Edition), "Battle Tanks", "Vindicators (Datasheet)", "The Hammer of Caliban (Formation)"

Gorget of Eternal Hate – The bearer gets +1 to their armour saving throws, has a 4+ invulnerable save, and the first time they’re destroyed, before you remove them from play, roll a D6 for each enemy unit within 3”; on a 2-5 they take D3 mortal wounds, on a 6 they take 3 mortal wounds. This is most powerful on a Lord Discordant, where your native 2+ Save becomes extra valuable and your large base makes the explosion harder to avoid. B+ 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.

Chosen come in units of 5-10 and can be given several different weapon options, including combi-weapons and double accursed weapons, though most of the time you’ll be kitting them out for melee, giving them a couple of power fists if you upgrade them at all. If you do manage to kill an enemy unit with your Chosen they get to count as engaged in all three Wanton modes for the rest of the game, which is a fun bonus if they can shoot something to death early but most games won’t matter as they’ll be geared out for melee. Death Guard and Thousand Sons can take IA: Compendium units. You can replace their keyword with either Death Guard or Thousand Sons. Death Guard units get the BUBONIC ASTARTES and keywords (so we have further confirmation plague companies are returning), and Thousand Sons units get the ARCANA ASTARTES and the keywords, showing off similar for the Thousand Sons. Note that Death Guard vehicles may get Inexorable Advance and Contagions rules as a result. As always, a guide like this represents a time and place. This was written in December 2022, after the release of Codex: Chaos Space Marines for 9th edition. Zaall, the Wrathful – KHORNE model only. Upgrades a melee weapon to be a Relic and adds D3 to the weapon’s Damage characteristic. This is fine, if unexciting. Best on a Daemon Prince or Lord Discordant. B+