Warhammer 40K is a sprawling setting with decades of lore spread across video games, source books and tabletop games, novels, animated series, and short stories. The big-picture lore, which has often been stagnant, paints the picture of a galaxy where nothing will ever get better. Humanity rules the stars under the enormously corrupt and decayed administration of the Imperium of Man, toiling under the eye of the decayed corpse Emperor who sits upon the Golden Throne. The Imperium will fail, either from civil war or one of the many hungry alien threats who wait at the door. Behind Enemy Lines also gets an additional change, now rewarding 3VP if you get one unit into your opponent’s Deployment Zone rather than 2VP (and keeping the 4VP score for managing two). This is extremely good for faster armies and pressure builds, and this is likely to be a very common Secondary choice in Arks. The book does not contain any explicit Crusade content, but does have a paragraph stating that the rules and missions can be used with Crusade forces (and their Battle Honours, Battle Scars, and upgrades) so long as everyone understands that not all Agendas will actually work with the game setting. The book encourages players to discuss things ahead of time and mutually agree on how to handle things. Given that the Crusade system uses Power Level and Boarding Acton battles use points and a lot of restrictions it’s likely that players will be negotiating quite a bit.

Beanith: My best guess is the Angron book will contain the Faction-specific content and rules for Chaos Marines, Space Marines & Imperium; Vashtorr will cover Chaos Daemons, Admech and probably have the Necrons shoehorned in somehow. The 4th book is unnamed but ‘will be a distinctly xenos affair’, which I assume is code for it will be some horrific Xenos mashed burrito.For plenty of Factions, that will be the end of the process – but some armies also have the option of taking one Allied Detachment. Arks provides a specific, restricted list of Patrol, Super Heavy Auxiliary and Auxiliary Support options that you can take one of alongside your main force, depending on which faction your Arks detachment is from. Most of these cover the “encouraged” soup options that have arisen in books through 9th – Imperium and Chaos can take a Freeblade or Dreadblade, Asuryani or Drukhari can take Travelling Players, that sort of thing. There are a few surprising “missing” options – no way for Tyranids to take Genestealer Cults, and no Daemonic Allies for Chaos Knights, and at the other end two more surprising inclusions.

After waiting 10,000 years for the Lion to return, make something of the occasion by buying The Lion & Retinue, Supreme Grand Master Azrael, and Arks of Omen: The Lion together – and scoring an exclusive artist-signed print of the Knight of the Nihilus. Only 300 copies are available, so act fast.** Commander Dante This book also has rules for using the Killzone Shadowvaults upgrades in your boarding action games which is nice to see. What’s not so nice to see is that, instead of having easy rules for how to deploy these in normal missions, there are set locations to put these if you pay for them in your list. None of these are particularly powerful, but they can be nice list fillers. The standout here is the humble Searchlight, which gives a unit reroll 1’s against something within line of sight and 9” of it.

Arks of Omen models

Control Centre features a critical objective (A) and a second objective (B) which allows you to open every hatchway in the board if you perform an action there. In terms of objectives players get up to 15 points per turn for controlling one, two, or more objectives, an additional five points for controlling objective marker A, and 10 points at the end of the game for killing the enemy warlord.

Big Azrael now gets 6 swings at 7/-4/3 (up from 5 at 6/-4/2), which rips. You still get the 4++ bubble, though it’s slightly bigger now that he isn’t on a piddly little 25mm base. His PL didn’t actually change, and there aren’t points in here, but Warhammer Community posted his datasheet and he costs 170 now. That is still a friggin’ bargain for what you’re getting here. All measurements are done between the closest points of the bases of the models being measured, but measurements cannot be made through Walls or closed Hatchways. Instead a path must be drawn around those terrain features, and if it is impossible to draw a path then the distance between the models is considered to be infinite. There are a number of line-of-sight based changes in Boarding Actions; Witchfire powers can only affect visible units, and powers that affect the closest unit need a visible target. Most important is the change to charges: You can only charge a unit within line of sight, and likewise you need line of sight to Heroically Intervene. Arks of Omen is an in-universe event for the 9th Edition of Warhammer 40,000. [1] Games Workshop Description You can paint the gold with Retributor Armor and the face with Cadian Fleshtone , and add depth to both with Reikland Fleshshade . Paint the metallic elements with Iron Hands Steel , the Watchers’ robes and wax seals with Barak-Nar Burgundy , and finish it all off by shading them with Nuln Oil . Arks of Omen: The Lion

This book provides the basic rules players need to play Boarding Actions games. Unless otherwise specified, all of the Warhammer 40k Core Rules and those found in Codexes and supplementary publications also apply. Here are the major differences: CP and Stratagems First, if a unit’s minimum size is less than five then it can only be included in a Boarding Party if the unit is minimum-sized. This means that if you take something like a unit of Chaos Spawn, it’ll only be a single model. Once created, the Arks are placed under the command of Abaddon’s chosen followers and sent to their task, though not always fully aware of what they’re looking for. There’s some really cool details in the book on how these are outfitted and how Abaddon ensures they’ll achieve their goals, and it’s worth a read to understand more about the roles they play in the larger plan. What’s Next Additional rules for using five factions in Boarding Actions – T’au Empire, Asuryani and Ynnari, Drukhari, Harlequins, and Adepta Sororitas