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Warhammer Secret Level Concept Art by Romain Chassefiere

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Anyways what incident do you think was the final straw for Guilliman

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Timelapse ❤️

Having fun drawing 40k stuff again, here's some more of my boys in the inquisition.

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We love painting the Sons of Medusa –

their vibrant green and stunning cloaks are the perfect

blend of elegance and menace. 💚🖤

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ꜱᴇᴄʀᴇᴛ ʟᴇᴠᴇʟ ꜱ01ᴇ05 (2024)

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A Skorpekh Destroyer stealthily charges a Sister of Battle.

(Media - 9th Edition Trailer)

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The queen is back in necromunda and is here to take everything that isn't hers!

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Warhammer 40,000 Balance Changes for December 11, 2024: Core Changes

Okay, I won't lie. This shouldn't have taken this long. But between my health, PoE2, and Grotmas, it just took a while to put this together. And while I haven't been consuming any 40K content besides Grotmas, and I've been steadily logging my honest and unfiltered reactions as I've worked, I'll go ahead and put this in "Not So Live Blog."

I already addressed the article in my Grotmas Livestream, so we're heading straight into the thick of things today. Let's start with a summary of the current state of balance in 40K.

As with most of this year, balance in 40K is probably the best it's ever been. While some will argue that previous metas in previous editions were more interesting, it's difficult to argue that balance has been tighter. More than ever before it is possible to win with any faction. More than ever before, there are more play-styles available to faction specialists. The game is in a great spot!

But that doesn't mean there isn't anything to fix.

As others and I worried, GSC has risen to become a faction bogeyman again. Though to be fair, I never thought it would be this bad. The GSC player base is skilled and dedicated. Presented with the changes to Cult Ambush and a slew of cuts to their unit costs, faction specialists have had a field day. And competitive players with the resources to jump in have also had success. While it does require skill to pilot, the faction is definitely too strong as is.

The main problem is the aforementioned Cult Ambush. Depending on your die rolls, this rule does anything from nothing, to forcing your opponent to play against a seemingly endless horde. And now that Cult Ambush units can deploy out of Deepstrike, skilled players can take those returning forces and terrorize other armies. The result is a niche faction suddenly pulling in an incredible amount of tournament wins while being incredibly overrepresented at top tables.

In the mean time, another army many predicted would be strong is also performing extremely well. Even before Aquilions dropped in from orbit, Guard suddenly found themselves with some incredible boosts to their faction. I honestly thought that Tank Commanders would be fine with nerf they got. They are so not fine. And since many long time competitive players have Guard armies . . .

And nipping on their heals is another faction that refuses to break before planets do. While Sisters have only brought home a third the wins Guard has since the last MFM, they're still heavily overrepresented at top tables. Some of this is almost certainly skilled specialists boosting their numbers while the influx to Guard is probably bringing there's down a bit. But Sisters are still a faction to be feared.

On the other end of the spectrum is Space Marines. Dark Angels did, in fact, really suffer after the nerfs to Codex Marines. Blood Angels and Space Wolves also went down a peg, though they're both mostly fine right now. And core Codex Marines are still hurting. Interestingly, their cousins on Titan have been hurting even more. Despite buffs, they've been held back some by changes to the Core Rules and haven't risen as their foes have fallen. Their Index also just isn't that deep and they're suffering from stagnation.

Finally there's Imperial Agents. While some skilled players have taken them up as a challenge, or just wanted to have some fun with them, they're still just not a real army. They need an army rule. They need detachment rules that aren't so incredibly limited to a small number of units. They just need a lot if GW intends for them to be a real faction.

I also can't leave out the Deathwatch. They'll be returning to the faction list proper now. Here's hoping their improved Index and shiny new Kill Team breathes some life back into the faction.

But again! I can't emphasize enough just how good the game is right now! My favorite thing I'm seeing are the “mad ladz”. Crazy players that seem to be picking detachments no one is taking and saying, “Imma win with that.” Then they do it. The most famous is probably Jon Camacho who took home a GT with the Null Maiden Vigil, which many were claiming was the worst Detachment GW has written so far. But this just keeps happening, and I'm so here for it.

Core Rules Updates

At the top of our new document, they preview that there are further changes to Fire Overwatch! Let's take a look!

This is small but not unimportant nerf to the Stratagem. In the Charge phase, you can now only use Fire Overwatch! when the Charge is declared. So you have to decide whether to use it before you see your opponent's Charge Roll. This was how it worked in previous editions. Fire Overwatch! has been the source of a lot of grief since 8th Edition, so it's one of those rules that needs to be carefully tuned.

And that's really all there is! There isn't even any new FAQs. Looks like the Core Rules are reaching a place where Stu and the gang are happy with them.

Pariah Nexus Tournament Companion

I forgot this one last time. It's also still a little hard to work with since I still can't find my own copy of the deck. But let's take a look!

Huh! Looks like I might have missed a version. Still, I'll be looking for changes since the October release.

Looks like the update is in the FAQ. GW has confirmed you can use Fire Overwatch! on a unit trying to complete an Action without causing it to fail. See what I mean about that rule causing issues? And that also appears to be the only change. Looks like GW was saving the majority of their effort for the factions themselves. So let's look at the Dataslate!

Balance Dataslate

Right off the bat we're hit with the two changes we were warned about in the WarCom article. You can no longer use a Stratagem to setup on the table within 6” of an enemy unit. As long as the source of the rule is a Stratagem, you have to be outside of 6”. As for the Armour of Contempts out there, these effects now end when the attacking unit finishes making said attacks. Space Marines had better be getting some nice buffs . . .

And with that, we're on to each faction! I'm going to do a mix of things this time around. I'm gonna write a post for each of the Super Factions like I did last time. But then I'll follow that with separate posts for the factions with the largest changes.

Spoilers, but if you want to looks specifically for those articles, they're Adepta Sororitas, Adeptus Custodes, Genestealer Cults, Necrons, and Space Marines.

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Secret Level (2024)

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“Break your chains, my child, and with them, strangle your oppressors.”

- 1 Words of the Prophets, 1:342

“Fear? I shall Fear nothing. My Dark Father is Fear. And when all else has burned away, only he will remain, my voice within his Cacophony. And within the shadows of that tenebrous Elysium I will live forever.”

- Forgotten Words of Old Khemri, 1:32-37

“Away with you, oh foul creature. For his is the voice of Sutekh, whose words are like the coming storm, by whose will is carried the message of your extinction!”

- The Bent Pyramid Texts, 2:120-122

Excerpts from The Hidden Word

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My thigh bag drop bag whatever you call it. Decorated with a Nurgle patch and a pin. The stickers on it are reflective as I ride my bike a lot sometimes I'm out later in the day and I need to be seen as much as possible.

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glory to chieftains, pwaise cosmic serpent

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Perturabo

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another rainy day