This provides a massive boon to one of, in my opinion, strongest units in our book, the Kastelan Robots, more precisely, the ones armed with triple Heavy Phosphor Blasters. In 9th the changes to Heavy weapons takes away the need of that rule on the datasheets for tanks such as the Dunecrawler, as every Vehicle and Monster keyword model can move and fire without penalty. This means your army will naturally have to move more in order to obtain line of sight on the unit you want to shoot at.įor the Mechanicus tanks, this wouldn’t have posed much of a problem, as most can move and fire heavy weapons without penalty anyway. No more sniping a Neutron Laser through a building because you can see the unit on the other side of the battlefield through a window on a piece of terrain in the middle of the board. This means, unless you are right up against the terrain piece or within it, you cannot shoot through it. This, added to the smaller board sizes, means busier boards with less line of sight.Ī lot of scenery in your games will now be tagged with the Obscured keyword. The introduction of the new Ad Mech units filled a gap in the army composition, and with the focus on getting armies moving across the battlefield, without the new additions, this could have caused a problem for Mechanicus players in certain scenarios.Ī big change is the terrain, in both rules and the number of terrain you should be having on the battlefield. From the get-go, Games Workshop, or more accurately the Warhammer Community team, stressed that the new edition would offer more flexible army building, and the new rules would allow for armies to be much more mobile, pushing away from having a static army castled up and shooting everything in sight with all the re-rolls in the world. The last point in the previous paragraph is important when we look at the new edition of the game.

Add to this the previously released new dual tank/transport kit, the Dunerider/Distintegrator, and suddenly an army that used to be played so often in a ‘castle up’ style could now have lists which focused more on mobile firepower. Mobile cavalry in the shape of the Serberys Raiders/Sulphurhounds, jump pack troops with the introduction of the Pteraxii and finally the first flyer for the Ad Mech, the Archaeopter. Engine War also introduced a raft of new units, all of which offered Mechanicus players new, fast moving units.

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