Let’s talk about the top 5 new 40K unit Enhancements from the new Marine mini detachments. I’m looking over Blood Angels, Dark Angels, Black Templars, Space Wolves, and the new Space Marines.
It is interesting to see these enhancements as new point sinks to help fill out your army a bit and let you customize some of your units. It is going to be a wild time trying to figure out what things allow your unit to truly get powered up. They are not in any particular order and these are the ones I like the most.
5. Dark Angels – Dark Age Arsenal – Entreaty of Perpetual Ardour – Unit Upgrade for Hellblaster Squad
This should get extra points for a pretty snooty name but this upgrade lets your Hellblasters snap shoot on a 5+. I don’t know if you’ve ever been hit by one of these squads but letting them shoot better with Overwatch is pretty nutty. I am so thankful Overwatch now doesn’t allow Rerolls or this would be an even crazy upgrade. Hellblasters are one of those units that feel almost there and this might make them ready to go in Dark Angels.
4. Space Wolves – Legends of Saga and Song – Fierce Example – Unit upgrade for Wolf Guard Terminators
This gives the unit a +1 to their Toughness which when mixed with their current Toughness of 5 means that T6 Terminators that get -1 to wound on another over their Toughness are going to be hard to move. This is a really interesting way to make these guys tougher and just lets this unit be a pure pain in the butt. I think this is one of the ways GW is pushing you to make a heavy Terminator army for the Space Wolves with this upgrade and this Detachment.
3. Space Marines – Librarius Conclave – Celerity – Unit upgrade for Adeptus Astartes Psyker
This grants the Marine Psyker and the unit they are attached to the ability to Advance and Charge. on top of that if they have the Biomancy discipline going they get +2 to their movement and they can fallback and charge. This allows your unit of jerks to just be a terror as they charge in, do some work, fallback, and do it all again. I wonder if there is ways to mix this with the Space Wolf Legends of Saga and Song to create some gnarly little terminators of death and doom?
2. Blood Angels – Encarmine Speartip – Angelic Executioner – Adeptus Astartes Jump Pack Model only
This grants the unit that is attached to this model the ability to select lethal hits or sustained hits 1 when it is selected to fight. The fact it isn’t when they charge means this can be a brutal little set up to allow your unit to punch up when going into combat. Just the ability to score more hits will be useful as this Blood Angels detachment most likely needs a few ways to increase their combat abilities.
1. Black Templar – Marshal’s Household – Fervent Exemplars – Upgrade for Sword Brethren Squad
The best thing is this upgrade sounds like it’s an old 2000’s comedy show on the CW network. Welcome to Marshal’s Household where his friends get a +1 to their charge rolls and bring the pain to you. I think anything that will let your Black Templar units get faster will be useful especially with the assault units present in Black Templars. Will see if this one ends up getting used a bunch as I expect a lot of Marine stuff to get shifted around whenever they get a new codex in the future.
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