Improve model’s Save characteristic by 1.

Improve weapon’s Attacks characteristic by 1.

First Rank, Fire! Second Rank, Fire! (FRFSRF).

Improve your ranged weapons’ Ballistic Skill by 1.

Improve your melee weapons’ Weapon Skill by 1.

Improve model’s Movement characteristic by 3”.

Where we used to have access to 18 unique orders, we now have access to six: This mechanic has been greatly simplified from its 9th Edition predecessor. Don’t sleep on this – having extra attacks or boosted stats through your opponent’s turn and into your next Command Phase will do a lot for unit survivability, objective control, or sheer lethality. In your Command Phase, your Officer units provide inspiration and leadership to their subordinates boosting their effectiveness throughout the duration of the Battle Round. It’s the thing Guard always has, and always ought to do. *except all the other elites Army Rule Voice of Command (VoC) The core concepts of that codex remain in this index, but like everything else in 10th the fat has been cut away let’s take a look at what the men and women of the Guard are working with now.īefore we begin we’d like to thank Games Workshop for providing us with a review copy of the Index for review purposes.

In 9th edition, the Militarum were all but last to receive a codex (with only the ‘new’ World Eaters coming after them), and it had a hell of a lot going on.

Ordinary people with tanks and guns, facing off against a universe of horrors they barely understand – that’s life in the service of the Emperor. Instead that burden is shouldered by the Astra Militarum, formerly the Imperial Guard, whose fighting forces number in the billions and pervade every corner of the Imperium. There are a million Space Marines in the galaxy, stretched thin across a million worlds they form the Emperor’s elite*, but they cannot be everywhere at once. Treads grind through the mud as the Hammer of the Emperor goes to war.

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