Signals from the Frontline #407

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Show Notes

Date

1-29-16

Intro

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News

• Big News! GW is launching model kits for release in Big Box stores! These were seen at the Nuremberg Toy Fair.

• Hugh Jackman said he’d be doing his last Wolverine movie, Wolverine 3. Rumors are that it may be the Old Man Logan story line which would be incredible, if true.

• Infinity showcases their new releases which look fantastic.

• The first images of Blood Bowl minis are floating around the web!

• The LVO is almost upon us! Get ready for some great gaming with friends.

Upcoming ITC Events

• Coastal Assault, Fort Walton Beach, FL, January 29th-30th, 2016
• The Brink of Doom ITC Narrative Event, Aiea, HI, January 30th, 2016
• Warhammer 40k ITC Tournament, Empire Games, Mesa, AZ, January 30th, 2016
• Game On Presents 40k at Chattacon, Chattanooga Choo Choo, TN, January 30th, 2016
• Warhammer 40k ITC Tournament, Coliseum of Comics, Orlando, FL, January 30th
• Lords of War 40k Tournament, Glimpses of Wonder and Warfare , Sherwood, OR, January 30th, 2016
• Big Boyz Broken Bonez 40K Open Tourney, Ontario, Canada, January 30th, 2016

Rumors: The Rumor Section is gathered from the web and is not in any way information we receive from  any manufacturer nor is it necessarily accurate. This section of the podcast is intended for entertainment purposes only.

• Space Wolf Rumors!
  • Wulfen – 150 points
  • Wulfen
  • WS4/BS2/S5 (or 3)/T4/W2/I5/A3/Ld8/Sv4+
  • Wulfen Pack Leader
  • WS4/BS2/S5 (or 3)/T4/W2/I5/A4/Ld9/Sv4+
  • Wargear:
  • Close Combat Weapon
  • Special Rules
  • Rage
  • And They Shall Know No Fear
  • Curse of the Wulfen (p26, i.e. new rule)
  • Counter-attack
  • Bulky
  • Acute Senses
  • Feel no Pain
  • “Death Fury” (At the end of any initiative step in which a model of
  • this unit died that model may pile in and make a full attack, even if it
  • already attacked this turn.)
  • “Far Leaps” (Unit can run and charge in the same turn. In addition
  • it may re-roll failed charge rolls. [Not too sure about german 40k
  • vocabulary, that could also mean failed “attack rolls”, but charge seems
  • more likely])
  • Wargear Options:
  • May take up to five additional Wulfen (30pts each)
  • Every model may take a “Stormsplinter Salvo Grenade Launcher” (2pts each)
  • Every model may take one of the following:
  • -Two-handed Frostaxe (8pts each; p27, i.e. new wargear)
  • -Two Frostclaws (12pts each; p27, i.e. new wargear)
  • -Thunder Hammer and Stormshield (20pts each)
  • One Wulfen may be upgraded to a Wulfen Pack Leader with two Frostclaws (20pts)
  • Credit to anonymous for this leak and translation.

Curse of the Wulfen.

All non-vehicle models within 6″ is affected. For Blood/Sky/swift claws it is 12″, for Long Fangs it is 3″.

Wulfen, Servitors and units that start in a transport are not affected.

At the start of the player turn, roll a single dice for all units. The effect lasts until your next player round.

Units outside of combat gain the Hunt tables effect, units in combat gain the Kill effect.

Hunt

1-3: re-rolls failed charges and… hammer of wrath

4-5: Add 3″ when you move, run or charge. Basically dunestrider.

6: All models gain Furios Charge and gains 1d3 attacks for charging, unless they have Rage.

Kill:

1-4: +1 initiative.

4-5: Re-rolls to wound.

6: If killed, you may attack before being removed, even if you already fought in an earlier Initiative step.

Wargear.

Helfrost pistol. I will laugh if that thing ends up being 15 points and straight up better then plasma pistols.

Grenade launcher is 12″, S4 Ap5 assault 3. Or assault D3?

I think they don’t even need to fire it to benefit from assault grenades in close combat.

Frostclaws are +1S, AP2, Shred.

Stormhammer have Helfrost

Twohanded frost-axe is S+3 AP2. “Merciless swing?”

Strike at normal initiative when charging, otherwise at I1. That is 5 S8 AP2 attacks at initiative 5. But hey, who needs instakill T4 when you can drown the opponent in S6 AP2.

EDIT: Huh, nobody among the wulfen have access to helfrost pistol. Are we getting some character model as well?

• Chaos Daemon rumors!
  • There are some images floating around the web of new Daemon formations in the Curse of the Wulfen book.
  • One appears to be a Cannon of Khorne formation that fires a combined blast that goes 10″ called the Gorethunder Battery!
  • The other is called the Murderhorde, but it is difficult to see what it says.

• AdMech
  • The new Ad-Mech kits is a dual built kit, with both options in the box.
  • Both are upright walkers.
  • General appearance is of a thinner version of the plastic Kastelan.
  • One robot has anti-infantry high rate of fire weapons.
  • One robot has a large battering ram close combat weapon.
  • Knights moving to LoW.Mixed chatter regrading specialized Ad-Mech fortifications.
  • New combo Robot kit will make 2 different robot versions.New Transport kit.New Flyer kit.
  • Look for a Combined Adeptus Mechanicus book to replace the current pair released in 2015.Ad Mech is slated for a Q2 2016 Release.
• Dark Eldar Rumors!
  • The next Dark Eldar codex is due out in the second half of 2016 with several changes.
  • Raiders are *free* for anything that can take dedicated transports.
  • Venoms are not free but can disembark passengers after moving 12″.
  • Wyches sound *good* and fluffy – and they’re getting new models.  They all get shred and hydra gauntlets cause blindness.   They also have the innate ability to choose to wound off their choice of attributes rather than toughness.  So they can pick initiative and wound Necrons on a 3+.  That’s what Wyches do to slow people. Their Hecatrix rerolls *everything* in a challenge.
  • Combat drugs are on a 2D6 chart and are optional.  
  • Darklight weapons (dark lances, blasters, blast pistols) all gain the blind special rule.
  • During night fighting all enemy units are treated as affected by the blind special rule and there are powers to make it dark on various rounds.
  • Whenever a Dark Eldar unit with the Power From Pain rule attacks an enemy unit that’s blinded, those attacks gain rending and instant death.
  • Power from Pain is no longer a turn chart.  Instead there are different types of pain the army focuses on, during a given turn and the army fights differently based on what’s chosen.  No more details other than that.  
  • The Court of the Archon gets a second copy of the warlord’s warlord power.  Additionally enemies do not achieve the Slay the Warlord objective until they’ve killed both the warlord and the Court.
  • Succubi are like what Lilith Hesperax is right now.  Not exactly sure what that means.  
  • Hellions can hit-and-run on their initiative step rather than at the end of the combat round.  Shoot, assault, make CC attacks, and then bounce out of combat before the enemy can make their attacks.  
  • Wracks are 2W and any character automatically passes LOS rolls if they have a Wrack with them.

Rant Session

Tactics Corner

Rules Lawyer

Completed Commissions

List Review

Drop the BOOM!

CAD:  Ultramarines

• Tiguirius-  165 points

Elites:

• 5 Sterngurad with 4 combi-melta, sergeant with mbomb, drop pod-  212 points

Troops:

• 4 scouts with bp/ccw, sergeant with bp/ccw, mbomb, storm with h flamer-  100 points
• 4 scouts with bp/ccw, sergeant with bp/ccw, mbomb, storm with h flamer-  100 points
• 4 marines with a meltagun, sergeant with combi-melta, mbomb- 95 points

Heavy:

• 4 Centurions with grav, hurricanes and sergeant with las/ml and omni-scope-  410 points

Inq Detatchment:

• Coteaz-  100 points
• Flesh Tearers Strike Force:
• Mephiston-  175 points
• Librarian ML2, Veritas Vitae- 105 points

Troops:

• 4 Marines with a meltagun, sergeant with combi-melta, mbomb, drop pod-  130 points

Fast:

• Drop pod-  35 points

LOW:

• Dante-  220 points

1847 points

Thanks.

Phillip French