There’s a brand new set of Astra Militarum rumors doing the rounds – with some models saying hey, and a few outdated ones saying goodbye!

The IG have had a protracted lamentable eighth and ninth Edition.  Abe has been beside himself with grief for years. But apparently arising in the direction of the tail finish of ninth Edition codexes or perhaps the final one, it was maybe solely a matter of time till some Astra Militarum rumors began to trickle down.

Here’s the most recent.

The Rumors

We have three earlier batches, and one new one to meet up with. The earlier 3 have all been kindly collated collectively over at B&C.

Batch 1 (April 2022)

These come from Valrek and are roughly a month outdated:

• Plastic/Re-Cast Kasrkin
• Dorn (a tank) is chunky, comes with plenty of weapons (however may nonetheless have a reputation change!)
• A brand new infantry equipment, with a shift in the direction of a extra “veteran” -theme, type of like “the last sons of Cadia”
• New Command Squad
• New Heavy Weapons Team
• New Sentinels, which will probably be “Cawl-ified”, aka higher tech?
• New HQs/Commissars/Generals

Batch 2 (April 2022)

These come by way of Simply Warhammer who acquired it from a playtester (who has been proper on a number of codexes earlier than, together with Aeldari)

• Rogal Dorn Tank will probably be Toughness 9, additionally most likely 15/16 wounds
• Tank Commanders BS 4+ however Leman Russ turrets will probably be plus one to hit and might fireplace out of fight
• Deathstrikes revamped esp firing mechanism, 3D3 mortal wounds to the whole lot inside 6 inches and might fireplace 3 missiles
• Krieg within the codex

Batch 3 (April 2022)

These come by way of Reddit

• A brand new Lord Solar within the e book and that he will probably be driving one thing…

Batch 4 (The NEW ONES!)

These come from the GSC Discord (by approach by B&C)

• Veteran Squads and Special Weapon squads are gone from the e book, and Infantry squads lose entry to heavy weapons, however acquire a second particular weapon slot.
• You gained’t be operating pure cadians (after all you can) You will have the ability to combine and match completely different regiments into one pressure.
• Your military bonus doesn’t care that half is catachan and the opposite krieg, you’ll nonetheless get your military rule.
• The solely profit in operating say a unit of catachan is to make use of a strat like “vicious traps”
• In enemy cost section spend X cp When a unit is charged and is in terrain, roll a d6 +1 if unit is catachan or guerrillas +1 if unit has a melta mine +1 if sly marbo is on the battlefield
  • On a 2-5 the enemy unit suffers d3 mortal wounds, on a 6+ the enemy unit suffers 2d3 mortal wounds
• The command squad is now the hq
• You don’t get particular person characters main
• Field Ordinance Battery Choices
  • Bombast discipline gun
  • Heavy lascannon
  • Malleus rocket launcher
• Scions vary is now 24″ get the regiments bonus and likewise 6’s to hit rating extra hits

Thoughts

This looks like a bunch of guidelines minutia. But the attention-grabbing bit is the addition of three new kinds of “Field Ordinance Battery Choices”. Combined with the brand new Tanks listed within the earlier units of rumors, it appears to be like like GW is absolutely pushing Astra Militarum to be the “lots of vehicles/guns” sort of military as an alternative of the infantry horde route. The lack of Veterans and Special Weapon squads feels just like the current “No Model, No Rules” pattern hanging once more.

Overall this looks like a set of rumors that streamlines the infancy aspect of the military, which face it was all the time overly difficult for a way crappy the person fashions have been, whereas opening up quite a lot of heavy firepower new kits to blow away the badguys.  Not a foul massive image idea for a military which may be the weakest within the sport. I’ve no difficulty with positioning the Astra Militarum because the “most big guns” faction.

If there may be any military that’s desperately in want of a complete makeover – it’s Astra Militarum!

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