Note: I will not be reviewing Renegade Chaos Spawn, Blood Slaughterers, and Blight Drones. Chaos Spawn are exactly the same as in Codex: Chaos Space Marines, and I have already reviewed Blood Slaughterers and Blight Drones in previous posts, please refer back to my prior reviews if you are interested in those. Thanks
Renegade Disciple Squads- 35pts
Special Rules: Uncertain Worth, Fanatic, Bulky (heavy weapon teams)
- this unit has the same weapon options as the the normal troop choices.
Exactly the same statline as Astra Militarum Veterans, this is probably the only unit with a BS of 4 in the entire Renegades and Heretics army list. For 35pts you get a Champion (sgt.), and 4 regular disciples. Fanatic will allow you to roll an additional dice and select the highest for leadership, so you'll probably average 8+ making them more reliable than other infantry. You can add an additional 5 disciples at 10pts each.
You can also give this unit a chaos covenant for 10pts. The unit is flexible in terms of customization, you can add a vox, upgrade the champion, insert a special weapon on one disciple, and upgrade two to a heavy weapon team. Unfortunately, this all costs a lot of points and frankly isn't worth it in my humble opinion. If the unit could all be given special weapons, like in the Astra Militarum Codex, then I'd say put 5 of these guys in a chimera with meltas. Frankly, it's a redundant unit, where cheaper options are available (see troop choice review).
Renegade Ogryn Brutes- 60pts
Special Rules: Very bulky, Hammer of Wrath, Fearless, Random Attacks, Rampage (brutes only), rune them down (chaos hounds), Packmaster (packmaster only)
For 60pts you get one brute...But wait, there's more! You can add 9 more Ogryn for 60pts each, and a packmaster is free! They only come with a close combat weapon and frag grenades, you can add chaos hounds for 30pts each, one can have a lascutter/powerdrill for 15pts, they don't come with any armour but you can give them flak or carapace if, YOU GUESSED IT...an obscene amount of points. To top off this outrageously expensive unit you can make it more cost-inefficient, but arguably more survivable if you give them dedication to a particular chaos god (nurgle 5+ FNP).
You can probably sense from the tone of this particular entry, that I feel it's a waste of my time even reviewing it because (although I love the models from forgeworld), this unit is dead on arrival. Perhaps a narrative/fluff player would enjoy taking them, and who wouldn't, they are great models, but not competitive in the slightest. Reduce the points by 2/3, reduce upgrades slightly and then maybe they are mediocre, but otherwise, utter garbage. I challenge anyone to win competitively with them, at a grand tournament level and submit me the video.
This review was a little shorter, but I'll be sure to get up another review soon.
-Argentius signing off
the spawn aren't the same, they are a lot cheaper, only come in 3s and can't be given marks.
ReplyDeletethey can also be made Objective Secured by taking a Tzeentch Covenant. A very very competitive unit entry.
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