Great video Darrell. Mephiston is one man army, but he is the #1 target for all shooting. Another idea would be to try and run him behind the rhino for cover.

One point though, I don’t think Sanguinary Priests can join him because he is always a unit of one and ICs can’t join a unit that always consists of a single model.

Simpler way to get him across the board… Escort of assault marines. Stick him behind a 10 man squad with a sanguinary priest in there too and he’ll usually make it into combat. An advantage of this is that if the assault squad gets tied up in combat, you can assault mephiston into them on your next turn and quickly turn the tide. If mephiston is positioned well, he’ll be taking a cover save from his escort unit, and you can survive more of what gets through with feel no pain.

the new FAQ. page 5. 2nd question from the top.

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Mephiston is a unit of his own, just like any other space marine unit except independent characters. He is also not monstrous creature, so normal marines between mephiston and who ever is shooting at him gives him a 4+ cover save. Since he has toughness 6, he can also have Feel No Pain from battle cannons and other weapons with strength 9 or less with armour piercing 3 or worse. You could also group up a bunch of independent characters like sanguinary priests, Dante, chaplains, librarians and captains to form a massive killer unit. However, it won’t be very point-wise,… Read more »

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Independent characters are allowed to join other units. They cannot, however, join vehicle squadrons and units that always consist of a single model (like most vehicles and monstrous creatures). They can join other independent characters though, to form a powerful multi-character unit!”

That last sentence seems to be where Darrel is coming from. I haven’t read the Blood Angels codex so I am not sure about Mephiston’s rules but it seems like he can be joined by other independent characters.

Thanks for answering my question. It was really helpful. I am new to the game and had difficulty working out the designated transport rules.

So this is kinda off the topic of the video, but when Mephiston charges the nightbringer, like he did in this video, doesn’t the nightbringer have the option to push units its in CC away before blows are struck with one of its special ability or was there a faq that got rid of that?

Great Video btw

@ bigbri oh okay, thanks for the answer.

The words that undoubtfully made me misunderstand just like Darrell here was probably: “(like most vehicles and monstrous creatures).” If you read this too fast or without enough focus, you’d be led to believe that the rule would only include vehicles and monstrous creatures, which Mephiston is not. How ever, those were only examples of such units. So I’m sorry I made such a stupid mistake, being a Blood Angels player and having played for more than a decade.