The Grey Knights Arrive To Do Some 40k Daemon Slaying
August 16, 2014 by brennon
Games Workshop have stayed true to the leaks and made it the week of the Grey Knights with the new Codex plus a Limited Edition version and some Datacards as well to get your objectives in order...
Some very nice looking art prints come with the Collectors Edition of the Codex but I think the standard artwork for the basic Codex is very good indeed. Once again I think it would be safe to say it has been done by the talented Raymond Swanland. It will be interesting to see how the Grey Knights develop and what new powers and ploys they will be able to bring to the fore.
As well as that they get the Datacards that were mentioned before bringing along a whole bunch of Psychic Cards and the Objective Cards that you can use in-game. Not a bad little set and like most of the Games Workshop 'power cards' they are fairly good value for money too.
Will you be picking up Grey Knights?
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I hope they have something really “elite” in their vehicles. Perhaps something like the Landraider Achilles since these are rock hard and very rare in the fluff.
Also, noticed they have a seperate dataslate for assassins. is this new? The description says its for fielding an army of assassins!!!
There;s no way they’re getting the Achilles, which is FW only. They do get a special LR in IA2v2, but it’s rubbish since you can essentially make the same thing from the current codex for cheaper.
The assassin dataslate is new, current rumour is they’ve been removed from the dex (along with all Inq stuff) and that the dataslate will allow you to field them as a formation in any Imperium army.
I’m kind of interested in what they do, I am wondering if we will see various things getting the psycannon option.
I had heard Mordrak and Thawn are gone which is a shame, finger crossed Crowe gets done better.
There’s supposedly a purifier formation that lets Crowe take some sort of bodyguard unit, otherwise he;s still a one man band unfortunately.
Any new models rumoured to arrive??
No, only new thing is a repack of the current box. Marketed as a 10man strike squad, it’s about 10% cheaper than buying two of the 5 man boxes.
Can’t wait for a serious review for BoW to do on this codex. The Rumors are flying and are NOT GOOD about this army. Major Nerfs across the board. Psyflemans are no longer, Psycannons are now “Salvo” from their original”Assault”. Anything good coming out of this codex at all other then Santic Powers Perils only on double 6’s or more?
So this was posted on another well known web site as a leaked dex mods if this link is not allowed on this site plz feel free to delete
Any way brothers of Titan behold and weep
http://bloodofkittens.com/blog/2014/08/19/rumor-it-grey-knight-codex-rules-confirmations/
sorry gents but this is not but a repackage and nurfed down grey knights. to be a pro con type of ploy we loose characters GW does not have models to sell, we loose inqui unless we allie, we loose assasin as well unless u data slate them. we loose pyscannon goodness for SS as they are more pts and have salvo. we also loose pysbolt so no more riflemen to take down heavy vehicles. we loose free melee weapons on terminator armour guys. draigo is less pts but with that he looses some profile stats. They word separate pyskers from deamons and push all our gear to affect mostly deamons. They take away all our int. bonus from all aspect of weapons and wargear. We have to pay for melee gear for everyone now term,paladins. we now have three yes three str weapons, +1halberd, +2stave, X2hammer psycannons for non terminators are salvo and 5 pts more now.That is most to some of the cons. there are more but im not hear for a year lol PRO: terminators are 33 points, dread knights pay less for equipment and teleporter, justicar apothy are cheaper, pysk out nades can be throw up to 8″, incinerator is cheaper on SS and IS, justcars can take teleport homers. most of the army can DS on turn one if they are in resv on a 3+ but follow a specific ary make up. Overall we loose more then what we gain. they turned the army from versatile to well a predictable force of only a few options. while the warlord trait is cute its still a random D6 roll and thus is not that great compared to what we had before. many mistakes or if you have it contradictions in the book on fluff and while i can see a change was coming i did not expect them (arthor) to just become ignorant in this rewriite. it has been cast by GW as a good thing to pay more for less, less options, less army functions, less army abilities and less units to choose from all in the name to make a buck and then wrap it up as turd for sale. Separating GK from the inquisition was your idea but do not say your doing it to make the army better. You did not make the army better. You spent no money on casting new models, making new units pushing the fluff out that these guys are from titan and they are bad ass. this is less of an army as a whole. Many options are gone and many players will have to either buy new models or magnetize the hands/arms of there current models just to make an army work better. This is the magician slight of hand trick where you show this pretty bird before you make it disappear and in truth the bird is now dead in a collapsed cage. showing a new smaller bird and wanting that praise for performing nothing. In all my grade to you GW is a C- for trying. I hope many can see this trick and call you out on it.
To be honest we haven’t really lost anything as we can ally inq , sm , imp guard, knight titian houses and the assassins it’s just if you want to field a GK only army there isn’t much choice but this codex reminds me of the Deamon hunters grey knights force in the 3rd ed dex there is a lot to Locke a lot to enjoy (33 pts termi’s) and compaired to the 5th ed dex yes we have lost a lot but still it’s a very viable force although on a personal level I will miss anval thrawn
in the old dex we had more choices and units without having go to and buy more over priced little things to make our army work good. kinda a scam but hey on to the book while temies are 35 points not 33 unless you are fine with the sword. your termies and dread knight are all you will get that is the bonus. from before each unit had a purpose and a good measure of tactics to use. now you have hard choices to make in small point armies. the characters we are left with do nothing special as they where the worst in the crop from 5th/6th edition but you could use them in measure, well no one used stern no matter what lol. paladins has a cheap nurse but they cost more now because again pallies with just swords hahahaha hardly. can someone explain why make 3 weapons all the same in aspect of str but raise by 1,2, x2. it shows lack of imagination and just doing the book on a cheap. When people say units are cheap i just know they are not reading completely. draigo is cheaper but that is because they took away many aspects that made him draigo. LOW needs an HQ to be fielded so another tax. libby is cheap but one guy in the psychic phase wont win you the game. SS/IS are a bust as they cost more and do less. we have a 10 pt tax now on these units we may need the most. double tax as the reason for SS was for the psycannons on the cheap and the weapon being of mars/titan made so it was not so bulky but GW again heard people complain that grey knights moving and shooting is unfair so give the weapon salvo so not only do they shoot 12″ if they move but only 2 shots. purifiers have a bonus that out weighs their negative. soul blaze in CC hurts and well we already had 2 pt halberds but it is what it is. they still cant DS so you roll them in on something or walk and sneak around. you wont take psycannons because they cost 15 points now. incinerators cost 5 points. the overall weapon attribute was a + but whoever made the points well they were smoking something. in this small book you have to many negatives or stupid ideas that should have stayed in the testing phase. No new units and further data slates maybe is just bad business and greed IMO. We have the smallest army of all in 40k and now it just got even smaller. to many taxes just to make it in a tournament and to play a friendly game you will loose more friends then make. less options in a book that as tricks more then treats. HAPPY EARLY HOLLOWEEN though lol