New Boarding Patrol Sets Coming To Warhammer 40,000
January 10, 2023 by brennon
Games Workshop has been previewing some new sets that are going to be coming soon to support their new Warhammer 40,000 game mode, Boarding Actions. There are going to be two to choose from, to begin with, focusing on the Space Marines and Chaos Space Marines of this 28mm Sci-Fi wargame.
Space Marines Boarding Patrol // Warhammer 40,000
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The first of these sets for the Space Marines is led by a Primaris Captain In Gravis Armour who can be armed with a variety of different weapons. You also then get ten Assault Intercessors for all of that close combat you're going to be getting stuck into and five Heavy Intercessors who can lay down covering fire along those open corridors.
Both of the sets here are designed so they fit into Boarding Actions' 500-point limit and the other army building rules that we looked at last week HERE. That being said, the second of these sets focusing on the Chaos Space Marines offers up a few more than 500 points but that just means you can tweak as you see fit.
Chaos Space Marines Boarding Patrol // Warhammer 40,000
Yes, this set is led by Abaddon The Despoiler himself. When you need a job done, do it yourself I guess. As well as The Despoiler, you also have ten Chaos Space Marine Legionaries who can be armed with a variety of weapons and then twenty Cultists who will simply be cannon fodder thrown in the way of oncoming fire.
These seem like a neat idea and whilst I would imagine most people playing Boarding Actions are going to be drawing from their own collections, these could be a good excuse to pick up a new army and also 500 odd points of miniatures at the same time.
New Chaos Balefleet Battleforce
As well as these smaller sets that have been designed for Boarding Actions, there is also a new Chaos Battleforce that has been themed around the new unfolding narrative.
Balefleet Battleforce // Warhammer 40,000
A Balefleet is a warband of Chaos Space Marines that has been sent forth by Abaddon and Vashtorr to find the different McGuffins that they need for their rituals. You don't get either of the head honchos in this set but you do get ten Possessed, five Chaos Space Marine Terminators, a Heldrake and then a dark and twisted Daemon Prince.
This gives you a pretty elite option for your Chaos Space Marine armies and it fits in nicely with the new Detachment rules for Arks Of Omen that you can indulge in.
Are you going to be checking out these new sets from Games Workshop?
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I did wonder if we were going to see boarding patrol boxes although I do think taking Abaddon wont make a very interesting game.
Speaking of Chaos their boarding patrol only shows 5 marines in the picture but the text the Warhammer community site says 10?
It looks like the rules for Boarding patrol games are going to be in the next white dwarf, not sure if that the full rules but they are talking about cardboard titles for warp entities that will appear
Huh, that is weird. I read 10 too. I would imagine it comes with 10 but you can only fit 5 into your Boarding Patrol for 500 points I would guess so they’ve shown that on the cover? Abaddon must take up a fair whack of the points.
It’s chaos. It lies constantly 😉
I’m told he’s about 350 points on his own
Yer, Abaddon 350 + 180 for 10x Chaos Space Marines. Plus, 50 for the 10 Cultists. So 490 with half of the Chaos Space Marines and then 10 points left over for any particular upgrades.
The Warhammer community article mentions this
“Out of the box this collection has a few too many points for a single Boarding Action force, but that just gives you more options to play around with.”
So I think the box will come with 10 marines but the picture on the box is the actual warband you can play.
It’s still strange box, having such an expensive character model in it and then no elites as bodyguards seems weird.
Is there a pic of Abbadon next to the standard door? Is he even getting on that board? At least take the trophy rack off Zeke, mate.
The rules for Boarding Actions mean that it doesn’t matter about your base thankfully when it comes to doors. I guess you consider that they just smash it open.
There’s that. I had visions of him stuck in the boarding torpedo just shouting at people.
Better than his last Horus Heresy appearance so far though. Left stuck in a Termite borer with cement setting all around it 😀
And his response was get bigger? No wonder all the failure!
Wow, and Horus is supposed to be even larger! Wonder if the Forgeworld model reflects now.
They are good looking new game figures.
GW must have loads of the Hellchickens lying around they need to get rid of I assume.
That Astartes box is tempting though, anything that makes for cheaper Heavy Intercessors…
Well this interesting.