With Codex Blood Angels hitting stores soon, GW is revealed a sneak peek of the new Death Company 9th Edition 40k rules!
The angriest and most uncontrolled Blood Angels are thrown into the Death Company so they can have an honorable death in battle. This week on Warhammer community, they revealed a few new ways how they can be taken.
If you want to check out the rest of the new Blood Angels rules for 9th Edition click on one of the article links below:
- Datasheets & Points
- Stratagems & Secondaires
- Relics & Special Issue Wargear
- Detachment Abilities & Special Rules
- Death Company Rules
This preview includes how to turn your characters into Death Company dudes, special rules, and some specific stratagems. Another pretty interesting element they are adding, which is very fluffy, is the addition of death visions. Now your lost units can actually confer power from the death of Sanguinius in three different ways.
If you are just starting your journey with the Blood Angels, you should go check out their new combat patrol box as a good starting point. For now, let’s dive into the rules!
Blood Angels Death Company 40k Rules Revealed!
There are four main units that can be made into the Death Company. But with the new rules, you can also upgrade one Captain and two Lieutenants in each Blood Angels Detachment into the Death Company.
The point increase isn’t too crazy and they gain all the benefits and downsides. Including the Death Visions ability. Let’s check it out!
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Death Visions Ability
This new rule allows you to pick one of three delusions. This is the only one they revealed so far but the new mechanic seems really fun! If you are fighting hordes, needless to say, this will make them hit sooo hard! If you are 6″ within 15 minis, you get three extra attacks rerolling all missed hits!
Visions of Sanguinius
We don’t know what the other ones will be, but if they are as good as the first, this could be amazing! Maybe you will get extra attacks and more charge distance. Who knows?
Crusade Rules
A fun little way to induct your characters into the Death Company! Just make sure they get those flaw points into your games!
The rest of your army gets buffed up when your Death Company units get destroyed! Now you don’t have to worry about throwing them into the enemy every battle!
Death Company Units
They can have all sorts of cool weapons, and of course, can still all take Jump Packs. Also, you can upgrade every single model in the unit with special weaponry if you want as well.
You can also now take Intercessors as Death Company. You can outfit them for either shooting or CC as well, so pretty nice.
You can run Tycho as either his normal version or the Lost version. He gains all the Death Company rules when ran as the Lost.
What do you think about the new rules? Will you be running a ton of Death Company in your army?
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