The new Dark Angels Primaris model has all the options! Here are the latest previews for new 40k rPsychic Awakening releases including Captain Lazarus.
Spotted on Warhammer 40,000’s Facebook, Lazarus, the newly previewed named Primaris character is unique. While he’s a named character, this is the first time we’ve seen a unit with a unique name get different weapon options.
GW Previews New Primaris Model & Psychic Awakening
It looks like the earlier rumors were true! Lazarus us back, and he heralds new rules for not just the Dark Angels but also the Thousand Sons and Grey Knights as well!
At the head of the Dark Angels forces is Master Lazarus – former Sergeant, now Captain of the Dark Angels 5th Company! For those of you who remember The Wrath of Magnus, Lazarus was laid low by the fell sorcery of the XV Legion. Reborn as the first Primaris Space Marine of the Inner Circle, he’s back with a dark vengeance and an even deeper hatred for psykers.
At the head of the Dark Angels forces is Master Lazarus – former Sergeant, now Captain of the Dark Angels 5th Company! For those of you who remember The Wrath of Magnus, Lazarus was laid low by the fell sorcery of the XV Legion. Reborn as the first Primaris Space Marine of the Inner Circle, he’s back with a dark vengeance and an even deeper hatred for psykers.
Fighting alongside the Dark Angels are the Sons of Titan, whose prognosticators have foreseen the future evildoing on the twin homeworlds of the Thousand Sons. All of this will be covered in the next instalment of Psychic Awakening, which also contains rules for all three of these factions.
Are these the rules Grey Knights have been waiting for? From this preview, it looks like the Dark Angels will be getting the same treatment as the Blood Angels in Blood of Baal. GK players will be waiting with bated breath to see if their beloved chapter will gain some of the rules to at least put them on par with their fellow Astartes in the game.
For the Dark Angels, this book brings the Chapter into line with recent Space Marines updates, and also includes lots of juicy new rules content, especially for Deathwing and Ravenwing commanders.
The Grey Knights get plenty of new tricks too, including a particularly powerful new ability called Masters of the Warp, which rewards you for taking a dedicated army of Grey Knights, channelling a specific aspect of the warp to provide an army-wide bonus.
The Thousand Sons can now dedicate their Sorcerers to one of the nine Cults of the Legion – a callback to their arcane roots on fallen Prospero – providing them with a plethora of new tactical options.
Until now everything about this model was shrouded in mystery, pun intended. It’s not surprising to see GW release a Dark Angels Primaris character for this expansion. For each chapter that’s been updated, we’ve seen some kind of Primaris model hit. (Aside from the poor Black Templars in Faith & Fury).
Primaris Captain Lazarus Coming With Wargear Options
Normally, named characters have set wargear. Gabriel Seth has Bloodreaver, Dante has the Axe Mortalis, Marneus Calgar has his fists, and Vulkan has his spear. All of the wargear on named characters is normally set in stone, so to speak. However, Lazarus looks to be the first Primaris named character with different weapon options.
While we first saw him carrying his helmet with a sword, you’ll also be able to put a helmet on him and have him toting a bolter and power fist instead.
What could make a Dark Angels Space Marine more mysterious (or durable) than giving them a face-hiding helmet? The Master Lazarus model has bare and helmeted head options for battlefield occasions.
This is something completely out of pattern for GW so this could be them “testing the water” on giving named characters different wargear. With that said, we may see an increase of named characters in the future have different weapons to be modeled within their kits!
With all of this on the table, which loadout do you like better on Lazarus? Would you like to see more Primaris named characters come to different Chapters? Or would you rather see GW focus more on Xenos and Chaos factions for a time?
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