We knew some of the stats on the Guardian Drone from official previews, now check out their full 40k rules and points as well!
Guardian Drone are the last “bad guy” out of the Blackstone Fortress series but you can also use them in games of 40k with rules just like the Ambull and Zoat. We’ve seen a detailed look at the Guardian Drones already and we’ll review all that we’ve seen.
However, keywords, rules, and points have also been spotted and coming from Miniwars.
Earlier Official Previews on Guardian Drones
First off, we should know that these Guardian Drones are unaligned, which means that any faction can technically take these guys.
Guardian Drones have the Unaligned keyword, which means you can add them to any Warhammer 40,000 army. But precisely what are we adding?
For what they are, they’re a little slow. At T6 and 7 Wounds, they’re basically going to be a slow, squishier Dreadnought on the table.
They do get a pretty cool weapon profile called a Destroyer Pulse but it’s only one shot which is a little risky. They can also chew through power armor decently well with a D6 shot -3 AP weapon. However, it looks like it doesn’t have the Blast keyword which makes their shot output even more sketchy.
Remember these guys out of the base Blackstone Fortress game? Well, these Guardian Drones also have the Drone Commander rule which helps them hit harder.
As a force multiplier effect, Drone Commander will turn their dinky pistol-profiled Drone Pulse into a S6 -3 AP 4 dmg shot. If you bring enough of those little guys, they can actually do a surprising amount of damage.
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New Guardian Drone 40k Rules & Points SPOTTED
Disclaimer, this picture is hot garbage quality wise. But from what we can see, this datasheet shows a few key points that weren’t covered in the official previews. For starters, each Drone costs 90 pts and the squad size is one.
It also looks like they have a rule called Hover Drone (?) which gives them a 5+++FNP which is definitely useful. Overall, for the points, it doesn’t look like they’re too bad. But the Achilles heel to the unit is obviously it’s keywording. This guy can’t synergize with any faction’s rules because he’s Unaligned, Blackstone Construct.
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