The new battletome will have plenty of ways to customize your forces with the new Stormcast battalion rules and Stormhosts!
With the book hitting pre-order soon, expect to see a lot of rules coming soon. The new book will have a bunch of ways to build your army and take a ton of units as battleline. There’s even a way to take an entire dragon army, we’re not sure if it will be good, but man would it be fun.
Warhammer Community just unveiled some new ways to make your army, a couple of special rules for the different Sotrmhosts, and more. Since we’re talking about dragon armies, let’s first look at some of the new dragon rules, then hop into the new stuff.
New Krondys AoS Rules
Krondys is a powerful Wizard, casting two spells per turn from the Lore of the Storm. What’s more, he has a unique spell all to himself – Atavistic Tempest – which gives him a range of powerful debuffs to enemy units, reducing their Hit Rolls, Attacks, Rend, or Save Rolls. He also wears the Regalia Fulmentarus, a present from his pal Sigmar which can add up to 3 to his casting rolls. And as you’d expect from a gigantic elder Draconith, he’s pretty tasty in a scuffle to boot.
Adding three to your cast rolls is quite crazy and will basically make his spells cast all the time. Atavistic Tempest is a serious debuffing spell to enemy units and you get to choose how you want to do it, so this should be super powerful.
Karazai AoS Rules
He can also use his Fires of Vengeance ability to grow in destructive power as the game continues. For every Hero or Monster he kills, his melee weapons get one additional attack each for the rest of the game. If he destroys units with 3 or more Wounds per model, he can add one to his charge rolls for the rest of the battle.
Once he gets to killing, he just gets stronger for the rest of the game. So be sure to get him stuck in early and often.
Given his combat prowess, these bonuses are going to stack. His calamitous tail attack rolls as many dice to hit as there are enemy models within 3” – perfect for landing in the middle of three damaged units and giving them the beans.
If you can get him in the middle of a bunch of units, this attack is going to deal some insane damage. Especially with how big of a base this has (we’re thinking 160mm) you should be able to get off a ton of attacks.
AoS 3.0 Stormcast Battalion Rules & Stormhosts
You can take it one step further by choosing the Hammers of Sigmar Stormhost. This makes all four types of Dracothian Guard Battleline units, letting you pick the right weapons for the job at hand and adding a whole lot of draconic fury to one army.
Well, here’s the rule we were talking about to take an all dragon army! If you love dragons roaring across the battlefield, this is the Stormhost for you.
The Knights Excelsior Stormhost can take the elite Annihilators, Decimators, Protectors, and Retributors as Battleline units. They can take a beating and hit hard, favouring a slow but purposeful play style. An extra boost to hit and wound rolls with such powerful units will give even your toughest opponents pause.
If you want an army of all elite units in your army, this is the host to do it. This special rule is super strong because most armies will have bigger units and adding one to both rolls is pretty crazy.
With both Vanguard-Palladors and Vanguard-Hunters available as Battleline units, the Astral Templars can soften up their quarry at a sensible range before charging in with highly mobile units to finish the job. Toss in a dedicated Monster slayer like Yndrasta, the Celestial Spear, and you can take the teeth out of your enemy’s bite more often than not.
The special rule is decent considering how strong the new Monstrous Rampage rules are but against some armies it won’t do much.
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About the Author: Travis Pasch
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About Travis Pasch: Travis has been a Warhammer 40k hobbyist since the 1990s, playing the game since Third Edition. Through extensive traveling, he’s seen a lot of the miniatures hobby from across the world, giving him a unique perspective on the latest gaming topics and trends.
Travis’s brother even owns a commission painting studio, where he’s picked up a lot of good advice and techniques for painting Warhammer and tabletop miniatures over the years, as well. Travis joined the Spikey Bits team in 2019 and has been the lead writer since 2020.
Currently, he’s working on converting all his 40k Adeptus Mechanicus models and becoming a true tech enjoyer, complete with both sad and happy robot noises!
