Loyalty check! New rules for Warhammer 40k are here as the Fallen Angels got 9th Edition Rules in White Dwarf 464.
We get an early peek at the White Dwarf 464 rules from the 40k Fallen Angels group. Let’s check out all Fallen’s new rules.
40k Fallen Rules Spotted: White Dwarf 464
This lays the foundation for how you will upgrade detachments to have the new special rules. It’s very similar to Vigilius and Charadon.
These are mostly fluff-based additions, with most notably swapping around a bunch of keywords for Chaos Sorcerers and Chaos Rhinos to Imperium and Fallen Angels.
Without A Trace is fantastic, although a bit restrictive. Being able to make a unit -1 to hit from ranged attacks is very good, however, the requirement to have them all in a terrain feature might be hard depending on the size of the unit and the layout of the table’s terrain.
Ancient Enemy is mostly fluff just giving a Fallen unit rerolls to wound against Dark Angels for a fight phase. A little niche, but fun.
Cypher gains a neat ability if inside the detachment. He prevents opponents from gaining additional CP if the source is within his new Agent of Discord aura.
The aura grows depending on how many Fallen Angels keyword models are nearby, all the way up to a 20″ bubble. This is decent but ultimately not amazing, partially due to the reduction in OP CP generation strategies from 8th edition.
Lastly, the White Dwarf includes a Relic. Caliban steel blade is a run-of-the-mill force sword upgrade. It changes the AP to -3 with D3 damage and on a wound roll of 6+ (this can be a modified rolled) the damage is D6 instead.
Overall it seems that Fallen Angels rules are just getting brought up to speed, for 9th edition 40k, instead of getting a major upgrade. Most of the changes are just fluff-based, but if you play Fallen you are probably really into that. At the very least they didn’t get worse!
What do you think about the rules? Will you be using the Fallen going forward?
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