GW revealed some Horus Heresy White Scars rules, but we’ve also seen a ton of rumors for their legion rules as well- here is the latest!
With the release of the starter and new edition imminent, it’s time for GW to start revealing rules. This time around, they are focusing on the White Scars, but we’ve also seen some Horus Heresy playtest rumors for the White Scars, so while they might change a little, they’ve been pretty accurate so far.
Warhammer Community showed off some new legion-specific rules, let’s check them out!
New Horus Heresy White Scars Rules & Rumors Revealed
The White Scars’ love of the wind whipping through their topknots is enshrined in the new edition of Warhammer: The Horus Heresy with a suite of high-speed rules. Want to trade the whining of your footsloggers for the lovely purr of a powerful engine? Select Chogorian Brotherhood as your Rite of War to field an entire army of speed demons, each biker competing to catch the sweetest air.
It makes sense they would be able to take high-speed armies, so we’re glad to see them keeping it going in the new edition.
Like every good Legion, the White Scars take their defining trait to the hilt – of course, you can field infantry… but why would you? A Warlord Born to the Saddle can juice his riding skills to the point that his troops will be doing rad wheel flicks and barspins through even the roughest terrain – and making surprise reaction moves with deadly synchronicity.
Ignoring difficult terrain is honestly pretty strong and then grabbing a 4+ save from dangerous terrain will let you ride with abandon into the enemy!
Jaghatai Khan Rules
They didn’t show off rules, but we’ve seen playtest rules, so take them with a grain of salt as they could change, but look pretty good.
The master of speed has some super strong weapons and quite the profile, but not as good as all of his brothers, however, all his special rules and wargear make up for it. Plus, you can actually mount him up on a bike, so that’s always a good thing!
Legion Specific Rules
The traits are pretty cool with the first one giving you a ton of bonuses, and even more, if the Warlord dies. Which is quite flavorful as you can just run him into combat and if he dies, he dies! It’s also cool that they can be taken as either loyalists or traitors!
They have some cool wargear options with Power Glaives and the Scatterbolt Launcher. Then the Cyber-hawk is not only awesome (it’s a cyber-hawk, come one) but re-rolling all shots of 1’s is always going to be strong.
With 15″ move, these will be able to bolt across the battlefield, we sort of wish they had more attacks, but the special rules and wargear make up for it.
The Lances are insanely strong and this unit is perfect to try and take down tanks and dreads! Let’s check out other rules we’ve seen:
- New Legion Trait: every unit with the Legiones Astartes: White Scars special rule increases their movement characteristic by 1”, and whenever rolling to decide first player/ seize the initiative, a White Scars playermay roll two dice and discard the lowest
- Unique Reaction: when an enemy unit moves within 12” of a unit with the Legiones Astartes: White Scars special rule, all friendly units within 12” inches of the enemy unit may immediately make a normal move (jump infantry can choose to activate their jump packs as part of this) – all units which do so cannot run this turn
- Chogorian Brotherhood Rite Alterations: Bikes & Jetbikes gain the Line special rule & the detachment may not take any Heavy Support or Fortification choices unless they have the Fly keyword
- Sagyar Mazan Rite Alterations: Ebon Keshig may only be taken as troop choices in this detachment and all such units gain the Fearless special rule during the assault phase
- Stormseer Consul (+45 points): gains the Psyker & Adamantium Will special rules, may take a Psychic Hood for +20 points, gains access to two new White Scars psychic powers
While these are rumors, they have been quite accurate so far, so take them with some suspicion, but they have been right so far.
Here’s the most up-to-date list of new Horus Heresy Rules & Product Leaks. Click on the gallery above to see new Horus Heresy models and rules rumors!
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- Horus Heresy Legion Rules
- Horus Heresy Weapon & Unit Rules
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