Piety & Pain is right around the corner- here’s the latest 40k rules previews and confirmed release date!
Warhammer Community put out a new rule preview for the next upcoming Battle Box coming to 40k. Sisters and Drukhari will face off in Piety & Pain coming very soon.
Before diving into the Previews, let’s go over the box set real quick.
Piety & Pain Box Set
There looks to be a combat patrol’s worth of models for each side even including transports for each army.
We will be getting a new Lilith model within the boxset leading the Drukhari forces.
The undisputed queen of the Wyches is reimagined in plastic for the first time, deadlier and more dynamic than ever.
Monkey Down With the Sickness
Monkey Down With the SicknessThis model is extremely dynamic compared to the old model. instead of standing on her base, she leaping off of it ready to strike!
While we already saw the full Palatine model earlier, GW does confirm her placement in the new boxset facing off against Lilith. This poor unnamed character might not stand much of a chance lore-wise, but anything is possible with faith!
With that, we can move onto the current rule preview.
Piety & Pain Rule Previews
The palatine got her stat line revealed along with a unique rule (which we already saw previously). Overall, re-rolls are always fantastic and seem decent assuming it isn’t too over-costed. Giving a buff to your units is never a bad thing! And with the normal rerolls of hits, plus her ability too (that doesn’t seem to be locked to <core> units), you can really up the efficiency of the army.
She’s also got a Plasma pistol and Power sword, so she should be able to hit decently hard on her own at the end of the day as well.
On the surface, Lelith seems head and shoulders ahead, however, she is also assumed to be a much more selfish unit, focusing on being a solo star instead of buffing her allies. With that in mind, 7 attacks at even strength 4 will allow her to absolutely cleave through any chaff. If you can buff up her strength to over 5 with other Drukhari rules in their new codex, she’ll have no issue cleaving through marines to we bet!
As it stands, she does look pretty fragile, so you may need to protect her, or perhaps she can hide/deep strike in to assassinate targets…
Lelith also got an additional preview. Natural Perfection allows Lelith to choose either to: be able to Fall back/Advance and still charge OR fight a second time if it kills any models in the Fight phase. The only downside is you have to decide in your command phase. Both options are very strong. Now knowing she gets a minimum of 7 attacks, that’s a whopping 14 attacks unbuffed in fighting from a single body, which is bonkers. She will without a doubt delete units if she is allowed to get into melee- especially with a strength or bonus to wound buff.
Finally one last tidbit WHC snuck into the preview post was this:
Who are you rooting for? Are you looking to liberate the city’s holy relics or turn the faith of the Imperium against itself in a gory gladiatorial display? Make sure to pre-order Piety and Pain on Saturday the 20th of March
There we have it, Piety & Pain finally has an order date, and it’s not too far off either! We expect it may be a two-week preview, and delivered the same day as the new Dark Eldar codex (and release) on April 3rd.
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