All the new 9th edition Orks updated Clan Kultur 40k rules have been spotted online, and while these are not confirmed, they look pretty good so far.
Originally these seem to have come from a Discord group, but we spotted them online via Imgur. GW previously also gave us a look at the Snakebites, (that matched these rumors) So it’s possible that means these may be legit.
RUMORS: New Orks Clan Kultur 40k Rules for 9th Edition
Blood Axes Clan: First off Blood Axes are of course sneaky, and their rules seem to really reflect that. Their trait allows 3 of them to redeploy without restrictions or CP costs, making it an extremely good strategic tool.
Their Stratagem is similarly as valuable, allowing a unit to redeploy if they are near the table edge. Lastly, the Relic is just a nice CP battery throughout the game.
Blood Axe Clan Kultur: Same as before. If being shot at from more than 18″ away, count as having cover. Units can fall back and charge or fall back and shoot.
Goff Clan:
This faction sticks to its roots and commits to the melee plan. First off it looks like the trait gets an extra attack and AP in melee, which can be a nice bonus for some of the melee-focused models.
Their relic is essentially free Mortal wounds in melee, which is a nice bonus assuming they can stick around. The Carnage stratagem on the other hand looks a little murky until we see the faction rules, but triggering their Kultur (mukkin’ about) on a 5+ to explode hits could be super good with stacking other benefits.
Goff Clan Kultur: Natural 6s to hit gain an extra hit. Also, gain +1 Strength on Charges and Heroic Interventions.
Snakebite Clan:
The interesting part about this has GW just gave us some of the faction rules for Snakebites. If you are interested in GW official reveals from Thursday the 15th, you can check here.
Surly as a Squiggoth looks ok with a 50% chance to revive at the end of the phase, if this can happen more than once, it might be very annoying to deal with, and a 1CP deny psychic power strat is poised to see a lot of use if true.
Buzz bomb looks pretty good with a decent amount of hits and pumping out mortal wounds on chaff.
Snakebite Clan Kultur: When attacked with S7 or less, only wounded on 4+. Squig units get +1 to wound on charges and interventions. (Matches the confirmed rules from GW!)
Bad Moons Clan:
The Warlord trait seems fantastic, +1 to their save and a 4+ invulvn is hard to pass up, especially if the warlord wouldn’t otherwise have an invuln at all. The Stratagem seems ok, but nothing special, we’ve seen this mechanic plenty of times before. The relic is essentially an amped-up flamer with 18″ range, which can be nice in the right situation.
Badmoons Clan Kultur: Heavy and Dakka Weapons get +6″ range. Also, 6s to wound get an additional AP.
Deathskulls Clan:
The Warlord trait looks decent if your opponent is playing with tons of auras and tries to protect them. They also gain CP when destroying nearby vehicles which can be a nice bonus.
The stratagem is expensive at 2 CP but can come in clutch if you really need to destroy a specific vehicle. Lastly, the relic and the end of the last sentence should read “when being repaired. Select enemy vehicles within 12″ it suffers D3 mortal wounds.”
This looks decent, especially if you are running lots of vehicles to have options for mortal wounds placement.
Deathskulls Clan Kultur: You can reroll one hit and wound rolls per unit. They also get a 5+ Mortal Wound save.
Evil Sunz Clan:
The stratagem seems decent, gaining a free move at the end of shooting could make some shooty vehicles very hard to deal with, being essentially immune to short-range weapons. Or bounce back behind/ into cover.
The relic looks ok with a simple +2″ movement. This last section is a little confusing though. Is this the warlord trait, faction rule, or even part of the relic? In any case, it is an extremely powerful bonus to have in a list, allowing for you to save some models by getting attacks in at full strength first.
Evil Sunz Clan Kultur: +1″ to movement, Speed Freaks get +2″ instead. +1″ to advances. Units can Advance and shoot Assault Weapons without penalty.
All in all, these seem pretty specific and possibly legit. Maybe someone got their book early? In any case, these are still rumors and should be treated as such.
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