How to Play Leagues of Votann in 10th Edition 40k: Rules Guide

By Travis Pasch | May 1st, 2024 | Categories: 10th Edition 40k, 40k News & Articles, How To Play 40k, Squats: Leagues of Votann, Tabletop Gaming News & Rumors

New 10th Edition 40k Leagues of Votann are here – from Stratagems, Datasheets, and army rules; here is our review guide on how to play them.

In 10th Edition Warhammer 40k, each army has a new style of play, rules, and plenty of changes. If you’re wondering how to play Leagues of Votann or if you should start playing them, this review gives you plenty of info to mull over. With their myriad of strong weapons, tough units, and awesome characters, they are a serious force to be reckoned with on the battlefield. Plus, they are squats redone, so what’s not to love? The new Leagues of Votann seem to be worth considering if you’re looking for a new army in Warhammer 40k.

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How to Play Leagues of Votann in 10th Edition 40k: Rules Guide

The new 10th Edition 40k Leagues of Votann rules come from Warhammer Community.

Kin make war in a careful, deliberate manner. Kâhls and their subordinate Theyns select targets according to a rapid battlefield analysis of their strength, calculating the value of their defeat against the cost of engagement – a process known as ‘casting the Eye of the Ancestors’. Once a suitable foe is chosen, the Leagues of Votann can unleash hell safe in the knowledge that their efforts are well spent.

We assume there are also other special rules to give Judgement Tokens (like below), but if a unit gets two put on them, you should be able to blast them off the table!

Leagues of Votann Combat Patrol

Leagues of Votann Oathbound Detachment Rules

Leagues of Votann detachment rule changes.

This is a giant buff! Not only do you get more options to get your CP early, but four enemy units in a 2000-point game start with two Judgement tokens! This means you hit and wound them at +1, and it helps with the worse BS overall.

Old detachment rules.

The Oathband Detachment takes spite to new levels, allowing you to single out a particular foe for retribution. Their Ruthless Efficiency rewards singular focus with an immense tactical advantage – picking up three free Command points right at the beginning of a battle can shape entire games.

This is very interesting, where you have to balance how hard of a unit to destroy you want to give the tokens to. If you put them on the biggest baddest unit from the enemy, you’ll have a much better shot at destroying them. However, it might take a lot longer, and you’ll get fewer CP.

New 10th Edition Warhammer 40k Leagues of Votann Datasheets

Hearthkyn Warriors boast loads of options, allowing tailored teams to tackle particularly irksome targets. Eagle-eyed Kâhls may notice the addition of the HYLas rotary cannon as a weapon option – straight from the parts-packed sprue of specialist equipment from Kill Team: Gallowfall.

It seems like every army’s line troops are getting the rule to grab an objective and move on, and they will have to kick you off it. Then, they can get a bunch of buffs with the wargear (and some are really sweet), have a vast array of weaponry, and have 5 Toughness! The Autoch-pattern bolter gets two shots but no rapid fire. The EtaCarn plasma beamer is the first D3 sustained hits we’ve seen, which means if you roll a 6, you get D3 extra hits.

The Land Fortress is as tough as a Land Raider and packs a fearsome range of armaments. It’s right at home supporting the troops that bundle out of its hold, and can ruck it up with dedicated tanks from other factions thanks to the impressive power of the heavy magna-rail cannon.

With Toughness 12, a 2+ save, and 16 Wounds, this is quite tough; however, without an invulnerable save and some of the giant guns we have seen, who knows how long it will last?

For weapons, the Cyclic ion cannon is quite strong, with an average of 6 attacks, but the heavy magna-rail cannon is super strong with Strength 18, -4 AP, and an average of 9 damage (but up to 12).

Either way, this is going to have a ton of shots and some really interesting rules, and it can even help units that embarked on it.

New Weapons Rules

Though they possess many advanced technologies, the Leagues of Votann prize reliability over raw power, and don’t carry anything with quite the excess of the Astra Militarum’s volcano cannon. What they do have, though, are their esoteric conversion beam weapons, whose new Conversion ability multiplies their hits several times over once the beam has enough distance to focus.

If you are more than 12″ away, a 4+ hit gives you a critical hit, so pretty interesting. However, where you get juicy is if you can roll a six and get D3 extra hits. With only one shot, though, and not a ton of AP, we’ll have to see how this plays out.

New Stratagems

Judgement tokens aren’t just for improving Hit and Wound rolls – they also interact with Oathband Stratagems to punish transgressors even further. Seeing someone shoot at your allies is bad enough, but when the offending enemy shoots at you… well, the Kin don’t take that very well at all, and a Reactive Reprisal is in order.

Considering you have to have a Judgement Token on them, you’ll be hitting better and possibly wounding better as well, so this could be quite powerful.

Latest 40k Rules Updates For the Leagues of Votann:

The latest updates for the Leagues of Votann 10th Edition rules will be released in what Games Workshop calls a Balance Dataslate, sometimes along with accompanying points changes as well.

You can see all the latest Balance Dataslate updates here in our post, which breaks down the most recent changes.

How To Play Warhammer 40k Leagues of Votann: Points

You can find the latest points for playing this faction in 10th Edition Warhammer 40k here on our Munitorum Field Manual Points Updates Page.

Leagues of Votann YouTube Review:

Watch the video below for some more insights into the faction until they get their codex book!

Is It Still Worth Playing Leagues of Votann?

Let’s face it: Squats are cool and hold so much nostalgia for so many people! We’re assuming GW will come out with another wave of miniatures and fill out the line, but even the minis they have look great and are really fun to hobby on.

With the most recent Dataslate changes, they have actually catapulted to a 55% win rate in the tournament scene! So not only do they look awesome, but they are doing well in the meta.

Updates, in general, for any game are just good business. That being said, it also seems like in 2023-2024, GW will have its hands full trying actually to get out all these codexes.

However, Leagues of Votann aren’t even on the list, meaning you will have to use the index for a while. Which gives you plenty of time to learn the faction before the codex drops.

The new Leagues of Votann army rules in 10th Edition Warhammer 40k provide exciting changes to the gameplay, rules, and style of the army. Votann can dominate the battlefield with their toughness and super-powerful weapons! The army’s squads, vehicles, and Stratagems provide players with a lot of options to defeat their enemies and have some really fun games. Overall, the new Leagues of Votann army is a force to be reckoned with in Warhammer 40k.