CORRECTIONS: - Cato Sicarius' reactive move is once per TURN, not GAME as I said. Certainly makes him far more interesting, though doesn't change the fact that I've still not seen him used competitively so far this edition... Has has some stiff competition with Ultramarines characters! - Gravis Captain is half damage, not -1 as I said. A little better than I mentioned but tanky either way.

Even if heavy intercessors aren’t great, I will keep running them because they look so cool. Everyone knows the most important stat is drip 💧

Regarding the Bike Chaplain: That model is pure sicknasty. Fielding it should straight up give you a win. Just look at it! Metal music plays when he charges in, bolters blazing. Not from speakers, it just *is* while he is.

Absolutely love this as a new SM player! You’re a mad lad, gentleman and scholar, and a sheer, unambiguous unit, Auspex!

I guess they refer to this problem as "internal balance", but it often seems like the Space Marines codex is a list of winners and losers. People generally want to use a small handful of units that are clearly better and the vast majority of other datasheets are fairly mediocre. It can be a frustrating sort of meta.

One plus for the Firestrike Servo Turrets over tanks is they potentially punish deep strikers a bit more with their bonus to Fire Overwatch, and the 3 damage is particularly good for zoning Terminators.

As someone recently returning to warhammer after a very long time I really appreciate this. The amount of units now days is overwhelming so this really helps me identify who to focus on first. Thank you

Idea: Tacticus Squad Basically just build a unit of 5 or 10 Mk X Tacticus Marines, and they each have their points cost listed. Sounds like more of a Kill Team thing but I think it'd be fun

Hellblasters with fire discipline and a lieutenant are a staple of My Ultramarines' Second Company. They have regularly won the field for me.

He mentioned the Stormraven can transport Dreadnoughts in this one I am vindicated

Oh man EVERY unit? That's gonna be a really looooong video for SM.

In every video you have made, you have listed Sicarius' reactive move as once per game. It's a reactive move in both player turns every battle round, not once per game,. You did I, Cato Sicarius dirty with that score, Blade driven deep scout move with a lieutenant in a BGV unit is great! Phantasm Company Hero / sternguard in Gladius?

Another beautiful analysis from my favorite servitor.

Can you do this for Chaos units too? I'm kind of curious where you rank everything.

Tech priest: these holy machines are perfect in every way, it is impossible to improve them Black Templar:Brother, fetch the multi melta

crazy to me Boltguns have no AP, they should just be the same stats as bolt rifles

1:11:34 Gravis Captains half the damage they take, not -1 it.

Sternguard such a gorgeous minis 😢

I love my Stormraven Gunship, it delivers 6 eradicators and 1 Brutalis Dreadnought were its needed

Its wild to me that the Repulsor and the RepEx dont have a 2+ save.

At this point the marine codex feels like two armies in one book, might actually be better if they did away with half the units and streamlined everything

I absolutely love these videos! Quick clean reviews of all the units, and is a great help. Thank you!

I’m a massive fan of Technarines. They work really well at mopping up vehicles or monsters that weren’t quite destroyed by my Lancers and Executioners. The Techmarine ranged attacks took the last three wounds off of a Mutalith Vortex beast after it killed my Executioner last night.

Don't sleep on the multimelta devastators and razorback combo - with Oath, cherub and full wound rerolls they can (and have) repeatedly deleted some truly brick units for me with a surprising threat range 🔥🔥

This is an award winning video. Bravo, sir.

imagine a world where we had multipart part kits for the three lieutenant Primaris armour classes and in place of the hundreds of lieutenant releases we had more characters for different chapters. Chief Stormseer Saghari; Jaghorin, The Voice of the Storm; A Basic Bike Captain (with Glaive of Vengeance); A librarian Biker; a jumpack librarian; Dreadnaught Furnous; Chief Librarian; Master Apothecary Harath Shen; Iron Father Stol Sollex; Black Dragon Zartath; RG Chaplain Cordaw; Chief Librarian Epistoles; Master Apothgecary Kregor THann; Captian Silas Alberec; Mortifactor Chapter MAster wielding a Scythe; Arkash Hakkon with his black Power Axe; |Carab Culln; Asterion Moloc; Tyberos

I wonder if making it so you could take 2 power weapons and heavy weapons in a tactical squad would help them out? 2 heavy flamers with 3 dudes stay back on home objective while 2 power weapons, 2 bolter boys and the sarge go out to do something? I think if anything it would do something for them. Might also be good for driving a rhino up, drop 5 then drop another afterwards? but realistically the rhino will die after moving lol

Wow, respect. Thank you for this overview.

All the different types of niche unfantry are cool and all but sometimes I wish that space marines took a note out of Taus book and just made it one datasheet with a whole shitload of interchangeable wargear options

Perfect thing to watch at work 👌

Legends of HH version of this video when? I love running HH vehicles and need to know what auspex thinks

I've been looking forward to this!

I had a very odd game of 40K tonight against Space Marines - the match itself was a huge comeback for me as my Chosen squad was... very badly multi-melted. But the Lord splatted 2 the following turn, then the last one and ATV on the next. But the strange bit was the Obliterators. They popped a Predator, Tech Priest and Redemptor Dreadnought, all while somehow skirting the terrain well enough to benefit from Dark Obscuration. But by the end of it, there were only two units left. The Obliterators, completely unscathed, and a Firestrike Turret. And this meant that the Obliterators were the fastest thing on the board and could happily keep the turret at bay before popping at it. It did get some rather curious chuckles as to how that could happen.

Every Space Marine review gives me faction envy for all their options and my wallet breathes a sigh of relief.

Inceptors are so good that 'too many ways to use them' is listed as a negative

Regarding the Eliminators. If they are placed in ruins 6" above the ground, they will get 1AP as well. Which is kinda good

Much appreciated 😊

Awesome video thank you

Don't be harsh on my Firestrike servo turret, that dude has caught so many people off guard, sure he's got 3 inches of movement, but he's definitely the underdog

Please make a vid about Legends and HH units!

Would love to see a video like this about Necrons after the balance dataslate

the stormraven is fun just for the narrative of dropping a dread in the think of things

My boi says "I tend to post videos just ABOUT every day" because he's beating himself up over breaking his multi-year streak. My man, you can just say "every day". We forgive you. ;)

Damn this must have been as lot of work. Good stuff

A week or so before the update. Interesting choice haha

@auspextactics I have seen multiple videos, where you seem to miss that Tor Garadons ability works for all his attacks, not just in melee. Against Monsters&Vehicles etc. he has melee S14 AP-4 Dam4 and at range S7 AP-3 Dam4 and with both Anti-Vehicle 2+ and Ignores cover that is actually a pretty high chance at doing the full 8 Damage to a vehicle.

Using ventris in GTF you can just shove a 6 man of aggressors led by Calgar and his honor guard and a biologis with fire discipline line anywhere on the board and they all get advance/fall back shoot and charge permanently with lethal sustained hits

I’ve learned to love heavy intercessors in my blood angels those shmucks are super survivable

Anvil detachment eliminators is a sight to behold

When your army consists of only one unit above a 5/10. Poor anvil detachment, but im sticking with imperial fists, not repainting over that yellow.

Really helpful, and actually quite short and concise for the amount of units covered. One improvement would be some kind of summary, either per unit category or total. Right now you have to scroll through the whole video to find what you are looking for specifically, which is a bit annoying.

The Firestrike and Hammerfall would be a lot more thematically consistent with Space Marines if they had deep strike. I wonder if the Hammerfall was going to be a Primaris replacement for the drop-pod before they decided to redo first-born units more directly like the Terminators.

Hey dude, love your channel!! Gotta be the best channel I know of for getting tips building my first army and trying to casually keep informed on meta. So I have big question for auspex and anyone reading this. For my ultramarines army, if I had to pick between land raider (reg or crusader) or repulsor? They both cost $90 msrp. What I’m wanting is the best fastest way to get as many heavy assault dudes to battle. Like say a terminator squad plus 2 characters. Will they both be capable of that?

I love how every time he makes one of these for space Marines it just gets a bit longer cuz of the constant bloat added sm

Something to note about Aggressors in Firestorm is that, with a captain, Immolation Protocols can be used for free!

I use turrets as a way to compensate for a lack of AP in my favorite units. I run them in firestorm and they actually are pretty solid. Especially when they get strats to ignore an AP feom the enemy. They become annoying to remove. I use 5, 2 of 2 and 1 of 1. I have one of the 2 model squads be reserves and have them show up on turn three to help destroy cover. Add the +1s to hitting t10 vehicles and suddenly leman russ's and most monsters need to beware of 2d6+2

About the firestorm turret - las talons has d6+1 dmg per shoot on range 36 inches hit 2+, strgh10 and ap -3 - with good rolls one turret can take down many monsters and vehicles - two nearly guarantee this what more it is tanky, and has vehicle keyword so can be boosted and repiar by techmarine and also has high oc - i thing underrated it - 75 is cheap for what we get it is slow for sure but is perfect to cover our positions by targeting strong oponents with las talons or softening up light vehicles or swarms of cheap infantry with autocannons moving towards objective

As a blood angels player that is using the storm raven i can tell you sticking tycho the lost with 10 on foot DC full fists and infero pistol and a lib dread on the back and pop smoke turn 1, or full move it the 20+ and drop the payload then tp tycho and the DC straight to the enemy warlord with some fun ~ bring tanks and objective holders and maybe a big ol Dread as well so he has so much pressure to pick targets.

Useful info. My number one rule though is still if it's good, but the model is bad, then I can't include it.

I don’t think Auspex (and most SM players) understand how to use Suppressors properly. They are NOT jump-pack assault squads like Inceptors or Jump Pack Intercessors that get into close combat with enemy units. Yes, they have Deep Strike, but Suppressors are NOT intended to drop-in only 9 inches from the enemy. It’s to place them in Reserves so your opponent won’t know where they’ll be deployed. Then in Turn 1, you deploy the Suppressors in your backfield in a position where their 48” range reaches the entire midfield (probably some of the enemy’s DZ too), ideally on top of a large terrain piece, which will give them the best LOS possible and therefore no need to move, enabling the to use Heavy for 3+ to Hit. All they need to do is HIT an enemy unit to use their Suppression ability. The Suppressors should use their 48” range to pummel T4 infantry with their S8 auto-cannons, wounding on 2+; they’re also reasonably effective against T5-7 elite infantry, bikers, and light vehicles. In Anvil detachment, they’re even a threat to tougher vehicles. Suppressors probably aren’t going to destroy an enemy unit in one round of shooting, but at 85 points that’s to be expected, and they should weaken the enemy so your front-line units can finish them off. Suppressors shouldn’t move around unless there is a critical target out of their LOS that they must shoot. JP Intercessors can be used to jet around the battlefield and score objectives, NOT Suppressors. The Suppressors should be out of range of most enemy units, except snipers, tanks, and artillery. Snipers are a cheap counter to Suppressors, but if 85-points Suppressors are being countered by 150+ points tanks and arty, that’s a good thing, because those heavy guns aren’t shooting your more valuable units. I’ve been using 2 Suppressor squads in my Vanguard Spearhead army to further enhance the enemy’s -1 to Hit at 12+” range, making the enemy’s shooting highly ineffective. Even against a melee army, the Suppressors’ hit penalty will help your front-line squads to survive the enemy’s charge. For Vanguard Spearhead, I’d rate Suppressors at 8/10 and auto-include, especially if you have multiple Suppressor squads so you can suppress multiple enemy units. If I had a third Suppressor squad, I would use it.

I just wanna point out that at 1.25x speed, AT sounds kinda like an AI voice that's in a hurry to get somewhere.

GW looking at this video for notes on what to nerf.

Of all the mad upgrades forgeworld releases. I cant believe they never released alternative turrets for the Astraeus.

You were pretty generous. Everything 4 could have been 1 really.

YEAAAAAAH! ITS BACK! ITS UPDATED! WOOOOO!

The master strikes again.

still the the suppresors are geting the back end of the stick

For the Phobos LT, add the con that he can only be purchased in a box set, same for the judiciar.

I still miss some melta or grav weapons for Phobos units... Would love to go full Phobos for sh*tz and giggles but lack of those is very painful. (and no, Eliminators ain't enough)

VanVets are surprisingly good in firestorm detachment, but then again, whose gonna build 10 vanvets and give them all hand flamers? Are there even 5 hand flamers in a single box of them?

Sm is such a bizarre army. they have so many options that inevitably some will be taken and be better than others leaving some units effectively redundant like my fav the tactical squad. However the problem is that this will not change as if all units were good and worth taking, they would have so many options that they would make the meta of other armies without so many units to choose from, worthless as they would always have something to counter it. So internal balance will never be solved. Brilliant video though. What a lot of work must go into this. There is a very grateful KZfaq community.

@auspextactics how do rate a couple of these units after the january balance patch? namely the ones that had points changes but also others that stayed the same but got shifted relatively to others? Any hidden gems that got unlocked by FAQ clarifications? For example Champion of Humanity ignoring DMG modifiers as well or units being able to disembark from transports directly out of reserves?

I think the Heavy Interssesors would be a 7,3 if you make your army so they can stand still and let the enemy advance on them, or shoot over melee troop/sofften up targets for Jump Pack Assult targets But if you are advancing towards the enmy line, or moving around, i can see them as a 6/10.

I am getting back into wargaming after stopping in 2008 (3rd/4th ed 40k!) and 100 minutes worth of different units, the amount of finniky rules, power words, strategums, objectives etc etc is A Lot.

Just curious on home brew chapters as to Chapter specific characters. For example, my army is based around Tech-Marines, can I use Iron Father Feirros as a renamed character for my army?

Priced out a black templars army i wanna try, 2000 point. Over a 1000 dollars after tax, thats crazy. Not to mention i live in a area were nobody plays. If gw could run online tourneys it would explode in popularity. dont think that would help sells though. It worked for mtg

Something I think is a very cool combo is a Dreadnought and 12 infantry in a Storm Raven. 12 infantry means you can put 6 Bladeguard + Captain + Bladeguard LT in there and still have space for another 3+1 unit with the Dreadnought giving the buff to them when they are delivered. The main thing holding this back are the aircraft rules that make it quite the slow strategy to do and the Storm Raven itself just ain't that good.

i hear what you're saying but as far as i'm concerned by awful little sons get extra stats for looking badass

The Blueberries have no weaknesses

Jump intercessors are great. I recommend NOT putting them in reserve and starting them on the board. Having them zipping around the board harassing the enemy battleline units from go really puts your opponent on the back foot early. If you want the deepstrike problem solvers, you need inceptors - they're almost an auto include. Heavy intercessors do well spread out on your home objective. They will take hits from lighter infiltrating units and have good range, allowing them to provide some supporting fire across the first half of the board. Eliminators need the las fusils and sgt with carbine, else they under perform. That way you can sit during your movement and get the heavy and dev wounds, take the shot and THEN move. They're good for the points, but only worth it if you have a spare 75 points. Oh, and ATVs are very underrated. Run two of them aggressively around the board together, and the opponent will have to focus them, as their damage isn't standout, but is too much to ignore. Then when they do get shot, the other shoots back for free, increasing their efficiency substantially.

Does anyone know if they’ve fixed the interaction of company heroes with Helbrecht? Can he join them now?

I run Azrael with a 10 man sternguard squad. They are pretty decent

Considering I started in 3rd edition, I just can't give up on my two tactical squads. Screw the 3/10 they're my favorite unit in the whole game. At this point I'm just hoping they don't get removed.

Hey auspex would you rather choose Hellblasters or Sternguard vets ?

Also phobos librarian is best with las eliminators.

What does he mean stormhawk must start off table? It has hover just like talon? What is he talking about?

Bladeguard struggle vs T10 not S10?

Really don’t get the hate for the Stern guard, considering their bolters have multiple weapon rules and then they have access to a special weapon for every five models and the sergeant is able to take a combat weapon. I will say that a lot of these new detachments that are coming out feel average to underwhelming for the most part with a few exceptions. I think a lot of us are still trying to get over the shock of experiencing our index detachment having lost some key abilities or suffered through tons of changes with the release of their Codex most of them negative…

Great stuff. Thank you Auspex. Of ideas that comes to mind: Intercessors and assault intercessors fits better within a landraider, as they take up one space each. Intercessors in repulsors to make use of sticky objectives. In Gladius Task Force it might be worth bringing both an agressor unit and a 6-man eliminator unit. Then you have the apothecary biologus with Fire Discipline enhancement, which can join either of the units, depending on which foe you face. It might work better with Uriel Ventris to deep strike eliminators.

I’m just keeping my leviathan sternguard until combi weapons are good again

The problem with the Reiver Lieutenant is yes he does boost the range of my Hounds of Morkais aura, but why in hell would I want Lethal Hits on my anti-psyker dev wounds weapons? I want to deny saves, not auto wound

RIP Outriders. Do y'all think the squad would be worth the points if you could give the sargent a power fist?

About Reivers... Who the hell thought, that nerfing their pistols from AP-2 to AP-1 and removing AP from those huge, basically, swords was a good idea ? If they would cost around 140-150 pts it would probably be ok-ish, but not now... Any why the hell Reiver lieutenant doesnt have ability to deep strike and why master-crafted special issiue bolt pistol has worse stats than special issiue bolt pistol - master-crafted AP0 compared to AP-1 of regular one... Every master-crafted weapon has identical stats to it's regular counterpart but better damage (power weapons, bolters etc.) while this one hasn't. Someone goofed, like Goofy, falling the hell down some steps.

What about Mephiston? I watched the whole video looking for him! :( I may say that I amb building a blod angels army but haven't played 40k since 5th edition or, so i'm totally out of the game, there's probably a very good reason for him not to be included in the list

So weird that BTs are the only Chapter to think "let's put a Multi-Melta on this".

Wait where did the blood angels go?

You know GW have bloated the Primaris range when this is the video length

I love Firestrike servo turrets. the best combo I had for them (I don't know if you can still do it in 10th ed.) was running them with white scars. you could spend 1 CP and use the stratagem Hunters Fusillade. that would let you advance them and make there weapons into assault weapons. In one game I was able to advance and kill my opponent's patriarch.

I miss the days when the aura abilities for Dreadnoughts and Invictus Warsuits weren't limited to infantry. My original concept for a heavy walker death ball used a trio of scouting Warsuits giving each other fire support, and a Li'l Shawty Dread buffing a mass of Redemptors and Ballistae.

Can someone help me? New to the game been doing 2v2 with friends 500 points each. One of them plays knight's and hes unkillable. Is that allowed in a 500 point list game.