My guess is that he Punisher was made for all-tank armies; for players who wanted to field a whole armoured company, no infantry, without missing on massed firepower.

5 days after this is released, LRs have dropped 15 pts in cost. LETS GOOooo

It was nice when the Vanquisher was good for like 3 weeks...

I was so happy to just see the exterminator get twin linked and rapid fire, I have the og model with the metal turret but it's always been naff

I've got an Exterminator in my painting queue with 3 heavy bolters. I plan to name it "MOAR DAKKA!"

7. Eradicator 6. Punisher 5. Vanquisher 4. Executioner 3. Battle cannon 2. Exterminator 1. Demolisher

The vanquished should have had (anti x) and or devastating wounds. And it's ability should either stay or become it procks dev wounds on 4+ that would have made it actually tastey. We as guard players aren't afraid to pay points for good stuff. The executioner weapon is a tad below where it needs to be for this edition but with it. It would have been nice if they kept the 'plasma vents' and incorporated this into its ability and made it something around either a fnp against the mortals when overcharging. Or some reduced wounds from it overcharging. And encouraging you to not use its standard profile.

I just wish it was easier to give tanks orders. Either get 1 order per 2 tanks with a tank commander, or a max of 3 orders with a huge investment in lord solar+friends

You're right mordian, I do think you're wrong about the executioner. It's better than the battle cannon. The additional AP makes it comparable against heavy armor, and it far out performs the battle cannon against everything else except terminators.

We know the combo "El clásico" We need a video of "El superclásico" a lethal combo of 2 rogal dorns

Its fun to come back to this after we see Mordian changing his mind on the Vanquisher these past few weeks.

The video I’ve been waiting for, thank you so much Mordian - I’m just working on an old skool executioner and can’t wait to get it on the table

Awesome video especially seeing as it's my birthday tomorrow (42 yes young) and I'm getting an imperial guard combat patrol box along with a leman russ tank as I'm about to start my fourth army and have been deliberating for days as to which russ variant to use... cheers

I run the large punisher gatling with plasmas. Devestating wounds. The Large PP devestates

I suspect that the rules for the demolisher cannon were a copy-paste job from the Space Marine Vindicator that has a dozer blade integral to the model. That would explain it being able to fire in combat. That's a cool tank too.

I miss having a Leman Russ Exterminator in my Space Wolves Army... oh well, at least it found a new home in my guard.

Eradicator is supernice to tankshock with to stop charges against other russes. Just bring one allong the main groups. And your opponent often miss to shoot it out before due to that they try to priorities the "important" russ next to it.

The Eradicator's and Demolisher's abilities don't allow them to shoot plasma sponsons into melee enemies which is a bit of a shame... can fire the big gun up close but not the sponsons

100% on the fly in the ointment that is D6 damage for the demo, took two in a local tournament and everytime I needed a big hit to kill a heavy vehicle or a big monster, rolling 1s or 2s was such a bummer and swung games big time against me

Love my Eradicators, played ‘em since 5Th edition

Punisher, because anything that shoots that many times cannot possibly be bad.

Fun video, very helpful for newbies like my self.

The Vendetta........duh

this video has made feel happier about about my ork battlewagons

If a unit is battleshocked when it dies, surely you can use reinforcements on it. It’s dead. It’s not on the table

IMO armored spearhead is the strongest ability in the army. See a target on an objective? Because it triggers on ALL attacks; rerolls on the battle cannon, rerolls on lascannon shots, rerolls on multimelta shots, rerolls on HK missile shots, and you can charge infantry and tank shock before getting full rerolls on your melee attacks

BRING BACK LEMAN RUSS INCINERATOR

I don’t get why the vanquisher gets so much doubt now. In 10th so far my beloved vanquisher has one shot killed two vindicator tanks, a wraithlord 4 games in a row a and countless other monsters and vehicles. get it hitting on 2,s rerolling 1,s and it naturally re rolls wounds with good reliable damage.

Oh shit I was just wondering when you were gonna do an all Russ vid last night.

Well I guess I'll have the magnetise my russes since in heresy the Vanquisher is pretty great

Low key that background music has me boogyin' and groovin'

Do this but for bane blades plz

My guess is that the Demolisher and Eradicator serve the same role on the battlefield, only the Eradicator is the long range cover blower and the Demolisher is the frontline cover blower.

Hmm I will have to try out the auto cannons.

Spot on

Vanquishers are great against Towering units like Wraithknights. In these cases they need to be taken in at least a pair. At worst if it is targeted by a Wraithknight, that beast will need to usually use both of its cannon to destroy it, if the Vanq is accompanied by an Enginseer. It's an expensive decoy, but the second Vanq will normally real damage on it in your turn, usually requiring a re-roll for the to hit or to wound dice. The pair costs less than one Knight. This is the Guard army required to defeat the current best army. Guard Army 2000pts Bombard & Support Units 415pts 115pts Gaunt’s Ghosts 60pts Heavy Weapon Squads - Mortars x3 60pts Heavy Weapon Squads - Mortars x3 60pts Heavy Weapon Squads - Mortars x3 120pts Field Ordnance Battery - Bombasts Infantry Units 440pts 130pts Death Korps 80pts Death Korps Marshal + Drill Instructor 130pts Infantry Squad 60pts Command Squad 40pts Regimental Attaches Vehicles 1145pts 95pts Hydra 95pts Hydra 95pts Hydra 50pts Scout Sentinel 50pts Scout Sentinel 50pts Scout Sentinel 190pts Vanquisher 45pts Enginseer 190pts Vanquisher 45pts Enginseer 80pts Medusa Carriage Battery 80pts Medusa Carriage Battery 80pts Medusa Carriage Battery However, having watched your video, I might try to find 10 pts to upgrade a Vanq to an Exterminator.

I like the punisher. A broken clock is right at least once a day, or something 😂

The rule of cool states the hellhound is the best

Not Guardsmen's biggest fan but like your vids... the courage determination and frustration is inspiring 😅 Marine fan with 3000pts Nid turkey shoot army and only 600pts of Marines which is a god send with the change to prober sized marines out 😊

All Leman Russ variants should be 100pts, so I can take 20 in a list.

vanquisher needs a coaxial rule, plus rerole to wound vs monster and vehicle, plus devastating wounds, but no heavy. executioner needs the same profile as the regular russ cannon at least, plus reroleable hazard tests. these two needs to be fixed fundamentally. all bad other leman russes are just a matter of their point cost, so no hard changes needed.

Maybe I amtraumatised by playing against Knights but I cannot imagine leaving my two Demolisher at home. Bit since I amas well traumatised by the swingy d6 dmg I will give other variants a try...I wasn't able to down a Porphyrion in one turn anyway.

Just got 2 Leman Russ. Considering a Battle Tank and the Executioner as builds, would you recommend?

Any changes to the list after the points changes? I rate Vanquishers as usable now, just because they're cheap. Of course, I do run a full tank company, so I can afford to have specialist units.

If the Vanquisher was BS 3+ with reroll 1s to hit, it might be worth it. If the Punisher had some sort of suppressing effect like the Basilisk it would be better. If the Executioner got +1 to wound when it supercharged, it would be worth it. The Eradicator actually sounds decent now. Still over costed (especially against enemy armor), but decent. If the regular Russ and the Demolisher was D3+3 damage, they would be good. The Exterminator is good. Now, if they got all that ~and~ they were -50 points, they would be almost as good as Eldar tanks. Almost.

Oh heck yeah I’m early to this one!! Whoop whoop!! 🎉

I woke up on the eradicator early, before I seen anyone talk about it. I especially love it for taking on Necrons. I'll take 3 of em agaisnt a necron army easy.

Just bought 2 LMs and a RD to start my first 40K army, going tanks only first. So how should I build them? I read pne Pubisher with Pask and one Demolisher? I guess I need more tanks! 😂

Recommendation: Can you please put chapter markers on these videos? Would make life easier when coming back to them :D

If im running two russ's in a 1k point army, should I bring one demolisher and a tank commander or two demolishers? If its the former what should the tank commander have as a main weapon?

Vanquisher with scout sentinel hits on +3 rerolling 1's no order needed.

The all infantry man is giving me advoce on tanks🤨

Tank commanders should be able to order 3 tanks within 12” with same order.

Keep in mind most factions have defensive stats they can use, setting up a exterminator and creeds debuffes is always off set by Smoke, Amour of contempt, -1 to wound, rotate shields etc. So most of the time you are just baiting out CP which isn't bad, but it means your LRBC will still be bouncing off terminators with 2up + cover + armour of contempt. Or custards with -1 damage. Or they can make overlapping fields of fire cost +1cp. Unfortunatly its very easy for your opponent to just see what combo you are setting up and counter it with their own cp or free strats. 200point models should be able to carry its own, and LRBC or LRExterm simply cant. A demolished can hold its own, but for 220pts its range is so short, its damage too swingy, and its basically paper without an invul. I have 6 LRs and I hope the balance data slate fixes them, but until they they will sit on a shelf.

Punisher is 180 my friend! Easy slip of the tongue haha!

I know D6 damage is traumatizing, but each one that gets through will score 3.5 damage on average! It feels bad emotionally when you roll poorly, but I think we should set that aside and play the odds. The more you shoot, the more consistently you'll hit that 3-4 damage

Wait, dumb question. But when you roll D6 damage, do you do that for extra shot? Say the demo cannon wounds twice, do you roll 2D6? Or one D6 and both wounds is that damage? Also fun thought, the exterminator can get 1st rank fire, 2nd rank fire order as it's a rapid fire weapon lol. Doubt that math hammers out better than Take Aim, but still might be fun at rapid fire range as it'd get 10 shots.

I was looking at the punisher to take out necrons...gotta wipe those squads out...

It's the Rogal Russ, of course .

I'm new to 40k and noticed there are more variants than this? incinerator, punisher, eradicator, exterminator, executioner, conqueror, demolisher, annihilator. Can someone help? are some not able to be used?

demolisher goodbye

Vanquisher seems like the only option when nids are taking 4 and 5 super monsters...or does anyone else have any alternatives that im not seeing? Shadowsword is kinda expensive...guess 3 demolishers maybe? dorn seems like it is going to get tied up and wont do any more damage then the demolisher russ...

For me its the punisher lots of brrrrrrr. Or plasma always loved plasma on my guard ever since 3rd edition

The three tanks I have for my themed army… one is a Vanquisher. The other is a Punisher… fuck….

Eradicator is simply, without a doubt, the SUPERIOR Leman russ variant. Give me 5. No, 50.

What I the best turret weapon to fit on the Tank Commander?

the only reason I run a punisher is I only have russes (back from the end of 5th) so I need it to kill hoards :D

I actually think Vanquishers are important for armoured list. Most enemies will have a limited amount of AT. Doomsday ark sat behind a ruin? Place your Vanquisher pointing at the ruin, he has to move to hit you, so needs 3s, most the time you will survive or they have to commit more firepower than its worth (remember to pop smoke). If you survive, the opposition won't, the cannon + Lascannon + HK does work. Alternatively it scares your opponent into playing cagey with his AT. All 3 outcomes are a win, regardless you are effectively neutralising the biggest threat to your army. In non armour lists its probably not worth it though.

Hi im looking for vanquisher ryza pattern turrets but sadly they dint sell it any morr, someone can help pls?

bro, my vanquisher really does nothing lol

Reroll to wound on 5s is only slightly over 50%. I don't think exterminator is good against heavy tanks. I'd say exterminator and battle cannon are fine against 3 wound infantry or 2 wound with fnp

My reading of the rules is you cannot stack heavy and take aim, am I wrong?

The exterminator has nine shots with first rank fire second rank fire

only played one game of 10th. Guard Vs a tank heavy Space Marine army. the leman russ's did the best out of that whole army.

But… but… the vanquisher is bigger?!

Not me, who has 3 russes, 1 punisher and 1 vanquisher

Can someone put time stamps

Also the best Russ is the Annihilator 😎

The Executioner is wasted potential. It should get bonuses to hit units that are ABOVE half str and at full str. It would play so well into the high risk/reward of the weapon as well as the story of the suicidal, glory seeking crews spearheading the charge in one the Guards most premier tanks.

What, no conqueror?

If you are going to take a demolisher you might as well take the commander no? Only a few points more...

whats best barrel for Brood Brothers GeneStealer Cult army? Grerat vid. thanks

and rapier laser destroyers outshine them lol

Overall agreed, I think the only thing I would change is to put the Demolisher in 3rd behind the LRBC

Obvs with the Vanquisher you take more than one, and then you have two or three shots with the main turret weapon.

the worst one imo is the tank commander, hitting on 4s is AWFUL. last game i used it in it missed more than it hit. utterly worthless.

starting to realize that you dont need leontus or a tank commander if you can get the same bonus's from orders as you can from various unit abilities and strategems. most of these apply to any units firing at the same targets too...and creed gives free strategems meaning you will likely end up with more cp then you would with leon's bonus points as well.

Nice video but... Did I just hear that the exterminator has the number of shots? It only has 4 shots!! It is only good as a force multiplier, and even as a force multiplier, in one have I fired those 4 shots and missed with all of them (including a cp re roll). It´s damage output is not good at all , since it is the other russes that benefit from his rule, but not him. I use it just to get my battle cannons to their rightful AP-2

I'm deathly tired of Games Workshop bureaucracy - "One model for only one system." Just look: everyone loves the Horse Heresy, but it's just a commercial product parasitizing on Warhammer 40,000 glory. It's 40k models, 40k designs, old 40k rules and 40k lore. And everything that belongs to HH now is taken from 40k and is now practically dead in 40k! The Horse Heresy evokes nothing but hatred in me. Today they showed a new Leman Russ - an icon of Warhammer 40,000 - but for the Heresy only. This 100% means that “tomorrow” Leman Russ will be removed from 40k forever, it cannot be otherwise. Because bureaucracy. Say "thank" to the Horus Heresy and "Goodbye" to Leman Russ!

A Hit roll can never be modified by more than -1 or +1

For an apocalypse game? Don't take a demolisher 😂😂mine fired like once/twice over two days

Just play 9th. It cannot be hard to find someone who would play ninth it wasn’t for me. I genuinely don’t understand why most non competitive 40K players HAVE to play the current edition no matter what. You don’t see this “there’s a new edition and it’s all we can play” mentality in DnD, MTG, Pokémon, bolt action those are just what I know. I just see nothing but game breaking to excuse more rules and more books from a gross retail first company; still full retail for old stock; third party rules stifling; removing models from the game and zero official GW support for old rules. You’re a comp player I get it it’s GWs fault they don’t allow their game to breathe in all forms like MTG; the comp scene will fail in time. My main problem is what is your excuse if you’re just coming in to play with neighbors on Sunday?? The adherence to the current edition by non comp players is the fault of those players. It’s so silly to me for a non comp player to complain something was only powerful for 3 weeks before the edition change. It’s your own fault for letting GW tell you that money you spent was no longer worth anything and you believed it.

It's the Rogal Dorn. The Dorn is the best Leman Russ. 🤣

Unfortunately its none of them 😭. They just die immediately for very little cost from your enemies

Your voice bro wtf

Why are you screaming in the video it’s a lil off putting

Can anyone skipped to the point for me? Thank you

timestamps are needed