As a Tau player, I must say: "By T'au'va, I wish that was me.". Votann, Kroot, and other Auxiliaries soon I hope.

@colinchristiansen6000

6 ай бұрын

Same, Shas’o. Gueve’sa, auxiliaries, Vohtan contractors…so much in the lore we can’t do right now. It’s a bummer.

@craigkearney3976

6 ай бұрын

I mean they’ve gone to the trouble of writing all the auxiliaries into the lore including humans so it’s about time

@kylemuhlenkamp8

6 ай бұрын

Don’t the Votann hate the Tau?

@TheCuteMistake

6 ай бұрын

No, the Votann canonically helped the tau create their pulse weapons as well as there are squats within the Tau empire@@kylemuhlenkamp8

@sniperlemming

6 ай бұрын

I just want some rules that lets my T'au have a Melee unit. Preferably the Votann so i can bring a Champion and Hearthguard, or maybe a team of Berserks. The other kinda obvious options for melee is to have some Kroot that ate some Ogryns or Orks and got big and strong lol, which would be really cool too imo.

Just found the assassinorum execution force game with all four assassins for 60 bucks at a used bookstore. A pretty good find if I do say so myself.

@WeOnlyEatSoup

6 ай бұрын

Come up

@arandomlostsoul753

6 ай бұрын

Jesus Christ I'm jealous.

@anophelesnow3957

6 ай бұрын

Buy that immediately. Happy new year!

@ThommBara

6 ай бұрын

you paid 60 bucks for 4 tiny minis? that could easily be proxied by 2nd producer minis? hmm

@gurtana

4 ай бұрын

@@ThommBara No, it's not 60 for just 4. It's a full boardgame which also features a Chaos faction as enemies. So you get board, cards, dice, and more minis.

Every time someone tells Auspex to take a break he makes a new video. It's a daemonic pact between the viewers and the creator.

@SnowFoxWithAGasMask

6 ай бұрын

Auspex take a break Auspex take a break Auspex take a break Auspex take a break Auspex take a break I HAVE SO MUCH POWER

@cordysepsis9663

4 ай бұрын

Look at what you've done...@@SnowFoxWithAGasMask

@SnowFoxWithAGasMask

4 ай бұрын

@@cordysepsis9663 I know! I’m a monster!

T'au being able to ally LoV units is amazing both from a lore perspective and the gameplay options it affords both armies. So glad GW listened to the fans and implemented this.

It's such a missed oppotunity to have Adeptus mechanicus have ZERO synergy with knights Also if Vashtor could do anything special for Chaos Knights it would be dope

@kylenewnam8231

6 ай бұрын

I miss questor mechanicus being in the Admech codex.

@Bluegender88

6 ай бұрын

Mechanicus knights need to be integrated into the book as a lord of war choice.

@PF_K

5 ай бұрын

The two factions need to just be merged. Neither is working on its own.

@mariojorge68

5 ай бұрын

​@@PF_KNext time you have a suggestion buddy, keep it to yourself. If this one is any indication, they aren't worth anything at all

@PF_K

5 ай бұрын

@@mariojorge68 That was a rude thing to say.

With world eaters being a very limited army at the moment, it’s nice to be able to use allied daemons so you can throw extra flavor in. Angron and Skarbrand combo goes pretty hard

The Tau and Votann literally have a close business relationship in the lore and ally regularly. Why aren’t they allies?

@SarajevoKyoto

6 ай бұрын

Because "muh Imperium" or something stupid. Can't let xenos outshine the ubermensch.

@captnwinkle

5 ай бұрын

That bothers you? Tyranids can't ally with GSC...

@SarajevoKyoto

5 ай бұрын

@@captnwinkle That ALSO bothers us, but the original point stands

Inquisitors with their retinue are surprisingly tough and bring nice fire power for their points due to the way the buffs stack.

@AgoristDryad

4 ай бұрын

For 135 pts you get 20 wounds with a 5+ invulnerable save, 12” deep strike denial, taking 1 off rolls to wound them, adding 1 to their rolls to wound others, with loads of AP attacks, CP farming and an optional 5+ feel no pain against mortals. For an extra 20pts you also get a pseudo-lone operative rule and +1 to hit against xenos.

The Lancer is hands-down the best allied Big Knight to take. Inherent 4++ save, free specific stratagem that's really useful, and enormously fast. A great source of serious melee, and possibly the ultimate distraction carnifex.

Nurglings have been an absolute lifesaver for me with chaos knights. Ran an all big knight army on the weekend with dawn of war deployment and had my volcano cannon tyrant set up on my home objective and nurglings in each corner of my DZ. The 12" anti deepstrike from the tyrant and the positioning of the nurglings completely screened out all deep strike in my deployment zone and as a bonus got to investigate signals secondary objectives as well. Ended up being a super close game that was only really undone by my aggression in the first turn. They certainly made an all big knight list a little more viable in a casual setting in my eyes though.

There need to be rules to allow Bobby G and Yvraine to have bonuses when working together

@davidrolton4940

6 ай бұрын

"Place a Lion El'Jonson token in your deployment zone to represent the Imperium's disapproval (and possible jealousy)."

@ace12342

6 ай бұрын

Next edition: Eldar are now an Imperium faction.

@charliemay3804

6 ай бұрын

@@ace12342the worst timeline

@Mechagodzilla128

6 ай бұрын

@@ace12342 Also next edition: They bring back half human half eldar ultramarines.

@petermccall1185

6 ай бұрын

​@@charliemay3804I now want to paint an eldar army blue and call them the Sons of Guilliman

Literally just bought a set of war dogs! (Finally available in my hobby store) can’t wait to see if it was worth it.

@commorragh13

6 ай бұрын

I can tell you it is. Over the summer I kept watching amazon or GW for then to no avail. Then my LGS had them listed online. Next day I went up there and when I found them, I mouthed, "How the f*ck do you have these?" to the clerk. He was mystified. My only regret was not buying a second box. Currently amazon is $40 usd over store price. I see the "Hersey" version available at reg price. I sense a conversion coming.

@TheAtomicSpoon

6 ай бұрын

​@@commorragh13Converted a bunch with kitbashing and 3d printed the weapons. Was the only way I could actually field enough.

@commorragh13

6 ай бұрын

@@TheAtomicSpoon Nice. I always respect the kitbash.

Thanks Auspex. Your new vids have been really helpful as a new player. Talking about the CSM allies bit, is a big relief for me. I was getting overwhelmed looking at what I could field for a EC CSM army.

I miss being able to take whatever allies you wanted. I know it’s for “balance” but I really don’t give a rats butt about tournament play so…

One of the best reasons for henchmen is the mystic. Each squad can have 2 and each model has 12" deep strike denial. You could potentially protect your entire backfield with 2 henchmen units, hold a home field objective, and do it for less than a full unit on infiltrators.

@AgoristDryad

6 ай бұрын

It’s be one unit of henchmen but yeah! I built a list with a big henchman squad following Inquistor Draxus for the 18” of unshootability; a bit infiltrator squad with librarian for even more unshootable deployment denial, and Espern Locarno with some Breachers to complete the spam. Reinforcements? What reinforcements? You cannot deploy on MY battlefield. Expensive? Yes. Redundant? Double yes. Does it complement the rest of my army of infiltrators, jetpacks, and slowly advancing weapons platforms? Yes. Also, the coolest models I have are Allies. My other spam list is redeploy spam with Janus Draik and a Phobos Cpt. Army? What army?

Can't wait to see the allies I can bring for my Necrons!

@macaulaymcgregor768

6 ай бұрын

aren't c'tan basically allies for the necrons? at least in my view they are coming from an ork player (who i guess by lore should be allowed to join any army) and also basically have any army join them but we have 0

@DaneInTheUS

6 ай бұрын

@macaulaymcgregor768 I get where you're coming from. Destroyer Cults and flayed ones and even praetorians (except for Szarekhan dynasty) are technically not part of the regular dynasty but just kind of "show up" but they're still in the same codex though

@captnwinkle

5 ай бұрын

My GSC army is still waiting for their Star Gods waiting on the shelf...

@DaneInTheUS

5 ай бұрын

@captnwinkle I definitely get that. One of my friends plays GSC and it sucks he can have brood brothers but somehow not Tyranids

Generic inquisitor leading a squad of flamer marines isn't actually a bad idea. 2d6 more flamer shots with the ability to get your command point back when you use overwatch with the unit.

@Dinawartotem

6 ай бұрын

Now replace the faction with ad-mech, and now you're cooking with gas.

@alphamav3rickgaming430

6 ай бұрын

Unfortunately infernus aren’t battleline

@Whoknows21356

6 ай бұрын

@@alphamav3rickgaming430when you can read

I bought the Navy Breachers beacause they are great models, but as a guard player getting them on the table is tricky, as they are worse for the points than all of my usual boys. If I could put them in chimeras that would help a lot, but they don’t have the power that inquisitors have, sadly.

@frankterrian339

6 ай бұрын

Assuming you're looking at casual/narrative play, why not just play them as "normal" AM/some homebrewed regiment? Granted, some of their equipment options wouldn't really work/would need to be used as proxies, but...

@thomy1516

5 ай бұрын

I run mine with a Rogue Trader retinue Being able to infiltrate them helps get up the field, and the 5+ FNP from the medic in the retinue gives them some surprisingly good defence, especially if you pop smoke on them to go to effectively a 3+ save. Mix in some units with invulns like the shield and the retinue members with 2 wounds, and they become a nightmare to shift quickly I have completely wrecked my opponents plans by just tarpitting units with a breacher squad

For adding a Knight to your list, you should always consider a Lancer. Its less than 500pts, always has a 4+invul vs shooting and melee, tank shocks for free, and is something the enemy cant ignore or else it destroyes anything it gets into melee with. Its the ultimate distraction Carnifex.

I still think the tau really need allies to make up for their piss poor melee

@corytem1994

6 ай бұрын

As an Ork player I would appreciate more dakka 😉

Ive been playtesting chaos lists with no demons and surprisingly the knight abomnant has been performing the best as ally. If it gets ignored it causes a ton of damage that can be spread out and if it gets focused the chosen have free reign

The only reason I entertain the idea of starting GSC or collecting Guard at all is being able to ally in a Banesword.

I just finished my Inquisitorial Henchmen. Fun kit, highly recommend it.

I bought a Commissar and Cadian Command Squad specifically to pair them with my Ultramarines. Then the next day I found out you can’t combine them. Was a big oof for someone just getting into the hobby.

@Lyriiic

6 ай бұрын

So you had no idea what you were doing basically 😂

@Jessie_Helms

6 ай бұрын

@@Lyriiic well like he said, at one point you _could_ mix a little guard in with your space marines. I’d heard of people doing that so that’s what I was aiming for with those buys. I just didn’t know jack about 10th edition, haha.

The Changeling has been great for my Thousand Sons. I have a big knight I could field but I don’t because the penalties compound when you’re losing cabal points as well. Maybe sometime it’ll be fun.

I got a knight for my ultramarines just because he looks cool

Happy new year, gang

I use allies but more for fluff reasons, I'm making a Dark Mechanicum themed CSM army so I have some mechanicum knights in my list just for the more thematic mechanicum flavoured weapons options on them.

Watched the whole video and read all the comments and no one mentioned the capacity for Genestealer Cults to get a baneblade!

I only play casual, but I’ve been using two warglaives in my Grey Knights lists. They’ve been helpful for me, giving some much needed punch against those heavier units my buddy plays. I’ve heard people say Grey Knights shouldn’t need to use units from another faction to make them good, and I tend to agree, but I can’t deny that I’ve had a lot of fun using them! Thanks for all the videos as always. Cheers and Happy New Year.

@RockmeHellsing

6 ай бұрын

if these sets are ever in any way buyable i buy them for my grey knights and if its jsut for some cool flavour

That's it, I'm expanding my Craftworlds army to Ynarri. That Dark Elf Combat Patrol is a lovely box, and the synergy is cool.

Kyria in with some vanguard diving out of a dunerider getting reroll wounds on all her stuff hits fairly hard :D Her, a normal inquisitor or Eisenhorn are fairly common picks for admech a lot of the time. And an assassin😊

Great as always, would like to hear some thoughts on Elucidian Starstriders (as part of Agents of the Imperium). For 105pts. they offer quite a bit. Admitedly limited to link-up with Voidsmen (50 pts) / Navy Breachers so a min. cost unit is 155 pts. for a unit, but they do get some nice perks (infiltration, D3 Battleline Units redeployment, 5+ fnp.

Really miss the old allied rules. May not have been the best competitively but I loved running a bunch of Atalan Jackals with my Nids! Or throwing a Dimachaeron in with a bunch of Neophyte Hybrids!

Thank you!

I know its highly unlikely but i hope they add the squat units from necromunda and blackstone fortress as able to be allied into Legues of Votann. Eveb if theyre not very powerful, being mostly armed civilians, itd be nice to just have some more variety. The Ironhead prospectors would be good chaff and their vehicles might be durable but habe poor firepower, and Grendl Grendleson might be fun as a lone operative. I can imagine the Prospectors farming command points by standing and not shooting while on a primary.

@AgoristDryad

6 ай бұрын

Rein and Raus are heroes exclusive to Astra Militarum currently. Cool datasheet. I just picked up these models at Barnes n Noble.

It's super cool that they decided to grandfather in some allies rules for some (almost exclusively imperial) factions and then just drop Tyranids and Genestealer Cults working together completely because they really want people to buy more Imperial Knights but they don't give a shit about xenos anything. Even better that the Cult actually has the tools that the Nids are missing (ranged high ap high dmg shooting) and being able to take allies would actually solve their biggest problems (and drive up GSC sales for the relatively high New Nid Player wave). But why bother with fixing things when you can provide custom rules for the 82nd unique imperial sub-set to staple into any given force?

Love running Agents in Boarding Actions for the memes. In Big 40k I'd love to play an Inquisitor force where you can take all the Assassins and Inquisitor's. Just for factor of cool it would be neat to see them all on the table.

Eisenhorn with a retinue, i used the models from Blackstone fortress, to use the ratlings for weaponsmiths, the sorcerer as the demonhost

Enlightenment is taking Knights with GSC. Not because it's good, but because you technically can.

@Mechagodzilla128

6 ай бұрын

You can?!

@TKP1986

6 ай бұрын

how? Knights arent Battle Brothers

@spnked9516

6 ай бұрын

​@@TKP1986 They're not, but Brood Brothers retain the guard and imperium keywords, which means you can slap agents of the imperium in with them. While the rules for Brood Brothers prevent you from having a guard HQ, they don't stop you from taking any AotI HQ options - like an Inquisitor. Since your list is entirely comprised of units with the imperium keyword, you can soup in Knights using Freeblade rules - bing, bang, boom, you have knights in GSC.

@Wind-Whistler

6 ай бұрын

@@spnked9516 But your list isn’t composed only of Imperium units. Because only 1/4 can be brood brothers. So 3/4 of the list has to actually be GSC.

I think it's strange Votann don't have allies yet as they themselves are mercenaries and traders. They could pretty much go with anyone. As long as it's lucrative.

@captainweekend5276

6 ай бұрын

It's weird considering in 9th edition arks of omen you could ally up to 500 points of votann with any imperium army, but no one did since you lost your pure army rules and didn't get the judgement tokens that the votann relied on. It was never fixed and they completely axed it going into 10th edition. Just seems to be another case of GW having absolutely no idea on what to do with squats.

@badwrongfun5541

5 ай бұрын

Just letting Votann take Tau allies and vice versa could cover up holes in both armies and has backing in the lore. So it's sad that's not a thing.

I was hoping to see summat to do with GSC and 'Nids.

Till the last moment of the year all on it

As somebody who owns the finecast Karamazov, I really wish he was better. I miss when he could orbital bombardment without scattering if you targeted your own units

Nurglings in DG are def a must. Idk what else is comparable within the DG faction strict without goin into Daemons.

Another note for the Ynnari: Aeldari have the Bladestorm stratagem that gives your shooting 2AP on a critical wound. Drukhari have a lot of access to Anti-Infantry.

@Trinine9

6 ай бұрын

Yeah that’s not worth the trouble you already have units that can pick up infantry and you wanna save your CP for things like fire and fade or run away cuz you aren’t getting cp from the Autarch and as eldar if you don’t hide your units they die very easy

Well, LatD aren't "true" allies per rules, just part of CSM. They do bring some cool options tho. Hopefully Noise Marines will be updated in next Codex (or get "mystery book" in summer)

@corytem1994

6 ай бұрын

There is a theory that with the EC release, the daemons codex would be split up into god codex’s shared with the legions. If that is the case, then LatD would likely become true allies

Speaking as a Marines player, the Callidus is one of the first things I add to just about every list. The thing is, rather than bumping her up in points again, they could fix her rules just by adding three words to her redeploy ability: "Once per battle". If she isn't bouncing around the table every turn, she's still a useful assassin, but stops being an action monkey. Problem solved. Don't get me wrong, I like having a solid action monkey outside scouts and inceptors, but she's barely seeing use as an assassin; having an auto-pick isn't great for the balance of the game, and I'd prefer to see comparable units coming down in points for the armies that need them, while she goes back to her role of actually killing stuff.

I want ally rules for Necrons, but only if Trazyn is the Warlord. It wont be good, but it will be cool

Personally I feel like knights might fill in a nice gap in the admech list I'm gonna try it out myself

I pray for the day they give chaos a brood brothers equivalent for traitor guard. Doubt it’ll happen now that they have the actual data sheets but my undivided cultist/guard army can always hope

Vindicare is the weakest assassin....culexus is low key misunderstood how good it actually is (but callidus is by far the best still it's true)

Ork Faction Allies: MORE ORKS

i'm making an Inquisitorial Force army, because why TF not. inquisitor and his entourage, a knight, an assassin, exaction squad, then scions. and some other units. its just cool, and that's the rule. looking forward to 11th edition that makes it illegal

As an Ork player, I can ally in a virtually unlimited number of Snakebites, Goffs, Evil Sunz, Bad Moons, Blood Axes, and Freebooters. Top that, humies.

Sorry, I have a question, I don't speak English well so I didn't understand the video well. My question is: if I want to add a war dog to my Chaos space marine army, does that war dog keep his faction abilities or does he just keep his normal abilities? Or are they replaced with the Chaos space marine faction ability? I hope you can answer me

Generic Inquisitors can be a real hidden gem if your army relies on Battleline units that want stratagems spammed on them. That 3+ to farm CP is a real beast in my Deathwatch army. Plank an Inquisitor into a DW Veterans Squad, and watch me teleport every turn basically for free.

Exalted Flamers: "Yeah. Sure. I'll take a mini-devastor squad of 3 no-cover rocket launchers. That deepstrikes, has 9" movement, and a 4+ movement debuff on hitting. For 70pts. Pity it flies and gets Assassinated...."

Not having tested it yet, but I might do at some point an Aeldari army based on the Anraithe Aeldari units, Voidscarred Corsairs in particular. Furthermore to intensify the pirate theme of the army, I want to add Drukhari boats to it. But sadly they would suck with the current Corsairs rules, even if I would play them narratively. :/ However though I made the same thing in my head as shown in the video and realized that in order to play them properly, I just have to switch to Ynnari and kitbash Yvraine into a Corsair-lordesque pirate lady! I'd get the rerolls, I'd get the fun gunboats, can field up all of my battleline potential with Anraithe units, Yvraine can actually accompany a unit of Voidscarred Corsairs into battle and even help them out with her ability, that restores lost wounds/models on these (!), so yeah... I figured that becoming an Aeldari Corsair means to embrace Ynnari. Or maybe to just kidnap Yvraine in order for her to lead a space elf pirate army. ^^

@Trinine9

6 ай бұрын

Unfortunately Corsairs can only go in CW transport but if it’s only them in that transport it gets their scout move which is kinda nice but I have found when you bring corsairs they tend to die before they get to do anything and for 70pts for 5 models it’s pretty disappointing 1 s4 shot ap1 at 24in with rapid fire assault can’t really even do much to a guard unit before they get wiped great looking models and the kit is great for kitbashing also Prince Yriel is part of the Y’nnari and is a Corsair Prince and can go in their units as well and gives you a 3 unit redeploy to play around with he isn’t all that great of a unit but if fits in the lore

kinda wish the inquisition would be given its own codex and expanded range

Excuse me, but where are the rules for allies sourced from? I cant see any in the main rulebook

are you allowed to take multiple flavours of allies in the same list? e.g. add in both some wardogs and nurglings to a CSM or DG list

@HowDoPlayGame

6 ай бұрын

Yes

Necrons should be able to ally with blood angels

Auspex, I love you. You are the best ! All the best for 2024 !

Is it me or is it weird that they don't allow genestealers cult and nids to work together anymore

@frankterrian339

6 ай бұрын

Well, TECHNICALLY, those braindead cultists don't know they're working for the bugs... ;-) Realistically, I see no real reason not to allow some kind of alliance. Just imagine... your opponent has just wiped out your GSC, looks at you and realizes that that was a bit too easy... Cue the hordes of angry bugs flooding the battlefield. Maybe not the most sensible (or easy to get right) thing, but... ;-)

@Monstergirl-ologist

6 ай бұрын

I suppose, but I used to just slap a kelemorph in my nids cause it's funny it looks cool

Like the Culexus. I killed with him Mephiston without problems.

No mention of rogue trader entourage??

Can Cult Marines use stratagems that require Marks ? Cos if not?

@manadrinker

6 ай бұрын

Should do. All cult units have their dety keyword.

Q: War Dog Karnivore has two melee weapons can he use both im combat or you have to chose one ??

@sonarchy5158

6 ай бұрын

You have to choose one during each combat phase Same goes for the Knight Rampager

@noxarcana3660

6 ай бұрын

@@sonarchy5158 So only point of having two of them is like to chose witch one is better suited for what he is currently fighting with

For the Agents of The Imperium, I really want a classic Witch Hunter/Inquisition/RT mini codex that let’s me throw together various Ordo stuffs etc

Anyone else remember when Space Marines could ally with Votann lmoa

Lots of things you want but GW isn't restocking - The Video

You could have done traitor guard. They pretty much get the same as brood brothers. And more. But they can have chaos rhinos as well.

As a Tyranid player there are no allies......only biomass.

Where are my Ork allies?

Have to say it’s pretty sad that the Y’nnari the reason I even started playing 40K back in 8th is now just a way to bring dark eldar with craftworld because quins are no longer a faction so are just another CW unit and Corsairs don’t really know what they want to be and if you are dark eldar you can only add some of ether the worst units or ones that do what the dark eldar units do but a little better because they can use the army rules

Make greyfax good in sisters solely for the ship between her and Celestine. This is my one wish. Hear my plea mr. workshop

Happy New Year to all my Warhammer players, Xenos or Heretic, Imperium or Wildlife.

Shit i just realized ive got 3 armies that totals just shy of 10k pts (deathgaurd, chaos knights, and daemons) i dont have a single lone op.... smh tried to get a changling but i got ripped off.

What about some of the other models out there like from Blackstone fortress love to add spindle drones to something as like the model but dont want them to mess up anything army wise

Bro, go to sleep and have a happy new 2024

really wish theyd let agents be a real army

I play a unit of voidsman at arms (kitbashed from cadian shock troops) with my marines, just to try and inject a bit of authentic fluff on the tabletop - I want a guard army with 1-2 units of space marine shock troops, sadly this is as close as I can get to a realistic imperial force

I still like the idea of an all ally list for Brood Brothers. I love that Canus Rex and his bros are showing up to try and look heroic, having no idea they're answering a recycled distress call from two Genestealer cultists hiding behind some ruins! 😅

Chaos wardogs are some of the best bang for the buck, just good luck finding any to buy. Anything that can easily do secondaries, nurglings, call assassin, guants ghosts, etc. But also good luck finding them to buy. WG is too busy trying the spear lore whales with the old world, they are letting their other systems suffer.

13:58 why would a khorne army have nurglings? This is why gw’s “anything goes” mentality is a negative

@Swampert919

6 ай бұрын

They cant? World eaters arent allowed to bring nurglings. Thats the only strickly khorne army in the game.

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Allies are a mistake, the armies that benefit the most from allies are almost all Imperium factions which are already extremely well-supported when it comes to units. Just play the army you picked.

Autism Tactics

I've long been meaning to try an Alpha Legion army that has allied daemons, some war dogs, some rubrics, and tons of cultists and traitor guard. In effect there'd be like three guys in a 2000 point army. 🙂