In this new series of posts, I'll be having a look at the stratagems available to Leagues of Votann armies in 10th edition 40k, both from the core rules and from the index. We'll start out by looking at those stratagems from the core rules that can be deemed offensive, or in other words "meant to increase or enhance damage output in some way".
The Leagues of Votann army is pretty new, and has few units. But what if we had more?
Uthar the Destined, only named character of the Leagues of Votann, seems like he could become a pretty cool character in the lore. But what's with his rules in the 10th edition index?
Time has come to look at the weapons that can be taken for the Hekaton Land Fortress in the Leagues of Votann Index for 10th edition 40k.
In which a Kin Voidmaster aids an Imperial cartographer in returning to Far-space.
Disclaimer: My short stories will take liberties and make assumptions with the lore we have, but are intended to be in line with official lore at the time of writing. I apologize in advance for all mistakes.
My favorite model in the Leagues of Votann range has to be the Sagitaur. It is, to put it quite simply, cute. It is also pretty good in the 10th edition index. But what is its best weapons loadout?
Since the 10th edition Leagues of Votann index was released, several people have talked about the Grimnyr being bad, mostly because he can only give his +1 Toughness buff to Hearthkyn. To quote the good people over at The Art of War 40k: "Garbage". And they probably know better what they're talking about than me. Even so, I'm not entirely sure they are right. Let's have a closer look.
A squad of Hearthkyn Warriors can take two out of a long list of special weapons. But which ones are best?
The Mighty Kahl. Probably the most valuable character in the 10th edition Leagues of Votann index, the Kahl is primarily a buffing character, handing out judgement tokens, making his squad inflict lethal hits and helping out with invulnerable saves or deepstriking abilities. But what about his weapons?
Since the 10th edition Leagues of Votann index came out, there have been several discussions about the lack of synergy between the Lethal Hits ability (auto-wound on a critical hit) given by a Kahl when he's leading a unit, and the Devastating Wounds ability (mortal wounds on a critical wound) on Volkanite weapons (which he can take himself, or be carried by a Hearthguard squad he leads). Some claim that Lethal Hits is a debuff to these weapons. Others, such as a previous version of this article, have claimed that this is wrong.
Lets once again investigate how these rules interact for the Leages of Votann Kahl.
Thunder, thunder, thunder, Thunderkyn! Hoooo! A closer look at the exo-frame-wearing, heavy-weapons-wielding, 80s-cartoons-sounding Brokhyr Thunderkyn.
I played yet another game, this time against Ultramarines. Read all about it!
The humble, hard-working Hearthkyn, our basic troop choice - sorry, that's battleline now. How does it measure up against the basic units of some other factions in 10th edition?
While we got serious point reductions since 9th, the low number of datasheets in the Leagues of Votann index combined with the new fixed squad sizes mean that building armies to a set number of points can be hard. One thousand points seem especially challenging. Lets look at a couple of possible 1000 point lists that could be fun to try out.
Now that wargear choices is free, you are of course going to take medpack, scanner, comms and special weapons on your Hearthkyn Warriors. But what basic weapon should you get? Lets put the Autoch-pattern Bolter and the Ion Blaster to the test!
For my first 10th game using the Leviathan mission pack, I was facing the Craftworld Eldar - but the new Aeldari index is very clearly overpowered in many ways, so a list was made that we hoped was possible to play against for the Votann in their current state.
