White Dwarf 507

[ThePenitentOne]

Just picked up my copy today- it has a featured GSC army that features an excellent Patriarch conversion and Brood Brothers based on Traitor Guard. It gives a lot of background about GSC in the Chalnath expanse- cool hooks if you're running the season's campaign, but the KT batrep is Vespid vs. Aquillon.

 

My favourite part is the Crusade content; it allows you to designate a character as a strategist. The strategist gives you a pool of points that you use to purchase Shrewd Stategy abilities for specific units prior to the game.. Most of these make use of a Crossfire ability: the unit with the ability is a Crossfire unit, and each ability designates criteria for other units to be classified as Crossfire units. If multiple Crossfire units target the same enemy, those units get bonuses specified by the ability.

 

There are Agendas and Battle Honours that interact with Strategist and Crossfire rules. There are also lots of character-specific Relics. It's nice to have some Crusade content that affects the battle, since all the content from the dex deals with the Ascension Day metagame, rather than the action on the table.