The "Banzai" Blackshields

[N1SB]

(Sorry if I missed discussions about this, I briefly heard this idea in some YouTube 30k video, but I wasn't really paying attention.)

 

I was in our Warhammer Store and got talking about the Blackshields PDF and suddenly people starting shouting “萬歲!" (maan seoi!)

 

That means an age of 10,000 years and is a cheer for a Chinese emperor, so I was freaked out, like did a Qing emperor pop up behind me?

 

Turns out, they weren't speaking in terms of Chinese history, but Japanese; you know that phrase as "Banzai!"  What kamikaze pilots shouted.

 

And what they were describing was this suicidal charge list-building strategy based on one of the Oaths in the Blackshields PDF:

 

 

The idea is you take a Blackshields Detachment with as many Centurions with Jump Packs as possible and NO OTHER upgrades.  Then they just jump head 1st into the enemy to die, then they each get D6+1 VPs.  So an army list is you start with the Crusade Primary Detachment and get Jump Pack Centurions, which unlocks the Officer Cadre Detachment, for more Jump Pack Centurions.  Your entire army is Jump Pack Centurions that jump headlong into danger.  That's about a thousand points with 8 or 9 models.

 

What do I do with this except to buy a pack of the upcoming plastic 30k Assault Marines and shout 萬歲?

 

Also what Legion would they be from?  It's not White Scars, the original meaning of kamikaze was this typhoon that tore the 2 Mongol fleets apart.  I suppose they could be Medusan Immortals.  Actually, some weird Medusan Immortal suicide force is the closest I could think of, but feel free to prove me wrong (I did Shattered Xth in 1st ed, not looking to repeat it).

[Gorgoff]

You are not the first one to come up with it and the gist of it is that it isn't any fun to play against and with. Especially if you combine it with the blade oath which you find a page before that. 

 

The enemy won't be able to kill every 20 or so marines who will just hide behind area terrain and then charge turn two farming massive loads of victory points. 

It's a meme which will be fun once but looses it's charme very fast.

[Pacific81]

I think this combo is the one mentioned on the Honest Heresy Youtube channel? Someone unwittingly turned up at the event with it and smashed everyone, so I think as a result and with it being impossible to beat it will most likely be banned by most TOs.

[MDops]

27 minutes ago, Pacific81 said:

I think this combo is the one mentioned on the Honest Heresy Youtube channel? Someone unwittingly turned up at the event with it and smashed everyone, so I think as a result and with it being impossible to beat it will most likely be banned by most TOs.

Yeah Honest Heresy in the hh3 big problem video. There's a section specifically on black shields.

 

To the original question, what your after seems like a Ebon Keshig army in essence or at least a very aggressive army. I would be thinking of melee focused/bent armies (BA, WE, EC, White Scars, Space Wolves) for the jump captians

[N1SB]

6 hours ago, Gorgoff said:

Especially if you combine it with the blade oath which you find a page before that.

 

*reads Oath of Moment: Blade of the Just, all the way down to Doomed Heroics*

 

Oh for crying out loud!  Thanks for the heads up, Brothers.  This might be the Final Boss (whose A.I. cheats) of HH 3.0.

[Gorgoff]

Just now, N1SB said:

 

*reads Oath of Moment: Blade of the Just, all the way down to Doomed Heroics*

 

Oh for crying out loud!  Thanks for the heads up, Brothers.  This might be the Final Boss (whose A.I. cheats) of HH 3.0.

It definitely is the pendant to the 2ed Fury of the Legion all Dreadnoughts army. 

[N1SB]

On 11/19/2025 at 5:14 PM, MDops said:

I would be thinking of melee focused/bent armies (BA

 

Yeah, I was just letting my brain float while reading and you reminded me of that scene in End & the Death Part III where Blood Angels went Black Rage for the 1st time, like this janky Not-Rite of War should be seen as some weird NPC encounter like that, that would be a cool modeling project for real.  Some 3D printed vampire heads on upcoming plastic Assault squads, or something.