Kill Team: Exodites (Dragon Masters & Dragon Knights)

[Lord Marshal]

First of the rules previews for the Kill Team.

[kabaakaba]

That's an interesting way to play. 14" move is too much IMHO.

On other hand pretty fluffy and all. Need to see full rules to understand how's it would plays on table 

[Interrogator Stobz]

Very cool, thanks for bringing it to out attention brother 

[Lord Marshal]

40k rules for the Exodites.

 

 

Influencers have also gotten permission to show off the full KT rules for them:

 

 

Edited yesterday at 01:58 PM by Lord Marshal

[Indy Techwisp]

40k Stats on those look decently strong.

[Dr. Clock]

Yeah - good enough - my plan of 6 Knights and 1 of each character is unchanged. 

 

The Knights seem about on par with Shining Spears; slightly slower/squishier but slightly more flexible with the extra attacks and disengage. So 100-110pts?

 

The Clanblade looks great, and a Scouting Lone Op is always welcome for action economy... and while I have a hard time putting much value on Ensnarement, the Singer attack profiles alone look like fun for some shooting kick. With luck the characters will be resonably priced given their lack of improved defence vs regular knights, but I expect they'll be 60-75 apiece in any case.

 

Guys... Exodites. On my Birthday. The Fates have spoke. 

 

Cheers,

 

The Good Doctor

[Casual Heresy]

I'm sold! The 40k rules are exactly what I hoped they'd be in terns of speed and offence. I do wish the shields granted some defensive buff though as a 4+ save will make me sweat (I've been a power armour fan boy for a long time).

 

I have to be sensible so will only have the kill team characters to begin with but as soon as possible I will be trying to get a full three squads of 6 knights plus support characters. Add in a few rangers, corsairs and something to melt monsters and vehicles and I think I'll have my first ever xenos army!

[Bouargh]

I must admit that this is a very interresting set of rules. Split of characters as individual units is what was missing in many KT transpositions such as corsaire not to pin any specific boxed set

 

and these dragoons will be punchy enough to make some HtH aspect warriors looping full. Just have to wait for the points. 
 

But I guess these rules nail it

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

So leystalker gets its own dragon puppies?

Thats cool.

 

2 hours ago, Dr. Clock said:

Yeah - good enough - my plan of 6 Knights and 1 of each character is unchanged. 

 

The Knights seem about on par with Shining Spears; slightly slower/squishier but slightly more flexible with the extra attacks and disengage. So 100-110pts?

 

The Clanblade looks great, and a Scouting Lone Op is always welcome for action economy... and while I have a hard time putting much value on Ensnarement, the Singer attack profiles alone look like fun for some shooting kick. With luck the characters will be resonably priced given their lack of improved defence vs regular knights, but I expect they'll be 60-75 apiece in any case.

 

Guys... Exodites. On my Birthday. The Fates have spoke. 

 

Cheers,

 

The Good Doctor

I mean people are constantly saying mobility wins games. So -2” to movement is a pretty significant mobility debuff. Especially for units with only 5” moves.

[Dr. Clock]

14 minutes ago, Inquisitor_Lensoven said:

So -2” to movement is a pretty significant mobility debuff.

 

Sure... it might do something, but as it only affects monster/vehicle, most likely it's making a 10" into an 8", and given you need to be 18" away to use it in the first place it's not enough to reliably keep you safe. From time to time it's going to keep a big gribbly out of your face, but it's a pretty niche ability. If it's just a 40/50 point guy I'll be happy to take him, but any more is questionable. 

 

Cheers,

 

The Good Doctor.

[The Yncarne]

Enjoy your birthday Dr C. This just makes me want to build the two spears boxes I already have.

[Inquisitor_Lensoven]

4 hours ago, Dr. Clock said:

 

Sure... it might do something, but as it only affects monster/vehicle, most likely it's making a 10" into an 8", and given you need to be 18" away to use it in the first place it's not enough to reliably keep you safe. From time to time it's going to keep a big gribbly out of your face, but it's a pretty niche ability. If it's just a 40/50 point guy I'll be happy to take him, but any more is questionable. 

 

Cheers,

 

The Good Doctor.

I read it as non-monster/vehicle like most of their other stuff

[Lord Marshal]

Fluff article with some neat art. Just ignore the leader having a screaming face on their crotch.

 

Edited 9 hours ago by Lord Marshal

[Karhedron]

I am really liking the look of the Leystalker as a utility piece. Lone Op, Infiltrate 9", Stealth and a decently potent sniper rifle makes him look very useful. T5 also means he is tough enough to not die instantly to a single volley of bolter fire if the enemy gets fed up of him.

 

Price will determine whether he is playable. If he comes in at under 100 points, I think he can find a place in plenty of lists.

[Casual Heresy]

Fluff article is interesting and that artwork is gorgeous. Looking forward to getting my copy of the book to see what else is in there.

 

 

[Dr. Clock]

14 hours ago, Inquisitor_Lensoven said:

I read it as non-monster/vehicle like most of their other stuff

Yea it's just the poison breath that gives him a role into anything not monster/vehicle... I don't know I've ever seen a data-sheet with both anti-monster/vehicle AND anti-non-monster/vehicle... and I don't know if I've ever seen a non-random Torrent weapon either! It's a scattered data-sheet to be sure...

 

Cheers,

 

The Good Doctor.

 

 

[Lord Marshal]

Huh, this is cool. Templates for building your own Exodite Terrain. More of this, James.

 

Edited 8 hours ago by Lord Marshal

[Nephaston]

Unexpected. But very welcome.

[Tichinde]

Holy second edition cardboard bunkers batman!

 

that's cool.

[MoriyaSchism]

2 hours ago, Lord Marshal said:

Huh, this is cool. Templates for building your own Exodite Terrain. More of this, James.

 

This sort of thing should be a weekly release.