Keep collections to yourself or inspire other shoppers! Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. Necron Warrior Squad | Multi-Listing | Warhammer 40k Army | Sautekh | Wargaming | Tabletop Games | Robots | Troops A mid-tier escort that can be given either feeder tentacles or a small weapon battery – primarily serves to ‘highlight’ enemy ships that your cruisers or Hive Ship may want to target at range. If trying to pronounce those names doesn’t cause small capillaries in your brain to burst I don’t know what will. The models are awful, and there just isn’t anything exciting about these ships. Some of them have special rules all their own, but for the most part, your capital ships only serve to bring more Orcas to the fight. The Kroot Warsphere

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There is just something inherently attractive about playing as a swarm of semi-sentinent, swarming, killy monsters that just want to get close and hug you. Unfortunately, the models for Tyrands are atrocious, but the good news is that if you’re a Tyranid player I can guarantee you have a pile of organic looking parts that would make just wonderful custom Tyranid ships. That makes these bugs not just easy to play, but fun and cheap to put together as well! Industrial Factory Dice Tower - Dice Tower for Tabletop Minis RPG/Board Games Like Dungeons & Dragons, Warhammer, Call of Cthulhu, Mork Borg The single escort in the Dark Eldar roster is a customizable platform that for 50 points comes equipped with a base set of weapon batteries and can then be supplemented by one of: an increased battery putting them on par with an Eldar Aconite (but cheaper), a Phantom lance, a dual torpedo tube, or an Impaler module. Additionally, for another 20 points, the escort can be equipped with Mimic engines. While the roster entries are extremely limited, the customization options for the class give the Dark Eldar surprising flexibility in fleet construction. The 40cm move is amongst the fastest standard moves in the game outside of the Necron line…. The Necron Dynasty Fleets Why You Should Play Necrons By comparison, Ork Roks are miniature versions of Hulks that ignore critical damage penalties but instead take additional damage. They carry a fairly small but comprehensive set of all-around weapons and can be a relatively cheap escort to a Hulk that serves to augment its already formidable capabilities while maintaining orbit around it. On their own, their movement is rather restrictive and slow and an Ork fleet may find them lagging the rest of the formation or maneuvering erratically. They are however super easy to make with a trip to Michael’s and a couple of spare Ork gunz. Gravitic Hooks, which do absolutely nothing except dictate how many escorts you can bring in the fleet. The Orca escorts are fairly cheap and good vessels so the hooks are relatively important – but there’s an entire paragraph that tells you how meaningless they otherwise are in game terms but does successfully note that, yes, these exist.

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The Dirge class Raiders are extremely similar but trade a point in Lightning Arc offense and the loss of the Portal for an additional 10 cm of speed and a points decrease to 40. They play a similar role without needing to close the enemy fleet to take advantage of the Portal. Suffice to say, the Necron escorts are powerful for their size. The Tyranid Hive Fleets Why You Should Play Tyranids In addition to the Impaler, the Dark Eldar launch bays grant access to regular assault boats but with the typical Eldar difficulty of removal by enemy turrets. The torpedo tubes may be equipped with an alternate torpedo type called Leech torpedoes but these torpedoes do not cause any damage- instead a single hit reduces enemy movement by 10cm – and while it’s not cumulative, each additional hit must be cleared before the speed penalty is lifted. The remaining Dark Eldar weapon batteries, fighters, bombers, and torpedoes are otherwise similar to the Eldar Corsairs. Tyranid cruisers are not particularly fast or heavily armed, and they frankly have a low hull value for a cruiser, but they are cheap coming in between 90 and 130 points each and can easily swarm a board and overwhelm your ability to fend them off as they close to board and gut your ships from within. This is a pretty typical battleship chassis with 12 hull points and a turning circle that’s only just better than a straight line. Beyond that, everything else is at least somewhat different. Like all Astartes vessels it’s faster than its navy equivalent, and goes at 20cm a turn rather than the 15cm you’d expect from an Imperial battleship. It’s only got 3 turrets and 3 shields, but on the upside it’s got 6+ armour all round. That’s pretty epic, but it does mean that while you can laugh (or at least chortle semi-nervously) at enemy weapons batteries, torpedoes and bombers, the enemy’s lances are a serious threat.

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These are essentially Cobra class escorts but with a larger weapon battery and slightly more armor. Not a big ship who cares. The Traitor FleetsSpace Marines get a whole pile of special rules, pretty much all of which can also be applied to Chaos fleet vessels crewed by Heretic Astartes:

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Chonky Leadership. Marines get their own leadership table that basically means you’re looking at a hench leadership of 8-10. Chaos ships may also now choose to add Chaos Space Marine crews which provides the vessels with a leadership bonus as well as boarding and hit-and-run bonuses at no additional costs – however, it limits the types of marks a ship can take, and additionally limits the fleet to a specific Marine legion unless you pay for additional Chaos Lords to lead alternate legion vessels – and even then certain legions may be not be taken in the same fleet. Classic GW fluff focused roster building. The relatively inexpensive Light Cruisers are an alternative to the more common Dauntless class and provide some very focused support to the fleet as the Endeavor, Endurance, or Defiant designs trade capacity for hanger bays, lance batteries, or weapon batteries. Basically all Tyranid ships are all customizable with the aforementioned weapon options and they can be squadroned expansively at anywhere between 0 and 12 vessels. Tyranids also do not use shields or turrets, but rather use spore clouds that act similarly but with some minor differences. When squadroned, Tyranid vessels can combine their spore clouds similar to turrets but won’t gain any benefits to shielding. I do want to take a moment and thank some of our dedicated readers for pointing errors in our previous article – we did not account for the BFG FAQ (which I neglected out of sheer laziness) that does apply some changes to things like Nova Cannons and max ordnance among other things. I make note of this now and state simply that for detailed rule breakdowns, please refer to the actual rulebooks and FAQs that were linked in the original article. Meanwhile, we are just overjoyed that people are reading these articles and have hopefully renewed interest in this fantastically fun game. Core Fleet Expansion ShipsTranscendent C'tan unpainted with 60mm Clear Flight Base, compatible with and used for 28mm Wargame

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The Necrons are a fleet that was designed to be tough, aggressive, and more than a match for their opponents in a fair fight – something about being super old technological elitists. The caveat here is that Necrons are counter-balanced (maybe?) by always giving up victory points at any level of damage which then cascades from untouched, damaged, crippled, to destroyed or left drifting on the table. To get a feel for what this might mean, a Tomb Ship that is left as a drifting hulk may be worth up to 1,650 points to the opposing fleet and if you’re a Necron player you’d seriously struggle to overcome that kind of deficit short of utterly wiping your opponent – which is possible. For that reason a big part of playing Necrons is striking that balance between pounding away with your awesome weapons and preventing incoming damage via Brace for Impact (more on this momentarily). Space Marine ships appear in two fleet lists. They can either be used as a Codex Astartes fleet, or can be taken as part of a larger Navy fleet by using the Segmentum Solar, Armageddon Sector fleet list. The Armageddon Sector list is a themed list that lets you recreate a fleet representative of the Third Armageddon War, when circumstances led to the Imperial Navy and their Space Marine counterparts sharing command duties. There are some restrictions here; you can only include a Space Marine fleet commander if you have a battle barge, and Space Marine vessels can’t squadron up with Navy ships. The Armageddon class is basically the Victory ships of the Imperial fleet and are meant to be mass produced. Largely refurbished or salvaged Lunar class vessels – they’ve been upgunned to provide some additional punch at longer ranges but are otherwise functionally equivalent to the Lunar class cruisers. Bundle of 3D Printed Xenos Alien Tombworld Obelisks Scenery Scatter Terrain for 28mm Tabletop Miniature WargamingFar and away the coolest part of Tau is and has always been the not-Tau, bird-like Kroot. I’m sure many will disagree and say something like no actually it’s the cool battlesuits, but those people are objectively wrong. The Kroot are effectively space American natives who serve as mercenaries and ‘allies’ to Tau forces while the Tau hope to ‘civilize’ the Kroot. I’m sure at some point in the future the Tau will take the Kroot homeworld of Pech and relegate those who refuse to integrate to space Oklahoma but as of right now the Tau have other priorities.