Worth mentioing the new Morale Phase. The test is the same as before - you roll a D6 and add the number of casualties to it. A 1 means that you pass automatically, so that's one change! But if the combined number exceeds your Leadership, at last one dude runs away and you roll again for the other models.
This is called Combat Attrition test. So if you have less than half of your models left, then you minus one from Combat Attrition test. Meaning that they will run away if you roll a 2 as well.
An example: let's say I lose 3 Guardsmen in an infantry squad. I roll a 6, which sucks. That means I have a 9, which exceeds my Guardsmen's leadership of 7. One guy runs away, and I roll 6 D6. If I roll a single 1, another model flees, and I lose a total of 2 dudes in the Morale phase.
Let's say I lose 5 guys and fail my morale test (I roll a 3, for a total of 8). Again, one guy flees, and I have to roll 4D6. However, this time, rolls of 1s and 2s both mean my Guardsmen flee. So if I roll a 1, 2, 3 and 4, another 2 guys run away, and I'm left with 2 Guardsmen. Ouch.
...right. No change there. Unless I roll a 1, it won't mitigate that. I wish they will chang it back to automatically passed, but then that would make Conscripts Fearless, which is stupid as hell. Oh well.
Not going to talk about the Stratagems and key units because we already know what they are and how they play. I do think I want to add a Hellhound to my armored company, though.
Yeah, the more I look at it, the more I want one...
Right now my Astra Militarum army consists of 2 types. One is armored company with Leman Russ Executioner tanks (I intend to add a Stormblade eventually) and Carnodon tanks, and one is Stormtroopers. Inquisitional Stormtroopers, perhaps, but mechanized Stormtroopers, all loaded up in a Vendetta gunship and Tauroxes Prime, escorting my tanks. This will be cool. Maybe? We'll see.
For the Emperor!
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