That was just a basic addition though, not the height of their siege capabilities represented in this book. At least in the two Chapter Traits you get in the vanilla codex, one gives Centurions and Devastators Tank Hunter and Siege Masters special rules. You, whoever you are reading right now, could have done a better job than them at this just by giving them a basic reliable rule. I'm not saying they should have been pigeonholed into only siege warfare, but for the love of all things holy this is embarrassingly little. Also, make actual use of the army's expert method of war when writing these. Codex writers, while it doesn't help that these are all fairly uninspired, you should just slap a points cost on the end of each one and make them selectable upgrades. Siege Lord could be completely useless if you're fighting in jungle terrain, and while Wise Commander can be handy you can't risk writing a list to use it as you only have a 16.7% chance getting it per game. While it's commendable that the author would want to cover all bases and given variety, the fact they are randomly chosen makes all of them very unreliable. The most useful one however is Wise Commander: While the Warlord is alive you can influence reserve rolls by one point, either +1 or -1 on each unit's dice roll.Īs with the last several codicies, two are focused upon one line of thought, another on two more and the last two on yet another area. One more is much more squad orientated with Indomitable offering Fearless and Counter-Attack to him and his unit if they don't move. Two are very killy focused and range from giving your Warlord a single shot Strength 10 orbital bombardment, to giving your Warlord the It Will Not Die rule. The rest of the Warlord Traits don't even really go in line with this, making these two feel extremely out of place. It's as if the writers were halfway through the book and suddenly realised "Oh yeah, we've yet to actually make use of the thing they're best known for" and proceeded to fart this out! The Imperial Fists, masters of siege warfare, experts of defending positions and the legion who fortified Terra in its darkest days, are given a token addition to take advantage of this. Siege Lord: "Your Warlord, and his unit, add +1 to the result when rolling on the Building Damage table."Īrchitect of War: "Whilst your Warlord is embarked inside a building, all damage rolls against that building suffer a -1 penalty, to a minimum of one." Both are Warlord Traits, randomly generated, and offer the bare bones to cover this with the following: Those here for siege tactics? You are out of luck! Sentinels of Terra contains only two rules devoted to taking or destroying buildings, which only work for one squad at a time. In fact many of them seem to feel so much unlike the Imperial Fists, you could easily use the codex as a substitute list for the likes of the Marines Errant and they wouldn't feel out of place.
Now let's get this straight: The rules overall aren't that bad and are definitely a step up from previous supplements in quality and addressing problems, but they feel as if they were written for a very different army. Instead what little quality there is has been stripped away in several areas, and Sentinels of Terra is arguably one of the worst we have seen since Codex: Iyanden. It felt as if the writers were experimenting and seeing what worked, and that this latest release might have been halfway decent. Codex: Farsight Enclaves rose slightly above its predecessor and included at least a few gems among its pages, while Codex: Black Legion contained fantastic additions to the lore despite poor rules. While we have yet to see an actually good supplement codex, there has been a slow but visible increase in each release's quality over the past months. You know what the truly damning thing is about this? I was actually somewhat hopeful for this one. It felt as if the writers were experimenting Rules. Rules - You know what the truly damning thing is about this? I was actually somewhat hopeful for this one.
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