Games Workshop - Warhammer 40,000 - Space Marines: Assault Intercessors

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Efficient: Probably the word that best defines the intercessors is that they are efficient. Unlike their brothers on the Phobos kill team Intercessors have access to re-rolls, plus with some tactics they are able to hit on a 3+ regardless of whether they wounded, performing Overwatch, or standing guard. Primaris Apothecary ( Helix Adept • Apothecary Biologis) • Primaris Librarian • Vanguard Librarian • Primaris Chaplain ( Judiciar) • Primaris Techmarine These traits are all about taking defensive action and keeping your models on the table and out of hairy situations.

Durable: Each time your operatives are shot at or hit in melee, a single critical hit does 1 less damage to this operative, to a minimum of 3. Even with the changes to this in the last dataslate – adding a wound floor and reducing it to once per activation, this is still one of the better tactics which helps Intercessors act like the heavy tanks they are. Given criticals are also likely to be the hits that leak through your 3+ save, this effectively gives you 1-2 extra wounds over the course of a game. This is crazy good, it is hard to deny it since you are a powerful-killy machine and you are under control on when to reveal it and who will be your champion. Indomitable Superiority Dreadnought ( Castraferrum Dreadnought • Siege Dreadnought • Hellfire Dreadnought • Ironclad Dreadnought • Venerable Dreadnought • Mortis Dreadnought • Chaplain Dreadnought • Librarian Dreadnought • Furioso Dreadnought • Death Company Dreadnought • Redemptor Dreadnought ( Brutalis Dreadnought • Ballistus Dreadnought) • Wulfen Dreadnought • Doomglaive Dreadnought) • Nemesis Dreadknight • Invictor Tactical Warsuittilt shields, 5 holsters, 7 small pouches and grenades, 5 purity seals, 5 small pendants, and a helmet for attachment to the belt Gives the operative the Tilting Shield ability, which means enemies can’t retain dice in combat as criticals unless they scored a 6, turning off Lethal 5/4+ and Rending, and similar abilities. This is great if your opponent has a lot of Rending or Lethal melee. This is a very niche choice, and is more useful if you’re running Assault Intercessors, otherwise avoiding combat is a great way to negate the lethal special rule… B Purity Seal [3EP]

Despite its modernised design and Cawl’s eccentric ideas about technological development, the new armour cleaved closely to its forebears. Solid plates and smooth lines took influence from many prior marks of power armour, with the helmet especially showing signs of the revered Mk IV Maximus armour that many considered the finest of its kind. While there are four categories of Trait to choose from, some of these just stand out way more than the others. Here are the best of the bunch: I would go pure Martial Zealotry as I’ll be taking these as Blood Angels with the Aggressive and Dueller traits, which would give me Rending if I charge, and if I parry with a crit, parry a critical and normal hit. This, combined with Assault Doctrine, let’s Assault Intercessors blender their way through anything roughly human sized taking not much more than chip damage in return. Don’t miss our unboxing of the Space Marines Primaris Assault Intercessors as we compare them to other models, and tell you the GOTCHAS!Well does Roboute Guilliman recall the success of single-armament Space Marine Legion squads from the era of the Great Crusade -- the combination of the focused firepower of the Intercessor Squads and the adaptability of the Tactical Squads has proven all but unstoppable. Strong Fundamentals – While you only have basic weapons with the exception of the one shot per turn auxiliary grenade launcher, those basic weapons are pretty good. Depending on your opponent you might go with Ceaseless Assault Bolt Rifles or P1 Bolt Rifles (I would say that having a Heavy basic weapon has so many problems for moving around the board that I wouldn’t take it). Similarly a P1 pistol on Assault Intercessors is decent enough for a melee model and six inch range is fine in the Gallowdark. Then there’s the Stalker bolt rifle, which burdens you with Heavy on a team where we want to be always on the move. So despite having AP1 it will pretty much never be taken into consideration. I would think carefully about Chapter Tactics. You can put all your eggs in one basket, and Martial Zealotry has two good eggs in, Dueller and Aggressive, which makes it easy to parry a lot of your opponents hits and still be able to deal out a crit in terms of damage. But Dueller combined with Hardy makes you a lot more survivable in melee and taking shots, or Dueller and Stealthy if you are playing in a cover heavy environment. Primaris Space Marine Intercessor of the Ultramarines Chapter in Mark X Tacticus Power Armour wielding a Mark II Cawl Pattern Bolt Rifle.