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Shoots well above its weight. At BS 4 and with several very effective weapon loadouts, it can easily hit harder than a chimera, Devilfish or Raider. Grinding Advance: Allows Leman Russ Battle Tanks to fire their turret weapon twice if they’ve remained stationary or moved under half their movement speed.
For that matter, this review assumes you are using the Taurox Prime from Militarum Tempests as that is my only experience with it.Regimental Doctrine – Predatory Strike: When shooting a unit within half range, an unmodified 6 to hit scores an additional hit.
Units that disembark from a TRANSPORT model that made a Normal move this phase count as having made a Normal move themselves; they cannot move further during this phase. Such a unit also cannot declare a charge in the same turn, but can otherwise act normally in the remainder of the turn. Focused Bombardment – 1CP: Makes a Master of Ordnance’s once-per-game barrage heavy 6 instead of heavy d6. This is actually pretty OK, and increases the draw to include one of these guys if you’re bringing a bunch of Basilisks. B
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Each model can only have one Tank Ace ability, and you can’t give them to Named Characters. Sorry, Pask. Warlord Trait – Sanctity of Spirit: Enemy psykers within 24″ suffer perils on any roll of a double. Gaunt’s Ghosts are an extremely interesting unit. They’ve got character protection on the entire unit and have some neat special rules that make them ideal for some neat objective holding and action completing shenanigans. Notably, they can complete actions and still shoot, have a fight last ability, can reduce cost of a CP by 1 (when used on them), come with a 5++, and have infiltrate. Furthermore, being Officio Prefectus, they can be included in other Guard detachments without messing up Regiment Tactics. Haven’t seen them used in the wild yet, but we’re on the lookout for it! Troops Regiment>: The standard “Chapter Tactics”-granting keyword most 8th Edition Codex. Nearly every unit has this except for Scions and other units not drawn from an Astra Militarum Regiment in the lore, such as Abhumans and Imperial Navy elements.