With the new coherency rules these long chains of models aren’t as useful and if you’re not careful about how you remove casualties and pick targets you can find yourself losing a significant number of models to coherency checks. This is a big deal for Chaos Daemons, who often rely on units with 20+ models and made a habit of running long strings of models in 8th in order to hold multiple objectives simultaneously. Changes to Unit CoherencyĪnother major change that affects Chaos Daemons more than other factions, unit coherency now requires each model in a unit be within 2″ of two other models in the unit if the unit has more than 6 models additionally, coherency is checked at the end of each Morale phase, and any models out of unit coherency are removed as casualties.

The upside is that abilities that prevent enemies from making a Fall Back move will prevent Desperate Breakouts (how these interact likely needs an FAQ but as written it appears they can’t attempt a Fall Back move and so won’t be wiped out), but on the whole, these are tough changes for an army that relies heavily on melee combat.

Charging Vehicles no longer saves you from being shot by them, trapping units is much harder, and charging multiple units will be a big challenge. These are, for the most part, negative changes for Chaos Daemons. Melee combat has changed a bit in 9th the ability to trap units has been significantly reduced, charges have become slightly more difficult thanks to the CP re-roll change, multi-charging has become much more difficult, units that Heroically Intervene can be attacked by chargers, and vehicles are able to shoot in combat, preventing them from being “turned off” by melee units that reach them. The Rules Impactįirst off, a number of rules changed and a lot of these directly impact Chaos Daemons. Still, there’s a lot here to say about how the game has changed and with it, how Daemons play. So as we sit down to evaluate the faction in 9th edition, we’ve got more question marks than with most factions, since we’re evaluating and speculating on their Engine War upgrades as much as their general performance in 9th. In what was a cruel twist of fate, the Chaos Daemons faction saw an exciting release in Engine War pass by with almost no play time before the launch of 9th edition completely changed the landscape again. OK, I’ve spent enough time covering the mortal slaves to darkness of the 40k universe. Today, Robert “TheChirurgeon” Jones is talking about Chaos Daemons. With the Munitorum Field Manual out in the wild and the Faction FAQs released, now’s a good time to start taking a look at what’s changed for all of our favorite armies. 9th edition is here, and with it a whole raft of changes to the factions of Warhammer 40,000.

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