MASSIVE 40K Rules Update - New Points, Rules Changes + More!

Let's talk through the big balance update to Warhammer 40K, and what it might mean for each faction in the game...

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0:00 Intro
2:51 Tournament Rules Changes
3:54 Space Marines
8:21 Adepta Sororitas
10:23 Adeptus Custodes
11:14 Adeptus Mechanicus
13:19 Rattle Can Studios - Video Sponsor
14:43 Astra Militarum
17:02 Grey Knights
18:04 Black Templars
19:23 Blood Angels
21:13 Dark Angels
22:42 Space Wolves
24:30 Imperial Knights
25:40 Imperial Agents
27:04 Chaos Space Marines
29:38 Death Guard
30:58 Thousand Sons
32:33 World Eaters
33:25 Chaos Daemons
34:19 Chaos Knights
35:52 Aeldari
37:47 Drukhari
39:16 Tyranids
40:49 Genestealer Cults
43:45 Leagues of Votann
44:36 Necrons
47:49 Orks
50:25 T'au Empire
52:58 Initial Impressions
53:52 Rattel Can Studios - Video Sponsor
54:28 Outro

[auspextactics]

CORRECTIONS:
- Monolith also went up 25pts to 400pts, again not so great for Hypercrypt there along with the Vault increase...

[maximusmith]

can’t wait for custodes points to drop enough for me to field all 10, 000

[FrostandFists]

Those poor Desolators, catching strays while sitting on the bench. Their mommas are going to have to tie a steak to their neck to get the dog to play with them.

[baval]

How the hell did they manage to Q&A that Hellblasters can only shoot on death when its to an attack when theres a designers note *specifically calling out* that they can do it on hazardous fails?

[ohgoditsjames]

GW surely are getting Blightlord terminators and Death shroud terminators mixed up, Blightlords are the ones that no one uses 😅

[tradingjedi]

GW apparently called this “The feel-good update of the year”

[Djones]

That massive point drop for Guilliman is nice

[CatroiOz]

The annoying thing with Drukhari is that the faction has such a small playerbase that our winrate is being completely skewed up by a single player : Skaredcast who is one of the best 40k players in the entire world seriously, the dude wins tournaments 5-0 with his fluff armies (all wyches, all coven, etc...) Just for fun. When he doesn't play for a bit the winrate crumbles down to normal levels so it's kinda annoying to be getting the nerf bat because of one player.

[xthethingswecarryx]

so glad 1 single skew list meant a heavy nerf hammer for Black Templars.

[moonreonk]

I feel like space marines need to do something similar to imperial agents did where divergent chapters and the main space marine codex chapters have different point sets to allow for unique balancing. Like nerfing things that were only uniquely good in BT or BA for the entirety of space marines kinda kills off some chances to make more fun lists for non divergent chapters

[conradellis]

I don’t know how auspex can physically make videos faster

[HBK-hm]

Someone in marketing noticed all the speeders, ATV etc that line the shelves of Warhammer stores aren't selling so well i see...

[hyperion]

Space Marines really needs to start having chapter specific points costs for the general units. Make it easier to balance overall and would stop one chapter causing a price hike for everybody.

[ZK-szvs]

the 40k team needs to take a note from the AoS team for update formatting. it is so much harder to tell what changed, and by how much, in the 40k update documents than the new AoS documents, where updates and points changes are clearly marked, all in a single document, and the amount of those changes are also noted.

[Bdakkon]

GW "Stop taking the same characters"
BT player "I only have 3 really so what else am I suppose to do?"
GW "well since you keep taking them they must be good so we are gonna increase their points again. Also stop taking your best units"
BT "What? Literally everyone takes their best units. Our win rate isn't even that high right now and we only have 2 unique viable units"
GW "Sure but your above 40% and for a marine faction that is to high"

[WarringtonMusic]

You know the rules are a mess when the 35 page FAQ is longer than some games complete rules

[zetta-slow-gobbo]

A strange twist, Grot Tanks and Grot Mega Tank caught buffs in the Legends document (Grot Tank's Shoota and both unit's Grotzooka)

[jdoggydogg]

Did Black Templars get nerfed again?

Edit: They sure did.

[LordCrate-duzm]

Me watching Heavy Intercessors become cheaper (I’m an Imperial Fists player):

[eric-fbzf]

As a thousand Sons player I honestly think we got one of the better indexes; we have a very good army rule, and the cabal system faithfully retains what was once the psychic phase. Magnus rocks, most of our units are at the very least viable, if not downright good, and all of our stratagems synergize very well with the army. It all feels very complete, and not to mention fits very well thematically

As such, thousand sons are still winning tournaments, rocking locals, and in my opinion are very fun to play, even with an index that is over a year old now.
Even with these point nerfs I believe we will be ok somewhat

But I pray on my knees nightly that we get our codex dead last this edition, no matter what is in store for us it will certainly not be as complete or enjoyable as it is right now.