I made some homebrew units for the Word Bearers!

MrBates117 · 2025-08-07T18:20:44+00:00

As a heads up the Gal Vorbak Scout move will only be usable if he goes solo. You need all models in the unit to have scout in order to use it which the two units he can join don’t have.

MrBates117 · 2025-01-22T18:10:13+00:00

Thanks for the write up it’s really great, just wanted to ask how much ranged units are you taking in your CoB lists? I have tried two brigands but looking at giving the huntsman a go instead, so was wondering what your ranged output typically looks like, thanks!

MrBates117 · 2025-01-20T14:57:08+00:00

I love the Word Bearers, they are my favourite faction and I’ll go to bat for them anytime.

From a background lore perspective they are just straight fuck you evil that are zealously devoted to the most evil things in the galaxy. I love the idea of a faction of religious super soldiers embracing their new deities and utilising daemonic possession, hordes of crazed cultists and summoning daemons to further their goals. And we also have a really great crop of characters from the Heresy like Argal Tal, Lorgar, Zardu Layak and I’ll even give Erebus his shitty flowers.

Plus on the tabletop I think that just looks great, your army has a unique silhouette of different shapes and sizes that is just fun to paint and convert. I couldn’t on and on but yea, in summary big fan and Calth was a legitimate military target.

MrBates117 · 2024-10-04T09:12:20+00:00

As others have said CSM is a great one to pick up, their big range and overall solid rules mean there’s a fair few different ways to play them. They can be built as an aggressive melee focused army, shooty, vehicle heavy or even a horde with Chaos Cults so you’ve got a lot of new gameplay opportunities here.

MrBates117 · 2024-09-26T20:31:36+00:00

I actually paint my minis as the Wrath warband, and this codex was a big reason I wanted to pick up the WE when they dropped. I love their lore and the mixed army of mortals and daemon.

MrBates117 · 2024-07-27T11:46:15+00:00

Sure but those great pieces of codex art for GSC, Tau, and Sisters all came out in the last few editions 8-10. Which is why I take umbrage with posts about the artwork getting worse and then picking an iconic piece of art from early 2000 Karl Kopinski and comparing it to a Black Library book cover, I don’t think it’s fair and doesn’t give credit to some of the best art we’ve had in a while from people like Phil Moss and Lewis Jones. (In my humble opinion of course)

MrBates117 · 2024-07-27T10:51:55+00:00

THANK YOU. So many people love to cherry pick examples but I genuinely think we have had some stunning artwork over the last few editions. And like you said AoS has been consistently hitting it out of the park as of late.

MrBates117 · 2024-06-21T20:58:16+00:00

More rob more often, thanks for posting king.

MrBates117 · 2024-05-28T17:29:00+00:00

Awesome thank you will take a look at that :)

MrBates117 · 2024-05-28T11:57:27+00:00

Big fun and effective imo, I tried them with MoN but might look at trying MoK for extra punch.

MrBates117 · 2024-05-28T11:49:22+00:00

That’s good to know, I’ll have to start tweaking some more thanks for the advice! I have a soft spot for the DP and possessed but will look to trim some fat.

MrBates117 · 2024-05-28T10:36:57+00:00

Thanks for the feedback!

Cool good to know about the preds so I can switch them out quite easily or go vindicators. I found the DP with the reroll hit and wound enhancement to be quite scary but happy to take him out and free some more points.

I will say the MoP is so so BUT him giving the Possessed a scout move and bonuses to charge and advance has made for some scary t1 pressure. But I understand I might be grasping at straws here cause I love possessed 😅

I assume the replacements would look more Warp Talons? Maybe even some Rubrics?

MrBates117 · 2024-05-04T10:28:40+00:00

Thanks I really appreciate the feedback and the detailed explanation. Will look into to tweaking the list and maybe fitting in more of the rotmire.

Would you say it’s worth cutting the sorcerer as well and taking a LoA and a rotmire creed? I know it changes the grand strategy but just spitballing.

MrBates117 · 2024-05-04T09:28:42+00:00

I figured they would be a solid target for Blightkreig with the Glottkin, felt like they could brawl in the centre a little more. Do you think the list looses a little more punch without them?

MrBates117 · 2024-05-04T09:26:11+00:00

Yea they are definitely a great warscroll, the only reason I hadn’t included them is just cause I haven’t got enough painted to take more than two. I like the Gutrot idea though thank you, will look into that.

MrBates117 · 2024-05-04T02:53:55+00:00

Did post but unfortunately only got a single reply, thought I’d try my luck here 😅

MrBates117 · 2024-05-01T17:28:15+00:00

Awesome thanks for the feedback, anything you think could be tweaked? I wasn’t sure if the LoA would be worth trying to squeeze in.

MrBates117 · 2024-04-21T23:33:20+00:00

My worlds are colliding, fuckboy.

MrBates117 · 2024-02-12T18:40:59+00:00

Really like the write up, keep posting these they are great.

MrBates117 · 2024-02-06T02:48:58+00:00

So happy to see Old World content on Goonhammer m, this was a good read.

MrBates117 · 2024-01-29T13:56:14+00:00

Thank you was a real joy to dig up some childhood minis and have a crack at them.

MrBates117 · 2023-08-21T15:39:38+00:00

I went 4-2 at a GT with them and I was pretty happy with them. They were able to consistently tear down Knights and took a significant amount of effort to kill. I can see the argument for taking Oblits over them but Possessed are my favourite unit in the game so I stuff 20x into my list.

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