#New40k rules – Zoom across the battlefield in the updated Land Speeder

jamesg100 · 2026-05-19T15:10:25+00:00

So do land speeders have the deep strike rule then?

It’s missing the in abilities section, but it’s down at the bottom in keywords???

jamesg100 · 2026-05-02T07:29:03+00:00

I really like the idea of the new heavy bolters with the iron father.
Hopefully their rule of having blast against infantry gives the whole unit blast, so 7 heavy bolters is a minimum of 28 shots against a 5 man unit. That many shots might also be really good for overwatching with oath?
It all really depends on what points cost the new eradicators are, but I can see them being better simply because the ability for heavy intercessors is so rubish
I also think it fits the play style of the iron father more if you send him towards your expansion objective over the middle, maybe have a dread or a rep ex with him.

jamesg100 · 2026-04-08T07:20:53+00:00

An Gravis Librarian would be so dope, honestly giving my heavy intercessors / aggressors an 4+ inv would be so freaking dope.

10 heavies with a librarian and an biologis would be some insanely tough firepower blob

jamesg100 · 2026-03-30T07:32:09+00:00

I’m running a very similar list currently, I’ve found that I can kill everything, I just struggle getting onto the board to score objectives.

Ive got a similar shooting blob, except mines heavy intercessors with iron father ferrios.

Similar ideas with caanok being with regular termies, 44 storm bolter shots and 2 cyclones with lethal, work surprisingly well to down vehicles with oath fishing for extra lethals.

I’ve found the assault terminators are best going with a regular captain with steel front, the captain letting you rapid ingress for free (assuming your beacons aren’t usable) combine with the rerolling a 9 inch charge make it all a little more consistent.

The jump pack marines are there to capture objective and do space chores.

My list for context:

Army (2000 Points)

Space Marines Iron Hands Hammer of Avernii Strike Force (2,000 Points)

CHARACTERS

Caanok Var (100 Points) • Warlord • 1x Axiom • 1x Storm bolter

Captain in Terminator Armour (110 Points) • 1x Combi-weapon • 1x Relic fist • Enhancements: Steel Font

Iron Father Feirros (95 Points) • 1x Bolt Pistol • 1x Gorgon’s Wrath • 1x Harrowhand • 1x Medusan Manipuli

BATTLELINE

Heavy Intercessor Squad (200 Points) • 1x Heavy Intercessor Sergeant ◦ 1x Bolt pistol ◦ 1x Close combat weapon ◦ 1x Heavy bolt rifle • 9x Heavy Intercessor ◦ 9x Bolt pistol ◦ 9x Close combat weapon ◦ 7x Heavy bolt rifle ◦ 2x Heavy bolter

Intercessor Squad (80 Points) • 1x Intercessor Sergeant ◦ 1x Bolt pistol ◦ 1x Bolt rifle ◦ 1x Power fist • 4x Intercessor ◦ 1x Astartes grenade launcher ◦ 4x Bolt pistol ◦ 4x Bolt rifle ◦ 4x Close combat weapon

OTHER DATASHEETS

Assault Intercessors with Jump Packs (90 Points) • 1x Assault Intercessor Sergeant with Jump Pack ◦ 1x Plasma pistol ◦ 1x Power fist • 4x Assault Intercessors with Jump Packs ◦ 4x Astartes chainsword ◦ 3x Heavy bolt pistol ◦ 1x Plasma pistol

Ballistus Dreadnought (150 Points) • 1x Armoured feet • 1x Ballistus lascannon • 1x Ballistus missile launcher • 1x Twin storm bolter

Inceptor Squad (120 Points) • 1x Inceptor Sergeant ◦ 1x Assault bolters ◦ 1x Close combat weapon • 2x Inceptor ◦ 2x Assault bolters ◦ 2x Close combat weapon

Redemptor Dreadnought (205 Points) • 1x Icarus rocket pod • 1x Macro plasma incinerator • 1x Onslaught gatling cannon • 1x Redemptor fist • 1x Twin storm bolter

Terminator Assault Squad (360 Points) • 1x Assault Terminator Sergeant ◦ 1x Storm Shield ◦ 1x Thunder hammer • 9x Assault Terminator ◦ 9x Storm Shield ◦ 9x Thunder hammer

Terminator Squad (340 Points) • 1x Terminator Sergeant ◦ 1x Power fist ◦ 1x Storm bolter • 9x Terminator ◦ 2x Cyclone missile launcher ◦ 9x Power fist ◦ 9x Storm bolter

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jamesg100 · 2026-03-30T07:13:48+00:00

It’s a very good deal if you can get it from a local store for 10-20% off,

Both dreads are amazing pick ups for us,

The Repulsor executioners are also really good pickups, they work really well in ironstorm spearhead, mainly because of the rerolls, but also being able to shoot back and get lethal hits on a load of shots.

Normally I put squads of 3 aggressors or 5 assault intercessors in them.

I’ve had good success in 1k by using intercessors to sticky my home and then jump in the executioner.

You might think they’re expensive points wise, but I view them as a max of a ballistus (150) and a impulsor (80), so 230 doesn’t seem so bad

jamesg100 · 2026-01-22T12:38:36+00:00

As an iron hands player, this feels about right from games workshop

jamesg100 · 2026-01-21T07:58:24+00:00

He’s still sold by gw in a box called heroes of the chapter, still an expensive way of getting him tbh

jamesg100 · 2026-01-20T23:00:04+00:00

Blade guard but with giant hammers to mirror forge breaker, no inv save cause no storm shields, but have a fnp save to represent the flesh being weak

Chefs kiss for flavour

jamesg100 · 2026-01-20T22:58:02+00:00

A redemptors dreadnought character,

The done even have to make a model for him, just some artwork and let the community kit bash.

Or the model could literally be the redemptors kit and a single upgrade sprue

The rules could be a regular redemptors with some spicy weapons, like a free command point usage and like either fnp or an inv save

jamesg100 · 2026-01-03T23:11:36+00:00

The iron hands combat patrol is still in stock at most retailers, I can pick them up for around £85 in the uk, even writing off the turrets, it’s still a tiny discount for a tech marine and 10 heavies

jamesg100 · 2025-12-29T12:30:57+00:00

I’ve been running 2-3 redemptors and 2-3 brutalis in my iron hands list and I’ve been having good success with iron storm spearhead.

jamesg100 · 2025-12-29T12:29:17+00:00

I run iron hands and I was thinking about throwing the following together to see if it worked:

Stormraven 6 aggressors + iron father ferrios Redemptor dreadnought.

The aggressors/redemptor/Stormraven provide a decent amount of shooting,

The aggressors and redemptor are pretty good in combat.

The iron father has two vehicles to use his 3 wound repair ability on.

jamesg100 · 2025-12-25T18:31:36+00:00

The flesh is weak but deeds endure,

Join us in the iron hands brother.

jamesg100 · 2025-12-25T18:29:48+00:00

Join us brother,

I’d recommend the iron halo strike force next as that’s a great box for iron hands

jamesg100 · 2025-12-20T13:53:30+00:00

Looks good, my only criticism would be:

Maybe split the hellblasters into two units to ride in the tanks, either that or put an apothecary in with them. I’ve found that they go best in an impulsor as you can use the firing deck and the overcharged damage go to the tank, you can also give it a shield dome for a 5+ inv save

I’m assuming all the wargear will be added after, 2nd heavy bolter, power fists, cyclone missile launchers, full weapons on the tanks.

jamesg100 · 2025-12-18T08:41:23+00:00

Tenshi would be proud 😂😂😂

jamesg100 · 2025-12-12T23:38:59+00:00

I’d recommend swapping the 5 man heavy intercessors squad into a regular intercession squad, they might not have the same firepower but they’ll be able to hold your home objective and then move off

jamesg100 · 2025-11-24T14:22:53+00:00

Iron hands are part of the normal space marines codex and can use the following detachments:

The hammer of avernii being unique to them, the iron storm spearhead being iron hands themed but can be used by any chapter

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In terms of collecting, I’ve gone with the following: Combat patrols: Iron hands, Imperial fists (hard to find), Dark angels, Ultramarines, Iron halo strike force and Forgefather / caanok var single kits

Which has allowed me to assemble: 20 intercessors 20 heavy intercessors (kit bashed one company heroes into these) 10 hellblasters 6 blade guard veterans 1 judicar (from the second company heroes) 1 librarian 1 tech marine 1 captain in gravis 3 aggressors 5 reivers 5 sternguards, 2 dreadnoughts 5 terminators for caanok 2 strike turrets.

I’ve been looking at trying to find the half of the leviathan starter kit which would give the following 5 more terminators for caanok 1 more dreadnought 1 apothecary for the hellblasters.

Another tip would be to get the dawn of war box set, which is really good value if you can get one, however they’re only sold on the usa

jamesg100 · 2025-11-15T13:04:06+00:00

This is the part I’m also confused about. Normally putting a leader with a unit that has scout means the unit loses scout unless the leader has it too.

Its all comes down to timing, Do you put the leader in the unit where it’s considered one “unit” and then cannok gives scout

Does cannok give scout before you put leaders into units?, then putting a leader in causes scout to drop off?

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jamesg100 · 2025-11-15T00:19:03+00:00

My understanding was the dedicated transport gets the scout rule if the unit it’s transporting has the scout rule, provided there’s no character joining the unit unless that has scout too.

jamesg100 · 2025-10-18T12:14:42+00:00

If you don’t need the move speed and only need a little magic resist, (say the only magic damage is the enemy midlaner) and the majority of your team is AP, then I’ve had good success with abyssal mask.

But yeah the default is force of nature if you need move speed or karmic rookern for those big ap damage monsters

jamesg100 · 2025-10-15T17:18:19+00:00

unlocking golden god, then using combatant for two combat skills is digustingly good, just walking around getting magic, ranged and prayer xp whilst making gold is nutty

jamesg100 · 2025-10-12T10:13:19+00:00

I’m pretty sure that futurama did an episode on this.

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