For this price, you have a unit with Chosen Warriors, Grim Purpose (meaning no model can join them unless they don’t also have this rule), and Flesh Harvesters.
You gain more Procurants for 15 points per model, with the ability to make every fifth Procurant into a Procurator for forty points, taking each medic-wannabe up to a whopping fifty five points, the same price as a Gal Vorbak Dark Brethren. You start with four models with a basic Despoiler statline but with an extra attack (the Procurants), and a fifth with Leadership 8 and a 2+ save (the Procurator himself). Well, the Order of the Procurators are the leaders in that particular field, specialising in “gross defilement” to bring forth the denizens of the warp. In almost every battle we see Word Bearers in, we also hear stories of them scrounging the field after the battle, looking not to save lives or grant mercy but to instead find new experimental subjects and victims for the maw of the Dark Gods. Credit: Jack Hunter Word Bearers Procurators
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The author seems to love their Mary Sue Blood Angels (I wouldn’t be surprised if Alcetas Castael was their own Praetor), and the Word Bearers are left as the sneering, incompetent supervillains that does so much to diminish the work of books such as Betrayer, The First Heretic, Slaves to Darkness and the books of the Siege of Terra series in making the Word Bearers believeably competent and cruel without making them cartoon characters.īlood Angels Praetor. I don’t normally like to speak ill of the writers of the lore, but this is by far the weakest piece of Horus Heresy writing we’ve seen in quite some time. Escaping with a single “horribly scarred” ship, the Angels then somehow destroy every Word Bearers force across the entire system, turning more and more into their darker desires of vengeance and, presumably, the Red Thirst as the campaign progressed. Despite making it quite clear that an entire third of the Blood Angels force had been lost in the trap, the Word Bearers here serve the purpose of making the good guys look strong by having the bad guys be incompetently weak, and while the XVIIth Legion triumphs on the ground the noble exemplars of humanity have their traditional, and not particularly well written final stand, with their leader Archein Alcetas Castael teleported back into space just as it looks like he’ll be overrun.īack in space, we see the Blood Angels fleet, previously described as weakened after five years of constant warfare and attrition, manage to destroy the majority (it’s unclear how many ships are involved – only three are named) of the Word Bearers fleet in “raging conflagration that rivalled the local sun”. The Procurators make their first appearance here, stealing loyalist gene-seed sacrificing critically wounded Blood Angels to summon daemons onto the battlefield, but apparently not competently enough to prevent the daemons attacking both sides. Across the planet Blood Angels came under attack by traitor forces hidden by blood rituals.
Daemons erupt into reality (give us Daemons of the Ruinstorm rules, Games Workshop!), and the trap is sprung, with the Word Bearers deleting the entire city with atomic, to the ruination of the Blood Angel’s ability to prosecute the war.
Where things get a little more interesting is when the veterans of the IXth Legion encounter a massive pyramid of skulls with a banner of the Blood Angels planted atop it. The story itself is fairly generic, with Word Bearers finding the relatively undefended world of Gilden Prime, the Blood Angels striking back to defend a world they brought into compliance, etcetera and so forth. The lore this week draws back to some of the earliest lore in the game, from 1989, before being expanded in Retribution in 2016, so it’s not as if we’re going to get a behind the scenes look at any world shattering events here. Our first Exemplary Battle of the new edition of the Horus Heresy! After seeing the great treatment the other Exemplary Battle units got in the recently released Warhammer Community PDF, we can’t wait to see what nasty horrid messes the Word Bearers can get into, this month’s protagonists.
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