{"id":788520,"date":"2026-10-01T12:14:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/788520\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T12:14:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:14:22","slug":"warhammer-40000-balance-update-chaos-the-imperium-and-xenos-fight-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/788520\/","title":{"rendered":"Warhammer 40,000 \u2013 Balance Update: Chaos, the Imperium and Xenos Fight Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Space Marine variants make up the majority of armies within Warhammer 40,000, it\u2019s generally wise to construct your army assuming you will be battling them at some point. Many of the units that were good at killing Space Marines are still good at it. Br\u00f4khyr Thunderkyn<\/a>, Doomsday Arks<\/a>, Howling Banshees<\/a>, Riptides<\/a>, and Knight Despoilers<\/a> will continue to cause problems for the Adeptus Astartes.<\/p>\n

So having broken down what the impacts are, what are the upsides to this change for you?<\/p>\n

As we\u2019ve said, there are going to be fewer Space Marine bodies actually on the battlefield, which will change how they approach the game. They won\u2019t be able to trade** for objectives as well as many non-Space Marine armies, and they will find it more challenging to hold down objectives and safely achieve secondary objectives. More horde-focussed armies such as Astra Militarum, Drukhari, and Genestealer Cults will be better equipped to trade bodies into the brutal meat grinder for that sweet victory.<\/p>\n

The increase in strength to boltguns and chainswords has mixed degrees of value against your armies. For the average Human, Aeldari, Leman Russ, or Goliath Rock Grinder<\/a>, this change means nothing, as it\u2019s not enough to improve their odds to wound against these types of targets.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Space Marine variants make up the majority of armies within Warhammer 40,000, it\u2019s generally wise to construct…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-788520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}