Good day everyone. Zak here from Cape Town, South Africa and this is Warhammer 40,000! I have been reviewing Datasheets, of which I have now done 126 of them the latest here. I also did one Army Rule for the Astra Militarum.

I thought I would "tie off" on the Astra Militarum rules, then deal with the current Imperial Agents, then Deathwatch rules. So I can cover everything at 100% before the rules get replaced.

Blood Angels comes right after that. Beyond Blood Angels, I have no idea what is next. There are many options and many more rumours.

So let's get right into it!

Army Rule Recap

The Astra Militarum Army rule is Voice of Command, where Officers from the army issue Orders to other units and grand them special buffs that last for a turn.
The full review about those buffs can be found here.

Detachment Review #1 - Combined Regiment

Just like an Army Rule, when you select a Detachment Rule, your army receives a bonus. You also gain access to 4 Enhancements for your characters (who are not Epic Heroes) and 6 Stratagems that you spend Command Points on.

A Combined Regiment represents a mixed arms force of the Imperial Guard as opposed to Infantry Regiments or Tank Regiments. This army is meant to help a mixed group of troops and tanks.

This army gains the following:

Born Soldiers

When Regiment Units shoot at an enemy unit, excluding Vehicle and Monster units, they gain Lethal Hits.

When Squadron Units shoot at an enemy Vehicle of Monster units, they gain Lethal Hits.

Lethal Hits means that on a roll of a 6 on the To Hit roll, you automatically wound the target, regardless of its toughness. This is a great way of making low strength weapons still do damage against big things.

Thoughts

Its a great rule, but you need to remember that this reduces the anti-armor of your infantry and anti-infanry of your armor. Each has a bonus to only their own type.

So a squad of Guardsmen are Regiment units and when they shoot against Space Marine Intercessors(Infantry) or Aeldari Jetbikes(Mounted) then rolls of a 6 to Hit with their Lasguns and any other weapon will score Lethal hits. But if you fire the Lascannon in a Heavy Weapon crew at a Space Marine Rhino... no Lethals on that 6. You WILL score a Lethal Hit against Space Marine Terminators however...

The inverse is that Tanks with anti-infantry guns don't get Lethals but when they shoot those same tanks at Monsters and Vehicles, they can get that Lethal Hit buff.

It might be worth it to pepper a tank with light arms fire with a little AP if it has Lethal Wounds.

Enhancements

Every Detachment has access generally to 4 Enhancements. You cannot Enhance an Epic Hero like Ursula Creed, but you can buff another Character unit, such as a Cadian Castellan. All these enhancements can only be given to Characters with the Officer keyword (they they can use the Voice of Command Army rule)

Kurov’s Aquila - 40pts

This was previously an ability to increase the cost of one of your opponent's Stratagems by 1CP for the rest of the game, after they use it.

This has been changed, along with all other rules like it. Instead you get "Lord of Deciet" which is a 12" Aura ability. Whenever an enemy unit attempts to use a Stratagem within 12" of this model, they need to pay 1 more CP for the Stratagem.

Drill Commander - 20pts

While leading a unit, if the unit remains stationary, they squad scores Critical Hits on a 5+ with ranged attacks.

This means that Lethal Hits from Born Soliers will happen on 5+ instead of 6's.

Grand Strategist - 15pts

In the Command Phase this Officer can issue 1 additional Order.

Death Mask of Ollanius - 10pts

While Battleshocked, reduce the OC of units in this Officer's unit by 1 instead of reducing Objective Control to 0.

Thoughts

Korov's Aquila is expensive and forces you to put a unit in the thick of the enemy. It feels a bit sacrificial.

Drill Commander and Grand Stratagest are straight forward and contribute to damage and board control.

The Death Mast of Ollanius is all about objective control and suits units that you intend to use to capture and hold at all costs.

Stratagems

Reinforcements!

2CP Strat - Used to bring back one Regiment unit that was just destroyed and put an identical unit into Reserves.
You cannot use it to bring back a Character that was attached to that unit, only the Regiment unit and it shall be an identical copy to the unit that died.

Its quite a bit of CP to invest into this and you used to be able to do this many times. Now, since the June Balance Dataslate, you may only use this ability Once per Battle.

Suppression Fire

1CP Strat used in the Shooting Phase on one of your units that have not shot yet that shoots an enemy that is not a Vehicle or a Monster. Until the end of the opponent's next turn, when that enemy unit Rolls to Hit, it gets a -1 to the Hit Roll.

Expert Bombardiers

1CP Strat used in the Shooting Phase. One unit with a Vox Caster can use this on an enemy unit that is visible to the Vox Caster's unit.
Until the end of the Shooting Phase, each time a Astra Militarum unit that is not battle-shocked with an Indirect Fire weapon shoots at the target enemy, they get +1 to the To Hit roll.
Note that Indirect Fire weapons can only get at best a 4+ to Hit rolls.

Fields of Fire

2CP Strat used in the Shooting Phase. Select unit unit that needs to shoot and one enemy unit.
After shooting, when more units from your army shoot that target enemy, they add 1 to the Armor Penetration of their ranged weapons (unless the shooting unit is Battlshocked)

Inspired Command

1CP Strat - Used in your Opponent's Command Phase.
One Officer in your army can issue one Order as though it were your turn.

Might be good for a Take Cover or Duty and Honour order.

Armoured Might

2CP Strat used in your opponent's Shooting Phase.
Use on a Squadron unit that became the target of a Ranged attack. Until the end of the phase, all damage dealt to this Squadron unit(which is a vehicle) is reduced by 1.

This one has also been erratad. -1 Damage to a minimum of 1. So it really hurts 2 Damage weapons and slows down D6 Damage weapons... but it does not stop the "thousand cuts" style.

Thoughts

I think Fields of Fire has the best chance for Damage dealing, probably their best strat.
Armoured Might is good for keeping the tanks alive.
Reinforcements is really only good for one unit so you might as well do it on a 20 man Guard unit.
Suppression Fire is situational as is Inspired Command.
Expert Bombardiers seems a bit redundant with the fix on Indirect Fire weapons only hitting on a max of 4+. A Basilisk hits on 4+, Indirect Fire -1, Heavy +1... so 4+... Expert Bombardiers can't make it better.

Summary and End

And there you have it! The Combind Regiment Detachment!
Lot's of Lethal Hits.
Extra Orders and Extra Damage
Stratagems to boost damage and help with board control.

Overall I would be quite happy to play this Detachment for my own Astra Militarum army!

Thank you for reading!

Warhammer Review Library

Army Rule and Detachment Rule Reviews

Faction	Detachment	Review Number
Astra Militarum	---------------------------	Army Rule #1
Astra Militarum	You are here!	Detachment Rule #1

Datasheet Review list (Alphabetical)

Faction	Unit	Review Number
Adeptus Custodes	Prosecutors	#1
Adeptus Custodes	Knight-Centura	#54
Adeptus Custodes	Shield-Captain	#61
Adeptus Custodes	Shield-Captain in Allarus Terminator Armor	#70
Adeptus Custodes	Trajann Valoris	#40
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Fusilave	#13
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Stratoraptor	#14
Adeptus Mechanicus	Archaeopter Transvector	#15
Adeptus Mechanicus	Belisarius Cawl	#53
Adeptus Mechanicus	Corpuscarii Electro-Priests	#97
Adeptus Mechanicus	Onager Dunecrawler	#110
Adeptus Mechanicus	Serberys Raiders	#55
Adeptus Mechanicus	Serberys Sulphurhounds	#56
Adeptus Mechanicus	Technoarcheologist	#104
Aeldari	Guardian Defenders	#64
Aeldari	Maugan Ra	#87
Aeldari	Night Spinner	#65
Aeldari	Shadowseer	#80
Aeldari	Prince Yriel	#92
Astra Militarum	Kasrkin	#60
Astra Militarum	Tank Commander	#90
Astra Militarum	Wyvern	#81
Black Templars	Black Templars Gladiator	#102
Black Templars	High Marshall Helbrecht	#38
Black Templars	Marshall	#46
Black Templars	The Emperor's Champion	#63
Blood Angels	Baal Predator	#2
Blood Angels	Gabriel Seth	#66
Blood Angels	Lemartes	#32
Blood Angels	Sanguinary Guard	#93
Chaos Daemons	Beasts of Nurgle	#98
Chaos Daemons	Daemonettes	#29
Chaos Daemons	Lord of Change	#75
Chaos Daemons	Nurglings	#82
Chaos Knights	Knight Abominant	#94
Chaos Knights	War Dog Brigands	#30
Chaos Knights	War Dog Executioners	#31
Chaos Knights	War Dog Huntsman	#77
Chaos Space Marines	Abbadon the Despoiler	#50
Chaos Space Marines	Haarken Worldclaimer	#41
Chaos Space Marines	Khorne Lord of Skulls	#37
Dark Angels	Asmodai	#16
Dark Angels	Azrael	#17
Dark Angels	Belial	#4
Dark Angels	Deathwing Knights	#20
Dark Angels	Deathwing Terminator Squad	#99
Dark Angels	Lazarus	#62
Dark Angels	Land Speeder Vengeance	#101
Death Guard	Biologus Putrifier	#5
Death Guard	Blightlord Terminators	#10
Death Guard	Chaos Lord	#36
Death Guard	Lord of Contagion	#52
Death Guard	Tallyman	#39
Death Guard	Malignant Plaguecaster	#71
Deathwatch	Corvus Blackstar	#72
Deathwatch	Deathwatch Terminator Squad	#112
Deathwatch	Deathwatch Veterans	#114
Deathwatch	Fortis Kill Team	#116
Deathwatch	Indomitor Kill Team	#118
Deathwatch	Kill Team Cassius	#120
Deathwatch	Proteus Killteam	#57
Deathwatch	Spectrus Kill Team	#73
Deathwatch	Veteran Bike Squad	#84
Deathwatch	Watch Captain Artemis	#122
Deathwatch	Watch Master	#124
Drukhari	Grotesques	#45
Drukhari	Haemonculus	#8
Drukhari	Raider	#35
Drukhari	Scourges	#7
Genestealer Cults	Aberants	#47
Genestealer Cults	Hybrid Metamorphs	#58
Genestealer Cults	Reductus Saboteur	#33
Grey Knights	Brother Captain	#25
Grey Knights	Grand Master	#48
Grey Knights	Strike Squad	#51
Imperial Agents	Callidus Assassin	#9
Imperial Agents	Culexus Assassin	#69
Imperial Agents	Eversor Assassin	#105
Imperial Agents	Exaction Squad	#111
Imperial Agents	Imperial Navy Breachers	#113
Imperial Agents	Inquisitor	#115
Imperial Agents	Inquisitor Coteaz	#117
Imperial Agents	Inquisitor Eisenhorn	#119
Imperial Agents	Inquisitor Greyfax	#121
Imperial Agents	Inquisitorial Henchmen	#123
Imperial Agents	Inquisitor Karamazov	#125
Imperial Agents	Vigilant Squad	#26
Imperial Knights	Canis Rex	#76
Imperial Knights	Armiger Helverin	#22
Imperial Knights	Armiger Warglaive	#43
Imperial Knights	Knight Castellan	#83
Leagues of Votann	Brôkhyr Iron-master	#27
Leagues of Votann	Brôkhyr Thunderkyn	#78
Leagues of Votann	Cthonian Beserks	#86
Leagues of Votann	Sagitaur	#3
Leagues of Votann	Ûthar the Destined	#44
Necrons	Obelisk	#11
Orks	Battlewagon	#34
Orks	Hunta Rig	#28
Orks	Zodgrod Wortsnagga	#89
Space Marines	Kayvaan Shrike	#23
Space Marines	Marneus Calgar	#42
Space Marines	Razorback	#21
Space Marines	Vanguard Veteran Squad with Jump Packs	#103
Space Wolves	Arjac Rockfist	#68
Space Wolves	Fenrisian Wolves	#91
Space Wolves	Wolf Guard	#74
T'au Empire	Breacher Team	#88
T'au Empire	Darkstrider	#12
T'au Empire	Kroot Carnivore Squad	#19
T'au Empire	Pathfinder Team	#79
T'au Empire	Piranhas	#107
T'au Empire	Razorshark Strike Fighter	#95
T'au Empire	Stealth Battlesuits	#67
Thousand Sons	Ahriman	#108
Thousand Sons	Ahriman on Disc of Tzeentch	#109
Thousand Sons	Exalted Sorcerer	#59
Thousand Sons	Magnus the Red	#49
Tyranids	Barbgaunts	#6
Tyranids	Lictor	#106
Tyranids	Raveners	#96
Tyranids	Screamer Killer	#24
World Eaters	Lord Invocatus	#100
World Eaters	World Eaters Chaos Spawn	#18
World Eaters	World Eaters Daemon Prince	#85