Then bulk up your Troops (Intercessors or Heavy Intercessors to hold the back line Assault Intercessors or another Primaris Crusader Squad to push forwards – or both). For the Emperor, and all that.Īfter this box, your next priority is to grab a Chaplain (ideally either the marvellous Black Templars named character, High Chaplain Grimaldus, or else a speedy Primaris Chaplain on Bike) to make use of the Templars’ special ‘Litany’ buffs. This box offers an admirably clear-cut Black Templars force. You’ve ten bloody-minded Primaris Crusaders to drive right into the guts of the enemy lines, guns a-blazing’ meanwhile, the Impulsor’s six-strong transport capacity can carry your five Auto Bolt Rifle Intercessors (plus your Marshal HQ) safely to a key strategic strong point, there to jump out, and hold the objective to the death. Primaris Crusader Squad (Inc. 1 Sword Brother) Not unusually for a Space Marines Combat Patrol, it’s lighter on total models than some other Patrol boxes, with only 17 Citadel miniatures included – but it still adds up to a respectable 27 Power.
Games Workshop’s latest relaunched Warhammer 40k Imperium faction, the ultra-zealous Black Templars Space Marines are also the latest army to get their own Combat Patrol starter box – it’s available to pre-order from GW now, and will be released on Friday, November 26, 2021. Here we go, then, starting with the most recently announced: Rules, OK? Read our Warhammer 40k codex release date guideĪt the time of writing, the new range includes a total of six products and – wouldn’t you know it – five of them are for Space Marine armies (albeit one of these technically a sickly, chaos-tainted Plague Marine army).īelow, we’ve done you a real solid, and provided a breakdown of all the Warhammer 40K Combat Patrol boxes that have been released (or announced) so far, with all the models included, how your new mini-army will play, and where to go from there. Warhammer 40k currently has around 20 different armies (depending on how you count them) but there’s no guarantee yet of how many of these can expect their own box. Games Workshop says it will be announcing more Combat Patrol boxes as it releases new Codexes (faction rulebooks) for each of the game’s playable armies over the next year or so. Here’s a list of all the Combat Patrol boxes released so far: Warhammer 40,000 Combat Patrol Box Sets
Patrol Detachments contain one or two ‘HQ’ units, and between one and three ‘Troop’ units, although they can also plug in up to 2 of the other unit categories: Elites, Fast Attack, Heavy Support and flyers.Įach of these new boxes will thus contain at least 1 HQ unit and 1 Troop unit (to meet the detachment rules), while the rest will be a mix of other unit types.
Between you and your opponent, the total power level cannot exceed 50 (so it’s supposed to be 25 each, but you can always have a conversation about any spares). In Warhammer 40k 9th Edition, the Combat Patrol represents the smallest type of match you can play, and requires an army of 25 Power, or 500 Points, in a single ‘Patrol’ detachment (with exceptions), as per the core rules. These boxes contain enough well-chosen models to field a small, legal (and relatively robust) army for the new Combat Patrol format, but they can also serve as a core nucleus to expand your collection to create bigger and better armies for the larger Incursion, Strike Force and Onslaught formats. The Warhammer 40K ‘Combat Patrol’ box is a new, small-army box designed to replace the ‘Start Collecting’ kits which have been a mainstay of the last few editions of the game.