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Hello everyone! Zak Ludick here from Cape Town, South Africa and this is a Warhammer 40k - The Great Unit Review Wheel! post!

Now known as the Unit Review Library!

What is it all about? It is not there to just give a stat. It is there to give MY review of the unit!

Also this has become quite the Challenge! With so many units to review in the game the consensus in the hobby community is that I will not have enough time to review all of the Datasheets before the new edition of Warhammer 40,000 came out.

I should have started when 10th edition launched!
414 days since the start of 10th Edition.
This is Review #103, I am 311 reviews behind! Another slight gain...

Picking them randomly, let me spin the wheel again and see what I get:

Space Marines, Vanguard Veteran Squad with Jump Packs

10th Edition Codex

Vanguard Veterans are elite Jump pack troops employed by the Space Marines. They represent members of the 1st Company using Jump Packs in a mission.

Vanguard means that they are there for close combat, but they do have a lot of redundant pistol options to choose from.

The 9th Edition version of these guys had a massive variety of close combat weapons wielded by the Vanguard. They no longer have such weapons, instead wielding "Vanguard Veteran Weapons".

The only credible option to me is for them to have Storm Shields and gain them a 4+ invul save.

It costs 105pts to field a squad of 5 and 210pts to field a unit of 10 models. It costs $60 to buy a squad of 5.

Let's look at those stats!

Stats

Movement 12"
Toughness 4
Save 3+(armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 2
Ld 6+
OC 1

Weapons

These guys start out with Bolt Pistols and can change any number of them for the following:
Plasma Pistols
Inferno Pistols
Hand Flamers
Grav-Pistols
Storm Shield (This gives them a 4++ save... I would rather go for these)

Ranged:

Bolt Pistol
Range 12", 1 Attack, Hitting on 3+, S4, Ap 0, D1 Damage each
Pistol (Can shoot with this weapon while in engagement range of enemy models, close combat)

Plasma Pistol - Standard firing option
Range 12", 1 Attack, Hitting on 3+, S7, Ap -2, 1 Damage each
Pistol (Can shoot with this weapon while in engagement range of enemy models, close combat)

Plasma Pistol - Standard firing option
Range 12", 1 Attack, Hitting on 3+, S8, Ap -3, 2 Damage each
Pistol (Can shoot with this weapon while in engagement range of enemy models, close combat)
Hazardous (After using this weapon, roll a Dice, on a 1 take 3 Mortal Wounds)

Inferno Pistol
Range 6", 1 Attack, Hitting on 3+, S8, Ap -4, D3 Damage each
Pistol (Can shoot with this weapon while in engagement range of enemy models, close combat)
Melta 2 (When firing at a target within 3" gain 2 Damage)

Hand Flamer
Range 12", D6 Attacks, Torrent , S3, Ap 0, D1 Damage each
Pistol (Can shoot with this weapon while in engagement range of enemy models, close combat)
Torrent (Hits Automatically, just roll for how many shots)
Ignores Cover (No bonuses for being in cover when being shot by this weapon)

Grav Pistol
Range 12", 1 Attack, Hitting on 3+, S4, Ap -1, 2 Damage each
Pistol (Can shoot with this weapon while in engagement range of enemy models, close combat)
Anti-Vehicle 2+ (Causes a critical Wound on a roll of 2+ against Vehicle units)

Melee:

Vanguard Veteran weapon
4 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S5 Ap -1, 1 Damage each

Abilities

Deadly Demise D3 (When it is destroyed, roll a Dice on a 6, all units within 6" of this unit suffers D3 Mortal Wounds)

Vanguard Assault

On the turn they charge they gain Lethal Hits, which mean 6's to Hit, automatically wound.

Thoughts

So if I wanted to harass my enemy with a unit of 5, I would go for 5 Stormshields.

If I wanted to make a suicide unit that must deal loads of damage, I would try go for a 5 man unit with Inferno Pistols to Melta something's face off and charge into combat.

A 10 man unit is a bit expensive so unless you want to invest in a character to lead them and buff them.

I have a unit of Wolf Guard with Jump Packs which is now represented by this Datasheet.

That makes 4 Space Marine Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 4.3% Completed! The total Completed is 10.60% Complete! Can I review them all?!

Thank you for reading!

Warhammer Review Library

Alphabetical List

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	Serberys Raiders	#55
Adeptus Mechanicus	Serberys Sulphurhounds	#56
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	Proteus Killteam	#57
Deathwatch	Spectrus Kill Team	#73
Deathwatch	Veteran Bike Squad	#84
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	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 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	Razorshark Strike Fighter	#95
T'au Empire	Stealth Battlesuits	#67
Thousand Sons	Exalted Sorcerer	#59
Thousand Sons	Magnus the Red	#49
Tyranids	Barbgaunts	#6
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

Thank you for reading!

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