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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!
468 days since the start of 10th Edition.
This is Review #150, I am 318 reviews behind!

January 2025 we are expecting Astra Militarum and Aeldari codexes as explained Here, so time to focus on THOSE Datasheets!

Astra Militarum, Ogryn Bodyguard

10th Edition Index

What are Ogryn you ask?

Well, the Imperium of Man does NOT allow Xenos and it does NOT allow mutants! So... in a nutshell, they are human, of a kind. The Ogryns are one of a few different kind of Abhuman races. They are genetically descendant of the Human race but instead of mutation giving them their appearance or abilities, it is evolution that brought them to this point.

Usually the world the people were living on has something to do with it but in general, Ogryn are seen as a stable sub-human race not touched by Chaos.

These guys are massive, strong, tough, dumb... and like the name Ogryn... yes, this is pretty much an Ogre but in 40k.

There are FOUR Datasheets that have Ogryn on them in the Index. This one is a Bodyguard which you attach permanently to a Command Squad of the Astra Militarum. They may be dumb, but they can be extremely loyal.

A Bodyguard costs you 40pts and there is no single box to build one, this one pictured above comes from the Nork Deddog box... more about him later!

Let's check his stats!

Stats

Movement 6"
Toughness 6
Save 5+(armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 6
Ld 7+
OC 1

As Tough as a Custodes and with as many Wounds as a Shield Captain. A pity about the armor. We can fix that though

Weapons

Standard weapons are the Huge Knife, Ripper Gun and Close Combat Weapon.

The Huge Knife can be exchanged for either a Brute Shield or a Slabshield.

The Ripper Gun can be exchanged for either a Bullgryn Maul or a Grenadier Guantlet.

Ranged:

Ripper Gun

18" Range, 3 Shots, Hitting on 4+. S5, AP-1 and 2 Damage each.
Sustained Hits 1 (Crits to Hit on a 6 generate additional hits.)

This is practically a half range Heavy Bolter!)

Grenadier Gauntlet

18" Range, D6 Shots, Hitting on 4+. S4, AP0 and 1 Damage each.
Blast (This weapon gets +1 Attack per 5 models in the enemy unit, rounding down)

Melee:

Close Combat Weapon

4 Attacks, Hitting on 3+. S6, AP 0 and 1 Damage each.

Huge Knife

6 Attacks, Hitting on 3+. S8, AP -1 and 2 Damage each.

Ripper Gun

5 Attacks, Hitting on 3+. S6, AP -1 and 1 Damage each.

Bullgryn Maul

5 Attacks, Hitting on 3+. S7, AP -1 and 2 Damage each.

Wargear Abilities

Brute Shield

The bearer has a 4+ Invul save.

Slabshield

The Bearer gains +1 Wound.

Abilities

Feel No Pain 6+ (When a wound is allocated to this model, roll a dice, on a 6 ignore that wound.

Loyal Protector

At the start of the Battle, attach this Bodyguard to a Command Squad. He is not part of that unit and changes their Starting Strength. If this unit cannot be attached in this way, it counts as destroyed. He counts as 3 models in a Transport.

Ogryn Bodyguard

Officer models in the same unit as the Ogryn Bodyguard have a 4+ Feel No Pain.

Redoubled Loyalty

While this unit contains an Officer model that has lost one or wound, the Ogryn gets +1 to the to Hit Roll and +1 to the to Wound roll in melee!

Thoughts

I feel that this is a great use for 40pts in a list where you don't know what else to do. If you play against a lot of opponents with Snipers and Assassins, the Ogryn can keep them alive!

Another use for the Bodyguard would be if the enemy seems to have fast units that always assault and try and catch your Command Squad units, then this is a good reaction unit.

Another thing to note is that the Ogryn Bodyguard is not a Character unit, which means you could feasibly allocate wounds to him before other soldiers in the unit. This may be a good idea to keep certain staff alive. Not all of them, let some of the less important die and if it is essential to keep the Medic and the Vox Master alive, then the Ogryn can protect them too!

The drawback here is taking wounds on the Average Toughness of 3 then. You might as well then use the Brute Shield to give him the 4+ Invul and 6+ FNP built in to try block some damage.

To me there are two loadouts I like: Rippergun and Huge Knife or Brute Shield and Bullgryn Maul... a distant third option is Brute Shield and Rippergun.

That makes 6 Astra Militarum Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 6.74 Completed. The total Completed is 15.44% Complete! Can I review them all?!

Thank you for reading!

Warhammer Review Library

Army Rule and Detachment Rule Reviews

Faction	Detachment	Review Number
Agents of the Imperium		Army Rule #2
Astra Militarum		Army Rule #1
Astra Militarum	Combined Regiment	Detachment Rule #1
Space Marines		Army Rule #3

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	Rangers	#149
Aeldari	Shadowseer	#80
Aeldari	Shining Spears	#147
Aeldari	Prince Yriel	#92
Astra Militarum	Aegis Defence Line	#146
Astra Militarum	Armoured Sentinels	#148
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	Astorath	#131
Blood Angels	Baal Predator	#2
Blood Angels	Brother Corbulo	#132
Blood Angels	Captain Tycho	#133
Blood Angels	Chief Librarian Mephiston	#134
Blood Angels	Commander Dante	#135
Blood Angels	Death Company Dreadnought	#136
Blood Angels	Death Company Intercessors	#137
Blood Angels	Death Company Marines	#138
Blood Angels	Death Company Marines with Jump Packs	#139
Blood Angels	Furioso Dreadnought	#140
Blood Angels	Gabriel Seth	#66
Blood Angels	Lemartes	#32
Blood Angels	Librarian Dreadnought	#141
Blood Angels	Sanguinary Guard	#93
Blood Angels	Sanguinary Priest	#142
Blood Angels	Sanguinary Priest with Jump	#143
Blood Angels	The Sanguinor	#144
Blood Angels	Tycho the Lost	#145
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	Lord Inquisitor Kyria Draxus	#126
Imperial Agents	Rogue Trader Entourage	#127
Imperial Agents	Subductor Squad	#128
Imperial Agents	Vigilant Squad	#26
Imperial Agents	Vindicare Assassin	#129
Imperial Agents	Voidsmen-at-Arms	#130
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

Thank you for reading!

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