Warhammer 40k - Review Library 236 - Astra Militarum, Militarum Tempestus Command Squad

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The Command unit for an Elite Guard army.

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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!
608 days since the start of 10th Edition.
This is Review #236, I am 372 reviews behind! (Lowest I have been is 314 behind)

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

Astra Militarum, Militarum Tempestus Command Squad

10th Edition Index

Tempestus Scions are the Elite crack troopers of the Astra Militarum. Trained to take on specialist missions.

Once in a while, Regimental Command might see fit to send one of their veteran elite Tempestor Primes to lead a larger force of Tempestus Scions. When making your Tempestor Prime your Warlord, Scions become Battleline units!

It is 70pts to field this 5 man unit and it costs $45 to buy the squad. (See why I say that Warlock is expensive?)

Let's check their stats.

Stats

Movement 6"
Toughness 3
Save 4+ (armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 1 (3 for the Tempestor Prime)
Ld 6+
OC 1

Weapons

The Tempestor Prime has a Bolt Pistol and Tempestus Dagger

The 4 Tempestus Scoins are armed with Hot-shot Lasguns and Close Combat Weapon.

Options:

The Tempestor Prime's Bolt Pistol can be replaced with either a Plasma Pistol or a Command Rod.

1 Scion can have a medi-pack but then cannot exchange his Lasgun for anything else.

1 Scion can be be equipped with a Regimental Standard and then cannot exchange his lasgun for anything else.

1 Scion can exchane his lasgun for a laspistol and master vox.

Any number of Scions can exchange their hot-shot Lasguns with one of the following:

  • Flamer
  • Grenade Lancher
  • Hot-Shot Volley Gun
  • Meltagun
  • Plasmagun

Ranged Weapons

Bolt Pistol

12" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 3+, S4, AP0 and 1 Damage each.
Pistol (This weapon can be fired while in Combat)

Hot-shot Laspistol

12" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 3+, S3, AP-1 and 1 Damage each.
Pistol (This weapon can be fired while in Combat)

Hot-shot Lasgun

24" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 3+, S3, AP-1 and 1 Damage each.
Rapid Fire 1 (When firing within half range of 12", add 1 additional shot)

Plasma Pistol - Standard

12" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 3+, S7, AP-2 and 1 Damage each.
Pistol (This weapon can be fired while in Combat)

Plasma Pistol - Overcharged

12" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 3+, S8, AP-3 and 2 Damage each.
Pistol (This weapon can be fired while in Combat)
Hazardous (Can explode, after shooting roll a dice, on a 1 this model takes 3 Mortal Wounds)

Plasma Gun - Standard

24" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 3+, S7, AP-2 and 1 Damage each.
Rapid Fire 1 (When firing within half range of 12", add 1 additional shot)

Plasma Gun - Overcharged

24" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 3+, S8, AP-3 and 2 Damage each.
Rapid Fire 1 (When firing within half range of 12", add 1 additional shot)
Hazardous (Can explode, after shooting roll a dice, on a 1 this model takes 3 Mortal Wounds)

Flamer

12" Range, D6 Shots, Hitting on Auto, S4, AP0 and 1 Damage each.
Torrent (This weapon hit automatically, just roll for the number of attacks.)
Ignores Cover (The target unit cannot get Benefit of cover against this attack)

Meltagun

12" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 3+, S9, AP-4 and D6 Damage each.
Melta 2 (When firing at a target that is at half range of 6", add 2 to Damage)

Hot-shot Volley Gun

30" Range, 2 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S4, AP-1 and 1 Damage each.
Rapid Fire 2 (When firing within half range of 15", add 2 additional shots)

Grenade Launcher - Frag

24" Range, D3 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S4, AP0 and 1 Damage each.
Blast (Get +1 attack per 5 models in target unit, rounding up)

Grenade Launcher - Krak

24" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 3+, S9, AP-2 and D3 Damage each.

Melee Weapons

Close Combat Weapon

2 Attacks, Hitting on 4+, S3, AP0 and 1 Damage each.

Tempestus Dagger

4 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S3, AP0 and 1 Damage each.

Abilities

Tempestor Prime

While this unit contains a Tempestor Prime, ranged Weapons in this unit have Sustained Hits 1.

Wargear Abilities

Command Rod

While the bearer is leading a unit, this unit can be affected by 2 different Oders at the same time.

Master Vox.

The Officer in the bear's unit can issue an Order up to 24" away

Medi-pack

The bearer's unit have a 6+ Feel No Pain.

Regimental Standard

Add 1 to the OC of models in the bearer's unit.

Orders

The Officer can issue 1 order to Regiment units.

Thoughts

That is a pretty wild selection of abilities.

If you run a small unit, then having 3-4 Special Weapons is tempting, but if this unit is leading Tempestus Scions then the Banner and Medipack is essential! A 10 man Scion unit can have 4 speacial weapons so if you do not need vox that could make it 6 special guns... The Scions would give Re-roll 1s to Hit of Re-roll to hit if they are shooting at an enemy within range of an objective.

Sustained Hits 1 is a great bonus to all of this and 1x order is good... a second would be better but who will give then that extra Order... lots of options there...

That makes 49 Astra Militarum Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 80.32% Completed. The total Completed is 25.76% Complete! Can I review them all?!

Thank you for reading!

Warhammer Review Library

Army Rule and Detachment Rule Reviews

FactionDetachmentReview Number
Agents of the ImperiumArmy Rule #2
Astra MilitarumArmy Rule #1
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Space MarinesArmy Rule #3


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AeldariAutarch#175
AeldariAutarch Skyrunner#185
AeldariAutarch Wayleaper#187
AeldariAvatar of Khaine#195
AeldariBaharroth#187
AeldariCorsair Voidreavers#213
AeldariCorsair Voidscarred#215
AeldariCrimson Hunter#219
AeldariDark Reapers#165
AeldariDeath Jester#205
AeldariDire Avengers#207
AeldariEldrad Ulthran#199
AeldariFarseer#201
AeldariFarseer Skyrunner#221
AeldariFire Dragons#225
AeldariFire Prism#227
AeldariFuegan#229
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AeldariJain Zar#183
AeldariKarandras#153
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AeldariRangers#149
AeldariShadowseer#80
AeldariShining Spears#147
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AeldariSkyweavers#157
AeldariSolitaire#167
AeldariSpiritseer#169
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AeldariStorm Guardians#177
AeldariStriking Scorpions#179
AeldariSupport Weapon#189
AeldariSwooping Hawks#191
AeldariThe Visarch#159
AeldariThe Yncarne#203
AeldariTroupe#197
AeldariSource#209
AeldariPrince Yriel#92
AeldariVoidweaver#171
AeldariVyper#211
AeldariWarlock#223
AeldariWarlock Conclave#231
AeldariWarlock Skyrunner#235
AeldariYvraine#181
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Astra MilitarumArmoured Sentinels#148
Astra MilitarumAttilan Rough Riders#154
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Astra MilitarumBanehammer#160
Astra MilitarumBanesword#166
Astra MilitarumBasilisk#170
Astra MilitarumBullgryn Squad#174
Astra MilitarumCadian Castellan#158
Astra MilitarumCadian Command Squad#178
Astra MilitarumCadian Shock Troops#184
Astra MilitarumCatachan Jungle Fighters#186
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Astra MilitarumCommissar#200
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Astra MilitarumLeman Russ Demolisher#220
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