News Liste Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector

General

• This is a balance and bug fixing patch with a central focus on responding to the first real battle-tests of the new Astra Militarum Faction
• Pretty much all of the Astra Militarum roster has been updated to some degree. With the largest changes being to the abilities of the HQ Units
• We have also fixed some significant issues with the core faction abilities that meant that the soldiers of the Astra Militarum were not receiving the benefits of their training
• Other significant updates are the training of the Cadian Shock Troops to pull the trigger more rapidly, giving the Armoured Sentinel a bit more punch and utility and a rework of the Basilisk’s skills to be clearer and more reliable in action

Balance

Astra Militarum

• Born Soldiers[list]
• Fixed issues with Per Momentum bonuses not being applied properly

• Receiving an order gives +10 baseline momentum whilst that unit has an Order
• Fixed issue where Orders were not persisting into the enemy turn

Can now transport Ogryns

• Emperor’s Will, Bonus HP boost increased to 10% (5%)
• Execute adds momentum to surrounding tiles as well as the target unit, and can be used to target a unit that was previously targeted (to refresh or to boost with Empowered)
• Show Them Steel

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• Added Ranged Crit Chance +10%
• Cooldown set to 2 turns (1)
• Corrected Show Them Steel to use Additive maths

• Voice of Leadership, Accuracy boost increased to 10 (5)
• Bring It Down, Increased range to 5 tiles, reduced cooldown to 2 turns, clarified Status Effect length (1 turn, removes at end of casters turn)
• Move Move Move applies to all within a 1 tile radius of Castellan, 3 turn cooldown

• Shock and Awe damage bonus increased to 10% (5%)
• Battle Cannon -> Range to 1/5/9
• Pound Them To Dust is now a buff skill that gives +100% shots for all weapons to a nearby vehicle
• Blitz Them now gives the “Blitz” Charge Ability to friendly Leman Russ or Rogal Dorns and an Incoming Graze buff to any vehicle

• Leman Russ Sponsons upgrades halved to match Tank Commander
• Leman Russ Points to 250 (260)
• Lascannon, cooldown to 2 (3), range to 1/5/8
• Plasma Cannon range to 1/4/8
• Demolisher, range to 1/3/5, AP 6 (5)
• Vanquisher, range to 3/7/10

• Rogal Dorn Pulverisor to 0 points for upgrade
• Sponson Multimelta to 10 points for upgrade
• Twin Battle Cannon, range to 1/5/9
• Heavy Bolter, attacks to 28 (24)
• Oppressor, range to 1/6/9
• Pulverisor, AP 5 (4)

• Armoured Sentinel cost to 110 (125)
• Plasma Cannon
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• Range to 1/4/8
• Attacks to 2 shots @ 50 Damage

• Multilaser range to 1/4/8
• Run Over min range of 2 (1) to reflect that it's a charge
• Fixed issue with Run Over final charge damage

• Cost increase to 40 (was 35)
• Added Frag Grenade to all loadouts
• Increased cost of Bayonet Loadout to +5
• Lasgun
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• Range to 1/3/6
• Attacks to 4 shots @ 4 damage @ 80 Acc w AP1

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• Range to 1/3/5,
• Attacks to 4 shots @ 4 damage @ 65 Acc w AP1

• Evasion to 10 (5)
• Hotshot Lasgun
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• Range to 1/3/7
• Attacks to 7 shots @ 5 damage @ 90 Acc w AP3
• All Unit targets single enemy model rather than spreading shots

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• Range to 1/4/8
• Attacks to 10 shots @ 5 damage @ 90 Acc w AP3
• Upgrade cost to 10

• Are now Transportable by Valkyrie
• HP to 160
• Fixed issue with Furious Charge final damage

• Lascannon[list][list]
• Range to 1/5/8,
• Accuracy to 60 (65), falloff to 6
• All Unit targets single enemy model rather than spreading shots
• Removed Cooldown

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• Range to 1/5/8
• Accuracy to 60 (65), Attacks to 3 (2), falloff to 6
• All Unit targets single enemy model rather than spreading shots
• Pour It On adds +1 shots per 2 stacks of Set Up spent (from per 1 stack)
• Pour It On cooldown to 2 (1)

Accuracy to 60, Ranged Falloff to 6

• Force Staff[list][list]
• Attacks to 2 (1)

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• Casting gives +20 momentum
• Disabled edge case where you could still get pistol reactions against buffed unit
• Locked at start in Planetary Supremacy

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• Cooldown to 3 (2)
• Casting gives +20 momentum
• Accuracy debuff to -30
• Fixed maths to be additive
• Unlocked by default in Planetary Supremacy

• Steady Aim updated[list][list]
• Used as an ability to make an attack with the Earthshaker with +10 accuracy for every Movement Point the Basilisk has left unspent

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• Does not use the weapon accuracy, instead scatters 3 shots in a 3x3 area

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• Stacks are lost on movement, like Set Up
• Barrage does not add stacks (as unaimed)

• Visual FX Tweaks[list][list]
• Increased rate of fire of Multilaser
• Increased speed of all Las weapon projectiles
• Added Supercharge WarmUp VFX to Armoured Sentinel

Orks

• Gretchin[list]
• Grot Blasta Accuracy to 75 (90)

Necrons

• Scarab Tempest Command Ability[list]
• Spawned scarabs have -1 Action Points on their first turn.
• They can still do an initial charge on descent

Added extra explosive damage to the Self Destruct Protocol ability

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where graphics settings did not always save correctly
• Fixed Unspent Action point Momentum cost for Astra Mil to be same as every other faction, -20 momentum
• Fixed Crit Chance Per Momentum not working properly
• Fixed Graze Chance Per Momentum not working properly
• Stopped AI doing a Change Facing whilst using Overwatch (which was cancelling Overwatch on some occasions)
• Stopped Valkyrie from coming back to haunt the HQ Commander when doing a Valkyrie Transport
• Fixed description for Valkyrie Transport
• Reduced noise of Valkyrie engines on departure
• Fixed slow firing Heavy Bolters on Demolisher