Battletome Blades of Khorne 2023 - Full Review 

Nah, Khorne would want you to use the bag of kittens as an adorable flail with which to bludgeon people who don't like kittens into red paste.

Hello yes we've released a battletome for the super fast glass cannon god, they're tanks now. We also made a book for the straightforward combat god, they're super fast and don't do any damage unless you overlap 17 different aura buffs. Please spend £500 on an army immediately.

Blood for the blood god !

GW: All right, we need to write the new Khorne book. Our chaos god of bloodshed, murder, war, violence and hatred. I was thinking we make them really techy, hit like wet noodles and as hard as warm butter. I guess it's a good thing I got into them because they just look so dang cool.

I can see many players will take the Command Entourage with the prayer upgrade to give double prayer options.

This guy is such an honest wargamer. Respect.

I'm glad my whole daemon army doesn't need to rely on mortal hero's anymore. It ruined a whole theme for me and was what held back the old battletome so much.

Watching this video again after discussing with my pals.. This is the most out of turn sequence melee army in AoS. So many tricks to combo. The potential for so many amazing unstoppable tricks is ridiculous. Interestingly, Slaanesh battletome has some good counters. To all those hating this battletome, complaining and saying that's is not powerful enough, you are so blind. Blade of Khorne is now really powerful. To those who can see and collect this army, a great time is coming. Top tier army incoming.

I like what I've seen of this book. Time to put my Exalted Deathbringer with Runeshield on the shelf. *sniff*

Hey Rob does this mean a blood thirster can be a priest and chant on himself to pull units into combat or to double move itself? That’s wild!

Hot take, I feel like Bloodlords faction is actually somewhat decent. Bloodletters are a bit expensive now, but they gained a lot of value too. Plus with the amount of recursion tech they have now I'm sure they could prove to be good.

I like skarbrand more now. He has less dmg but in the old tome he needed so much support and synergies. Now he just does his own thing which feels better. 5+ ward vs range is great imho and was the big weakness of this army. You can screen with cheap and or tanky units quite effectively so the loss of the ward save in close combat is legit. Also its great that you dont need to spam bloodthirsters now. You cam play whatever you want. This book feels awesome and khorny aswell. I think khorne should not be just a timmy army the Brute Brainless khorne warriors is a theme but it is not the only aspect. As a god of blood and war the prayers and also fighting shenanigans should be the thing that a khorne army is capable off.. There is more to khorne than just berzerking rage. Ogres orks or gargants can fill that slot better.

Small correction (maybe I didn't see it get addressed) is the Locus of Fury ONLY affects daemons.

Thanks. It looks like a nice written battle tome.

If you put the realmgore ritualist on the blood shrine and then desecrate it (terrain) and have a reinforced bloodreaver unit as a guard tha seems like a substantial (if immobile) threat for not many points.

Let's do this!!!

Pouring one out for my kitbashed khorne dragon, but I am super excited to try out these new rules.

Which of the two new chaos books du you like the most? The Slaanesh one or Blades of khorne? ty for doing this videos its been a pleasure listening too

You know in the past I haven't really enjoyed your content, but I always believe in giving people chances in the future to win me over. You have definitely done that with this one! Rock on my dude

Bloodletters seem interesting to me? Their base damage is better, and their buffs are both easier to apply, and cheaper than what gutrippaz have access to. 2"/3+/3+/-1/1 is a decent base profile, unlike gutrippaz who need to choose between reach or 3s and can't get rend. The real spice for bloodletters I think is actually curse, so you can ping mortals on hit rolls and on wound rolls.

Really like your new focus on content on your channel. Super good review. I resubbed. Thanks for creating this.

So keen!

Great review ❤

I think a generic Mighty Lord of Khorne with 10 Skullreapers in a Galletian Command Battallion could be very interesting. Because the Mighty Lord's Command Ability would pull the Slullreapers into Always Strikes First. At least in this current season. Plus I like that Slullreapers have Curse built in. If you give them +1 attack from either the Bloodsecrator or the Blood Tithe Table, they're making 50 attacks with Daemonforged Weapons and 6's are mortals in addition. That's tasty damage even at Rend 1. I don't play Khorne myself, so maybe to a Khorne veteran they're nothing special, but I think Skullreapers are pretty solid. (Edit: I thought you could +4 Rally Khorgoraths, since you can reinforce them and had a point about that. But you cannot, Bloodsecrator limits it to 3 or less wounds.)

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I know this is a Khorne review, but I think it would have been hilarious if GW gave Thanquol the ability it accidentally summon skarbrand like he did in the old world lol

Where can i find the Pdf?

Multiple BT's are still a thing, although expensive. You can get up to 4 BT's swinging first in your turn!

blood letters is like gutrippas that can get 2+ to hit 2+ to wound with rend -2 walk twice + d6 and than charge 3d6, so they are like gutrippas but they can get into melee and will hit like a brick

Diagnosis Murder Rolls

this is a great review especially as i have 50 blood warrioirs, 50 reavers and 7 khorgaraths! lol

@HonestWG can you explain me how the Bloodsecrator Blood-banner thingy works?

Sorry if I missed where this was addressed in the video, but what's the ally pool? Can you take STD cultists (which are undivided) as allies, or are you just locked out of taking those completely?

Thanks for another great review! I think this book looks great, mostly better than the previous one. A lot of people don't realise how much an experienced player can squeeze out of these rules.

Bloodreavers don't get 5+ ward. Only demon units get 5+ against shooting.

The BTP table is a bit odd. Probably should have been: 1 spell eater 2 let the blood flow 3 murderlust 4 brass meteor 5 frenzy 6 rising hatred 7 heads must roll 8 triumph

Man reapers of vengence really went from the best freaking thing in the book to absolute hot garbage, also loosing all the spice on the bloodthirsters really feels bad.

The Skullreapers are great when you add attacks, end up with 6 attacks each. Make them a unit of 10 and thats 60 attacks with a chance of mortals in addition. They are a meat grinder.

I'm consumed by the idea of playing a full house full hero GORETIDE GORECHOSEN army of 8 guys, one of them Dromm with his own gorechosen. Then 30 reavers and blood Warriors and wrathmongers. The gorechosen combos sound very fun

13:30 Why is the depravity table in slaanesh not connected to their summons? Don't you lose the effects of the passive buffs, if you drop below their threshold by spending depravity on summons?

I've watched several previews for this book, and I think I'm just understanding it with you. Thank you for repeating rules and interactions. I'm looking to play Khorne. Brain not big. Tell me stuff good

Yes they are currently endless spells. Geedubs missed an opportunity to make tie them to the blood tithe rather be cast by priests. It's the same thing as endless spells. If they just appeared after a certain level of blood tithe they'd be interesting. Where are the special monstrous actions, or the heroic actions ? What bothers me is that Khorne armies kind of have to take priests now. As many as possible really. The "warrior heros" are mostly pointless. Note that the bleeding icon says no effect on Khorne units...it doesn't say "friendly Khorne units" which is quite amusing. Pile on the extra attacks? What extra attacks? there's a once per game from the Bloodsecrator who is just useful enough to be taken in a list despite not being a priest, good old reliable crutch is here to stay. Then there's the wholly within 8" of wrathmongers, and 20 Blood warriors don't fit, let alone 30 Blood reavers. The +1 attack for 8 Blood tithe might as well not even be printed, you'll never get to 8, you'll have spent it for useful effects up to 4....any more blood tithe than that will be going on a 20 pack of bloodletters or a bloodthirster. The arcane tome shouldn't be available to anything with the Khorne keyword...Most Khorne players won't even want to put the arcane tome on anything...Hopefully it will be FAQ'd Just like Khorne players won't summon Riptooth just to sacrifice the goodest boy for 2 measly blood tithe. Note that Valkia is still only mortal, not daemon. But worse still is that she didn't get a new model. Skullreapers are still bad...they could at least ignore ward saves to make them a little different... All in all, yes this book is an improvement over the previous one, then again it didn't need much. Basically they've changed all the fight on death and MWs on death by the murder rolls, that's good. They've bumped the spell ignore up to a 5+ because it's pointless quite often (armies will be casting buffs on themselves, not on our dudes) It might be better, but it's an uninspired copy/paste of the previous book just like the one before it was. What a disappointment....

I think missed that the boomthirster is 3+d3 damage, makes it quite a bit spicier

Nice book review mate, where'd you get it?

What are the cheapest chaos battlescrolls you can get chopped up for tithe?

Isn't slanesh depravity the summoning ability for slanesh that is basically like bloodtithe points?

The 8" range for the ward save also stops silly arguments over whether or not deep striking units shut off the ward save at 9". I still would obviously have preferred it be at 3", but that would be too thematic and fun.

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I wish there was something to shut down unleash hell, and that hero’s and monsters were worth 2 blood tithe. I’d also like to see some sort of extra hero battalion or something. So many hero’s not viable in competitive scene.

The new bloodletters.. I can see a group of 30 bloodletters with 3 bloodthirsters and a nearby group of wrathmongers will be absolutely disgusting. Take the bloodlords slaughterhost and they are a very solid choice. I can see a list around 3 thirsters, a bloodmaster and 30 bloodletters being a meta comp; Unless im wrong about this, but that also may mean you can make almost your entire army alwasy fight first on everything on your turn; fighting one after another.. i.e. bloodmaster > bloodletters, and Wrath of Khorne thirster > Another thirster and have the third thirster take halo of blood.

Give a BT arcane tome with flaming weapon. So He will Do ok dmg. Fluffwise say: He goes super Sajin and channels his rage in his not so mighty axe... xD

Thanks, Rob! BFTBG

Khorne!

Isn't anyone gonna comment that the Bloodsecrator review isn't correct? It's no longer an aoe aura of 16".. There's no range written! So it's the whole battlefield

Dunno why but I found this thumbnail really funny

Played against new Khorne the other day. Their prayers are like spells you can't unbind. #nomagic 🙃That said. Seems like a cool army to play. Actually super techy

Wololo OP

Mighty skull crushers! More deamon more better

So your saying that Khorne cannot deny Total Eclipse huh?

It does imho look like khorne is a thinking mans army with all the overlapping stuff and managing your tithe.

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Man I wish the vermin lords were close to as good as the blood thirsters cause from using them for years they don't seem as good for the same or cost more points wise and are only used for there spells if that on top of skaven having one build that works while every new book has what feels like alot of love with a variety of builds

God do I hate the fact that every army seems to be getting a 4+ rally. Just bot skaven no. Apparently we aren’t a horde army

I think they could have squeezed a few more 8 references in there because after all it is KhORnEs NuMb3R HAhaAha. -_-

Wait…. Big Khorne dragon is not playable anymore? Seriously? Why though?

Hexgorger Skulls seem like they really nicely shut down Lumineth (as long as my memory is correct and most of their units are wizards). Edit: Don't the Keepers have the same wounds and armour saves? Sure they're more likely to have a -1 to hit but I'd say Bloodthirsters are on par with them and cheaper than them. Edit 2: NGL, after watching this I am pretty deflated ony Khorne, which is a real shame because they were my first AoS army. Part of my disappointment comes from them coming out at the same time as Slaanesh who have mechanics that are way cooler and flashier to me. GW have written themselves into a corner mechanically with Khorne (and this really showed itself with the half-baked World Eaters codex for 40k), where they've decided he's the combat God and *nothing else*. Being so linier is really hurting the design space for Khornate armies, let's not forget the greatest forges of Chaos are in his realm, so where are the big stompy war machines? Where are the blood flamethrowers and skull bazookas? Of all the mono-God factions Khorne should probably have the most conventional shooting. Ramble aside, guess I'll continue to shelve my Blades of Khorne in favour of Khorne marked Slaves to Darkness :(

i just love how the book that is supposed to be all about melee and duels and bloodshed, is being reviewed where evry single melee unit in the book is being discribed as mediocre melee profile, or just okayish. and again thirsters are piss poor joke of a monster. they should be the absolute devils on any battlefield reaping kills in the thousands yet any single melee foot hero less than half there points deals equal or more damage in melee compared to the freaking so called melee monster gods......

Am i crazy. or is the picture of the Bloodreaver new? new models inc?? thats exciting!

Feels a tiny bit lazy, like they had some good ideas but ran out of steam. No unique Monstrous actions. No unique Heroic actions. Lots of buffs specifically for Gorechosen keyword that no one asked for. Inexplicably useless Deathbringers (again). Must use multiple Priests every game (again). 1d3 dmg for Thirsters (again lol). Let's see what we can do with it I guess. The movement shenanigans are pretty fantastic. And it's nice that Bloodletters got a boost.

Nice glow up for juggernaut riders Blood Warriors with 3+ armor is dumb They can coalition normal Chaos Warriors for an anvil ( or add more Juggernauts ) The new rolls are just a side variant of SCE explosions Army wide fight on death, even if not mortal wounds, would be more thematic Bloodletters kinda tanky now with 2 wounds and 5+ ward vs long range shooting (Sentinels, SCE, and KO who don't have a death wish) Great glow up for mortal units (save a slight nerf to Bloodsecrator - and then compensated for with that rally) Maybe we won't just see Bloodthirster spam? Too bad exalted Khorne hero with shield is gone Guess he is just an Exalted Hero of Chaos now with mark of Khorne

Was anyone else hoping for a complete rewrite for this book but felt like it just got a few rend and save points here and there but besides that barely changed?

I can’t believe I preordered the limited Ed battletome. This is the same shit as last time, great rules abysmally weak warscroll stats 😢 Fukn hell

Imagine that the God of murder and bloodlust and war and melee combat etc has greater demons that are worse in melee then the wizard gods spellcasting demons. GW have fucked up khorne for the entirity of AoS so far (d3 damage should be illegal) 🤡

I definitely agree, healing units doesn't feel right in a Khorne army. It's one thing to have say your demon hero heal himself. That's about the extent I'd say makes sense for healing in Khorne. I really dislike having every single ability in every army. Khorne doesn't have any magic. That's unique to them. The day they allow magic in Khorne is the day the game is officially ruined. Just throwing everything including the kitchen sink at an army just to try and sell models doesn't work.

40K definitely got the STONKS for greater daemons. Really disappointed in the Bloodthirsters in AOS

This book suffers from the same thing as the last book, great rules and weak Warscrolls

HOT TAKE GRAND strategies. Meaning they are quite big. Should actually be difficult to achieve. I disagree with having easy GS....what's the point then. You know going into a match that if nothing else you're getting 3 free points at the end. I prefer grand strategies to be difficult, interactive and fun. Not, have an invocation on the table 😒 (ya I'm looking at you dwarves)

Why the fuck did they bring back the D3 damage axe!!! This makes me so upset. Its absolutely trash!!! I played with that shit for 4 years, it’s never good