Khorne is about to be a very happy blood god indeed as the World Eaters hit the ground running* this week. So happy, in fact, that he’s doling out some extra-special abilities – such as Angron’s newfound resistance to banishment – with more to come should his followers offer up a sufficient Blood Tithe.
This new army ability rewards World Eaters warbands for every drop of blood spilled in Khorne’s name, whether it belongs to them or their enemies. So long as warriors are shuffling off the mortal coil, the Blood God is content, and his bounty of Blood Tithe Points (BTP) can be spent powering up your remaining units.
BTP are earned in a few ways. First, whenever a unit is completely wiped out, add one to the tally – it doesn’t matter whose unit, whose turn, or what phase it is. You get an extra point at the end of each phase if a VEHICLE, MONSTER, or CHARACTER died, and one more if a TITANIC unit was eradicated.
Killed a TITANIC VEHICLE like a Baneblade or an Imperial Knight? That’s three points. Once you’ve amassed enough points, the Khorne-r shop** opens and you can purchase one Blood Tithe ability per phase that’ll last for the rest of the game, such as the speed-boosting Rage-fuelled Invigoration.
These abilities snowball your warband into a bloody-minded avalanche of carnage. Having trouble carving through vehicles with chainaxes? Sidestep their high toughness with Total Carnage. Cowardly psykers hiding behind their powers? Shrug off their Smites with a dose of Spiteful Nullification.
We know what you’re thinking, “But Warhammer Community, didn’t Angron spend points on some awesome regeneration powers in the World Eaters episode of Battle Report?” You’re absolutely right, and that’s the ace up the World Eaters’ ceramite sleeve. For just six Blood Tithe Points – two of which you’ll earn the moment Angron dies – you can reform the Daemon Primarch as if nothing happened!
Better yet, he gets to Warp Strike right back into battle, so you can give the long-ranged guns that took him down the fright of their lives when their apparent success only serves to hasten their demise. Nothing personal.
Discover more from Codex: World Eaters later this week as we count down to pre-orders on Saturday, including a look at the human Jakhals who make for excellent BTP-harvesting candidates. Your blood or theirs? It makes no difference to Khorne!
* And caterwauling, drooling, and shrieking.
** For the Americans: This is an awful pun about bodegas! We do not apologise.