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Glory Points: Finding Your Playstyle

February 2025·pp. 50–53

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Louis unpacks the four playstyle icons of the new Underworlds edition: Strike rewards aggression, Take & Hold prioritises territory, Flex mixes approaches, and Mastery asks players to manage specialised mechanics. He relates those labels to warband abilities, fighter composition and Rivals objectives, then supplies reference lists for available warbands and decks. Matching icons offers a useful starting point, but unusual pairings, inspiration conditions and a preferred narrative can all justify experimenting in Nemesis.

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TacticsWD 509 · pp. 54–57

Basic Training: First-round Secondary Missions

Stephen Box ranks the Pariah Nexus secondary missions by the difficulty of scoring them in the first battle round. He distinguishes positioning and actions that can be planned during deployment from kill objectives that depend heavily on the opponent, and explains how Scouts, Infiltrators, fast transports and Lone Operatives help achieve early points. The examples favour reliable partial scores over risky overextension, and show how one coherently spread unit can contribute to several objectives.

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TacticsWD 509 · p. 126

Orders, Sir? The Answers!

The answer to this issue’s Incursor deployment puzzle compares how five possible positions enable different first-turn Pariah Nexus secondaries. The recommended central position gives the widest range of potential cards, with a small detour into a nearby building adding Sabotage. The explanation stresses that objective control counts individual models’ OC, so a carefully spread five-model unit can reach two objectives and unlock higher scoring conditions.

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TacticsWD 524 · pp. 66–67

The Hive Volcanus Rapid Defence Force

Grant assembles an improvised Armoured Infantry defence around Commissar Graves, mixing Cadian and Krieg squads in Centaurs and Chimeras with Hippogriff armoured fighting vehicles. His plan uses transports and infantry to obstruct the Orks’ route, with a Rogal Dorn acting as a final goalkeeper against anything that escapes the line. The army is chosen to suit the story of delaying Wazdakka while Yarrick travels towards Death Mire, rather than as a detached competitive exercise.

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