Juggernaut mounted Bloodletters! They are fast and fairly dangerous.

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Hello everyone! Zak Ludick here from Cape Town, South Africa and this is a Warhammer 40k - Datasheet Review post!

What is it all about? It is not there to just give a stat. It is there to give MY review of the unit in the game of Warhammer 40,000

The last of the Indexes! A new challenge!

Right, I am finally ahead and by my best estimations as I explained in this Post, I should be able to keep ahead of the release curve and get the remainder of the Indexes reviewed before those Codex releases.

So I embark on a new challenge. I have calculated that there are roughly 148 reviews to do. I have chosen my frequency and have given myself 96 days to review them all. That means that I am aiming at Day 96 being the 21st of July 2025!

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I have reviewed 18/148.

Time elapsed: 13.54%
Review Completion: 12.16%
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Back to the review!

Chaos Daemons, Bloodcrushers

10th Edition Index

Bloodcrushers are a unit of Bloodletter Daemons riding on Juggernauts. Thus, they are cavalry. Juggernauts are a fusion between machine and Daemon and are dedicated to the Blood God Khorne.

Thus, this unit is therefore a melee focused unit that is fast and fairly tough. We expect them to cost a bit of points and...

We are looking at 110pts for 3 of them and 220pts for 6 of them. Not too bad.

Let's check his stats and abilities!

Stats

Movement 10"
Toughness 7
Save 3+/5++ (armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 4
Ld 7+
OC 2

Weapons

Standard weapons: Hellblade, Juggernaut's bladed horn.

1 Bloodcrusher can be equipped with an Instrument of Chaos
1 Bloodcrusher can be equipped with a Daemonic Icon

Models can only carry one of the two, but the squad can include both.

Ranged Weapons

None

Melee Weapons

Hellblade

2 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S5, AP-2 and 2 Damage each.

Juggernaut's bladed horn

4 Attacks, Hitting on 4+, S6, AP-1 and 1 Damage each.
Extra Attacks (These attacks can be made alongside this model's other attacks)
Lance (On the turn you Charge, this unit gets +1 to Wound rolls)

Abilities

Deep Strike - If this unit arrives on the Battlefield from Reserves, it can be set up anywhere on the battlefield more than 9" from enemy models.

Brass Stampede

Each time this unit ends a Charge, select one unit they made contact with, roll a D6 for every model in this unit. On each 4+, that enemy unit suffers D3 Mortal Wounds.

Wargear Abilities

Daemonic Icon

This model's unit has a Leadership value of 6+

Instrument of Chaos

Add 1 to Charge rolls made for the bearer's unit.

Thoughts

This unit has less attacks than I expected. They are tough and fast as I expected. The Mortal Wounds on the charge will give them the sort of damage together with their attacks that I was expecting.

So, unless there are Detachment bonuses, Stratagems or Characters that can buff them significantly, I would say that they would endanger most regular infantry up till standard Space Marine units. However, the moment they encounter combat troops/unit with more than 2 Wounds each and/or 4+ Invuls, then they will not manage to do much...

Though, if I had the chance to orchestrate it, I will charge them rather than be charged or use a unit to screen them. There are also other ways to deal with cavalry...

That makes 6 Chaos Daemon Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 12% Completed! The total of the remaining Index reviews is now 127.

Thank you for reading!

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I shall leave all Army and Detachment rules here and the few Chaos Daemon datasheets I have done already:

Army Rule and Detachment Rule Reviews

Faction	Detachment	Review Number
Agents of the Imperium		Army Rule #2
Aeldari		Army Rule #4
Astra Militarum		Army Rule #1
Astra Militarum	Combined Regiment	Detachment Rule #1
Astra Militarum	Bridgehead Strike	Detachment Rule #2
Chaos Knights		Army Rule #8
Chaos Knights	Tratoris Lance	Detachment Review #11
Chaos Knights	Iconoclast Fiefdom	Detachment Review #12
Death Guard		Army Rule Review #6
Death Guard	Plague Company	Detachment Review #4
Death Guard	Flyblown Host	Detachment Review #7
Imperial Knights		Army Rule Review #9
Imperial Knights	Noble Lance	Detachment Review #13
Imperial Knights	Questor Forgepact	Detachment Review #14
Space Marines		Army Rule #3
Space Wolves	Champions of Russ	Detachment Review #9
Space Wolves	Champions of Fenris	Detachment Review #10
Thousand Sons		Army Rule #7
Thousand Sons	Cult of Magic	Detachment Review #5
Thousand Sons	Hexwarp Thrallband	Detachment Review #8
World Eaters		Army Rule #5
World Eaters	Berzerker Warband	Detachment Review #3
World Eaters	Vessels of Wrath	Detachment Review #6

Datasheet Review list (Alphabetical)

Faction	Unit	Review Number
Chaos Daemons	Beasts of Nurgle	#98
Chaos Daemons	Be'lakor	#370
Chaos Daemons	Daemonettes	#29
Chaos Daemons	Lord of Change	#75
Chaos Daemons	Nurglings	#82

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