When Warhammer 40K 10th Edition dropped last year, it came with the Leviathan mission pack and the tantalizing promise of future card decks to keep the game fresh. After a year of the Leviathan missions, that promise has finally been fulfilled with the arrival of the Pariah Nexus Mission Deck, which shakes up the game with some significant changes to how we deploy our armies and score points. For the most part, these changes are great moves in the right direction; they remove easy objectives and annoying deployment maps from Warhammer 40K while adding in some new ones to replace them.
But before we dive into what’s actually changed here, a word of warning (and a scolding for Games Workshop). The Pariah Nexus Mission Deck is currently rarer than Kroot’s teeth. GW seems to have massively underestimated demand and the deck has been sold out everywhere since its release back in late June, an issue it's faced before with the likes of Cursed City (which is somewhat infamous for those stock problems, even if it makes up for this by being one of the best board games the company has put out).
Even I don’t have a deck yet — I’m borrowing this one from a buddy who had the foresight to pre-order one. If you don’t have access to the cards and you want to play competitive 40K, then check out the Tabletop Battles app . This app lets you score your games and has all the up-to-date missions and objectives you’ll need.
Back in action The way that you set-up and play a game of War.