Warhammer 40K mixes up the missions with Pariah Nexus, but should you buy it?

Tabletop GamingWarhammer 40,000Warhammer 40K mixes up the missions with Pariah Nexus, but should you buy it?When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.

Tabletop GamingWarhammer 40,000Warhammer 40K mixes up the missions with Pariah Nexus, but should you buy it?When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.

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The Pariah Nexus Mission Deck pack on a grassy mat

When Warhammer 40K 10th Edition dropped last year, it came with theLeviathanmission 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.

Back in action

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Pariah Nexus Mission Deck box and cards laid out on a grassy mat

The way that you set-up and play a game of Warhammer 40K goes largely unchanged in Pariah Nexus. You draw a deployment map, primary mission, and mission rule (or use one of Games Workshop’s approved presets). You also draw cards from the Secondary mission deck throughout the game. There have been some notable changes though, starting with the return of Actions.

Anyone who played during 9th Edition 40K will recognise the return of Actions as a formalized rule. Units can perform Actions to score points at the cost of forgoing their option to shoot or charge. These rules kinda existed in the Leviathan Mission Deck, but they weren’t formally codified — some cards just said stand here, don’t shoot, and you score points.

New tactics(Image credit: Warhammer Community)It feels like all change across the board; 40K’s sister game is also getting updates, and thenew edition of Warhammer Kill Team fixes a weird rule I’ve always disliked.

New tactics

(Image credit: Warhammer Community)It feels like all change across the board; 40K’s sister game is also getting updates, and thenew edition of Warhammer Kill Team fixes a weird rule I’ve always disliked.

(Image credit: Warhammer Community)

A group of Vespid Stingwing models on a battlefield strewn with model ruins, a themed ruler, and cards

It feels like all change across the board; 40K’s sister game is also getting updates, and thenew edition of Warhammer Kill Team fixes a weird rule I’ve always disliked.

These pseudo-actions caused all sorts of headaches for the rules team. Since your ability to complete them was tied to whether you were eligible to shoot, it meant that units that could advance and shoot, or shoot while in combat, could also do the pseudo-actions too.

Games Workshop clearly got tired of all these shenanigans, so now Actions are back and they’re much more restrictive than before — you can’t do them if you’re in combat, if you fall back from combat, or if you advance. This makes them tougher to pull off, which is one of the many changes that contributes to lower scoring (and hopefully closer) games in Pariah Nexus.

Masterful Gambit, sir

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Pariah Nexus Mission Deck deployment cards laid out in a grid on a grassy mat

While actions are back in, Gambits are gone (sorry, Channing Tatum). These were introduced in 10th edition as a last throw of the dice, a Hail Mary when things weren’t going your way. You gave up your ability to score primary points in exchange for a randomly drawn Gambit — if you completed it, you scored a ton of points. Well, as it turns out, they were too hard, so no one ever took them, and now they’re gone. In their place we have Secret Missions.

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With Secret Missions, you don’t have to rest your fate on a card draw. If you’ve scored fewer Primary Mission points than your opponent at the end of the third battle round, you can choose a Secret Mission. Your Primary points get capped at 20, meaning you can still score up to 20 points if you’re currently below that mark. Then, you get another 20 points if you complete your Secret Mission.

These Secret Missions range from tasks like having your warlord take your opponents homefield objective to crippling every unit in your opponents army. Secret Missions are a massive improvement over Gambits, in that people actually use them. They also force some decisions in the list building stage and offer an exciting catch-up mechanic to players who find themselves trailing in the early stages of the game.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it

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Pariah Nexus mission cards seen close up, laid out on a grassy mat

Secondary missions received the same treatment too, with a load of the old cards getting dumped and replaced. Deploy Teleport Homers and Investigate Signals got the boot for being too easy/too hard to score respectively, being replaced with spiritual successors Establish Locus and Recover Assets — both of which require units to perform actions to complete.

Across the board, Secondary missions now give out fewer points too, which should keep game scores tighter while making each point you can score more valuable. Oh and you can still play fixed secondaries if you hate fun, but, again, the easiest fixed Secondary — Deploy Teleport Homers — is no more, so it’s a less appealing prospect than before.

Something borrowed, something blue?(Image credit: Future / Will Sawyer)This version of 40K has always felt like a big swing for GW. In our interview with the game’s studio manager last year, he had this to say aboutdesigning Warhammer 40K 10th edition: “The right answer was something new.”

Something borrowed, something blue?

(Image credit: Future / Will Sawyer)This version of 40K has always felt like a big swing for GW. In our interview with the game’s studio manager last year, he had this to say aboutdesigning Warhammer 40K 10th edition: “The right answer was something new.”

(Image credit: Future / Will Sawyer)

The Warhammer 40,000: Leviathan boxed set with the rule book and two miniatures set out on a wooden table

This version of 40K has always felt like a big swing for GW. In our interview with the game’s studio manager last year, he had this to say aboutdesigning Warhammer 40K 10th edition: “The right answer was something new.”

I’m a big fan of these new layouts, and the 40K community at large seems to agree. They’re easier to set up during the deployment phase, and they open up the corners of the board more and let you deploy real assets there.

Overall, Pariah Nexus feels more tightly designed than the Leviathan deck that preceded it. With a year of 10th edition under their belts now, the developers have been able to see what worked and what needed fixes. As a result, almost all of the rough edges have now been sanded off the game.

Combine this new mission update with the latest round of balance updates and Warhammer 40K 10th Edition is in a wonderful place. Pariah Nexus offers real trade offs and decision making to players, resulting in nail-bitingly close games and offering more player agency than Leviathan. Secret Missions are a wonderful second pass at a catch-up mechanic, the new deployment maps make setting up games easier, and the return of Actions smooths out a ton of janky rules interactions.

It’s just a damn shame nobody can actually buy the Pariah Nexus deck since Games Workshop decided to print like five copies of the bloody thing.

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4Creature Commandos review: “James Gunn’s heartwarming, R-rated tale about super-monsters proves that the DCU is in good hands”

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Creature Commandos review: “James Gunn’s heartwarming, R-rated tale about super-monsters proves that the DCU is in good hands”

5Cobra Kai season 6, part 2 review: “Returns to the sort of hard-hitting form that made it such a fan favorite in the first place”

5Cobra Kai season 6, part 2 review: “Returns to the sort of hard-hitting form that made it such a fan favorite in the first place”

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Cobra Kai season 6, part 2 review: “Returns to the sort of hard-hitting form that made it such a fan favorite in the first place”

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