r/Fallen40k Jun 10 '24

How do I play Fallen in 10th Edition 40k?

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The Fallen player experience has been varied since 7th Edition: Cypher and a detachment of Fallen could be added to either Imperium (not alongside Dark Angels units in the army for obvious reasons) or Chaos armies in 7th edition, the introduction of the Fallen Specialist Detachment in 8th edition, and the subpar restructure of the detachment in early 9th edition (with actual Fallen datasheets disappearing from the Chaos Space Marine Codex entirely). Players have had to choose between Dark Angels rules or Alpha Legion rules to compensate for the loss of means to play a proper Fallen army. 10th edition ultimately does not rectify the situation (as of writing), but this does not mean Fallen players do not have options - 10th edition's controversial detachment systems gives players the freedom to organize their armies into the playstyle best suited for them at the expense of previous rules that "locked" armies in a particular thematic playstyle. That being said, Fallen players can opt to use the detachments in the Space Marine Codex (along with the Dark Angels Supplement) or the Chaos Space Marines Codex to suit their playstyle and organize their armies as they see fit.

Dark Angels players have access to all the detachments in the 10th Edition Space Marine Codex (Gladius Task Force, Anvil Siege Force, Ironstorm Spearhead, Firestorm Assault Force, Stormlance Task Force, Vanguard Spearhead, and 1st Company Task Force) in addition to the three detachments provided in the 10th Edition Dark Angels Codex Supplement: Unforgiven Task Force, Inner Circle Task Force, and Company of Hunters. For those wishing to go for a more less chaotic route with their Fallen (or Risen) consider this when building your army list.

As for actual Fallen units, the Dark Angels Supplement provides a means via Crusade. A concept introduced in the 9th edition's supplement, there is a set of requirements that a Dark Angels Crusade Army must complete to enter the Hunt The Fallen Oathsworn Campaign (chiefly completing the Secrets of the Unforgiven Campaign and one of the other campaigns from the Dark Angels Supplement or Space Marine Codex). Should they successfully complete the A Trail Uncovered and Pursuit Across Worlds Bonus Agendas in the campaign, the Dark Angel player can access the Capture The Fallen Agenda. Here we have rules for The Fallen unit:

In order to use the Capture the Fallen Agenda, your opponent must add one HERETIC ASTARTES CHARACTER model with a Save characteristic of 3+ or better to their Crusade army. That model is your Quarry of the Unforgiven and gains the FALLEN keyword if it does not already have it. It has a points value of 0, does not require a Crusade card, cannot gain XP and cannot be a WARLORD. That model cannot be set up as Reserves, cannot lead a unit, and has an Objective Control characteristic of 0. Additionally, it gains the Lone Operative ability if it does not already have it.

As stated, The Fallen can be a CSM Character (not just limited to Cypher or a Sorcerer like in 9th Edition). Now, let's be reasonable about it: characters like Abaddon the Despoiler, Haarken the Worldclaimer, Huron Blackheart, Fabius Bile, and Vashtorr the Arkifane shouldn't qualify as they aren't Fallen by default and thus their models shouldn't count. Anything else might be fair game.

Furthermore, the supplement had this blurb:

Designer’s Note: To engage with the Capture the Fallen Bonus Agenda, we recommend creating a Fallen miniature to represent your Quarry of the Unforgiven, which you can lend to your opponent when required. We would also recommend checking with your opponent that they are happy to include this model in their army before attempting this Bonus Agenda. If your opponent would prefer not to include it (because it is not suited to their armys narrative, for example), we recommend you wait until a better opportunity arises before attempting this Bonus Agenda. If so, you may temporarily suspend your Oathsworn Campaign and pick a Bonus Agenda from another eligible Oathsworn Campaign to use for the battle.

The text should look familiar as it is updated version of the note found in the 9th Edition Dark Angels Supplement Crusade Rules.

Moving over to the CSM Codex, the only truly Fallen character listed is Cypher at the moment. There also doesn't seem to be Fallen-themed detachment among those listed in the Codex. That being said, Fallen players have access to the detachments there: Pactbound Zealots (formerly the Slaves of Darkness Detachment from the Index; Word Bearer-themed), Veterans of the Long War (Black Legion-themed), Deceptors (Alpha Legion-themed), Renegade Raiders (Red Corsairs-themed), Dread Talons (Night Lords-themed), Fellhammer Siege-Hosts (Iron Warriors-themed), Chaos Cults (Traitor Guard and Cultist-themed), and the Soulforged Warpack (Vashtorr-themed). Like in 9th Edition, Deceptors is probably the more closer to thematic Fallen tactics than the rest (helps that The Fallen and the Alpha Legion work together from time-to-time and some Alpha Legion warbands actually have Fallen as members), but Renegade Raiders and Veterans of the Long War being solid alternatives.

As for units, Cypher is almost a given. Some Fallen players like to substitute 40k models with Horus Heresy models and lorewise it works due to the nature of The Warp. A Fallen may have been on Caliban during its destruction only to be flung through The Warp into the 42nd Millennium and appear as if no time had passed. With that in mind, those players must adhere to the CSM Codex's wargear option restrictions and mind the base sizes.

There are other players who feel they can alternate using the SM and CSM Codices for their armies. For those players, they need to keep in mind which units cannot be used for either army (no landspeeders, for example) and adjust accordingly. This route is becoming increasingly difficult due to many Firstborn Marine units being phased out of the Space Marine line and are replaced by Primaris counterparts.

Some players like to kitbash CSM kits with Firstborn Dark Angel bits and HH bits to make them more thematic. Finding a copy White Dwarf 464 (the infamous Fallen Index issue) is recommended as it has some kitbashing idea instructions for inspirations.

Then, finally, there are The Risen. Dark Angel Legionaries that sided with Luther and fought against Lion El'Johnson and the rest of the Legion, only to be redeemed by The Lion upon their discovery (provided they aren't Chaos tainted). The only units that truly represent them on the tabletop are the Inner Circle Companions, so any players building a Risen-themed Dark Angel army should pick them up. Primaris Marines are not an issue for this army, but Risen players should pick units that best compliment the aesthetic as a suggestion.

For a more creative idea, here's an idea of using the Chaos Cults detachment for a Fallen Calibanite Jaeger army: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fallen40k/comments/1ehhcyc/concept_fallen_calibanite_jaegers/

Unless a Campaign Book is released that explicitly has the means to run a detachment of Fallen, these are the options available for Fallen players.


r/Fallen40k 7d ago

Discussion The Risen Community

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r/Fallen40k 8d ago

Models Fallen raiders

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Individually not spectacular but as a little gang, at arms length they look pretty cool.


r/Fallen40k 11d ago

Lore Dreadnought question

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I’m building a loyalist army and was wondering, would it make sense for the fallen to have a redemptor dread , like they found and repaired a busted one . Or would they more have the 30k / legends units of the castaferrum, contemptor & levithan .
Or conversely would it make sense to use a saturnine as a proxy for a redemptor


r/Fallen40k 14d ago

Models Fallen Sorcerer Lord of the Black Legion

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r/Fallen40k 14d ago

Models The Lord Cypher joins the warband

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r/Fallen40k 15d ago

Models Fallen Daemon Prince?

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For those of you using fallen as csm or some sort of chaos faction, what are your daemon princes? I've been looking online for some knightly models but they're a bit difficult to find. Plz share your thoughts and thanks in advance


r/Fallen40k 17d ago

Digital Kitbash on Marbas, our Daemon Prince!

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Used a bunch of different files around to make this guy. Printed on a bambu lab a1 mini with 0.2 nozzle.


r/Fallen40k 16d ago

Models Champions kitbash

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I want to make 9 champions for my Fallen i want each to have the vibe/theme of one of the traitor legions but still retain their dark angel stuff

Any advice/ideas are welcome


r/Fallen40k 25d ago

Gameplay Which dispositions are you playing?

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Had tons of fun playing reconnaissance with the renegade raiders detachment. Felt actually like playing the fallen since I had to move and run away a lot from my oponent who was playing purge the foe, truly "being hunted" vibes. Might also try other detachments and dispositions to figure out which has the most fallen vibe. Which ones are you guys currently playing?


r/Fallen40k 25d ago

Chaos sorcerer in terminator 5

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r/Fallen40k 29d ago

Models Fallen Angels painted Army

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A year ago i started my CSM army. Took me awhile to figure out the paint scheme, but the process have been very rewarding.

These are the Fallen Angels, followers of the Arch-Betrayer Luther, former Dark Angels.

Zeriah, Zahariel and Astelan run as chaos lords/other characters. Luther is bits from Abaddon and El'Johnson.

The painting formular is a base of brown, with black and metal ontop using spoonges. Weapons and helmets have 3 layers of grey into light blue, to catch attention of the eye. The plasmas and powerswords are just a lot of blending of red-orange-yellow. The whitecloaks i've tried to go for a texture feel, by using lots of small pencil strokes, with rough layers of brown to white.

The renegrade traitors part of the army is posted here: https://www.reddit.com/r/TraitorGuard/comments/1u6cl40/traitors_of_the_wasteland/


r/Fallen40k 29d ago

Chaplain ancient

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r/Fallen40k Jun 15 '26

WiP chaplain

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r/Fallen40k Jun 08 '26

Models Working on Fallen Jump Lords… of course I remembered he had been slated to be the World Claimer in the shower before bed lol

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r/Fallen40k Jun 06 '26

Models Does this read as a Fallen turned Corsair? (WIP)

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I know it’s messy, first attempt at this kind of style (my first army is Necrons)


r/Fallen40k Jun 02 '26

Help me make my first list!

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r/Fallen40k Jun 02 '26

Models Fallen demon prince WIP

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Wanted to make it more “fallen” so I added some angel wings hopefully it looks coolish lol


r/Fallen40k May 30 '26

Models Fallen squad

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I'm not winning any points for originality here but the Corsairs kit is amazing for Fallen and other renegades. These were painted up to add to my Night Lords army as a bodyguard for Cypher.


r/Fallen40k May 30 '26

Models Marbas proxy, C&C welcome

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Hey yall, completed the first model of my Fallen/EC army. Any thoughts on the kitbash/paint job and ways to improve?


r/Fallen40k May 29 '26

Models Fallen Terminators

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Learning to take better photos , grabbed a small assortment of minis I've done over the years.

Here's more polished pics of the Fallen terminators I think I posted a while back.

These guys were painted , then suffered frosting from varnishing , and redone recently brought back to life. Hope you enjoy


r/Fallen40k May 25 '26

Fallen Warp Talons

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Just wanted to share these guys here! Had tons of fun painting them.


r/Fallen40k May 25 '26

Lore Books suggestions

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Have been reading more 40k lore recently as I have been getting back into the hobby after a hiatus. I wanted to read some books on the Fallen as they are one of my favourite “factions” in 40k and I wanted to get a bit more of an understanding on them before I start building some Fallen minis.

Any book recommendations to help me get more of an understanding of their mindset and how the operate? I am aware of ‘Lion, Son of the Forest’, ‘Cypher, Lord of the Fallen’, and ‘Luther, First of the Fallen’. But are there others that do a good job of showing how the Fallen operate? Even if it’s not necessarily Fallen focused, and just a good depiction of Renegade/Chaos.
Thank you all.


r/Fallen40k May 22 '26

Models Vortigern + Serephax mini

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Is there any official art if Vortigern (Vortigan?) The fallen working for Abaddon, I want to have either him or Seraphax for my Fallen armies warlord but I can't find anything official outside if descriptions and was hoping to see if there was anything more to work with


r/Fallen40k May 21 '26

Renegade Warband using just firstborn minis?

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