Description
Terror from the Skies: Chaos Space Marines Raptors
Few battlefield situations are more aggravating for a Heretic Astartes commander than watching an opponent’s indirect artillery or fragile scoring units sit unpunished in the backline behind impassable walls and heavy infantry screens. Walking your infantry across an open tabletop exposes them to turn after turn of lethal crossfire before they can ever bring their chainswords to bear. The Chaos Space Marines Raptors kit provides the definitive answer to stationary gunlines, delivering sudden, ferocious deep-strike assaults exactly where your opponent’s flank is weakest.
Driven by predatory sadism and propelled by scream-jet jump packs, these swift airborne hunters descend directly from orbit to sow panic, eliminate high-value targets, and tie up crucial enemy firing lanes before retreating back into the skies.
Tactical Tabletop Strengths of the Raptors Kit
1. High-Speed Deep Strike Deployment
Equipped with specialized jump packs, Chaos Space Marines Raptors boast unmatched movement and deep strike capability. Instead of slogging through hazardous terrain, your squad can deploy behind enemy lines late in the battle to snatch uncontested secondary objectives, collapse firing arcs, and trigger disruptive morale penalties right as enemy battlelines fracture.
2. Devastating Point-Blank Weapon Loadouts
A squad of Raptors delivers serious tactical punch beyond basic close combat. This kit includes multiple special weapon options—allowing you to outfit your operatives with armor-melting meltaguns, rapid-firing plasma guns, or massed anti-infantry flamers. Combined with power fists, lightning claws, and power swords for the Champion, you can tune your squad into a dedicated vehicle hunter or light-infantry blender.
3. 2-in-1 Dual Build: Raptors or Warp Talons
Maximize your hobby value straight out of the box. The sprues contain all the specialized bitz required to construct your squad as either savage, gun-toting Chaos Space Marines Raptors or as warped, daemon-infused Warp Talons equipped with double lightning claws, horns, and mutated jump packs for unadulterated melee carnage.
Technical Specifications & Kit Contents
- Product Type: Multi-part plastic infantry kit
- Faction: Chaos Space Marines / Heretic Astartes
- Battlefield Role: Fast Attack / Jump Pack Shock Assault
- Total Components: 116 finely detailed plastic parts
- Unit Count: Builds 5 Chaos Space Marines Raptors OR 5 Warp Talons
- Bases Included: 5x Citadel 32mm Round Bases
- Weapon Bit Options Included:
- 5x Bolt pistols and 5x Astartes chainswords
- Up to 2x Plasma guns, 2x Meltaguns, and 2x Flamers
- 1x Plasma pistol
- Champion melee weapons: Power sword, power fist, and paired lightning claws
- Transfers Included: 1x Chaos Space Marine waterslide transfer sheet
- Assembly & Paint: Supplied unpainted and unassembled (plastic glue and acrylic hobby paints recommended)
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I build both Raptors and Warp Talons from a single box?
Each box contains enough legs, torsos, and jump packs to assemble 5 complete models, configured either entirely as Raptors or entirely as Warp Talons. The generous leftover weapons, mutated heads, and claw accessories can be easily kept in your bits box for future Chaos kitbashes.
What is the primary difference in tabletop role between Raptors and Warp Talons?
Raptors are flexible shock infantry armed with ranged special weapons and melee gear, ideal for harassing skirmishers, objective play, and hunting light units. Warp Talons sacrifice ranged weapons entirely in exchange for pairs of armor-shredding lightning claws and supernatural invulnerable saves designed to butcher elite infantry in close quarters.
What base size comes in the current Chaos Raptors box?
This kit comes packaged with standard Citadel 32mm Round Bases, making your squad fully compliant with the latest Warhammer 40,000 tournament base size guidelines.
Silence enemy gunlines and bring death from above. Add the Chaos Space Marines Raptors to your army today and tear your foe’s backfield apart!
