Khornate Berzerker Shaman

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**Canonness Rory**

It greatly disappoints me that, while khornate armies cannot have psykers, they don't get anything special to make up for this. A friend of mine recently modeled a shamanistic looking chaos lord, with marks of khorne and whatnot. This inspired me to write some homebrew rules for him (as this is what my gaming group seems to be doing now)
ENOUGH STALLING!

Not all psychically gifted individuals find themselves lusting after the life of the chaos sorceror. Some, despite their gifts, wish to dedicate their existance to the lord of slaughter. The most gifted of these become berzerker shamans, leading a pack of berzerkers from the front, their minds filled with violence, from the direct connection to their lord and master, Khorne.

Khornate Berzerker Shaman
125 points
WS7 BS5 S4 T4 W3 A3(5) I5 Ld10 Sv3+

Wargear:
Mark of Khorne (bonus already included in profile)
Khornate Force Weapon
Bolt Pistol (bonus for two CCWs already included in profile)

Special Rules:
Fearless
Independent character
Khornate Warpspace

Khornate Warpspace:
All perils of the warp results suffered by a berzerker shaman kill the psyker instead of causing a wound, with no saves allowed. If he is attached to a unit, the unit suffers 1d6 wounds, with armor saves allowed. If the power succeeded, it is still in effect however.

Khornate Force Weapon
A khornate force weapon is a power weapon. Upon causing a successful wound (after save) the user may take a psychic test, if passed, the user may make an additional attack. If the test is failed however, the user take a single wound with no saves allowed.

Powers:
A Berzerker Shaman may take any powers from the following list
Warptime (as codex)
Hatred: Taken at the beginning of the assault phase, Shaman and any unit he is attached to gain the "furious charge" special rule. - 10 points
Flames of Rage: taken during the shooting phase, if successful, nominate one enemy unit within 6" of the berserker shaman. That unit takes 1d6 wounds, with armor saves allowed. - 10 points
Suicidal rage: no psychic test needed, if you use this power, remove the shaman from play, treated as a casualty. One model in base contact with the Shaman recieves a S10 AP1 hit. - 25 points.

Options:
As Sorcerer from CSM codex, without marks or psychic powers.

Whaddyathink? I tried to go for the "suicidal warp powers" angle, in that he would be more powerful than other models at his points level, but also has almost no chance of making it to endgame.

**Orkeosaurus**

Hmm, I don't know.

I always thought Khorne deserved a sorcerer equivalent, but I always imagined it as being more like a Chaplain. Still a supporting character, but dealing with inspiration of Khornate traits more than warp manipulation. I guess Hatred does fit in with that.

Having higher WS than a Chaos Lord seems odd too, and I think Chaos Sorcerers start out with 3 attacks base (in which case he should probably have one more).

**Cheese Elemental**

No. No, no, no. Khorne doesn't hate Sorcerers, he hates psykers. If it were his choice, psykers wouldn't exist.

A better option would be some kind of Khornate Priest who can bring the wrath of his god to the material universe without the use of psychic abilities.

**Orkeosaurus**

Khorne sees pyskery as being cowardly, mostly. He's obviously not opposed to all warp intervention in the material universe, as he does send his daemons and mutations to his followers. That's all very blunt, though. Bloodletters come down and chop you up, they don't "change the fabric of reality" or any of that Tzeentchian crap.

**Canonness Rory**

Orkesaurus > All

Automatically Appended Next Post:

Cheese Elemental wrote:No. No, no, no. Khorne doesn't hate Sorcerers, he hates psykers. If it were his choice, psykers wouldn't exist.

A better option would be some kind of Khornate Priest who can bring the wrath of his god to the material universe without the use of psychic abilities.

Then it is altogether fit that a khornate psyker would die horribly in short order, isn't it?

**Zid**

Love the idea

And his powers are pretty rad

**thekidwiththecokeprob**

just make his base attacks at least 3 to be equal to a regular sorcerer and this is perfect!

**Madgod**

Yeah I gotta say, Khorne HATES psykers fullstop so anyone dedicated to him is dead already. Also the Furious Charge power seems superflous as any self-respecting Khorne army will spam Zerkers anyway and they have Furious Charge already. Maybe cut the psyker stuff, and make him more like a Chaplain with like an aura that gives extra attacks or I or WS in an area or something. Instead of a psyker he is just "Chanelling the Rage of Khorne to his followers". A psyker for Khorne is kinda a No-No.

**grimz**

Over at www.throneofskulls.com the idea of a "Blood Priest" has been thrown around similar to this.

But I agree, apocalypse blood thirsters can cause blood rage or something in enemies surely there would be some unit that can do something similar or have particular powers.

**Blood4Khorne**

Canonness Rory wrote:It greatly disappoints me that, while khornate armies cannot have psykers, they don't get anything special to make up for this. A friend of mine recently modeled a shamanistic looking chaos lord, with marks of khorne and whatnot. This inspired me to write some homebrew rules for him (as this is what my gaming group seems to be doing now)
ENOUGH STALLING!

Not all psychically gifted individuals find themselves lusting after the life of the chaos sorceror. Some, despite their gifts, wish to dedicate their existance to the lord of slaughter. The most gifted of these become berzerker shamans, leading a pack of berzerkers from the front, their minds filled with violence, from the direct connection to their lord and master, Khorne.

Khornate Berzerker Shaman
125 points
WS7 BS5 S4 T4 W3 A3(5) I5 Ld10 Sv3+

Wargear:
Mark of Khorne (bonus already included in profile)
Khornate Force Weapon
Bolt Pistol (bonus for two CCWs already included in profile)

Special Rules:
Fearless
Independent character
Khornate Warpspace

Khornate Warpspace:
All perils of the warp results suffered by a berzerker shaman kill the psyker instead of causing a wound, with no saves allowed. If he is attached to a unit, the unit suffers 1d6 wounds, with armor saves allowed. If the power succeeded, it is still in effect however.

Khornate Force Weapon
A khornate force weapon is a power weapon. Upon causing a successful wound (after save) the user may take a psychic test, if passed, the user may make an additional attack. If the test is failed however, the user take a single wound with no saves allowed.

Powers:
A Berzerker Shaman may take any powers from the following list
Warptime (as codex)
Hatred: Taken at the beginning of the assault phase, Shaman and any unit he is attached to gain the "furious charge" special rule. - 10 points
Flames of Rage: taken during the shooting phase, if successful, nominate one enemy unit within 6" of the berserker shaman. That unit takes 1d6 wounds, with armor saves allowed. - 10 points
Suicidal rage: no psychic test needed, if you use this power, remove the shaman from play, treated as a casualty. One model in base contact with the Shaman recieves a S10 AP1 hit. - 25 points.

Options:
As Sorcerer from CSM codex, without marks or psychic powers.

Whaddyathink? I tried to go for the "suicidal warp powers" angle, in that he would be more powerful than other models at his points level, but also has almost no chance of making it to endgame.

I would use more table example PSM for 6 powers.

Bloody insanity- The Shaman rolls a d6 to select a power from the Blood Scroll used at the begginning of each player turn.

Blood Scroll- 1. Unfullfilled bloodlust- Attack as normal on allies.
2. Furious Charge- Inspired by bloodlust you, (and your squad) have furious charge.
3. Blood Soaked Earth- +1 Attack.
4. Blood Drunk- May give Fleet to any squad 18" from Shaman, but suffer -1 to their leadership.
5. Distilled Hunger- May reroll to hit and wound. Ones may not be rerolled.
6. Blood For Khorne!- Everyone within 24" of the shaman Have fleet and are fearless.
quick list... idk what works for you.

**Quintinus**

Khorne made up for it with Daemonic machinations, such as the Blood Slaughterer. And ridiculously good Daemons like the Bloodthirster. And really good combat troops.

Of course, all that's gone now.