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Hello everyone!

This is my idea for a homebrew chaos character who is a Khornate Alpha legion lord.
Please tell me what you think, good, bad, great or aweful, all feedback is cool with me






Artemis Deathsyph has lived a very long and deadly life. He was a captain of the dreaded Alpha legion, who was always more blood-thirsty than his more subtle kin, and eventually turned towards Khorne. Artemis was one of the last Alpha legion to turn renegade, and only turned to Khorne and chaos after butchering hundreds of his corrupted kin. Although he has long since turned to Khorne, he still possesses all of the skills of disguise and subterfuge he knew whilst in the Alpha legion. In recent centuries, Artemis has become a mercenary, aiding various renegade warbands around the galaxy in return for riches, slaves, soldiers, technology. Whatever he sees fit.

Artemis Deathsyph 140 pts


Ws: 5 BS: 5 s: 4 t: 4 w: 3 i: 5 a:4 LD: 10 sv: 3+

Artemis is an elite choice for a chaos space marine army, as he chooses to let others command the army while he makes the decisions in the background.
Unit type: infantry.

Weapons and wargear: power armour, frag and krag grenades, Gorebolt (Master-crafted bolt pistol).

Bloodhunter: This chainaxe is an ancient weapon from the time of the heresy. It is adept at tearing its foes limb from limb. Artemis’ attacks in close combat count as rending and are made at strength 6.


SPECIAL RULES: independent character.

Master of disguise: Artemis has served the Alpha legion for several millennia, and has learnt much from his time serving with them. Artemis has the infiltrate, counter attack and fleet special rules.

UNHOLY INSPIRATION: Due to his incredibly long time as a traitor lord, Artemis commands great respect amongst his fellow renegades, and they become infused with incredible power and rage when he is nearby. All friendly units within 6” of Artemis can reroll all failed rolls to hit on a player turn in which they assault.




What do you think?

Anything at all?

Maybe 140 points-ish. I like it, very nice and flavourful abilities.

Ah, cheers, good to know someone likes it!

(point cost adjusted)

Despite the unusual combination of Khorne and Alpha Legion, I think you make this guy believable at least fluff-wise. He seems fair within the rules, although personally I would like to see some more Alpha Legion-y touches. I like Fleet and Infiltrate, but feel like maybe he could have some special ability where he can cause the enemy to join him and turn on their comrades. Similar to his Unholy Inspiration rule, but it affects enemies with, say, Ld 6 and below within 6" on the roll of a 4+. They instantly join Artemis and fight alongside him instead. IDK just some ideas. Anyway nice character as always!

It looks pretty good. I like how the stats accurately represents the fluff you have for him. If you try this guy out in a game, let us know how it goes!

Cheers, good to know you like it!

I will be testing it soon.

I'd play against it.

Is he supposed to be an Independent Character?

Oh yeh, forgot to add that. Editing.

DarknessEternal wrote:I'd play against it.

I think this is the first character where Darkness has not had any critique or criticism, and directly said he would play against it that I have ever seen.

Lord Magnus wrote:

DarknessEternal wrote:I'd play against it.

I think this is the first character where Darkness has not had any critique or criticism, and directly said he would play against it that I have ever seen.

Really, its that good?

Nah. I try to always offer a few words for reasonable custom things. Balanced and reasonable things are so few and far between on this board that they deserve commendation when they occur.

This is the kind of special character people should be making. It fits right into the current power scheme of the game without disruption, but is still unique enough that you will know it's been present in a game.