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Good day all,

Just wondering about one of the Tzeentchican dameonic gifts from Codex: Daemons, namely, Soul Devourer.

The rules in the codex state that, "The Daemon can reach into an enemy's body, wrench out its soul and devour it. The Daemons counts as armed with a power weapon. In addition, if a model suffers any unsaved wounds from the Daemon's close combat attacks, it must immediately take a Ld test for each wound suffered. Fail any test and the model suffers instant death."

So my question is, since Soul Devourer stats the daemons 'counts as armed with a power weapon', would it now gain the rules for the various types of power toys? (ie: could SD be a power axe for the +1S & ap2? )

Or would the additional effect make it an unusual power weapon and thus reduce it to simply being ap3 and no other possible bonuses?

Obviously I'm hoping for the former, as I'd love to model a giant flaming ornate halberd on my Herald and have him zoom about on his chariot carving up IC's and multi-wound critters! But I have a sinking feeling that SD should be played as the later, making it still decent, but not stellar.

As it has additional rules (the 'in addition, ...' part), it's an unusual power weapon, and thus AP3.

Edit: typo

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/464905/4568643.page
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/463687/4553696.page
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/462934/4536025.page
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/458405/4468542.page

See this part: "In addition, if a model suffers any unsaved wounds from the Daemon's close combat attacks, it must immediately take a Ld test for each wound suffered. Fail any test and the model suffers instant death."

That is a unique Close combat rule.

That Unique Close Combat rule Makes the Daemon's power weapon "Unusual".

Therefore the attacks are Str as User, AP3, and In addition, if a model suffers any unsaved wounds from the Daemon's close combat attacks, it must immediately take a Ld test for each wound suffered. Fail any test and the model suffers instant death."

It has unique rules making it an unusual power weapon with AP3.

pretre wrote:http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/464905/4568643.page
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/463687/4553696.page
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/462934/4536025.page
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/458405/4468542.page

Looks like this one's been done a few times already?

Please check the above listed threads.

Thanks!