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Most things I read about the Great Unclean One seem to recommend taking two greater gifts. Whilst these are good, most add survivability to an already tough unit. I've been wondering about the Exalted gifts, and in particular the Gloryseeker sword. This adds +1 to St and D3 to WS, I and Attacks (and doesn't rely on a psych test) which seems complement the GUOs statline quite well, giving boosts to the key stats which it's relatively low in. Is there any reason people aren't taking this - is there some special rule or something I've missed, as it seems pretty good to me.

On a less likely, but comedy note, a GUO which maxes out its rolls on Iron Arm, Warp Speed and Gloryseeker would have a crazy statline, and be putting out something like 12 attacks on the charge and having most of it's other stats in the 8-10 range.

The gloryseeker sword looks pretty darn cool. Ill try one major and the gloryseeker next game and let you know how it works out.

Look forward to hearing how it gets on - I'm still working on getting my demons painted up so will be a week or two before I can try it.

I used to take 2 Greater Rewards, but the GUO with 3 Biomancy Powers doesn't need any more help staying alive.

Now I take 1 Greater Reward and 1 Exalted Reward. The result is much better, a lot of the Exalted Rewards add far more depth to him and most of them add a new utility to the entire army.

Failing that the Hellforged Artifacts are all awesome in their own right too.

And like you say, the GUO benefits the most from The Eternal Blade, since his WS and I are lower than the other Greater Daemons and the Daemon Prince.