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Abadabadoobaddon wrote:Aren't the gods big sentient warpstorms? How does a warpstorm test diseases on another warpstorm?

The Realm of Chaos is also the realm of metaphor. Is Khorne a storm? Is he a big guy sitting on a throne? Is he a stylized skull symbol? Chaos, by its very nature, defies Form. Meditate upon this and, if you hear something scratching at your brain, let it in.

Abadabadoobaddon wrote:What's a skarbrand?

Special character HQ choice in the new books. Wingless and everyone --friend and foe !-- gets to reroll missed melee attacks if they're in 24".


Meanwhile : britspeak preview

fantasy one

New bloodletters are looking ... awkward. And I grudgingly admit that the new demonettes are not all that bad, especially for $2.20 plastic models. Still not happy about the anti-boob going on though

Any idea what the special heralds do in fantasy? I know the Masque is a 90 point "always taken" character ala the JSOD, but otherwise have heard nothing.

- Salvage

The following is swiped, but seems more or less accurate

Tallyman Epidemius (Herald of Nurgle)
- Mounted on a Palanquin of Nurgle
-- Mv4 Ws5 Bs0 S5 T6 W2 In3 At3 Ld8
- Regenerates
- Poisoned attacks
- Gives a bonus for the amount of models (wounded/killed?) by Nurgle models in the army.
-0-7- nothing
8-15- Poison works on 4+ for the army rather than only 6’s
16-22- All Lore of Nurgle spells gain +2 to cast
- 23-28- Epidemus gains regenerate on 3+
-29+ Lore of Nurgle spells gain an additional +3 to cast.
- Costs less than 150 points.

The Masque (Herald of Slaanesh)
- Mv10 Ws7 Bs0 S4 T3 W2 In7 At5 Ld8
- Armour piercing
- May not join units
- 3+ ward save
- 3 human arms and a big claw arm. Wields a staff with a mask at either end and changes it's personality depending on who it chooses to be.
- Eternal Dance: At the start of the magic phase choose a dance to perform. They target a single enemy unit which may be in combat and have a 12” range.
- Dance of Dreaming: Target reduces Ld by D3, lasts until the end of the units player turn.
- Chanson of Caging: Target reduces its Mv by D3, lasts until the end of the units player turn.

Skulltaker (Herald of Khorne)
- Character-killer
- Must challenge if able to
- Has deadlier form of Killing Blow (on a 5+ to wound in challenges and works regardless of Unit Strength of the victim)
-Flaming attacks
- hates everyone

The Bluescribes (Herald of Tzeentch)
- 81 points
- Two Horrors riding a Disk of Tzeentch, on a mission to recover some lost artefact
- Adds a single power dice to the army pool for every spell the enemy casts.
- Each turn choose one of the 8 lores of magic and randomly select a spell from it. They will cast this spell as a bound spell, power lvl is its basic casting value.

More or less right I think. Note that the special heralds above seemingly don't literally count as herlads or provide the normal bonuses a generic herald does.

Thanks Red! And yep, impressed. All are cool and pretty damned cheap for what they do. Skulltaker has my ogres sweating, Masque I expect to see continually, Bluescribes are certainly neat and Epidemius I wouldn't mind running in my hypothetical nurgle legion when it finds plastics to make it happen :S

- Salvage

Skulltaker comes into his own in 40k. There he rends on a 4+, and all his rending hits inflict Instant Death !

Other dirty combos seem to me to be the Tallyman and Nurglings. As soon as the rest of the Nurgle marked units get some kills in he'll boost the nurglings to ridiculous levels of power and as they are demons they can't be ID'ed either. They movre from tarpit to "the awezome+100" quite quickly.