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Can a unit only be affected by one singular instance of soul blaze? or can they stack up? For instance, by one way or another, a unit has 5 stacks of soul blaze on them, and then they roll to see for each instance if the flames die out, or if they take the d3 s4 ap5 hits for that particular instance? I ask because the new CSM warlord trait that gives all melee weapons the lord AND HIS UNIT have would be really good if soulblaze stacks, but lackluster otherwise. Thankyou for clarification

It's explained clearly in the rule (forget the page number off hand) that a unit can only be affected by a single instance of soul blaze.

It is beyond lackluster.
you can have only one token and therefore soulblaze is worse than 1 bolter...

The 'Soulblaze' USR can be found on page 42 of your 6th edition rulebook. And i agree, as is it is pretty lack-luster.

Does being lit on fire while being on fire hurt more? I dunno, but GW says no.

Light a man a fire and he'll be warm the rest of the night.
Light a man on fire and he'll be warm the rest of his life.

I'd expect that you can set as many people on fire as there are to ignite. Rules say otherwise.

Perhaps a 3+ test or something for burning more people would be better (cause Lobukia is right, the same guy being on fire "twice" doesn't really do anything).

OMG, I'M ON FIRE! OMG, I'M ON FIRE AGAIN!!!

Nope, it doesn't stack.

I fail to see how it's "lackluster". In the first game I had against the new chaos codex, one of my 20 man guard blobs was "soulblazed", and stayed that way for 3 rounds. That entire unit was annihilated by one application of Soulblaze without anything else shooting at it.

 SgtSixkilla wrote:
I fail to see how it's "lackluster". In the first game I had against the new chaos codex, one of my 20 man guard blobs was "soulblazed", and stayed that way for 3 rounds. That entire unit was annihilated by one application of Soulblaze without anything else shooting at it.

That is because your opponent got lucky on the rolls to keep the soulblaze going, and must have racked up a lot of hits on the unit.

At 1D3 hits per turn it really is lackluster.

Even at maximum Kills, thats only 9 casualities over 3 turns. Regular shooting will do more damage then that.

The only time I see it really doing anything is maybe knock off the last couple guys on a unit.

it's alright, it's just not good enough. Should be at least 1 round of hit, then at the end of the shooting phase or something you see if it continues and then i would say that is might be playable.

Perhaps it could be more powerful. Maybe D6 instead of D3.

 grendel083 wrote:
Light a man a fire and he'll be warm the rest of the night.
Light a man on fire and he'll be warm the rest of his life.

Awesome!, well it's horrible, but you know what I mean.

 DeathReaper wrote:

 SgtSixkilla wrote:
I fail to see how it's "lackluster". In the first game I had against the new chaos codex, one of my 20 man guard blobs was "soulblazed", and stayed that way for 3 rounds. That entire unit was annihilated by one application of Soulblaze without anything else shooting at it.

That is because your opponent got lucky on the rolls to keep the soulblaze going, and must have racked up a lot of hits on the unit.

At 1D3 hits per turn it really is lackluster.

Seriously? Mother Effer! This was a tournament and this guy claimed it was 1d6 models. I assumed he'd have read up on the rules that pertained to his army so I didn't question it. I thought I had no reason to. Guess I was wrong.


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 Grey Templar wrote:
Perhaps it could be more powerful. Maybe D6 instead of D3.

If it was a greater chance that the power ended, I'd agree with you. As is, d6 is too powerful.

Or you should have to take a morale check (maybe with a modifier based on # of times hit with soul blaze)? What's more morale-testing than being lit on fire?

Yeah they really took the piss out if this rule before they ever released it.

Letting it stack still wouldnt make it good.