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I'll be running several cultist units for a fluffy campaign game I'm playing at my local store (represents the populace turning to chaos).

Is there anything in all chaos forces (forge world also) that projects a fearless or stubborn bubble to buff low ld units?

All I can think of is a dark apostle. Is LD 10 the best we have? Seems like the Imperium gets a bunch of these types of things.

I think cypher does something along those lines. But other than sticking lords in there for fearless or psychic powers....I can't think of anything chaos has.

IA13 has a legacy vehicle buff that makes cultists nearby fearless.

Intercessor wrote:
IA13 has a legacy vehicle buff that makes cultists nearby fearless.

Flipping through the book, I can see the blasphemous icon that is on the Renegade baneblades but I can't see any upgrades that grant fearless. Maybe I missed it?


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Also, I looked up cypher. He doesn't do it unfortunately.

The generic Lord gives his unit fearless and the Dark Apostle does this and let units use his ld10 iirc (or a reroll, one or the other). So the DA would be what you look for and is even intended to buff Cultists but he is not that killy in CC like our other HQs.

Dark apostles allow cultists to use his LD10.

Budzerker wrote:

Intercessor wrote:
IA13 has a legacy vehicle buff that makes cultists nearby fearless.

Flipping through the book, I can see the blasphemous icon that is on the Renegade baneblades but I can't see any upgrades that grant fearless. Maybe I missed it?


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Also, I looked up cypher. He doesn't do it unfortunately.

Read the legacy of ruin section.
Look at the rules for Fourth Quadrant Rebellion.

Helbrute formation makes them regardless

as konrax mentioned, the helbrute data slate has a formation called the Helcult that lets you take two blobs of cultists and one helbrute. makes them fearless while the brute is alive (regardless of distance between units) and gives them zealot if the helbrute dies.

I run two ML3 Sorcerers and roll Telepathy. Mental Fortitude is great for making those cultist meat bags fearless for a turn, hold a tough objective to the last man, or tarpit elite Shooty or cc units.

You might want to consider to add the legacy of ruin to something like a fire raptor.it will cover quite a large area. Or one of the newly (or very soon to be) released chaos knights. The cultists wouldn't be blocking their LoS and they add quite a bit of fire power and are rather imposing models that would make sense to improve morale when fighting along side one.

Not sure if this is helpful to you, but Typhus can turn them into zombies. which buffs them too.

How does one get a copy of that Helbrute thingy?

you can get it from black library here: http://www.blacklibrary.com/games-workshop-digital-editions/Dataslate-Helbrutes.html

there's probably also a link on the main GW site somewhere, as well.