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If you have a knight there's a couple of character profiles that may stand up to magnus and the like.

Id personally take cawl but against magnus theres no hope.

1 in 10 times draigo will get lucky, me may do okay.

there's the named imperial knight.

Its rules are on the community site somewhere.

But don't actually that's complete TFG behavior

Chapter master smash fether, he out CCs his own primarch.

 Kap'n Krump wrote:

 commander dante wrote:
I have decided to Take Ahriman on a Disk Rolling on Telepathy for Triple Cast Psychic Shriek (and as it has no roll to hit, COULD counter someone Bringing Magnus/a Flyrant)

Hes gonna be part of a Thousand Sons army for the +1 invun if he casts a blessing

For one thing - can you give ahirman a disk? I thought his base statline was on foot. I'm honestly not 100% on this.

Second, things that don't roll to hit cannot be fired at swooping FMCs - the only exception is nova witchfires. So, no psychic shriek would have no effect on a swooping magnus.

And, again, I think ahriman's base invlun is 4+, and with the 1k sons trait about blessings, that's still just a 3++. You need a grimoire of true names and a demon, or something else that boosts invluns to get down to a 2++ (and 1+ invlun isn't a thing).

But overall, yeah, if you remove instant death from the game and allow monstrous creatures with no points restriction, it's going to just be magnus steamrolling everything else that's not also a magnus.

My local club tried something like this, and it was actually pretty fun, but it was with infantry models only, and a points limit of ~200 points or so. And there were little buff tokens littered around that restored wounds, gave bonus attacks, WS, FNP, etc, and when you killed someone you got their tokens. It was a fun idea.

Ahriman can now take a disk in Wrath of Magnus/ Traitor Legions

Psychic Shriek hits automatically due to an FaQ

if it's not for another 2 weeks... Gulliman

BrianDavion wrote:
if it's not for another 2 weeks... Gulliman

Nah its tomorrow (the 4th)

It could go a few ways. No one knows till dice and models hit the table.

Maybe the magni/fate weavers etc might manage to tarpit each other, fighting the biggest threats, aka each other. and leave the smaller charecters to duke ot out on the ground.

Take Kharn and a blowtorch.
Before anyone begins, burn the 6 Magnus (Magnuses? Magnii?), Draigos and SmashFethers. When confronted scream BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, punch the nearest player, throw a chair through the window and charge into the street.

PourSpelur wrote:
Take Kharn and a blowtorch.
Before anyone begins, burn the 6 Magnus (Magnuses? Magnii?), Draigos and SmashFethers. When confronted scream BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, punch the nearest player, throw a chair through the window and charge into the street.

This. This is the most reasonable answer yet.
Also why we can't have nice things...

I like the Ahriman idea, his biggest problem is he is overcosted and doesn't have a spell familiar. The rules for this get rid of the cost downside. Another choice is a Seer's Bane exalted on a disc because he can beat down in melee and cast spells/run away.

The true winners are of course Magnus, Tzeentch Daemon Lord, and my personal favorite, the 3+ invuln Lord of Change.

Side note: Grayfax denies on a 3+ against Magnus, but does not count as a higher level when casting herself so Magnus still denies as good as he always does.

PourSpelur wrote:
Take Kharn and a blowtorch.
Before anyone begins, burn the 6 Magnus (Magnuses? Magnii?), Draigos and SmashFethers. When confronted scream BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, punch the nearest player, throw a chair through the window and charge into the street.

You, sir, just made my week.
That is the greatest group of sentences I will probably ever read.

Forgeworld allowed? Well good Sir, I give you IA:13 and Aetos'Rau'Keres.

If the dice favour you you are looking at Str D pie plates everywhere.

Failing that, Kharn the Betrayer. Negates his lack of Eternal Warrior.

Oh, or Severin Loth.

https://1d4chan.org/wiki/
Look up Chapter Master Smash Fether.
With a different F word instead of Feth.

Take 30k Magnus. Mind Wrath, Cleansing Flame. 18" Nova, of 2d6 hits each at AP4, with strength ranging from 7 to D. (And an average result? Nets you the D!)

Can we get a post battle post ?

Who won and how many Magnus etc?
Curiosity has been tingled.

Hoping for a report!

Did anyone bring Culexus assassin to say hello to Tzeentch madness?

Unfortunately, OP took some bad advice, brought Kharn and forged some serious narrative.
Good news is the fires are now contained and, with good behavior, he'll be out in 10-12.

Sadly no Magnuses (Magni?) Were Present
The Chracters were...
Ahriman (me)
Chapter Master with Burning Blade (Ultramarines Chapter Tactics)
Cato Sicarius
Yarrick
Tau Commander
Dante
Khorne lord on Juggernaut
Cultist Champion (Theres always one...)
Avatar of Ynnead
Dark Angels Company Commander
Archmagos Drakayvik (Despite the Store Manager said no 30k...)

I rolled on Ectomancy? And got the 3+ Invun power, Flaming Fists and Elecrodisplacement
I swapped out Flaming fists for the Primaris (Curse you Marks of Chaos!)


Yarrick got first blood by killing the Cultist (because the Yarrick player is a Scrub)
Khorne Lord went for Drakayvik
Dante jumped over to the Dark Angel
Cato and Chapter Master Ganged up on me
I got the 3+ Invun off so i got a 2++ due to Thousand Sons rules
Avatar moves towards me
Avatar Charged by Yarrick (WHO TANKS THE AVATARS HITS)
Yarrick Misses
Archmagos Charged by Khorne Lord (who kills the archmagos in 2 turns)
Khorne Lord turns into spawn via Champion of Chaos (no model, so removed from play)
Im Tanking hits by both the Chapter Master and Cato

3+ Invun gets denied turn 2, fail to get Electrodisplacement off
Put on 1 Wound by Cato and Chapter Master
Avatar Wounds Yarrick (who in turn wounds the Avatar)
(As said before) Khorne Lord kills Archmagos, turns into spawn
Dante stuck in combat with Dark Angel
Tau Commander just runs around the board doing nothing

Panicking, i Electrodisplace myself with the Avatar
Yarrick Misses me, i wound him once
Avatar gets killed by Cato and Chapter Master tag team (who then have to kill each other due to being within 1" of each other)
Dante Kills the Dark Angel (who wounds dante), and Heads towards the Tau Commander

I pass my 3+ Invun Power
I tank Yarricks Hits
Tau Commander is killed by Dante (who wounds him in overwatch)
Cato Put on 1 Wound by Chapter Master
I kill Yarrick and get Hatred on Chaos Boon


Dante Heads towards the Ultramarines
Chapter Master kills Cato
I perils and kill myself trying to cast 3+ invun (Curse you 3 on Perils Table!)
Yarrick Gets back up on 1 wound
Yarrick killed by Chapter Masters Plasma Pistol
Dante Fails Charge on Chapter Master (but wounds him with inferno pistol)

Yarrick fails to get up, and is slain
Dnate shot by Chapter Master, who fails his save

Chapter Master wins the Game!
(I came 4th)

You should have brought that character imperial knight.

So was this thing just characters as opposed to HQs?

NivlacSupreme wrote:
You should have brought that character imperial knight.

So was this thing just characters as opposed to HQs?

It was "Bring your Favourite 40k Character" with no restrictions on Independent Characters
So Smashfether could be your "Favourite" 40k character

Thanks for this dude, quite the fun thread to go through. Gotta say I was rooting for Yarrick and loved how he stubbornley stayed in it so long vs Avatars, Ahriman and other nasties.
exalted.

I was expecting magni...smash fether and others.

That's quite refreshing and far more cool.

Well that sounds pretty awesome. Poor form to the guy who killed off the Cultist champion at the start!

So if you wanted you could bring a sergeant?

NivlacSupreme wrote:
So if you wanted you could bring a sergeant?

Yep
Hence why one guy took a Cultist Champion

Thank you for the battle report.

A little surprised no one mentioned the Riptide character from farsight's seven BFFs