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So whats the fluff about Cypher? I know he was a DA of what rank ive no clue. and i know that 3rd edition chaos rules he could shoot a plasma pistol and a bolt pistol in the same turn..... or somthing close to that. but other then that i know nothing about him. please fill me in as he seems like a kickass gun slinger, or as someone mentioned in another thread "supposedly the real emperor and is waiting for the gold throne to stop working so he can get his powers back" so reall fluff and possibly more on how someone got THAT idea lol. thanks everyone

so many people have read this and no one has ANY clue about Cypher? no web links or anything? cmon dakka people!

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Main_Page

I go here often for info.

super awesome thanks alot!

Cypher has the following rules,

WS BS S T W I A LD SV
6 6 4 4 3 5 3 10 3+

Wargear:
-Power armour
-Master-Crafted Bolt Pistol
-Master Crafted Plasma Pistol
-C’Tan Phase Knife
-Frag Grenades
-Krak Grenades
-The Nameless Blade

Special Rules:
-Fearless
-Independent Character
-5+ Invulnerable Save

-Master Gun Fighter: Cypher may always choose to fire both of his pistols in every shooting phase and treats them as Assault 2 weapons.

-The Dark Herald: If Cypher is taken in a CSM army one unit of chosen or normal chaos marines may be upgraded to Fallen at +2 pts per model, If a unit is upgraded in this way they automatically become Cypher’s retinue. Fallen are fearless and have the Preferred enemy: Dark Angels Universal Special Rule. If a unit of Chosen is upgraded to Fallen then Cypher may infiltrate with them at a cost of 15pts.

-Enigmatic Protection: If Cypher be reduced to 0 wounds remove him from the board as normal and roll a D6. On a roll of 4+ the opposing player is not awarded any victory points for killing Cypher, this is to represent him being whisked away at the last second by a mysterious power.

-C’Tan Phase Knife: The C’Tan Phase Knife functions as a normal power weapon with the added benefit of allowing Cypher to ignore Invulnerable saves of 5+ or less.
-The Nameless Blade: The Nameless Blade counts as a personal icon and once per game will allow the owning player to re roll a single dice when checking if reserves have become available.

Hope that helps some.

well i already read about his fluff, and his rules didnt help at all, but thanks for posting that

Slite wrote:Cypher has the following rules,

WS BS S T W I A LD SV
6 6 4 4 3 5 3 10 3+

Wargear:
-Power armour
-Master-Crafted Bolt Pistol
-Master Crafted Plasma Pistol
-C’Tan Phase Knife
-Frag Grenades
-Krak Grenades
-The Nameless Blade

Special Rules:
-Fearless
-Independent Character
-5+ Invulnerable Save

-Master Gun Fighter: Cypher may always choose to fire both of his pistols in every shooting phase and treats them as Assault 2 weapons.

-The Dark Herald: If Cypher is taken in a CSM army one unit of chosen or normal chaos marines may be upgraded to Fallen at +2 pts per model, If a unit is upgraded in this way they automatically become Cypher’s retinue. Fallen are fearless and have the Preferred enemy: Dark Angels Universal Special Rule. If a unit of Chosen is upgraded to Fallen then Cypher may infiltrate with them at a cost of 15pts.

-Enigmatic Protection: If Cypher be reduced to 0 wounds remove him from the board as normal and roll a D6. On a roll of 4+ the opposing player is not awarded any victory points for killing Cypher, this is to represent him being whisked away at the last second by a mysterious power.

-C’Tan Phase Knife: The C’Tan Phase Knife functions as a normal power weapon with the added benefit of allowing Cypher to ignore Invulnerable saves of 5+ or less.
-The Nameless Blade: The Nameless Blade counts as a personal icon and once per game will allow the owning player to re roll a single dice when checking if reserves have become available.

Hope that helps some.

do NOT post GW published rules obsolete or otherwise (those are 3rd ed rules) 4th ed ruels came out during the 13th Black Crusade and currently doe snot have 5th ed rules....

ok SGt chill. that was all he had. i too have those rules as i never threw out my old codex. anywho.... stop posting on this thread everyone! i got my answers on the very 2nd post