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Part of the text on Grievous Wounds states that damage can not be transferred. Sacrificial Pawn allows Terminus to transfer a direct hit to another model instead, who then suffers all the damage.

Does this count as a damage transfer? Or is allowing the other model to take the hit instead different?

TheJadeTiger wrote:
Does Arcane assassin ignore the ARM boost terminus gets from his feat? Arcane assassin specfically states that ignores overboosting and ARM / DEF boosts from spells. Beign that the effect is from a feat, and it's based on the number of soul tokens on him (not overboosting,) I assume arcane assassin would NOT ignore it?

You are correct.

Arcane Assassin specifically ignores focus points overboosting the targetʼs Power Field and spell effects adding to its ARM or DEF. The boost that Terminus gets from its feat doesn't fall on any of those categories, so it can't be ignored by Arcane Assassin.

Thank you! I actually edited the thread, because the more I thought about it, the more I thought I was right. (And I had a second Terminus related question!)

Sorry I didn't catch it before you replied

TheJadeTiger wrote:
Part of the text on Grievous Wounds states that damage can not be transferred. Sacrificial Pawn allows Terminus to transfer a direct hit to another model instead, who then suffers all the damage.

Does this count as a damage transfer? Or is allowing the other model to take the hit instead different?

Grievous Wounds prevents you from transferring Damage, Sacrificial Pawn transfers the hit, not the damage so Grievous Wounds can't prevent it.

"Transfer" is a specific game term for models with Fury Manipulation to spend fury to transfer it to warbeasts. Being hit wiht a Grevious Wound attack would prevent a model from being able to do this.

Sacrificial Pawn makes another model directly hit instead of Terminous. Rather transfer, note it simply says to pick a model in range and it is hit instead. Nothing is transferred in game term sense. The rule itself never even uses the word "transfer" in it and it acts outside of the game keyword "transfer" in this case.

And stuff.

Whilst we're here, how does it interact with Rask's call to sacrifice? I want to say no, but as it's not transferring as defined by the game I'm not so sure.

The CTS text says:

Call to sacrifice (Bog Trog).
If this model is disabled by an enemy attack, you can choose a non-disabled trooper model of the type indicated in its command range to be destroyed. If another model is destroyed as a result of CTS, this model heals one damage point.

 Grimtuff wrote:
Whilst we're here, how does it interact with Rask's call to sacrifice? I want to say no, but as it's not transferring as defined by the game I'm not so sure.

The CTS text says:

Call to sacrifice (Bog Trog).
If this model is disabled by an enemy attack, you can choose a non-disabled trooper model of the type indicated in its command range to be destroyed. If another model is destroyed as a result of CTS, this model heals one damage point.

Never mentions transfer at all, it just says choose someone else to be destroyed, then heal 1 so that you aren't back into the disabled condition

Grevious wounds also says "cannot heal or be healed" though, so you could call to sacrifice, but you wouldn't heal I guess? So yeah it doesn't stop you killing off a nearby bog trog, but then you don't heal your 1 and are disabled anyway and die...right?

Correct Motyak, Grievous Wound does stop CTS

 motyak wrote:
Grevious wounds also says "cannot heal or be healed" though, so you could call to sacrifice, but you wouldn't heal I guess? So yeah it doesn't stop you killing off a nearby bog trog, but then you don't heal your 1 and are disabled anyway and die...right?

Yep, you are correct.