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Reading through the DA codex, and really enjoying the idea of 'smite mode' for Deathwing Knights. Essentially it's an activate-able, fluffy buff for one single use. This made me think that a change to Death Masks would support the BA fluff, and essentially give SG a big one-turn buff without breaking them.

Current rules:
A unit charged by a model wearing a death mask must take a leadership test, or be reduced to WS 1 for the remainder of the assault phase.

Problems:
It's an expensive option designed to allow the SG to handle hordes in CC. However, if you're charging a bunch of boyz hoping the masks will whittle them down, then you're going to eat a lot of attacks in the next round. Sanguinary Guard don't have enough attacks anyway, so it's really a moot point. Against high leadership units it's largely ineffective.

Proposed change:
"The Sanguinary guard may activate their death masks during one assault phase in a battle. An energy field disorients the target, leaving them open to attack. A model wearing a death mask gets +1 A for the phase, and the target unit is reduced to initiative 1."

Difference: It allows the opponent to swing back at normal WS, but mitigates the change to furious charge, and lets the SG deal with high initiative armies. It's a one-off use, which allows a 5 man SG squad to strike with 20 attacks on the charge, at essentially I10 -- but for only one round. After that the masks are useless.

Keep the cost the same, make it an expensive buff. I think a one-off improvement is better than the potential of several mediocre ones.

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