Bone Shrine

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Bone Shrine Minion Solo

Bone shrines dotting the perimeter of gatorman territories serve as both places of worship and warnings against interlopers. Covered in votive candles and the skulls of dead offerings to the gods Kossk and Barnabas, the Lord of Blood, bone shrines are places of dark occult power.

Basic Info

Bone Shrine
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Minion - Works for Circle, Legion, Skorne, and Trollbloods

Abilities

• Construct
• Channeler [Friendly Faction warlock] - While this model is in a friendly Faction warlock's control range, the warlock can channel spells through this model.
• Circular Vision - Models never gain a back strike bonus against this model.
• Distant Deployment - This model can be placed at the same time as your models with Advance Deployment, up to 12" beyond your deployment zone.
• Immobile - This model has no Normal Movement or Combat Action, cannot become knocked down or be moved, and is automatically hit by melee attacks.
• Spirit Nexus - (1) This model begins the game with 1 fury point. During your Control Phase, this model receives 1 fury point if it does not have any. This model cannot have more than 1 fury point at any time. (2) During friendly Faction warlock's activation, it can remove 1 fury point from this model in its control range and gain that fury point. Each warlock can do this only once per turn. (3) When a warlock removes a fury point from this model, roll a d6. On a 1 or a 2, the spirits become angry and curse the warlock. A cursed warlock suffers -1 DEF and ARM for one round.

Weapons

• Unarmed - This model has no weapons.

Theme Forces

• Minions
  • The Blindwater Congregation
  • Will Work for Food

• Other Factions
  • As a minion model, it can be hired by other Factions theme forces under the "Up to one Minion solo" clause. See #Other Theme Forces.

  There's very little point, though, given the Minion-only limitations of Channeler and Spirit Nexus.

Recent Changes

2021. 10 (Rebalancepocalypse): -1 point

Thoughts on Bone Shrine

Bone Shrine in a nutshell

It's a support solo that helps fuel your warlock. It's cheap - and and a great use of a spare point, but being so cheap there's little complex about it.

The -1 def and armour is of course the key risk with the Bone Shrine, most minion warlocks have the stats to justify using this each turn.

Combos & Synergies

• Any minion warlock. Especially any that wants to hang back.
• Any that has friendly buffs. The channeling isn't going to help much against most enemies, but does let you buff your own models much more easily

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Despite working for various factions, no one except Minions wants it because Channeler & Spirit Nexus only works for Minion warlocks.
• It does not work with lesser warlocks like Wrong Eye or Dahlia and the Will Work for Food theme is all about that with Rask and friends.

Tricks & Tips

• Deploy it on a flag so it can score it.

Other

Trivia

Released in the Blindwater CID (2017.09)

Other Theme Forces

Circle Orboros (Edit)

• Secret Masters. This theme doesn't have a limit on how many Minion solos you can take. Also, you can spend Requistion Points on Minion solos.
• The Bones of Orboros
• The Devourer's Host
• The Wild Hunt

Legion of Everblight (Edit)

• Ravens of War
• Children of the Dragon
• Oracles of Annihilation. In this theme (1) There is no limit on the number of Minion solos you can take, (2) Minions become Blighted models, and (3) enemy models that end their activation within 2" of a Blighted model in this theme suffer continuous corrosion.
• Primal Terrors

Skorne (Edit)

• Disciples of Agony. There is no limit to the number of Minion solos you can take in this theme.
• The Exalted
• Masters of War
• Winds of Death

Trollbloods (Edit)

• Band of Heroes
• Kriel Company
• Power of Dhunia
• Storm of the North

Rules Clarifications

Rules Clarification : Unarmed      (Edit) Since this model has no weapons it does not have a melee range. This means it can't engage other models, declare charges, or make free strikes Also it can't gain abilities that require a melee range (such as Ragman granting this model Dark Shroud). However, other models that do have melee weapons can engage this model. So this model can still gain the "target in melee" shooting bonus.

Rules Clarification : Construct - None yet. (Edit)

Rules Clarification : Channeler  and/or Arc Node     (Edit) General It is possible to channel a spell with a range of CTRL. The control range is still measured from the caster though, so channeling it has zero effect ... unless you've got something like Empowered Arc Node or Reaction Drive. Stuff like that can trigger. (Infernal Ruling) Channeling in melee A channeler that is engaged by an enemy model can not channel. A channeler that is engaging an enemy model can channel. (For example, the channeler is standing in the enemy's back arc.) Channeler - LOS You use the channeler's abilities when determining LOS (such as whether you can see your target through a forest). If the channeler has an ability to ignore LOS or DEF bonuses (such as Eyeless Sight), then you only apply that "ignorance" to LOS (but not to the DEF bonus). Caster - Attack roll You use the caster's abilities when determining attack roll modifiers (such as whether a target standing in a forest gets +2 DEF or not). If the caster has an ability to ignore LOS or DEF bonuses (such as Eyeless Sight), then you only apply that "ignorance" to the dice roll (but not to the LOS). Stealth - It affects both LOS and the attack roll Since Stealth has both a LOS modifier (stealth models more than 5" away aren't intervening models) and an attack roll modifier (stealth models more than 5" away are auto-missed) things get a little complicated. If only the channeler ignores stealth, then all stealth models count as intervening models and block LOS, but the caster will auto-miss models more than 5" from the channeler. If only the caster ignores stealth, then only models within 5" of the channeler block LOS, but the caster won't auto-miss no matter what you target. If both channeler and caster ignore Stealth, it works as you'd expect. Stealth Examples     [Show/Hide] Caster has Eyeless Sight, channeler does not. Stealth model is within 5" of channeler LOS - The model counts as an intervening model, as per the normal Stealth rules Attack roll - If you attack it then you don't auto-miss, as per the normal Stealth rules Stealth model is more than 5" away from channeler LOS - The model does not count as an intervening model, as per the normal Stealth rules. Attack roll - If you attack it then you don't auto-miss, as the attacking model has Eyeless Sight. Stealth model is more than 5" away from channeler, and you want to target a model behind it. LOS - The front model doesn't block LOS Attack roll - Doesn't auto-miss   Caster hasn't got Eyeless Sight, channeler does. Stealth model is within 5" of channeler LOS - The model counts as an intervening model, as per the normal Stealth rules Attack roll - If you attack it then you don't auto-miss, as per the normal Stealth rules Stealth model is more than 5" away from channeler LOS - The model counts as an intervening model, because the model drawing LOS ignores Stealth. Attack roll - If you attack it then you will auto-miss, as the attacker doesn't ignore Stealth. Stealth model is more than 5" away from channeler, and you want to target a model behind it. LOS - The front model blocks LOS, so you can't target the rear model. Attack roll - N/A

Rules Clarification : Circular Vision      (Edit) This only prevents the normal bonus afforded from back strikes. It does not prevent things such as Backstab, which simply requires being in the rear arc.

Rules Clarification : Distant Deployment - None yet. (Edit)

Rules Clarification : Immovable and/or Immobile and/or Buried     (Edit) There is no functional difference between "cannot move" and "cannot be moved". Even if you gain bonus movement (such as Dodge) via a spell or theme benefit, you still can't move. (Locked thread) Witchwood only: Since the Witchwood doesn't have Normal Movement, it can't gain the Aiming bonus.

Rules Clarification : Spirit Nexus      (Edit) Lesser Warlocks can't use a Bone Shrine. They are a solo, not a Warlock. If an enemy warlock somehow removes fury from the Bone Shrine, that enemy warlock has to roll a d6 to avoid being cursed, too. A warlock can only collect from one Shrine per turn, even if you have more than one Shrine on the board. (Infernal Ruling)