Prime
This model is available in one Prime Army, Storm of the North. It can also be used in the Unlimited game mode. You can view the other Mk3 models that made it into a Legacy Army at this page.
Note that the rest of this page is about the model's Mark III rules.
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Kolgrima Stonetruth is a half-mad and mystifying oracle. Born with the gift of sorcery, this trollkin witch could read the threads of the future in entrails and bones, glimpse fates in the eddies and whorls of a blizzard, and divine the destiny of a people in a patch of frostbite blackening a limb. Kolgrima emerged from the cave serving as her mountain lair when enemies threaten the north, accompanied by a great pack of winter trolls and serving as ancient war leader rather than oracle.
Basic Info
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Medium |
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5 |
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14 |
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15 |
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7 |
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7 |
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15 |
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| WBP |
+28 |
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C |
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N/A |
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Understanding
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- Warlock - All warlocks come with a stack of standard special rules - most notably being awesome. Click here for a newbie-friendly recap, or click here for the full rules.
Feat : Snowblind
- Enemy models currently in Kolgrima's control range lose Eyeless Sight, Flight, and Pathfinder and cannot make ranged attacks for one round.
- Enemy models currently in Kolgrima's control range are pushed 2" directly away from Kolgrima in the order you choose.
Abilities
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Immunity: Cold
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Pathfinder
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Tough
- Owl's Wisdom (★ Action) - RNG CMD. Target friendly Faction model. If the model is in range, enemy upkeep spells and animi on it expire and it cannot be targeted by enemy spells for one round.
- Dark Power - This model gains an additional die on magic attack and magic attack damage rolls. Discard the lowest die in each roll.
Weapons
- Knife - 0.5" reach, P+S 10 melee weapon.
Spells
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| Target model/unit suffers -2 DEF. When a damage roll resulting from a direct hit fails to exceed the ARM of an affected model, the model suffers 1 damage point. Cursed Fate lasts for one turn.
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| Freezing Mist
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| Place a 3" AOE cloud effect completely within the spellcaster's control range. While in the AOE, models without Immunity: Cold suffer -2 to their attack rolls. The AOE remains in play for one round.
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| Friendly models can charge or make a slam power attack against target enemy model hit by Hunter's Mark without being forced or spending focus. A friendly model charging an enemy model hit by Hunter's Mark gain +2" of movement. Hunter's Mark lasts for one turn.
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| Vanish
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| Winter's Tide
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10" Spray
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12 (Cold)
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| Winter's Tide deals cold damage. On a critical hit, the model hit becomes stationary unless it has Immunity: Cold.
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Theme Forces
Thoughts on Kolgrima
Kolgrima in a nutshell
Kolgrima is an ice witch from the frozen north. Her spells and abilities focus on hexes, wards, witchcraft, and a more feral style of magic. She is elemental in nature. She is not a combat character and has a weak attack.
Her role seems to be focused on delivery of her army in one piece- shutting down shooting for an entire turn, and then using well-placed clouds to prevent counter-charges. With Hunter's Mark she can make surprising piece trades.
Feat thoughts
Her Feat is centered around giving you the alpha strike - shutting out enemy shooters and then relying on you being able to use the terrain.
Spell thoughts
- Freezing Mist is a cloud. Use it to block enemy LoS or as a MAT/RAT debuff, and remember it can be really obnoxious to block models that want to charge.
- Vanish is her "get out of dodge" spell. Teleport her behind some nice solid walls.
- Her offensive spells are all useful in different ways. Single wound shield walls, for example, hate Cursed Fate.
- Do not underestimate Winter's Tide. SP10 can really go deep, especially with Mulg channeling or Kolgrima using Vanish. The Northkin Elder can make this a POW 14 and that combined with Dark Power makes it deadly to anything short of heavies and battle engines, yet crit freezes can help to stymie even them. It can't hurt cold-immune models but you can use this to your advantage by using a Northkin Shaman (perhaps with his own Chiller spell) to get perfect placement of a spray or to unjam an Earthborn or Brawler.
Drawbacks & Downsides
- She's an offensive spell-slinger (three offensive spells out of five) with no channeling ability outside of taking Mulg in Power of Dhunia.
- She has low defensive stats.
- Kolgrima is very powerful but difficult to play well. She has a lot of options on any given turn and it's easy to choose the wrong ones.
Tricks & Tips
- Her feat is a pulse meaning it applies to all enemies caught in it when she uses it.
- On the plus side there's no walking out of her feat to fire in
- On the minus side models can e.g. be granted Pathfinder by a Fell Caller Hero or just use Relentless Charge to gain Pathfinder.
- You can use her knife to stab your own guys.
- You can play clouds pretty far forward and shut down the enemy ability to see your army that way on feat turn.
- When played in the Storm of the North theme force, all warrior models gain Immunity: Cold, so you can cast Winter's Tide over/targeting your own models for optimal placements or clearing out stuff in melee.
- Prowl can be triggered with freezing mist easily and it does not discriminate on faction.
List Building Tips
Strategy
Kolgrima can win by 1) using her clouds to get one big alpha strike and thus an insurmountable lead on attrition, or 2) cheating piece trades and controlling the board to grind out attrition over multiple turns, or 3) going right after the opposing caster as soon as there is an opening, with multiple sprays followed up by a combat solo or warbeast.
Theme Thoughts
Kolgrima is a debuff caster that lowers enemy DEF, and has a control feat, as well as a movement buff. It's a useful combination and because it doesn't give targeted buffs she can work with almost anyone. She's not a beast caster, however, and doesn't boost damage - so Power of Dhunia is out of the question. Generally she is played in Storm of the North Vengeance of Dhunia or Band of Heroes. She doesn’t typically play in Kriel Company (though she can) because her cloud wall starts to cause her order of activation issues with the mostly ranged options in that theme and separately as she doesn’t crack armour she can’t really sort out the themes weaknesses.
Storm of the North
Options Available in all 3 themes
Army
- There's one thing clouds synergize well with: other clouds. The Northkin Shaman and the Swamp Gobber Bellows Crew make clouds.
- The Shaman also works well with the Northkin Elder and Kolgrima's Cursed Fate spell.
- The Sea King drops a 4" of water into the enemy, and your feat shuts down most abilities (except Amphibious) that would let the enemy move through it freely.
- Owl's Wisdom is great for a Gargantuan or Battle Engine to protect them from crippling spell effects.
- Northkin warbeasts like the Dire Troll Brawler can gain speed from the Northkin Elder that Kolgrima wants anyway. She can spray them with impunity because they are immune to cold. The Brawler's reach can help to protect her by threatening free strikes or get extra mileage out of Hunter's Mark. Rok and the Ice and Winter Trolls gain a nice bonus to their ranged damage from the Elder as well.
Other
Trivia
Released in the Northkin expansion (2017.11)
Other Trollblood models
Video Battle Reports
Rules Clarifications
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Rules Clarification : Feat: Snowblind
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Push - General ( Edit) [Show/Hide]
- Pushed models do not change their facing.
- Pushed models move at half rate through difficult terrain. Also, Pathfinder doesn't apply during pushes.
- Pushed models stop if they contact anything - a model of any size, or any obstacles or obstructions.
- You don't get free strikes against pushed models, because it is "involuntary movement" and therefore does not count as an advance.
- Pushed models suffer the effects of anything they move through (such as acid clouds).
- If you use a Push vs a charging model (via a free strike for example), this will stop the charge movement (refer core rulebook).
- However, if the pushed model is in melee range of its charge target after the push, then it is considered a successful charge. (Infernal Ruling)
- In that scenario, you measure whether the charging model moved 3" or less excluding the push distance. (Infernal Ruling)
- If you push a model to a position where it regains Incorporeal (for instance you push it out of range of an Exorcist) then what happens is (Being Checked by Infernals)
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Rules Clarification : Blessed and/or Creator's Wrath (Edit)
- Blessed ignores spell buffs even if they're not directly on the target. (For example, Haley3's Temporal Distortion spell is cast on Haley and gives a DEF buff to everyone within 5". Blessed ignores it on everyone, not just on Haley.) (Locked thread)
- You only ignore the DEF/ARM buff if the spell directly adds to the stat (for example Arcane Shield gives +3 ARM).
- Whereas a spell which grants an ability, and the ability gives a DEF/ARM buff, would not be ignored by Blessed (for example Cloak of Ash gives a model concealment, and concealment gives +2 DEF).
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- If a spell buffs DEF/ARM and [something else] then you ignore the buff but not the [something else]. (For example, the spell Death Ward grants +2 ARM and the defender chooses which column suffers damage. You would ignore the ARM bonus, but the defender still picks the column.)
- This ability only ignores buffs from spells, not buffs from feats (such as Stryker1's Invincibility +5 ARM) or abilities (such as Protective Aura's +2 ARM).
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Rules Clarification: : Magical Damage (Edit)
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* The "Damage Type: Magical" is not inherited by "secondary" damage from a weapon. That is, stuff like arcs (Electro Leap) or hazards (Scather). (Infernal Ruling)
- All spells have "Damage Type: Magical" (refer errata).
- This is inherited by "immediate" secondary damage (such as Eruption of Spines). (Infernal Ruling)
- and might be inherited by "lingering" secondary damage (see below).
- If a spell leaves a template in play that does damage to models that walk around in it, then:
- if it is not described as a hazard it will do magical damage to models that walk around in it. (Example: Razor Wall)
- if it is a hazard then it will not do magical damage to models that walk around in it. Instead, it does whatever damage type is specified by the spell description. (Example: Breath of Corruption).
- (Infernal Ruling)
- If a weapon/spell includes Magic Damage and another kind of elemental damage it will still damage Incorporeal models. Incorporeal models are not affected by the rule "if an attack does multiple types of damage and a model is immune to at least one it is immune to the entire attack."
The phrase "immune to non-magical damage" should be interpreted as "immune to damage that doesn't include Damage Type: Magical" (not interpreted as "has immunity to Corrosion and Electricity and Cold and etc.")
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Rules Clarification : Dispel (Edit)
- Dispel can't be used versus upkeeps that are not "on" a model/unit (such as Rock Wall, Void Gate, etc), because you can't "hit" them.
- Because Dispel causes spells to expire on a hit, it will prevent spells that trigger on a hit from triggering at all.
- For instance, the defensive animus Spiny Growth causes any model that hits the target to suffer d3 damage. This damage will not occur if it's hit by a Dispel weapon.
- Anti-Upkeep vs a unit (Edit)
- If an upkeep is on a unit, then all you need to do is make it expire off any member of the unit and the spell will expire from the entire unit.
- It doesn't matter if the target is in formation or not. (Locked thread)
- However, if an upkeep is on a single model within a unit (such as Scything Touch) then you need to dispel it off that particular model to make it dispel. (Infernal Ruling)
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Rules Clarification: : Warlock (Edit)
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- General
- Damage from a feat is neither an attack nor Damage Type: Magical (unless the feat says it is).
- FURY (uppercase) is the stat printed on the warlock's card. Fury (lowercase) refers to fury points a model currently has.
- Your CTRL area is double your FURY stat, not double your fury points. (Infernal Ruling)
- Casting spells or using feats is an anytime ability with the added restriction that you can't use them on the same turn you run even before you run.
- See also the clarifications on Any Time abilities (below).
- Some warlocks are also Battle Engines and thus follow all the Battle Engine special rules.
There is no particular interaction between the Battle Engine rules and the Warlock rules.
- Reaving & Leeching
- If you choose to Reave, it's all or nothing. You must Reave all the Fury (up to your limit) and you can't choose to "let some disappear". (Locked thread)
- If your warbeast is Removed From Play, you can still reave fury off it. (Locked thread)
- If your warbeast is destroyed or RFP'd while under your opponent's control then:
- You cannot reave fury off it. Because it is still enemy at the time it was destroyed/RFP'd, and you can't reave from enemy warbeasts.
- After it is taken off the table, it returns to your control and is eligible for Spirit Bond and (possibly) Return to Play stuff (like Thagrosh1's feat).
- Transferring Damage
- If both the warlock and the warbeast are damaged by the same attack (such as an AOE), then you need to apply the 'normal' damage to the warbeast before the transferred damage. This distinction can be important when you're working out who/what actually destroyed the beast. (Infernal Ruling)
- If there is too much damage for the warbeast and it "overlaps" back to the warlock, then that damage is considered ... unsure at this time. (Infernal Checking)
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Restrictions on "Any Time" abilities ( Edit) [Show/Hide]
- "Any Time" abilities can be used at any time during a model/unit's activation, except:
- Before any compulsory forfeiture of movement/action. See step 2 of the activation sequence, appendix A.
- After the model with the "Any Time" ability has had their activation end "prematurely". By this I mean you resolved something which includes the phrase "its activation ends". Examples include:
- Running, failing a charge, or failing a slam.
- Abilities that include "then its activation ends" (such as Reposition and Teleport).
- In between declaring your charge target and making your charge movement. (Infernal Ruling)
- In between completing your charge movement and determining whether it was a successful charge. (Infernal Ruling)
- When you're in the middle of moving. (Note: Impact Attacks count as being in the middle of movement).
- When you're in the middle of an attack. Which also includes effects that occur "after the attack is resolved".
(Although the attack is "resolved" at Step 11, in terms of using an "Any Time" ability the attack is not "finished" until after Step 14. Refer to the first paragraph of Apdx A.)
- Your opponent interrupted your activation to trigger one of their own abilities (such as Countercharge).
- Warcasters/warlocks/etc can normally cast a spell or use their feat "At any time". However, there is a core rule saying they cannot do so on the same activation that they run. So, they are subject to all the same restrictions listed above, plus they can't cast/feat before running.
- Units: See below.
- In general you can use "Any Time" abilities while you're knocked down or stationary (except Spells and Feats which specify you can't).
- If you have a gun with a random ROF, you can use an "Any Time" ability inbetween rolling the number of shots and actually making the first attack. (Infernal Ruling)
- Units with "Any Time" abilities
- You cannot use an "Any Time" ability before issuing/receiving orders. See step 1 and 2 of the activation sequence, appendix A.
- A model in a unit can't use an "Any Time" ability after they run (Infernal Ruling) or fail a charge. Because that makes that specific model's activation to end even though the unit's activation is still ongoing, and you can't use abilities on models that are not active.
- You can use an "Any Time" ability before running, however.
- A model in a unit can't use an "Any Time" ability after anyone in the unit has begun a Reposition move. (Infernal Ruling)
- Warcaster/Warlock Cavalry ( Edit )
- Warcasters/Warlocks can't cast spells or use their feat while resolving Impact Attacks. Because Impact Attacks occur during movement - you can use spells or feat before moving, or after moving, but not during movement.
- Exception: If your Impact target(s) include your charge target, then your movement has ended (refer rulebook, last paragraph of 'Impact Attacks') and thus you're fine to use "any time" abilities before starting the Impact attacks.
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Rules Clarification: : Warcaster Unit or Warlock Unit (Edit)
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This summary is specific to Warcaster/Warlock units. You may also want to check the Warcaster and Warlock pages respectively, for the "regular" rules clarifications.
- All models in the unit count as part of the battlegroup. So, for instance, Butcher3's argus can be moved via his Energizer spell.
- Warcaster units can have attachments. They can even attach units (such as the WSC). (Infernal Ruling)
- The non-caster models are trooper models but are not normally Grunt models. Therefore they're not normally eligible for stuff like Revive.
- If any member of the unit start to do their reposition movement, the warcaster or warlock in the unit would no longer be able to feat.(Infernal Ruling)
- Press Forward Order vs Spells cast at Any Time (Edit)
- You must issue orders before anything else. If you issue a Press Forward order, you must run or charge.
- If you cast spells before moving, you can't run so you must charge.
- If you cast spells before moving, then start the spellcaster's Normal Movement but have no valid charge targets, you are in a situation where you must charge but cannot charge.
In this situation the spellcaster must either:
- forfeit their Combat Action, use their Normal Movement to make a full advance, then their activation ends. (Note that you cannot cast more spells after the full advance).
- forfeit their Normal Movement, then their activation ends.
- (Infernal Ruling)
- Steamroller 2018
- The non-caster models can contest scenario zones & flags.
- The caster model cannot contest.
- The caster model can control zones and flags by itself, but:
- to control a zone, the entire unit remaining in play needs to be in formation.
- to control a flag, the entire unit remaining in play must be within 4" of the flag.
- Units Buying Attacks (Edit)
- If you make attacks with model [A], then start making attacks with model [B], you cannot 'go back' and buy more attacks with [A]. Because:
- A model can only buy additional attacks during its Combat Action.
- A model in a unit must complete its Combat Action before the next model starts theirs (with some exceptions, like CMA).
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Rules Clarification : Unit of Warcasters or Warlocks (Edit)
- Even though they're warcasters, if they're out of formation they suffer the normal penalties (can't make attacks, actions, spells, etc).
- They can't upkeep each other's spells.
- They can only dominate one SteamRoller scenario element at a time.
- Each warlock/warcaster can have different upkeeps on them if those upkeeps are "target SELF" or "target model". If you cast an upkeep that is "target model/unit", that is the only upkeep any of them can have.
- Units Buying Attacks (Edit)
- If you make attacks with model [A], then start making attacks with model [B], you cannot 'go back' and buy more attacks with [A]. Because:
- A model can only buy additional attacks during its Combat Action.
- A model in a unit must complete its Combat Action before the next model starts theirs (with some exceptions, like CMA).
- The Legion Twins
- Rhyas cannot dominate a zone while out of formation.
- Rhyas can use the feat while out of formation.
- Haley3
- Only Haley Prime is an 'actual' warcaster model, and as such she is the only one that can dominate a scenario element.
- The echoes can Control/Contest scenarios like a normal unit.
- Haley Prime can dominate an element even if the echoes are out of formation.
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Rules Clarification : Cold - None yet. (Edit)
Rules Clarification : Tough - None yet. (Edit)
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Rules Clarification : Owl's Wisdom (Edit)
- Anti-Upkeep vs a unit (Edit)
- If an upkeep is on a unit, then all you need to do is make it expire off any member of the unit and the spell will expire from the entire unit.
- It doesn't matter if the target is in formation or not. (Locked thread)
- However, if an upkeep is on a single model within a unit (such as Scything Touch) then you need to dispel it off that particular model to make it dispel. (Infernal Ruling)
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Rules Clarification : Dark Power (Edit)
- Discard Die (Edit)
- If you're discarding lowest or highest, you have to discard even if you want it for a critical hit.
- For instance: if you discard "the lowest die", need 6+ to hit, and roll a 3, 3, and a 4 ... then you must discard one of the 3s, and you'll end up with a non-critical hit with the 3 + 4.
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Rules Clarification : Cursed Fate - None yet. (Edit)
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Rules Clarification : Freezing Mist (Edit)
- The penalty applies to both friendlies and enemies.
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Rules Clarification : Hunter's Mark - None yet. (Edit)
Rules Clarification : Vanish - None yet. (Edit)
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Rules Clarification : Winter's Tide (Edit)
- Remember, stationary only prevents what it says it does. Refer the recap on stationary for what models can/can't do.
- Abilities that say they cannot be used if the model is stationary (such as Shield Guard) cannot be used while a warjack is inert, either. Refer "Warcaster Destruction", page 59 of the core rulebook.
Rules Clarification : Cold - None yet. (Edit)
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Blessed
Damage Type: Magical
