The forces of Everblight do not thrive due to numerical superiority or fortified holdings but rather due to their adaptability. Everblight’s spell martyrs are a gruesome example of this ruthless cunning. These blighted Nyss are imbued with the dragon’s blighted energy, allowing warlocks to tap into their essence to unleash powerful spells. This overwhelming flow of arcane energy consumes the spell martyr just as it consumes the bodies of Everblight’s enemies.
Basic Info
| Spell Martyr |
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| COST |
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| UNIT SIZE |
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| FA |
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| Warcaster 0 |
| BASE |
Small |
| SPD |
5 |
| STR |
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| MAT |
4 |
| RAT |
N/A |
| M.A. |
N/A |
| DEF |
12 |
| ARM |
12 |
| CMD |
N/A |
| ESSENCE |
{{{essence}}} |
| FOCUS |
N/A |
| FURY |
N/A |
| THRS |
N/A |
| HP |
1 |
| F. Field |
N/A |
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| WJP |
{{{wjp}}} |
| WBP |
{{{wbp}}} |
| IHP |
{{{ihp}}} |
| FA |
3 |
| UNIT SIZE |
N/A |
| COST |
1 |
| N/A |
| N/A |
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| N/A |
| Warcaster 1 |
| COST |
N/A |
| N/A |
Understanding
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Abilities
Weapons
- Claws - 0.5" reach, P+S 8 melee weapon.
Theme Forces
Thoughts on Spell Martyr
Spell Martyr in a nutshell
Tied with the Shepherd for the cheapest model in Legion, the Spell Martyr is a useful as point filler in a list and serves as a single use channeler for any warlock who might want a little extra range to safely cast their spells. He does exactly as advertised, and while his SPD is slow by Legion standards, he has pathfinder out of the box and has no need to engage in melee, so he can always spend activations running for maximum mobility.
Combos & Synergies
There's not much more to be said about Spell Martyrs. They're there to fill in a spare point or two for any warlock who needs to cast a spell somewhere they can't explicitly be, and work perfectly at doing exactly that. Even warlocks with their own ways to channel like Vayl1 or vayl2, Bethayne1 or Saeryn1/Saeryn2 sporting Zuriel don't mind having an extra arcing option when the last few points of a list are filled out.
Drawbacks & Downsides
- Easily shot off the board. Hide behind walls and forests or clouds.
- A tad slow.
Tricks & Tips
- If you're out of targets for spells for some reason, a Spell Martyr can be an extra body to remove when contesting control points/flags/objectives. Sometimes they might even score a point for you if you're lucky.
- Spell Martyrs are a nifty way to circumvent Stealth since they're so cheap and relatively mobile, so it's not too hard for you to run within 5" of a stealthed model/unit that really needs a spell on them. Read the Rules Clarification for the interactions between Stealth and Eyeless Sight/True Sight on your spellcaster since they are not always self-evident.
Other
Trivia
Released in Forces of Hordes: Legion of Everblight (2010)
Other Legion models
Rules Clarifications
Rules Clarification : Soulless - None yet. (Edit)
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Rules Clarification : Spiritual Conflagration (Edit)
- The Beast Mistress is not a warlock and can't channel through a Spell Martyr.
- If a channeled spell is cancelled by something like Arcane Vortex, it doesn't count as being channeled, so the channeler can't trigger stuff like Reaction Drive or Spell Martyr. (Infernal Ruling)
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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.
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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
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- 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
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Pathfinder
Soulless
