Totem Hunter

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Totem Hunter Minion Solo

From across the southern ocean comes a frightening and alien creature. Little is known of its culture, its beliefs, or its civilization, but its motives are clear: it lives to hunt. It values only the kill, reaping grisly trophies from the most formidable adversaries it can track down. This practice is a sacred ceremony to the Hunter, whereby each ritual kill adds to its strength, drawing on the vital energies of the slain.

Basic Info

Totem Hunter
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• Minion - Works as a Circle, Legion, Skorne, or Trollbloods.

Abilities

• Pathfinder
• Stealth
• Jump - After it makes a full advance during its Normal Movement but before it performs its Combat Action, you can place this model anywhere completely within 5" of its current location. Any effects that prevent charging also prevent this model from using Jump.
• Prey - After deployment but before the first player's turn, choose an enemy model/unit to be this model/unit's prey. This model gains +2 to attack and damage rolls against its prey. When the prey is destroyed or removed from play, choose another model/unit to be the prey.
• Sprint - At the end of an activation in which it destroyed or removed from play one or more enemy models with melee attacks, this model can immediately make a full advance, then its activation ends.
• Tracker - This model ignores forests when determining LOS when declaring a charge.

Weapons

• Kelkax - 2" reach, P+S 14 melee weapon
• Spiked Buckler - 0.5" reach, P+S 11 melee weapon
  • Buckler

Theme Forces

• Minions
  • The Blindwater Congregation
  • Will Work for Food

• Other Factions
  • Minion models can be hired by other Factions. Normally those Factions' themes will have a limit on how many models they can hire. Refer to #Other Theme Forces, below.

Thoughts on Totem Hunter

Totem Hunter in a nutshell

The Totem Hunter is a solo that hunts other solos, declaring them its prey and making them hang well back from its 14" threat range.

Combos & Synergies

• It doesn't need much support - just to threaten things.
• It's the joint most expensive thing you can get for free in The Blindwater Congregation (alongside the Thrullg) and is definitely worth taking in Blindwater.
• Maelok - Tough is one of the main things that will deny the Totem Hunter’s sprint - Mortality fixes this but Incorporeal and +2 armour (+4 on feat turn) are all useful

Drawbacks & Downsides

• While still an overall fierce solo, he struggles to assassinate casters. He can threaten one who has already sustained a couple hits, but he won't one-shot an unscathed caster and won't last a round of sustained combat against one.

Tricks & Tips

• Between the kelkax and the buckler it can normally kill something then Sprint to a new position, even if it can't get at its Prey target.
• Deploy it on the edges and sprint into the back arc of enemies - or to engage their ranged units. The Hunter can be fairly hard to kill in melee.

Other

Totem Huntress, limited edition sculpt

Trivia

• Released way back in Primal Mk1 (2003)
• Prior to mk3 it was a character model. When it became FA:1 in mk3 it made some players hypotheses that Zu was going to be the new Hordes faction (that was before we found out it was Grymkin, obviously).
• 2018 Limited Edition Sculpt

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 : Shield and/or Buckler     (Edit) The only time you lose the Shield bonus is when the weapon is crippled, or if the attack originates in your back arc. (Infernal Ruling) In other words, you still get the Shield bonus while knocked down or stationary. You don't get the Shield bonus vs stuff originating in your back arc. This includes stuff that "leaps" off models in your back arc, such as Electro Leap. (Locked thread)

Rules Clarification : Pathfinder      (Edit) Pathfinder (Edit) - Pathfinder does not apply to involuntary movement (pushes & slams). (Infernal Ruling)

Rules Clarification : Stealth      (Edit) Stealth models are not invisible and you can target them - you'll just auto-miss most of the time. You can target them with a charge. You can target them with an AOE, have it auto-miss and scatter, luckily land on top of them anyway, and that will hit them.

Rules Clarification : Bounding Leap and/or Jump     (Edit) You cannot use Jump or Bounding Leap if you forfeit your movement. "After making a full advance" is a conditional requirement. (Infernal Ruling) You can only use Jump or Bounding Leap after a full advance, which means you can't do it after a Slam, Trample, or Charge. You can use "At any time" abilities between completing your move and doing the Jump/Leap. (Infernal Ruling) Jumps & Leaps are a "placement". They do not trigger free strikes, and you can even jump over solid buildings of infinite height. If you cannot advance more than 0" (for example suffering from Shadow Bind) then you can Jump/Leap. Making an advance of 0" is sufficient to trigger Jump/Leap. Jump only You cannot use Jump if you are suffering "any effect which prevents charging". So... If you forfeit your Normal Movement, you cannot Jump. (For the same reason as given above.) If you forfeit your Combat Action, you cannot Jump. (Infernal Ruling) If you "cannot make attacks" (such as with Morvahna1's feat), you cannot charge, therefore cannot Jump. (Locked Thread) Unit with Jump Complete all the models' Normal Movement before starting any Jumps. Then do all Jumps (that you can do and/or want to do) before starting any Combat Actions. (Infernal Ruling) Models in a unit can Jump even if they don't receive a Press Forward order (failing to be told to charge is not the same as being prevented from charging). (Infernal Ruling)

Rules Clarification : Prey      (Edit) When you declare your Prey target, it has to be used on a model that is currently on the table. You can't use it on models that are in Ambush, Burrow, etc. (Infernal Ruling) If you have both Prey and Ambush, then you declare your Prey target at the normal time (even though the Prey-er isn't currently on the table). (Infernal Ruling) Prey bonuses apply to "non-attack" damage, such as Electro Leap. (Infernal Ruling) If you hit your Prey target, but your attack is "shifted" to a non-Prey model (via Shield Guard etc) then you don't get the damage bonus vs the new target. If a model with Prey can return to play, then: If the Prey target is still alive when the Prey-er returns, then it stays as your Prey target. If the Prey target died while the Prey-er was off the table, you get to pick a new Prey target when you return to play. This is based on a MK II ruling.

Rules Clarification : Sprint  and/or Run & Gun     (Edit) You cannot use this ability after an out-of-activation attack (such as Countercharge), only during real activations. (Locked thread) Run & Gun won't trigger if you RFP the model, but Sprint will. End of Activation (Edit) Some end-of-activation abilities explicitly state your activation ends as part of resolving the ability, and some don't. Either way, you can never do anything extra during or after triggering an end-of-activation ability. You cannot cast spells, purchase additional attacks, use a mini-feat, etc. If you start resolving an end-of-activation-movement (such as Reposition) then you cannot trigger abilities that occur "at any time" (such as Go To Ground). Because you can't trigger it while moving, and after moving your activation has ended. (Infernal Ruling) For units: if any model in the unit starts resolving the unit's end-of-activation-movement, then no model in the unit can trigger an any-time ability. (Infernal Ruling) If you have more than one end-of-activation ability, you have to choose which one to resolve, then your activation ends and you cannot use the other one. See also the training article: LPG - End of Activation.

Rules Clarification : Tracker - None yet. (Edit)