Trollkin Heroes are great champions whose deeds have spread by word of mouth throughout the Kriels. They find it impossible to turn from battle for it is only there that they can stand side by side with their brothers in arms and prove that one axe in a strong hand can make a difference, even when opposed by a hundred swords.
Basic Info
| Trollkin Champion Hero |
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| COST |
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| UNIT SIZE |
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| FA |
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| Warcaster 0 |
| BASE |
Medium |
| SPD |
5 |
| STR |
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| MAT |
8 |
| RAT |
N/A |
| M.A. |
N/A |
| DEF |
12 |
| ARM |
16 |
| CMD |
10 |
| ESSENCE |
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| FOCUS |
N/A |
| FURY |
N/A |
| THRS |
N/A |
| HP |
8 |
| F. Field |
N/A |
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| WJP |
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| WBP |
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| IHP |
{{{ihp}}} |
| UNIT SIZE |
N/A |
| COST |
5 |
| N/A |
| N/A |
| FA |
2 |
| N/A |
| Warcaster 1 |
| BASE |
N/A |
| SPD |
N/A |
| STR |
N/A |
| MAT |
N/A |
| RAT |
N/A |
| DEF |
N/A |
| ARM |
N/A |
| CMD |
N/A |
| FOCUS |
N/A |
| FURY |
N/A |
| THRS |
N/A |
| HP |
N/A |
| WJP |
N/A |
| WBP |
N/A |
| UNIT SIZE |
N/A |
| COST |
N/A |
| FA |
N/A |
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Understanding
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Abilities
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Tough
- Leadership [ Trollkin Champions ] - Friendly Trollkin Champions models in this model's command range gain Retaliatory Strike. (As below)
- Relentless Charge - While advancing as part of a charge, this model gains Pathfinder.
- Retaliatory Strike - If this model is hit by a melee attack made by an enemy model during your opponent's turn, after that attack is resolved this model can immediately make one basic melee attack against that model. This model can make only one Retaliatory Strike per turn.
- Steady - This model cannot become knocked down.
Weapons
- Great Axe - 1" reach, P+S 12 melee weapon
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Weapon Master
- Thresher (★ Attack) - This model makes one melee attack with this weapon against each model in its LOS that is in this weapon's melee range. Thresher attacks are simultaneous.
Theme Forces
Thoughts on Trollkin Champion Hero
Trollkin Champion Hero in a nutshell
If a Trollkin Champion Hero eats all its food and grows up nice and big then one day it will become a Troll Axer. Until then it's a mini-axer.
Combos & Synergies
- Krielstone - otherwise a boosted POW 12 has a decent chance of one-shotting the Champion Hero
- Trollkin Champions, naturally.
- Oddly Skaldi, who is the Champion's CA, is not a Champion himself so doesn't get Retaliatory Strike.
Drawbacks & Downsides
- Retaliatory Strike doesn't work if the Champion dies. And they aren't that tough.
- A short reach and Thresher means that you need to be good at positioning.
Tricks & Tips
- See if you can charge and thresher two heavies at once.
Other
Trivia
Released in Hordes: Metamorphosis (2009)
Other Trollblood models
Rules Clarificaitons
Rules Clarification : Tough - None yet. (Edit)
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Rules Clarification : Leadership (Edit)
- If you have two Leaders handing out the same buff, then sometimes they stack (Bronzeback) and sometimes they don't (Exemplar Bastion). (Infernal Ruling)
- See specific models for case-by-case clarifications.
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Rules Clarification : Retaliatory Strike (Edit)
- "Basic melee attack" also includes Mount Attacks. Refer to the definition of 'Basic Attack' in the rulebook.
- You can't make Retaliatory Strikes vs free strikes, because the free striker is defined to be in your back arc (regardless of the actual model's facings) and thus you don't have LOS to it. (Infernal Ruling)
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Rules Clarification : Steady (Edit)
- Steady models are still susceptible to other effects of knock-down attacks (if there are any).
- For example, a steady model hit with a Head butt won't be knocked down but will take damage.
- A knocked down model that gains Steady will remain knocked down, because the "cannot be knocked down" is not retroactively applied.
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Rules Clarification : Weapon Master - None yet. (Edit)
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Rules Clarification: : Thresher and/or Flashing Blade and/or Cyclone (Edit)
(Click Expand to read)
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Resolving the attack
Under this heading, the word "Thresher" is used interchangeably for "Flashing Blade" and "Cyclone" too
- Thresher makes an attack against every model, and as such it targets every model. Thus if a model "may not be targeted by melee attacks", you have to 'skip' it when you resolve the attack. (Infernal Ruling)
- All attacks made by a Thresher attack are simultaneous.
- If a model is out of LOS when you start the Thresh, then you may not attack it as part of the Thresh (even if the Thresh kills what is blocking your LOS)
- This means you need to target everything, then resolve all effects that trigger on "target" before starting any attack rolls. Then complete all attack rolls and do everything that triggers on "hit" before starting any damage rolls, and etc.
- In practice and to save time though, if neither player has effects that trigger on "being targetted, hit, damaged, etc" then they'll normally do the hit and damage rolls on a model-by-model basis.
- If a model collects tokens (for instance the Cryx Harrower that collects souls), it cannot collect them until all Thresh attacks are resolved.
Thresher only
- All attacks made by a Thresher are special melee attacks, and as such won't trigger stuff like Grim Salvation or Rhyas's feat. (Infernal Ruling)
- No matter how many enemy you kill, Thresher only counts as a single attack for the purposes of triggering Berserk, Quick Work, Black Spot, etc
- You can do a Thresher on a charge (it's a special melee attack).
- If you charge & Thresher, only the damage roll against your charge target is automatically boosted - other models caught in the thresh suffer an unboosted damage roll (although you can spend focus/fury to boost it)
- You can't buy additional Thresher attacks, because they're (★ Attack). You can buy additional normal melee attacks, though.
- Thresher will hit friendly models.
Flashing Blade only
- You can cast it after your charge movement but before your charge attack.
- This will essentially interrupt your charge attack, so no damage roll is boosted while resolving the spell's attacks (unless you pay to boost it).
- If your charge target survives the spell , then you'll get your boosted charge attack against it.
- Flashing Blade doesn't hit friendly models
Cyclone only
- You can cast it after your charge movement but before your charge attack.
- This will essentially interrupt your charge attack, so no damage roll is boosted while resolving the spell's attacks (unless you pay to boost it).
- If your charge target survives the spell and is still in range, then you'll get your boosted charge attack against it.
- If you used the advance to move out of range of your charge target, it was still as successful charge so it won't cause your activation to end. However, you are still limited to making melee attacks only.
- Cyclone will hit friendly models.
- The attack(s) from Cyclone occur simultaneously with "Ends its movement" triggers (such as Admonition). As such, the active player can use the Cyclone attacks before the inactive player uses his Admonition move. (Infernal Ruling)
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