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Basic Info
| Kromac2 |
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| UNIT SIZE |
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| Warcaster 0 |
| BASE |
Medium |
| SPD |
6 |
| STR |
12 |
| MAT |
8 |
| RAT |
N/A |
| M.A. |
N/A |
| DEF |
14 |
| ARM |
18 |
| CMD |
N/A |
| ESSENCE |
{{{essence}}} |
| FOCUS |
N/A |
| FURY |
7 |
| THRS |
N/A |
| HP |
19 |
| F. Field |
N/A |
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| WJP |
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| WBP |
+28 |
| IHP |
{{{ihp}}} |
| FA |
N/A |
| UNIT SIZE |
N/A |
| COST |
N/A |
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| Warcaster 1 |
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N/A |
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Understanding
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Abilities
- 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.
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Pathfinder
- Death Feast - During its activation, this model can spend corpse tokens to remove d3 damage points for each token spent.
- Field Marshal [Hyper-Aggressive] - Warbeasts/warjacks in this model's battlegroup gain Hyper-Aggressive. (Hyper-Aggressive - When this model suffers damage from an enemy attack at any time except while it is advancing, after the attack is resolved it can immediately make a full advance directly toward the attacking model.)
- Heart Eater - When this model destroys a living or undead enemy model with a melee attack, it gains the destroyed model's corpse token. This model can carry up to three tokens at any time. During its activation, this model can spend corpse tokens to make additional melee attacks or to boost melee attack or melee damage rolls. It can make one additional attack or boost one roll for each token spent.
Weapons
- Rathrok - 2" reach, P+S 17 melee weapon
Spells
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RNG
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AOE
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POW
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DUR
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OFF
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| Awakened Spirit
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2
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6
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Upkeep
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No
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| Target warbeast in the spellcaster's battlegroup can cast its animus once during its actviation without being forced. A warbeast that casts its animus as a result of Awakened Spirit cannot also be forced to cast its animus that activation.
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| Carnage
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2
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SELF
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Control
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Turn
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No
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| Friendly Faction models gain +2 to melee attack rolls against enemy models in the spellcaster's control range. Carnage lasts for one turn.
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| Primal Shock
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2
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Control
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(★)
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| Choose a friendly Faction warbeast in the spellcaster's control range. Target a model within 8" of the chosen warbeast and make a magic attack against it. The chosen warbeast is the attack's point of origin. If the enemy model is hit, it suffers a damage roll with a POW equal to the warbeast's base STR.
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| Vengeful
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2
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6
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Upkeep
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No
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Target friendly Faction model gains Retaliatory Strike.
- Retaliatory Strike - If a model with Retaliatory Strike is hit by a melee attack made by an enemy model during your opponent's turn, after that attack is resolved the model with Retaliatory Strike can immediately make one basic melee attack against that model. The model with Retaliatory Strike can make only one Retaliatory Strike per turn.
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Feat: Bloodlust
Kromac immediately casts Carnage for free. Also, while in his control range, living models in his battlegroup gain +2 STR and ARM. Lasts one round.
Theme Forces
Thoughts on Kromac2
Kromac2 in a nutshell
Kromac2 is Circle's biggest facesmashing warlock. He himself can make a nasty beatdown with Rathrok, he throws his warbeasts into the teeth of the enemy with hyper-aggressive, and makes them accurate with Carnage.
Feat & Spell thoughts
Drawbacks & Downsides
- It's obvious what he does most of the time
- Kromac is a big target and he will often be in the thick of things, he can die easier then you might think.
- Limited board control
- Unlike the previous owner of the axe, Kromac can't throw it like a boomerang.
Tricks & Tips
- Be careful when you're about to trigger Hyper-Agressive - make sure your opponent isn't just using it to draw your beast into the range of more attacks, or force them to face directly the wrong way.
- A good time to trigger it is towards the end of the opponent's turn, when they don't have many more attacks to make.
List Building Advice
Strategy
It can be tempting to rush Kromac into the thick of things early but it's often better to hold him back as a late game piece when the enemy has less models that can kill him. That being said, if he can pick up a few corpse tokens for later he will usually be better off. Don't be afraid to use his feat just for the +2 arm to his battlegroup. If Kromac or his warbeasts get killed because your waiting for the perfect alpha they just lost you the game.
Kromac's biggest abilities help his battlegroup.
Theme thoughts
Kromac works pretty well in most themes.
Call of the Wild or The Bones of Orboros
His obvious synergies with his battlegroup and would normally say Call of the Wild, but he's also fairly decent with The Bones of Orboros (although wolds don't gain the strength or arm buff from his feat).
The Devourer's Host or The Wild Hunt
He also offers a little to both The Wild Hunt and The Devourer's Host via Carnage, while the latter can give him a heart token, meaning he's often seen there.
- Kromac can benefit from th Tharn Ravager Shaman's spell Hunter's Grace which will make him immune to knockdown.
Minions
Battlegroup
Ghetorix is his pet warbeast that he can take in any theme.
- Ghetorix is his pet warbeast that he can take in any theme. It is very effective with the combination of murderous, overtake, and carnage for shredding infantry - and hits hard enough to shred beasts
- Warpwolf Stalker - possibly the best non character warbeast in the game. Kromac gives it extra movement if people shoot it, Carnage helps it's mediocre mat and Kromac loves to be able to sprint away after he kills something.
- Pureblood Warpwolf - if he's going to buff damage you can safely bring the ranged one.
- Wold Guardian - although the feat doesn't affect the Guardians (other than Carnage) they are already high ARM and hit hard, but the synergy here is the combination of Hyper-Aggressive and Shield Guard on a model that's normally slow.
- Woldwarden - again missing the feat, the Warden gets a lot out of Carnage thanks to the chain attack.
- Satyrs- All three share similar weaknesses that Kromac shores up in some way: low hitting power, short range, low MAT. Also, both the Gnarlhorn Satyr and Riphorn Satyr's animi can be useful on Kromac.
Other
Trivia
- His weapon was taken from the Trollblood warlock Madrak. Specifically, between Madrak2 and Madrak3.
- Released in Hordes: Devastation (2015)
- Kromac is trained as both a Tharn shaman and in the magic of the Blackclads. He is the first Tharn known to have the Wilding.
Other Circle models
Video Battle Reports
Rules Clarifications
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Rules Clarification : Feat: Bloodlust
- Since his feat specifically says he "casts" Carnage, it can be negated by normal anti-spell abilities. (Unlike, say Baldur2's feat which just makes models be "affected" by Baldur's spell).
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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).
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- 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 : Grievous Wounds (Edit)
- GW prevents "repairs" as well as "heals".
- It does not stop a warlock transferring damage, or stop the wounded model from being able to 'heal' someone else.
- Does not affect models with the Massive rule.
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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 : Death Feast (Edit)
- You roll a new d3 each time you spend a token.
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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)
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Rules Clarification : Field Marshal (Edit)
- Field marshal only grants the ability to warjacks/warbeasts in the battlegroup, so (normally) the caster does not have the Field Marshal ability.
- However if it is listed on the caster's card separately, such as on Magnus2, then they do have it. (Closed thread)
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Rules Clarification : Hyper-Aggressive (Edit)
- Because you must move directly towards your attacker, you cannot change facing after completing your Hyper-Aggressive move.
- HA can be triggered more than once per turn.
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Rules Clarification : Heart Eater (Edit)
- The attacker needs to be the closest eligible model. For instance if you destroy a Mechanithrall from 2" away but a Necrosurgeon is in B2B with it, the Necrosurgeon will get the corpse.
- 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 : Awakened Spirit (Edit)
- Although the cost is free, you still need to be within your warlock's CTRL range for them to force you to cast it.
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Rules Clarification : Carnage (Edit)
- The target needs to be in CTRL range. The location of the attacker doesn't matter.
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Rules Clarification : Primal Shock (Edit)
Let's call the friendly warbeast the "Primed" model and the attack target the "Shocked" model.
- The "Primed" model is not a channeler so won't be affected by stuff like Arcane Annihilation
- However, for targeting, concealment bonuses, etc, it works very similar to channeling. That's what "point of origin" means (refer core rule book).
- You can "Prime" a warbeast that is engaged in melee.
- Primal Shock is not affected by range reducing effects (such as Mage Static). For "Priming" the range is CTRL, which cannot be reduced. For "Shocking", choosing a target within 8" is not a range (in the normal sense).
- The "Shock" can gain any benefits that apply vs the target. For example if your warlock is affected by Beast Lore (+d6 damage vs warbeasts) and you "Shock" an enemy warbeast, you'll get that +d6.
- The "Shock" uses base STR, not current STR. Thus STR buffs (such as Rage) will not affect the "Shock".
- You can "Shock" a friendly model and it will cause no damage to it. (Infernal Ruling)
- When you choose the "Primed" model, you are not targeting it with a spell so anti-magic stuff like Arcane Vortex won't trigger.
However when you choose the "Shocked" model you are, and the anti-magic stuff can trigger.
(Infernal Ruling)
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Rules Clarification : Vengeful (Edit)
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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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Damage Type: Magical
