Cryx Warcaster
Long ago, he who would come to be known as Terminus commanded the Dragonfather's legions at the fortress called Dragon's Roost, Cryx's northernmost fortress and bastion for the fleet. It was there Terminus began to internalize his master's transfiguring blight. His body slowly swelled to immense size, and wings erupted from his back, tearing and distending skin and bone. Necrosurgeons replaced the cankerous portions of his body with necrotech and iron as his flesh failed him; no semblance of his previous form remained by the time Cryx launched its assault against the remnants of the Orgoth invasion at Garlghast Island. He joined the attack as an iron lich of already fearsome reputation.
Basic Info
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Average
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| STR |
High
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| MAT |
High
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| RAT |
Average
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| DEF |
Average
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| ARM |
High
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| CMD |
High
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| FOCUS |
Average
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| Relative HP |
High
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| WJP |
Low
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Weapons & Attacks
- Dragon Fire - long range high POW spray
- Doomsayer - long reach high POW melee weapon
- Scything Claw - short reach average POW melee weapon
- Critical Pitch - On a critical hit against a model with an equal or smaller base, the model hit can be thrown d6" directly away from this model. The model thrown does not deviate. The POW of collateral damage is equal to the STR of this model.
Special Abilities
- Warcaster - All warcasters 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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Undead
- Soul Taker: Cull Soul - This model can gain soul tokens. When a living enemy model is destroyed within 2" of this model, this model gains the destroyed model's soul token. After this model {{{1}}} during your next Control Phase, replace each soul token with 1 {{{2}}} point.
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Flight
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Assault
- Sacrificial Pawn [ Undead ] - When this model is directly hit by an enemy ranged attack, you can have one friendly, non-incorporeal {{{2}}} within 3" of it directly hit instead. That model is automatically hit and suffers all damage and effects. The Sacrificial Pawn special rule can only trigger once per attack roll.
- Shadow of Death - While in this model's command range, friendly undead Faction models gain Tough.
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Tough Although not shown on Terminus's card, he gains it via Shadow of Death
Spells
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- Berserk - When a model with Berserk destroys one or more models with a melee attack during its Combat Action, immediately after the attack is resolved it must make one additional melee attack against another model in its melee range.
Feat: Dragon's Call
For one round, Terminus' Cull Souls range becomes equal to his Control range. He gets a small ARM bonus for each soul token he has
Thoughts on Lich Lord Terminus
Comparison to Mk2
Terminus has changed very little from his Mk2 incarnation. He has gained Assault allowing him to finally get good use out of his amazing spray attack. Ravager has also changed and can no longer be placed on Terminus himself. Besides that, most of the differences are due to altered universal rules. He is no longer an abomination, with focus being used to negate damage, he can no longer pass over enemy units and virtually ignore free-strikes.
Terminus in a nutshell
Terminus is a freight train: a monster in melee, a soul harvester, and armored really well. Terminus eats troops in seconds and turns them into focus. Terminus usually advances with a screen of undead to protect him from attacks and start butchering living models. Once he and most of his units are in among the enemy army, he'll use his feat to harvest their souls. A typical endgame should be Terminus gorged on souls facing down the enemy warcaster and a handful of survivors. That said, Terminus can be tricky if you don't know how to use him, so plan ahead.
Overall, Terminus is a real beast. He can tear it up in melee, takes bullets better than any other 'caster in the game and is nigh-unkillable through ranged attacks when he has a good bodyguard. Magic attacks can be worrisome to him as he can't pawn them off, but thankfully they're much less common than normal shooting attacks and still tend to have low enough POW where ARM 18 can shrug them off. Snipers can get past his ARM; watch out for these models and always keep an undead bodyguard with him. On his feat turn, expect your army to be doing the work for Terminus and for Terminus himself to be tearing it up the following turn.
Thoughts on his feat and spell list
Feat
Dragon's Call is, for the most part, a defensive feat. Consider this: charge straight for your enemy's throat (not something you can risk with most Cryx Casters), use Dragon's Call, then send in your army to do tons of killing. Kill ten living models in Terminus' control radius and Terminus will be sitting on ARM 28.
On his next turn, those soul tokens turn into focus... so Terminus could be sitting on 16 focus. The fact that Terminus can fly over models and charge with that much focus just makes this model ridiculously scary and nearly impervious to attacks on a successful feat turn.
Spells
- Annihilation is a decent spell for gathering souls but extremely expensive to cast given his low FOC. Casting this spell will pretty much only be done out of a 'throw away' arcnode to gain some souls early on. After Terminus gets closer to the frontline, he will be needing the focus to kill/survive.
- Malediction should be cast on his first turn and upkept every round, preferably by Admonia from the Withershadow Combine.
- Ravager is a good offensive for Warjacks that will be engaging multiple infantry. This spell works very well with Erebus.
- Hellfire is basic attack spell that with pretty good power. Given that Terminus has pretty low focus, he will rarely if eve cast this. Givven that he wants to take the Withershadow Combine, it is nice to have so Maelovus has something to cast beyond his basic attack spell.
Typical Strategy & Army
Strategy
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Important
I copied this section from his Mk2 page because I think it's still (mostly) true, but I need someone who is actually familar with his playstyle to double-check it. Especially the changes to camping focus making Terminus more vulnerable, and how that affects his overall strategy. juckto (talk) 15:59, 28 July 2016 (EDT)
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The basic strategy is to camp focus while advancing within the middle of a horde of Tough undead troops. If they shoot you with something light, you absorb the damage with your camp. If they hit you with something hard, you pawn it off to something inconsequential.
Pop your feat just before engaging and gorge on souls, then laugh at the enemy trying to crack your insane soul-ARM camp. On your next turn, fly to the enemy warcaster and laugh at the enemy trying to free strike your high armor and powerfield, then proceed to buy attacks until they're dead.
Advancing Terminus down the field is fairly simple. Terminus's abilities want his undead soldiers to be within 10" of him so they can benefit from Tough and a few of them within 3" to act as cannon fodder if needed. While any undead unit will do as ablative armor, Cryx has a few units specially suited for this role. Bane Thralls with their UA and Tartarus is an incredibly potent package with Terminus, as they complement his grinding, hard-hitting playstyle perfectly while being very difficult to remove. Terminus' tough bubble is the probably the best way to make use of the Bane Warrior's UA Rise ability. Mechanithralls are cheap and plentiful, and with the Necrosurgeon can be brought back to life rather easily, but they're harder for beginners to use well and vulnerable to heavy shooting. Banes, Mechanithralls, undead zombie pirates, ghost pirates, Bile Thralls, Scrap Thralls: you name it, we've got it. A Terminus list can have great variation in undead units, all of which will benefit from Tough.
Army
Most Terminus lists include the following options as they're considered auto-include: The Withershadow Combine, Darragh Wrathe, and Madelyn Corbeau. The following things are considered great options with Terminus, bordering on auto-include: Bile Thralls, Bane Thralls, Bane Thralls Officer & Standard, Tartarus, and Skarlock Thrall. Finally, a lot of lists include Saxon Orrik for added mobility, Warwitch Sirens to help conserve focus, and Pistol Wraiths to add some ranged attacks.
In terms of a caster attachment, options are Madelyn Corbeau, Withershadow, and a Skarlock. Terminus is always trying to into melee, so having Madelyn using intrigue to make him even harder to kill is a nice tool to have. If you have the points to spare, the Withershadow Combine can do some important work as well, but know you aren't going to get as much out of spell slave as you typically might. Admonia's free upkeep is very nice since Terminus needs his focus to kill/not be killed on the front line.
Warjacks
Terminus really doesn't care for multiple 'jacks. With his relatively low FOC and large base means that even one inefficient 'jack might end up killing him by degrading his ARM. The only time when Terminus might want to dump focus on 'jacks is on his feat turn, but any time before that could leave him vulnerable. That said, Cryx does have some very interesting options in Erebus, Leviathans, Seethers and Malice.
There are several builds that use Erebus as a road block to protect Terminus from enemy heavies, a build using two Leviathans called the Gunslinger list and several corner case lists using different 'jacks. The builds that go without heavies usually spend 'jack points on a Stalker or Cankerworm since Stealth protects them from shooting, so they can survive and get in the way of enemy charges.There are some advanced builds that use Wrong Eye & Snapjaw as a second heavy that operates without spending Terminus' focus.
Terminus has an interesting synergy with the Sepulcher. Having low focus, Terminus doesn't like to fuel a warjack, but you can use a Skarlock to put Ravager on the Sepucher and a Warwitch to give it a focus which is enough to charge. Once in melee you can potentially keep attacking until everything in range is dead (thanks to Ravager) and your range is //huge// (thanks to its base size + Chain Strike). You can use the corpse tokens to spit out mechanithralls (that will benefit from Shadow of Death), and a nearby Soul Trapper to collect the souls and fire them to Terminus as, unlike the Kraken the Seppy doesn't remove from play. Final icing on the cake is Terminus can hide behind a colossal base.
> Unfortunately, with no way for Terminus to increase accuracy this is only viable against low-DEF infantry. Also note that Soul Trappers are anti-synergestic with Terminus on his feat turn, as they compete with him to be the "closest eligible model" for enemy souls.
Solos
- Soul trappers extend the range terminus can gain souls. This makes Terminus a happy chappy.
- On the other hand Soul Trappers are anti-synergestic with Terminus on his feat turn, as they compete with him to be the "closest eligible model" for enemy souls.
Drawbacks & Downsides
- An important point to consider when fielding a Terminus army in a timed turn/deathclock tournament: Make sure that you can complete activations with all your units before time is up. 30+ infantry are a great shield for Terminus, but not so great if they run down your deathclock on turn two.
- His main defensive tech, Sacrificial Pawn, doesn't work against magic attacks or melee attacks. Melee attacks shouldn't be a problem - you should be so surrounded by friendly undead troops that the enemy will struggle to get into melee.
- Terminus has a worse time against non-soul-producing enemies (Cryx and beast-heavy Legion) and against armies where there are only a few souls that're locked away inside durable models (some Hordes builds).
Tricks & Tips
- His Sacrificial Pawn doesn't protect vs magic attacks so watch out for arc nodes or units with magic ability.
- If you find yourself surrounded by squishy infantry, consider buying Scything Claw attacks instead of attacks with your Doomsayer. The Claw is frequently enough to kill most infantry and you have a chance to maybe get an extra kill with the throw.
- If you can rely on Sacrificial Pawn and good armor to avoid a ranged assassination very early in the game, and you brought a cheap arcnode with you consider the following. Race the arcnode ahead and drop an annihilation on a tight formation of infantry. In all likelihood, the arcnode will be dead before very long
Other
Trivia
Theme Forces this model is a member of
Other Cryx models
Rules Clarifications
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Rules Clarification: : Warcaster (Edit)
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- General
- Damage from a feat is neither an attack nor Damage Type: Magical (unless the feat says it is).
- FOCUS (uppercase) is the stat printed on the warcaster's card. Focus (lowercase) refers to focus points a model currently has.
- Your CTRL area is double your FOCUS stat, not double your focus 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 warcasters 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 Warcaster rules.
- Work out all damage modifiers (such as Decapitation doubling the damage that exceeds ARM) before reducing it with the Power Field. (Infernal Ruling)
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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: : 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 : Undead - None yet. (Edit)
Rules Clarification : Cull Soul - None yet. (Edit)
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Rules Clarification : Corrosion (Edit)
- If you deploy in corrosion hazard terrain (Acid Pool), then you get corroded before the game starts.
- Deploying a model in a hazard counts as being "put into play" in the hazard. Being put into play counts as "entering". When you enter a hazard, you trigger the hazard.
- A weapon can inflict continuous corrosion without itself being a corrosion damage weapon (for example, the Acidic Touch animus). In this case, the attack can hurt models with Immunity: Corrosion it just won't apply the continuous effect.
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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 : Pitch (Edit)
- If you Pitch on a charge attack, then the throw damage will be boosted (but not collateral damage).
- Throw ( Edit )
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- If a model is somehow thrown at itself (which can happen with Durst1's feat) it would not move, it would be knocked down, and it would take a standard power attack damage roll but it would not take an additional die for colliding with itself. (Infernal Ruling)
- Because you move the target model between the attack roll and the damage roll, you can get different buffs applied to the two rolls. For instance, if you throw the target in or out of a Flanking model's melee range.
- Incorporeal vs Slammed/Thrown models ( Edit )
- Incorporeal models cannot be moved by someone trying to slam them.
- Slammed models can move through Incorporeal models.
- If they have enough movement to get past them, no dramas.
- If they land on them, you move the Incorporeal model out of the way as per the Rule of Least Disturbance.
- If the Incorporeal model cannot be moved (i.e. it's a flag) then you move the slammed model out of the way, also by the rule of Least Disturbance.
- For the purposes of Collateral Damage, only the model(s) you contacted before you applied the rule of Least Disturbance count as contacted.
- The same logic applies to Throws.
- Collateral Damage
- Collateral damage cannot be boosted and is not considered damage from an attack or model. Refer page 33 of the 2021.08 version of the rules pdf. As a result:
- It doesn't trigger stuff that relies on being hit by an enemy (such as Shock Field) or damaged by an enemy (such as Vengeance).
- It doesn't get bonus damage from stuff that adds to a model's damage roll (such as Signs & Portents or Prey).
- It doesn't matter if the attacker has crippled weapon systems or aspects.
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Rules Clarification: : Flight (Edit)
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- Flight doesn't ignore:
- Impassable terrain.
- Most hazards. The exception is they do ignore Acid Bath and Burning Earth as long as they don't land in them.
- Templates that stay in play and do damage to models moving through them (such as a Scather).
- Free strikes.
- Trampling with a flying model (Edit)
- Flight allows you to trample "over" medium- and larger-bases.
- Although you trample "over" them, you don't get to make a trample attack vs them and you don't ignore their free strikes. Refer the core rulebook.
- Unless, of course, you have an exception like Blade Rush.
- Flight on a Cavalry model (Edit)
- Although flyers can move over obstacles/models, and horses can pause to do impacts while charging, flying horses cannot make impact attacks while overlapping models/obstacles. You need to pause in a legal position.
- Charging through models (Edit)
- You can't charge all the way through your charge target, with the intention to turn around and face them once you're on the other side.
- Because you aren't able to satisfy the "must keep the charge target in melee range" clause at the point after you are through the model but before you turn to directly face. At that point the target is behind you, not in your front arc, and thus not in your melee range.
- Your melee range only extends to your front arc. Refer to the latest errata.
- You can still "skim" through the edge of their base, if you're careful and smart with your positioning.
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Rules Clarification: : Assault (Edit)
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General
Step 1: Declare the charge
- Are you in already melee? With any enemy, not just your charge target?
- If yes, you don't get an Assault attack at all (Refer to the latest Errata). Instead it's just a normal charge.
- If no, continue to Step 2.
- Note: You cannot be "in melee" with a stationary/knocked down target. Feel free to declare charges (and Assault shots) in this case.
- You can even charge a knocked down model you're in B2B with, advance 0", and get your ranged attack and your melee attack(s).
Step 2: Move the charging model
- As soon as the movement is finished, determine whether it was a successful charge or not.
- Do this before resolving anything that triggers on "Ends Movement" (like Admonition, Countercharge).
- Do this before resolving your Assault attack.
- Did you make a successful charge? You get the ranged attack even though you're "in melee" (not yet though).
- Did you fail the charge? You will get the Assault shot anyway (not yet though).
- Did you fail the charge, but end your movement in melee with someone different to your charge target? You get the ranged attack even though you're "in melee" (not yet though). (Infernal Ruling)
- Now that you've figured out whether the charge successful, you resolve "Ends Movement" effects (such as Countercharge) before the Assault attack. (Infernal Ruling).
- If something happens at this point that changes whether a model is in/out of melee range, it does not retroactively change a failed charge into a successful charge or vice versa.
- If your charge was successful you may use "any time" abilities between 'finishing movement' and 'starting Assault attack'. (Infernal Ruling)
- If you fail your charge, you may not use "any time" abilities before or after making the Assault attack. (Infernal Ruling)
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Tip !
Assault is not a "triggered ability" and it will never trigger simultaneously with another ability that triggers/resolves at "ends movement". Instead, the other ability is always resolved before the Assault shot.
You can make an Assault shot even if you charged less than 3".
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Step 3: Make the ranged attack
- The ranged attack is optional.
- Since the Assault attack is outside your Combat Action, you can only do a basic ranged attack. CRA & Special ranged attacks are only allowed during your Combat Action, you can't do them. (Infernal Ruling CRA & Special Attack)
- Did you move at least 3" during the charge movement? Who cares, that is irrelevant to the Assault attack!
- Make your ranged attack vs your charge target
- If the charge target is already dead (which can happen when units charge) then you don't get to redirect your Assault attack vs 'someone else'. You simply don't get an Assault attack. (Infernal Ruling)
- A model which can do something "instead of making a ranged attack" (such as the Spriggan's Targeting Flare) then they can do that as an Assault attack. (Infernal Ruling)
- If your ranged attacks triggers other attacks/damage that occur "after the attack" (such as Drag or Electro Leap) then those will resolve as per normal, regardless of whether you had a successful charge or not. (Infernal Ruling)
- Is the target in melee with the shooter?
- If yes, then you ignore the +4 DEF bonus (as per the 3rd paragraph of "Targeting a Model in Melee" (TMM) rules)
- If no, resolve the ranged attack exactly the same as if it were a normal ranged attack.
Step 4: After finishing the Assault attack
- If it was an unsuccessful charge, your activation now ends.
- If it was a successful charge, and your charge target is ...
- still alive, then you get your charge attack (as per the charge rules)
- dead, then you get your initial melee attack(s) vs anyone still in your melee range (as per the charge rules).
- Either way, you don't get to make more ranged attacks (other than the obvious exceptions like Gunfighter, of course).
Units
- Move all models in the unit before making any Assault attacks. (Infernal Ruling)
- Make all Assault attacks before making any Charge attacks. (Infernal Ruling)
- Each model in the unit is effectively "stalled" while you move/shoot the other models. This "stall" does not create an opportunity to use "any time" abilities. (Infernal Ruling)
- If a trooper's target dies before they make their Assault shot, they don't get to redirect it. You just skip their Assault shot. (Infernal Ruling)
- You cannot make Assault attacks while out of formation, as per the regular formation rules about making attacks.
- Assault & CRA (Edit)
- You cannot mix Combined Range Attacks with Assault shots, as CRA works during your combat action and Assault shots occur before it. (Infernal Ruling)
Other
- Warbeasts
- Warbeasts cannot use Assault during a Frenzy. Refer to the latest errata.
- Assault vs Countercharge ( Edit )
- Assault & Drag ( Edit )
- You determine whether a charge was successful or not before making the Assault attack.
- If you make an unsuccessful charge but then use Drag to get your charge target into melee range, then:
- It is still a failed charge and your activation is going to end after the Assault attack is resolved. (Infernal Ruling)
- You will get the free melee attack from Drag as part of resolving the Assault ranged attack. (Infernal Ruling)
- Whether or not your charge was successful, this free melee attack is not a charge attack. (Infernal Ruling)
- You won't be able to purchase additionals (because your activation ended).
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Rules Clarification: : Sacrificial Pawn and/or Sucker! and/or Grim Salvation (Edit)
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Differences
- Sacrificial Pawn is optional.
Grim Salvation and Sucker are not optional.
- Grim Salvation only works vs basic attacks, not special attacks, power attacks, chain attacks.
- Spells are not basic attacks, because they are not "made with a weapon". (Infernal Ruling)
- CRA and CMA are basic attacks. (Infernal Ruling)
- If a Special Attack generates an additional attack (such as Multi-Fire), the second attack will be basic and as such can have Grim Salvation used vs it. (Infernal Ruling)
- Sacrificial Pawn & Sucker! don't work against melee attacks.
- None of them work vs magic attacks (spells).
All of them work against Magical Ranged attacks, though.
- The model the attack is transferred to is always hit, even if they have an ability that makes them automatically get missed (such as Stealth).
Automatically missing is determined earlier in the timing sequence than when the attack is moved. (Infernal Ruling)
From here down, the terms Sacrificial Pawn, Grim Salvation, and Sucker! are interchangeable
- Using Sac Pawn moves all damage and effects onto the other model.
- The new model hit may use any abilities that trigger on being hit/damaged by an enemy attack (such as Vengeance and Shock Field).
- Sprays and AOEs
- With reference to the timing chart in Appendix A: placing a spray template down occurs at Step 3. Using Sacrificial Pawn occurs at step 6. Placing an AOE template down occurs at step 7.
Therefore if you use Sac Pawn vs a spray, the placement of the spray template does not change. If you use Sac Pawn vs an AOE, the placement of the AOE template does change.
- A model indirectly hit by an AOE attack cannot use Sac Pawn vs it.
- Since a spray template doesn't move, it may cause the Pawn to be hit twice by the same spray. So you then resolve two damage rolls against it.
- When/if you shift an AOE template, the original target may be clipped by the edge of the AOE anyway (depending on how far apart the original target and Pawn are).
- Quick Draw vs Sacrificial Pawn (Edit)
- If enemy "Model A" shoots you, and then you use Quick Draw against "Model A", but they use Sac Pawn to move your Quick Draw attack to "Model B" then ... Quick Draw has no effect (or rather, it affects "Model B" who isn't currently shooting you so is irrelevant). Point is, "Model A" can continue shooting you.
- This won't happen with Shield Guard though (outside of a very low-probability scenario) because Shield Guard can only be triggered during an enemy turn.
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Rules Clarification : Shadow of Death (Edit)
- SoD applies to Terminus, because a model is always within its own CMD range. Refer "Model Profiles" in the rulebook.
- SoD applies to incorporeal undead models. Infernal Ruling
Rules Clarification : Tough - None yet. (Edit)
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Rules Clarification : Tough - None yet. (Edit)
Rules Clarification : Hellfire - None yet. (Edit)
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Rules Clarification : Annihilation (Edit)
- Not blast damage (Edit)
- Due to the way it is worded, this spell/weapon does full POW to all models in the AOE. It is not blast damage and it is not halved.
- For the same reason, it doesn't do "two damage rolls to the model directly hit". (Infernal Ruling)
- Models that are immune to blast damage have no defence vs this spell/weapon.
- "Regardless of proximity" soul takers (Edit)
- The model which ignores distance doesn't always get the soul. Abilities which say you "can't" collect souls (such as Soul Ward) trump it, due to the general rule that "can't trumps can".
- If there are multiple models that all have the "regardless of proximity" clause, then you randomise who the soul goes to. (Infernal Ruling)
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Rules Clarification : Malediction - None yet. (Edit)
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Rules Clarification : Ravager (Edit)
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Rules Clarification : Berserk (Edit)
- Berserk attacks will generate even more Berserk attacks. You keep going until you miss, something survives, or you run out of targets.
- Berserk grants an additional attack which by definition can only occur during your Combat Action. Therefore Berserk doesn't work on free strikes, impact attacks, etc.
- "Immediately" means you can't save it until later in your activation. Berserk must be resolved at step 14 of the attack sequence (refer Apdx A).
- You cannot use "Any Time" abilities while resolving the original attack, the Berserk attack, or between the attacks. Refer Apdx A.
- Berserk doesn't trigger during a frenzy. (Infernal Ruling)
- Berserk will not trigger if the target uses an ability to move the damage to another model (such as a warlock transfer).
- But it will trigger if they use an ability to move the attack to a different model (such as Grim Salvation).
- Berserk has a weird niche interaction with Agathon's abilities, which you can read here.
- Attack-Generating Abilities (Edit)
- From the core rulebook: When a model is granted more attacks as a result of an attack it made, it gains only one. If two or more special rules would grant the model another attack as a result of making an attack, its controlling player chooses which special rule to apply.
- If you trigger two attack-generating abilities (such as Black Spot and Kill Shot) you choose to resolve one and "lose" the other (unless you trigger it again later).
- If you trigger two attack-generating abilities, and one of them is compulsory (such as Black Spot and Berserk), you must choose to resolve the compulsory one. (Infernal Ruling)
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