Slaves to Darkness – Gaunt Summoner on Disc of Tzeentch
14" 6 4+ 2 The Gaunt Summoners are nine favoured daemons of Tzeentch, each a formidable sorcerer-monarch. They are masters of the Silver Towers, esoteric fortresses that drift beyond time and space and are filled to the brim with gibbering daemons. The Gaunt Summoners were once free to pursue their agendas how they saw fit, but Archaon the Everchosen coveted their service. Through great cunning, he managed to acquire the true names of each and, thus, was able to bind them to his will. Though they despise the Everchosen, the Gaunt Summoners have since proven an invaluable cabal of advisors, seers and agents.
Gaunt Summoners are immensely proud beings who consider walking the crudely mundane earth of the realms to be an indignity. Often, they will summon a Disc of Tzeentch to serve as their mount – a fellow daemon they have bound and shaped through magic into a floating, bladed conveyance. Stood atop a Disc, the Gaunt Summoner hurtles across the battlefield, attending to critical elements of their schemes in person. When needs must, they summon torrents of mutative wyrdflame to overcome the foe or open portals to their Silver Towers in which to trap especially intriguing adversaries. | ||
| RANGED WEAPONS | Rng | Atk | Hit | Wnd | Rnd | Dmg | ||
| Changestaff [Crit (Mortal)] | ||||||||
| Changestaff Crit (Mortal) | 12" | 3 | 4+ | 3+ | 1 | D3 | ||
| MELEE WEAPONS | Atk | Hit | Wnd | Rnd | Dmg | |||
| Warptongue Blade | ||||||||
| Warptongue Blade | 3 | 3+ | 3+ | 1 | 2 | |||
| Disc’s Teeth and Horns [Companion] | ||||||||
| Disc’s Teeth and Horns Companion | 2 | 4+ | 3+ | 1 | D3 | |||
BATTLE PROFILE
Unit Size: 1 Points: 230
Base size: 40mm
Can be reinforced: No
Regiment Options: Any SLAVES TO DARKNESS
 Deployment Phase |
MINIONS OF THE SILVER TOWER: The warped fortresses of the Gaunt Summoners are infested with their thrall hosts.
Declare: Pick a friendly unit that has not been deployed to be the target.
Effect: The target is set up in reserve in a Silver Tower. It has now been deployed.
Effect: The target is set up in reserve in a Silver Tower. It has now been deployed.
| KEYWORDS | DEPLOY |
 Your Movement Phase |
BOOK OF PROFANE SECRETS: Using this arcane tome, the Gaunt Summoner calls forth minions from their Silver Tower.
Declare: Pick a friendly unit in a Silver Tower to be the target.
Effect: Set up the target on the battlefield wholly within 12" of this unit and more than 9" from all enemy units.
Effect: Set up the target on the battlefield wholly within 12" of this unit and more than 9" from all enemy units.
 Your Hero Phase | 7 |
ARCANE IMPRISONMENT: Gaunt Summoners delight in banishing foes to their Silver Towers.
Declare: Pick an enemy HERO in combat with this unit to be the target, then make a casting roll of 2D6.
Effect: If the unmodified casting roll exceeds the target’s Health characteristic, it is automatically destroyed. For the rest of the battle, that unit cannot be picked to be the target of an ability that allows a replacement unit to be set up.
Effect: If the unmodified casting roll exceeds the target’s Health characteristic, it is automatically destroyed. For the rest of the battle, that unit cannot be picked to be the target of an ability that allows a replacement unit to be set up.
| KEYWORDS | SPELL |
KEYWORDS | HERO, WIZARD (2), CAVALRY, FLY, WARD (6+) |
| CHAOS, SLAVES TO DARKNESS, DAEMON, TZEENTCH |
Hit Roll
Roll a dice. If the roll equals or exceeds the attacking weapon’s Hit characteristic, the attack scores a successful hit: move on to the next step. If not, the attack fails and the attack sequence ends. Unmodified hit rolls of 1 always fail. If an unmodified hit roll for an attack made with a weapon is a 6, that attack is a critical hit.| Critical hits have no effect on their own but often trigger additional effects (see 20.0 Weapon Abilities). | ||
The CHAOS keyword is used in the following Slaves to Darkness warscrolls:
• Raptoryx
The SLAVES TO DARKNESS keyword is used in the following Slaves to Darkness warscrolls:
• Raptoryx
Army List
Warscrolls collatedCavalry Hero
Infantry Hero
Monster Hero
War Machine Hero
Infantry
Monster
War Machine
Faction Terrain
Regiment of Renown
Companion
Unless otherwise specified, this weapon is not affected by friendly abilities that affect weapon characteristics or the attack sequence, except for those that apply negative modifiers to it (e.g. ‘Covering Fire’).18.1 Ward Saves
Units with the WARD keyword have the ‘Ward Save’ passive ability. The number after the WARD keyword indicates the ward value for the ward save. If a unit had WARD (5+), for example, its ward value would be 5. If a unit has more than one ward save, only the ward save with the lowest value applies to it; the other has no effect. Passive |
WARD SAVE: Whether through their uncanny reflexes, unnatural toughness or a source of mystical protection, these warriors can avoid otherwise lethal attacks.
Effect: In step 1 of the damage sequence (see 18.0), make a ward roll of D6 for each damage point in this unit’s damage pool. If the roll equals or exceeds this unit’s ward value, remove that damage point from the damage pool.
6.0 Visibility
A target model is visible to another model (which we’ll call the ‘observing model’) if you can draw a straight line through the air (whether horizontal, diagonal or vertical) from any point on the observing model to any point on the target model that does not intersect any objects except for other models in the observing model’s unit. A target unit is visible to an observing unit if at least 1 model in the target unit is visible to at least 1 model in the observing unit. A model is always considered to be visible to itself.
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| In some cases, it might not be immediately clear whether a model is visible. If so, stoop down to get a look from behind the observing model. If any part of the other model is visible, even if it is just the tip of a spear, then that model is visible for rules purposes. | ||
The HERO keyword is used in the following Slaves to Darkness warscrolls:
1.0 Wizards and Priests
WIZARDS are special units that can cast spells, and PRIESTS are special units that can chant prayers. Spells and prayers are powerful abilities that can have a dramatic impact on the battle.
The DAEMON keyword is used in the following Slaves to Darkness warscrolls:
The TZEENTCH keyword is used in the following Slaves to Darkness warscrolls:
- Archaon receive Mark of Chaos keyword during deployment.
- This unit receive Mark of Chaos keyword during army composition.
- This sorcerer unit receive Mark of Chaos keyword during army composition.7.0 Combat Range
Each model has a combat range that extends 3" horizontally from its base and any distance vertically from that circle to form a cylinder. The combat range of a unit extends 3" horizontally and any distance vertically from every model in that unit. Units from opposing armies that are within each other’s combat range and that are visible to each other are in combat with each other. When a unit that is not in combat enters the combat range of a visible enemy unit, it moves into combat.
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The WIZARD keyword is used in the following Slaves to Darkness warscrolls:
15.4 Flying
Units with the FLY keyword have the following passive ability:| Passive |
FLY: Soaring above the battlefield, this unit can reach destinations that are inaccessible to other troops.
Effect: As this unit moves, it ignores other models, terrain features and the combat ranges of enemy units. It cannot end its move in combat unless specified in the ability that allowed it to move. Ignore any vertical distance moved for this unit.
| When moving flying units, move them horizontally in any direction, ignoring intervening models and terrain, and place them where you wish, so long as they are allowed to end their move on that spot. Note that some units have the FLY keyword even if that unit can’t really fly. This often represents units that bounce, bound or skitter across the battlefield so adeptly that they might as well be flying! | ||
The FLY keyword is used in the following Slaves to Darkness warscrolls:
The WARD keyword is used in the following Slaves to Darkness warscrolls:
Crit (Mortal)
If an attack made with this weapon scores a critical hit, that attack inflicts mortal damage on the target unit equal to the Damage characteristic of that weapon and the attack sequence ends.2.0 Spells
The declare step of each spell will tell you to make a casting roll of 2D6. If the roll does not equal or exceed the spell’s casting value (at the top-right corner of the spell), the spell fails and its effect is not resolved.If the unmodified casting roll includes 2 or more rolls of 1, the spell is miscast: the spell fails, its effect is not resolved, D3 mortal damage is inflicted on the WIZARD that used it, and that WIZARD cannot use any more spells in that phase.
Enemy reactions can only be used if the casting roll equals or exceeds the spell’s casting value. So long as the spell is not unbound (see 4.0), then it is successfully cast: resolve its effect.
EXAMPLE SPELL
| Your Hero Phase | 6 |
MYSTIC SHIELD: The caster's allies are bathed in an unearthly glow that protects them from harm.
Declare: Pick a visible friendly unit wholly within 12" of this WIZARD to be the target. Then, make a casting roll of 2D6.
Effect: The target has WARD (6+) this turn.
Effect: The target has WARD (6+) this turn.
| KEYWORDS | SPELL |
The CAVALRY keyword is used in the following Slaves to Darkness warscrolls: