Soulblight Gravelords – Lady Annika, the Thirsting Blade
6" 5 5+ 2 Even amongst vampire-kin, Lady Annika’s thirst for blood was terrifying to behold. In life, the former socialite and mistress of ceremonies was infamous for her many vices, and in undeath, she found this taste for excess exacerbated a hundredfold. Granted the blood kiss by Radukar the Wolf, Lady Annika became part of the Vyrkos lord’s trusted court, tasked with escalating the consumption of the city’s mortal chattel and organising the infamous red feasts that took place within the city’s Ebon Citadel. Such is her ravenous nature that many Vyrkos courtiers believed that she ingested philtres of chamonite – the energising liquid realmstone heightening her reactions and the speed at which she could feed.
Annika certainly fights as though suffused by some arcane swiftness, for she is faster and more agile than any of her Vyrkos blood-kin. She wields the Blade Proboscian, slicing open the veins of her prey and letting the enchanted weapon drain their blood dry in moments. Yet for every foe exsanguinated in this manner, Annika gains only fleeting succour. Whether caused by her consumption of exotic substances or simply an unfortunate side-effect of the Soulblight Curse, her unique, haemovoric mania can never be satisfied. | ||
| MELEE WEAPONS | Atk | Hit | Wnd | Rnd | Dmg | ||
| Blade Proboscian | |||||||
| Blade Proboscian | 7 | 3+ | 4+ | 1 | 2 | ||
BATTLE PROFILE
Unit Size: 1 Points: 130
Base size: 60 × 35mm
Can be reinforced: No
Regiment Options: Any SOULBLIGHT GRAVELORDS
Notes: This HERO can join an eligible regiment as a Vyrkos Retainer.
 Deployment Phase |
SUPERNATURAL SPEED: Lady Annika’s near-permanent state of starvation drives her ahead of the main battlelines, ready to pounce as soon as prey draws near.
Declare: Pick this unit if it has not been deployed.
Effect: Set up this unit in reserve lying in wait. It has now been deployed.
Effect: Set up this unit in reserve lying in wait. It has now been deployed.
| KEYWORDS | DEPLOY |
 End of Any Turn |
KISS OF THE BLADE PROBOSCIAN: This pitted and corroded blade should not endure – and yet, it does. The same cannot be said for anything scratched by its mouldering point.
Declare: Pick an enemy unit that was allocated any damage points inflicted by this unit’s combat attacks this turn to be the target.
Effect: Roll a dice. On a 2+, subtract 1 from save rolls for the target for the rest of the battle.
Effect: Roll a dice. On a 2+, subtract 1 from save rolls for the target for the rest of the battle.
 Your Movement Phase |
STARVING NIGHTMARE: Unable to contain her hunger any longer, Lady Annika springs forth from hiding, eager to glut herself on the blood of the foe.
Declare: Pick this unit if it is lying in wait.
Effect: Set up this unit wholly within enemy territory and more than 9" from all enemy units.
Effect: Set up this unit wholly within enemy territory and more than 9" from all enemy units.
KEYWORDS | UNIQUE, HERO, INFANTRY, WARD (4+) |
| DEATH, SOULBLIGHT GRAVELORDS, VAMPIRE |
Combat attacks
Combat attacks are made with melee weapons. The target unit(s) must be within the combat range of the attacking model and visible to it. The model must attack with all of the melee weapons it is armed with.The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Soulblight Gravelords warscrolls:
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.
The WARD keyword is used in the following Soulblight Gravelords warscrolls:
• Vargskyr
The DEATH keyword is used in the following Soulblight Gravelords warscrolls:
• Vargskyr
The SOULBLIGHT GRAVELORDS keyword is used in the following Soulblight Gravelords warscrolls:
• Vargskyr
The VAMPIRE keyword is used in the following Soulblight Gravelords warscrolls:
• Vargskyr
Army List
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3.1 Regiments
Armies are made up of one or more regiments, each of which is led by a HERO. You must have at least 1 regiment in your army, and you can include a maximum of 5 regiments. To add a regiment, pick 1 HERO from your faction, then pick up to 3 non-HERO units to accompany them.Each HERO’s battle profile lists which units can be added to their regiment, and each non-HERO unit’s battle profile lists any relevant keywords it has. The battle profiles of some HEROES (such as named characters) may say that they can be added to the regiment of another HERO.
Those HEROES can join an eligible regiment as a Vyrkos Retainer.
The UNIQUE keyword is used in the following Soulblight Gravelords warscrolls:
The HERO keyword is used in the following Soulblight Gravelords warscrolls:
Save Roll
The commander of the target unit rolls a dice, subtracting the attacking weapon’s Rend characteristic from the roll. Unmodified save rolls of 1 always fail. If the roll equals or exceeds the Save characteristic of the target unit, the attack fails and the attack sequence ends. If not, it is a successful attack: move on to the next step.