Soulblight Gravelords – Terrorgheist
12" 14 5+ 5 In ages past, colossal chiropteran predators haunted the skies of the Mortal Realms, preying upon their fellow megafauna and leeching them dry of blood. Many of these leather-winged titans were hunted to extinction or otherwise starved when the spread of civilisation robbed them of their favoured prey. They slunk away into dismal caves and echoing vaults to slowly die out, embittered and voracious. It was the carcasses of these beasts that early practitioners of necromancy discovered and raised as the abominations known as Terrorgheists. Their teeth and claws are the length of Sigmarite greatswords and are capable of cleaving through armour with ease, but these monstrous creatures possess an even more fearsome weapon in their arsenal: their infamous killing shriek.
As a Terrorgheist swoops down from the sky, it will unleash a piercing audial barrage, splitting the flesh and pulping the skulls of its victims through sheer sonic pressure. Survivors are left reeling and defenceless against the eternally starving beast as it attempts to devour them, and such is the size of its maw that human-sized prey is often swallowed whole. Yet as the Terrorgheist’s innards rotted away long ago, the savaged remains do nothing to satiate its cursed hunger, instead simply adding to trail of broken corpses it leave in its passing. | ||
| RANGED WEAPONS | Rng | Atk | Hit | Wnd | Rnd | Dmg | ||
| Death Shriek [Shoot in Combat, Companion] | ||||||||
| Death Shriek Shoot in Combat, Companion | 10" | 1 | 4+ | 2+ | 2 | D6 | ||
| MELEE WEAPONS | Atk | Hit | Wnd | Rnd | Dmg | |||
 Skeletal Talons [Companion] | ||||||||
| Skeletal Talons Companion | 6 | 4+ | 2+ | 1 | 2 | |||
| Fanged Maw [Companion] | ||||||||
| Fanged Maw Companion | 3 | 4+ | 2+ | 2 | D6 | |||
 Passive |
BATTLE DAMAGED
Effect: While this unit has 10 or more damage points, the Attacks characteristic of its Skeletal Talons is 4.
Effect: While this unit has 10 or more damage points, the Attacks characteristic of its Skeletal Talons is 4.
 Once Per Turn (Army), Any Combat Phase |
SONIC ASSAULT: With a barrage of ear-piercing shrieks, the Terrorgheist drops from the sky to savage its stunned prey.
Declare: If this unit charged this turn, pick an enemy unit in combat with it to be the target.
Effect: Roll a dice for each model in the target unit.
If 3 or more of the dice have the same value, for the rest of the turn, this unit has STRIKE-FIRST.
If 6 or more of the dice have the same value, for the rest of the turn, this unit has STRIKE-FIRST and the target cannot use commands.
Effect: Roll a dice for each model in the target unit.
If 3 or more of the dice have the same value, for the rest of the turn, this unit has STRIKE-FIRST.
If 6 or more of the dice have the same value, for the rest of the turn, this unit has STRIKE-FIRST and the target cannot use commands.
| KEYWORDS | RAMPAGE |
| Passive |
GAPING MAW: This horrific creature bites a great chunk out of its prey – or even swallows it whole.
Effect: Each time an attack made with this unit’s Fanged Maw scores a critical hit, that attack inflicts 6 mortal damage on the target unit and the attack sequence ends.
KEYWORDS | MONSTER, FLY, WARD (6+) |
| DEATH, SOULBLIGHT GRAVELORDS |
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). | ||
15.3 Pile-in Moves
Some abilities, such as FIGHT abilities, allow a unit to make a short move called a pile-in move to get into a better position for combat. To do so:If your unit is in combat: Pick an enemy unit your unit is in combat with to be the target of the pile-in move. Each model in your unit can move up to 3". That move can pass through the combat ranges of any enemy units, but each model must end that move no further from the target unit. At the end of the move, your unit must still be in combat with all units that it was in combat with at the start of the move.
If your unit is not in combat: Each model in your unit can move 3" in any direction. That move can pass through and end within the combat ranges of any enemy units.
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19.0 Strike-first and Strike-last
If there are any STRIKE-FIRST units in combat at the start of the phase, other units cannot be picked to use a FIGHT ability until those units have been picked to use a FIGHT ability. After all those STRIKE-FIRST units have fought, the active player picks the next unit to fight.If there are any STRIKE-LAST units in combat, they cannot be picked to use a FIGHT ability if there are any units in combat that do not have STRIKE-LAST and have not yet used a FIGHT ability.
If a unit has STRIKE-FIRST and STRIKE-LAST, treat it as if it had neither.
| There may be situations when a unit that has STRIKE-FIRST is not in combat at the start of the phase, but because of moves such as pile-in moves, it is ‘pulled into combat’ later in the phase. In such cases, STRIKE-FIRST has no effect on that unit because it was not in combat at the start of the phase. Abilities that allow a unit to use a FIGHT ability immediately after another unit do not override the STRIKE-FIRST or STRIKE-LAST constraints, so you could not pick a unit with STRIKE-LAST to fight immediately after a unit with STRIKE-FIRST. | ||
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
Army List
Warscrolls collatedInfantry Hero
Monster Hero
Cavalry
Infantry
Monster
War Machine
Regiment of Renown
Shooting attacks
Shooting attacks are made with ranged weapons. The target unit(s) must be within a distance equal to the Range characteristic of the weapon being used and visible to the attacking model. Models cannot make shooting attacks if their unit is in combat, unless otherwise specified (see 20.0 Weapon Abilities).Shoot in Combat
This weapon can be used to make shooting attacks even if the attacking unit is in combat.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’).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.
A model is considered to be in combat with an enemy unit if that unit is within the model’s combat range and visible to it’
A model is considered to be in combat with an enemy unit if that unit is within the model’s combat range and visible to it’
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17.2 Mortal Damage
Some abilities inflict mortal damage. If an ability inflicts mortal damage on a unit, add that number of damage points to the unit’s damage pool for that ability (see 18.2 Allocating Damage).
Universal Core Abilities - Charge Phase
 Your Charge Phase |
CHARGE: With a mighty battle cry, the warriors charge into combat with the enemy.
Declare: Pick a friendly unit that is not in combat and has not used a RUN or RETREAT ability this turn to use this ability. Then, make a charge roll of 2D6.
Effect: That unit can move a distance up to the value of the charge roll. That unit can move through the combat ranges of any enemy units and must end that move within 1/2" of a visible enemy unit. If it does so, the unit using this ability has charged.
Effect: That unit can move a distance up to the value of the charge roll. That unit can move through the combat ranges of any enemy units and must end that move within 1/2" of a visible enemy unit. If it does so, the unit using this ability has charged.
| KEYWORDS | CORE, MOVE, CHARGE |
The MONSTER keyword is used in the following Soulblight Gravelords 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 Soulblight Gravelords warscrolls: