Sylvaneth – Grove Guardian
4" 7 5+ 2 Grove Guardians are the keepers of the sacred soulpod groves, fey wardens whose powers of rejuvenation can grant new life to fallen Sylvaneth. In battle, they slay their foes with deft strikes of their sickles or leaf-bladed shears whilst regenerating the life energy of harvested lamentiri within the amniotic pods of their genesis trees. | ||
| MELEE WEAPONS | Atk | Hit | Wnd | Rnd | Dmg | ||
| Grove Sickle or Shears | |||||||
| Grove Sickle or Shears | 3 | 3+ | 4+ | 1 | D3 | ||
| Guardian Spites [Crit (Mortal), Companion] | |||||||
| Guardian Spites Crit (Mortal), Companion | 6 | 4+ | 4+ | 1 | D3 | ||
BATTLE PROFILE
Unit Size: 1 Points: 200
Base size: 105 × 70mm
Can be reinforced: Yes
Regiment Options: Any SYLVANETH
 Once Per Turn (Army), Any Combat Phase |
SOULSHRIEK: Should a Revenant be slain in their presence,
a Grove Guardian can trigger a spiritual backlash through the fallen’s lamentiri fuelled by the collective trauma of generations, stilling the heart of their killer in a sudden burst of soul-shock.
Declare: Pick each friendly non-HERO REVENANT unit wholly within 12" of and visible to this unit to be the targets.
Effect: For the rest of the phase, each time a model in a target unit is slain by a combat attack, roll a dice. On a 5+, inflict 1 mortal damage on the attacking unit.
a Grove Guardian can trigger a spiritual backlash through the fallen’s lamentiri fuelled by the collective trauma of generations, stilling the heart of their killer in a sudden burst of soul-shock.
Effect: For the rest of the phase, each time a model in a target unit is slain by a combat attack, roll a dice. On a 5+, inflict 1 mortal damage on the attacking unit.
 Your Hero Phase | 4 |
REGENESIS: Freshly grown forest spirits leap from the amniotic pods of the Grove Guardian’s genesis tree, ready to join the Everqueen’s war.
Declare: Declare: Pick a friendly SYLVANETH unit that is wholly within the creeping overgrowth or that is visible to and wholly within 12" of this unit to be the target, then make a chanting roll of D6.
Effect: If the chanting roll was 6+, you can pick another eligible unit to be a second target. If a target is a non-HERO REVENANT INFANTRY or Dryads unit, return up to D3 models to the target unit. Otherwise, Heal (3) that target.
Effect: If the chanting roll was 6+, you can pick another eligible unit to be a second target. If a target is a non-HERO REVENANT INFANTRY or Dryads unit, return up to D3 models to the target unit. Otherwise, Heal (3) that target.
| KEYWORDS | PRAYER |
KEYWORDS | HERO, PRIEST (2), INFANTRY |
| ORDER, SYLVANETH, FOREST ELDER |
Errata
Grove Gurdian
Change the ability ‘Soulshriek’ to:
| Once Per Turn (Army), Any Combat Phase |
SOULSHRIEK: Should a Revenant be slain in their presence, a Grove Guardian can trigger a spiritual backlash through the fallen's lamentiri fuelled by the collective trauma of generations, stilling the heart of their killer in a sudden burst of soul-shock.
Declare: Pick each friendly non-HERO REVENANT unit wholly within 12" of and visible to this unit to be the targets.
Effect: For the rest of the phase, each time a model in a target unit is slain by a combat attack, roll a dice. On a 5+, inflict 1 mortal damage on the attacking unit.
Effect: For the rest of the phase, each time a model in a target unit is slain by a combat attack, roll a dice. On a 5+, inflict 1 mortal damage on the attacking unit.
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). | ||
| Passive |
THE CREEPING OVERGROWTH: As children of Ghyran, the Sylvaneth are redolent with the energies of life, which cause the ambient flora to rapidly grow and spread.
Effect: The creeping overgrowth is measured from each terrain feature that has a friendly overgrown token. The range of the creeping overgrowth is based on the number of friendly overgrown tokens on the battlefield as shown:
Designer’s Note: Awakened Wyldwoods are your main way of generating overgrown tokens. Some unit abilities allow you to do so too.
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Designer’s Note: Awakened Wyldwoods are your main way of generating overgrown tokens. Some unit abilities allow you to do so too.
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Sylvaneth warscrolls:
Companion
Unless otherwise specified, attacks made by this weapon are not affected by friendly abilities that modify hit rolls, wound rolls or weapon characteristics, except for those that apply negative modifiers (e.g. ‘Covering Fire’).The ORDER keyword is used in the following Sylvaneth warscrolls:
The SYLVANETH keyword is used in the following Sylvaneth 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.Cover
Subtract 1 from hit rolls for attacks that target a unit that is behind or wholly on this terrain feature, unless that unit charged this turn or has the FLY keyword.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).
 Your Movement Phase |
RETREAT: The fighters disengage from combat, though at the cost of lowering their defences.
Declare: Pick a friendly unit that is in combat to use this ability.
Effect: Inflict D3 mortal damage on that unit. That unit can move a distance up to its Move characteristic. That unit can move through the combat ranges of any enemy units but cannot end that move within an enemy unit’s combat range.
Effect: Inflict D3 mortal damage on that unit. That unit can move a distance up to its Move characteristic. That unit can move through the combat ranges of any enemy units but cannot end that move within an enemy unit’s combat range.
| KEYWORDS | CORE, MOVE, RETREAT |
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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FAQ / Errata
FAQ
| Q: | If a model in base-to-base contact with an enemy model retreats 3" directly away from the enemy model, is it still in combat with that enemy model? |
| A: | No. |
Errata
Addenda: 7.0 Combat Range
Add the following:
‘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.’
| 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.
Obscuring
While every model in a non-MONSTER non‐WAR MACHINE unit that does not have the FLY keyword is within 1" of this terrain feature, the following apply:- That unit is only visible to enemy units that are within its combat range.
- The Range characteristic of that unit’s ranged weapons is halved (rounding down to the nearest inch).
Unstable
Models can move across but cannot be set up on or end any type of move on any part of this terrain feature that is more than 1" tall.1.4.2 Obscuring Terrain
Examples: Wyldwood, fortress wallTerrain Abilities: Cover, Obscuring, Unstable
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.If a rule or ability requires a target to be both within a given range of and visible to the unit using that ability, or to a model in that unit, both conditions must be met by the same model in the target. You could not, for instance, target a unit where one model is within range but not visible and another model is not in range but is visible.
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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. | ||
FAQ / Errata
FAQ
| Q: | If a non-FLY INFANTRY HERO (e.g. a Scinari Cathallar) is a Shrine Guardian of a Shrine Luminor, and that Shrine Guardian is within 1" of an obscuring terrain feature, is the Shrine Guardian visible to enemy abilities that target the Shrine Guardian? |
| A: | Yes. |
Errata
6.0 Visibility
Add the following:
‘If a rule or ability requires a target to be both within a given range of and visible to the unit using that ability, or to a model in that unit, both conditions must be met by the same model in the target. You could not, for instance, target a unit where one model is within range but not visible and another model is not in range but is visible.’
‘If a rule or ability requires a target to be both within a given range of and visible to the unit using that ability, or to a model in that unit, both conditions must be met by the same model in the target. You could not, for instance, target a unit where one model is within range but not visible and another model is not in range but is visible.’
The FOREST ELDER keyword is used in the following Sylvaneth warscrolls:
Infantry Hero
Monster Hero
Monster
• Treelord
The HERO keyword is used in the following Sylvaneth warscrolls:
Cavalry Hero
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.
3.0 Prayers
The declare step of each prayer will tell you to make a chanting roll of D6. On an unmodified chanting roll of 1, the prayer fails, its effect is not resolved and you must remove D3 ritual points from the PRIEST using the prayer.Otherwise, pick one of the following:
- Give a number of ritual points to the PRIEST equal to the chanting roll (ritual points can be accumulated over multiple turns).
- You can add the PRIEST’s ritual points to the chanting roll. If the chanting roll equals or exceeds the prayer’s chanting value (at the top-right corner of the prayer), it is answered: resolve the effect of the prayer, then reset the PRIEST’s ritual points total to 0.
All PRIESTS know the following prayer:
| Your Hero Phase |
SACRED RITES: The priest focuses on safely setting their ritual into motion.
Declare: Pick a friendly PRIEST to use this ability, then make a chanting roll of D6. On an unmodified chanting roll of 1, remove 1 ritual point from that PRIEST instead of D3.
Effect: Give a number to ritual points to the PRIEST equal to the unmodified chanting roll and do not reset the PRIEST’s ritual points to 0.
Effect: Give a number to ritual points to the PRIEST equal to the unmodified chanting roll and do not reset the PRIEST’s ritual points to 0.
| KEYWORDS | PRAYER, UNLIMITED |
EXAMPLE PRAYER
 Once Per Battle, Your Hero Phase | 7 |
RESURRECTION: A fallen hero is brought back from death, their vitality fully restored.
Declare: Make a chanting roll of D6.
Effect: Pick a friendly INFANTRY HERO that has been slain and return them to the battlefield. Set up that HERO wholly within 3" of this PRIEST.
Effect: Pick a friendly INFANTRY HERO that has been slain and return them to the battlefield. Set up that HERO wholly within 3" of this PRIEST.
| KEYWORDS | PRAYER |
 Passive |
SEED OF REBIRTH: Should the bearer of this seed ever fall, its rejuvenating energies will grant them new life.
Effect: The first time this unit would be destroyed, before removing it from play, roll a dice. On a 3+, this unit is not destroyed and any remaining damage points inflicted on it have no effect. Then, Heal (D3) this unit.
21.0 Healing
Some abilities allow you to heal a unit. To heal a unit, remove a number of damage points from the unit equal to the number in brackets after ‘Heal’, e.g. Heal (2).FAQ
| Q: | If an ability (e.g. ‘Seed of Rebirth’) would allow a unit that would be destroyed to negate all remaining damage points then heal to prevent that unit from being destroyed, and another ability (e.g. ‘Quenching the Flames’) prevents that unit from healing, would that unit still be destroyed? |
| A: | Yes. |
The PRIEST keyword is used in the following Sylvaneth warscrolls:
The non-HERO REVENANT and SYLVANETH keywords are used in the following Sylvaneth warscrolls:
The non-HERO REVENANT, INFANTRY and SYLVANETH keywords are used in the following Sylvaneth warscrolls: