Chaos Daemons – Skulltaker
| No | NAME | M | WS | BS | S | T | W | A | Ld | Sv | Base |
90 Skulltaker (base: 40mm) |
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| 1 | 90 Skulltaker |
7" | 2+ | 2+ | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 3+ | 40mm |
Skulltaker is a single model armed with the Slayer Sword. Only one of this model may be included in your army.
WEAPON | RANGE | TYPE | S | AP | D | ABILITIES |
| The Slayer Sword | ||||||
| The Slayer Sword | Melee | Melee | User | -3 | 3 | Each time you make a wound roll of 6+ for this weapon, that hit is resolved with a Damage of D3+3. |
| Each time you make a wound roll of 6+ for this weapon, that hit is resolved with a Damage of D3+3. | ||||||
ABILITIES | |
ABILITIES |
Daemonic, Unstoppable Ferocity, Daemonic Ritual Skulls for Khorne: You can re-roll failed hit and wound rolls for attacks made by Skulltaker that target a CHARACTER. Locus of Decapitation: You can add 1 to hit rolls made for friendly BLOODLETTER units that are within 8" of Skulltaker in the Fight phase. |
WARLORD TRAIT! | |
WARLORD TRAIT! |
Devastating Blow: Each time your Warlord fights, it can make a single Devastating Blow attack instead of its normal close combat attacks. If it does, make a single hit roll; if successful, the target suffers D3 mortal wounds. |
| FACTION KEYWORDS: CHAOS, DAEMON, KHORNE | |
| KEYWORDS: CHARACTER, INFANTRY, BLOODLETTER, HERALD OF KHORNE, SKULLTAKER | |
Datasheet-related Stratagems
1CP | ||
LEGION OF SKULLS Specialist Detachment Stratagem The teeming masses of Khorne’s lesser Daemons can shatter worlds when they are gathered in large numbers. Use this Stratagem when choosing your army. Pick a KHORNE Chaos Daemons Detachment (that is, a Chaos Daemons Detachment in which every unit has the KHORNE keyword) from your army to be a Legion of Skulls Specialist Detachment. BLOODLETTER units in that Detachment gain the LEGION OF SKULLS keyword. | ||
3CP | ||
RAGE ETERNAL Khorne Daemons Stratagem A rage as limitless as that of Khorne’s soldiers overcomes even death’s boundary in its intensity. Use this Stratagem in the Fight phase when a model in a BLOODLETTER INFANTRY unit from your army is destroyed. Until the end of the phase, roll one D6 each time a model from that unit is destroyed; on a 4+, that model is not removed until after all of the attacking unit’s close combat attacks have been resolved, and the destroyed model can make all of its close combat attacks against the unit that destroyed it before being removed (this model can make these close combat attacks even if it would not normally be able to target that unit). | ||
2CP | ||
SOUL SACRIFICE Chaos Daemons Stratagem A daemonic pact of terrible power can be assured for a price… Use this Stratagem before a CHAOS CHARACTER from your army attempts to summon a unit of DAEMONS to the battlefield using a Daemonic Ritual. That character suffers D3 mortal wounds, but you can roll up to 4 dice rather than 3 for the summoning roll. In addition, re-roll hit rolls of 1 for the summoned unit while it is within 6" of the character that performed the Daemonic Ritual. | ||
1CP/3CP | ||
REWARDS OF CHAOS Chaos Daemons Stratagem The Dark Gods sometimes bestow their daemonic lieutenants with powerful artefacts and rewards. Use this Stratagem before the battle. Your army can have one extra Hellforged Artefact for 1 CP, or two extra Hellforged Artefacts for 3 CPs. All of the Hellforged Artefacts that you include must be different and be given to different DAEMON CHARACTERS. You can only use this Stratagem once per battle. | ||
1CP | ||
DAEMONIC PACT Chaos Daemons Stratagem Many foul champions are adept at summoning daemonic allies. Use this Stratagem after a CHAOS CHARACTER from your army summons a unit of DAEMONS to the battlefield using a Daemonic Ritual. That character can immediately attempt to summon a second unit of Daemons to the battlefield by performing another Daemonic Ritual. | ||
2CP | ||
LOCUS OF WRATH Khorne Daemons Stratagem Khorne’s wrath empowers those who fight beside his champions. Use this Stratagem at the start of any Fight phase. Select a KHORNE DAEMON CHARACTER from your army – until the end of the phase you can re-roll any failed hit rolls made for friendly KHORNE DAEMON units within 6" of that model. | ||
This datasheet has HQ Battlefield Role. Full list of Chaos Daemons units sharing same Battlefield Role follows:
Select Weapon
When a model makes a close combat attack, it must do so using a melee weapon (i.e. a weapon that has the ‘Melee’ type). The weapons a model is equipped with are described on its datasheet. If a model is not equipped with any melee weapons, or if it cannot make an attack with any of the melee weapons it is equipped with, then that model makes its attacks using a close combat weapon, which has the following profile:
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If a model has more than one melee weapon, select which it will use before resolving any attacks. If a model has more than one melee weapon and can make several attacks, it can split them between these weapons however you wish – declare which attacks are being made with which weapons before any attacks are resolved. If the selected weapon has more than one profile that you must choose between, you must declare which profile is being used at the same time. Different attacks made with such a weapon can be made using different profiles if you wish.
If your unit is making attacks with more than one melee weapon against a unit, and those weapons have different characteristics profiles, then after you have resolved an attack with one of those weapons you must, if any other weapons with the same characteristics profile are also being used to make attacks against that unit, resolve those attacks before resolving any attacks against the target with a weapon that has a different characteristics profile. Note that all the attacks you have declared are always resolved against the target unit even if, when you come to resolve an individual attack, no models in the target unit remain in range (this can happen because of models being destroyed and removed from the battlefield as the result of resolving other attacks made by the attacking model’s unit first).
- Each close combat attack is made with a melee weapon.
- A model makes attacks using the close combat weapon profile if it has no other melee weapons.
- If a unit attacks with multiple weapons, all attacks made with weapons that have the same profile must be resolved before resolving attacks with the next.
Daemonic
The denizens of the warp do not have a true physical form; they are beings of energy, given fell shape and terrible purpose. Such a creature defies the natural laws of the universe, and many of the most powerful weapons are all but useless against them.
Units with this ability have a 5+ invulnerable save.The CHAOS and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Elites
The KHORNE keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Troops
Elites
Lords of War
Fortifications
The TZEENTCH keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The NURGLE keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Elites
Lords of War
Fortifications
The SLAANESH keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Troops
Elites
Lords of War
The CHARACTER and KHORNE keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Lords of War
The KHORNE and DAEMON keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Troops
Elites
Lords of War
Fortifications
Daemonic Ritual
Through dark pacts and blasphemous rituals, a champion of Chaos can weaken the fabric of reality to create a gateway to the warp. From this rent pour forth the Daemons of that realm, ready to rend and tear those who stand against the Ruinous Powers.
Instead of moving in their Movement phase, any CHAOS CHARACTER can, at the end of their Movement phase, attempt to summon a DAEMON unit with this ability by performing a Daemonic Ritual (the character cannot do so if they arrived as reinforcements this turn, or if they were themselves summoned to the battlefield this turn).If they do so, first choose one of the four Chaos Gods – KHORNE, TZEENTCH, NURGLE or SLAANESH. A CHARACTER who owes allegiance to one of the Dark Gods can only attempt to summon the units of their patron – for example, a KHORNE CHARACTER could only attempt to summon KHORNE DAEMONS.
Roll up to 3 dice – this is your summoning roll. You can summon one new unit with the Daemonic Ritual ability to the battlefield that has a Power Rating equal to or less than the total result so long as it has the same Chaos God keyword you chose at the start (in the case of units that have a choice of allegiance, such as Furies, the unit when summoned will have this keyword). This unit is treated as reinforcements for your army and can be placed anywhere on the battlefield that is wholly within 12" of the character and more than 9" from any enemy model. If the total rolled is insufficient to summon any unit, the ritual fails and no new unit is summoned.
If your summoning roll included any doubles, your character then suffers a mortal wound. If it contained any triples, it instead suffers D3 mortal wounds.
Mortal Wounds
Some attacks inflict mortal wounds – these are so powerful that no armour or force field can withstand their fury. Each mortal wound inflicts 1 point of damage on the target unit, and they are always applied one at a time. Do not make a wound roll or saving throw (including invulnerable saves) against a mortal wound – just allocate it as you would any other attack and inflict damage to a model in the target unit. Unlike damage inflicted by normal attacks, excess damage from mortal wounds is not lost. Instead, keep allocating damage to another model in the target unit until either all the damage has been allocated or the target unit is destroyed.If an attack inflicts mortal wounds in addition to the normal damage, resolve the normal damage first. If an attack inflicts mortal wounds in addition to the normal damage, but the normal damage is subsequently saved, the target unit still suffers the mortal wounds, as described before. If an ability modifies the damage inflicted by a weapon, and that weapon can inflict mortal wounds in addition to the normal damage, the modifier does not apply to any mortal wounds that are inflicted (unless the rule specifically states otherwise).
- Each mortal wound inflicted on a unit causes one model in the unit to lose one wound.
- No saving throws can be made against mortal wounds.
- Mortal wounds inflicted by attacks in addition to normal damage always apply, even if normal damage saved.
The Warlord
While mustering your army, you can nominate one model (except a model with the FORTIFICATION keyword) to be your Warlord. That model gains the WARLORD keyword. If this model is a CHARACTER, you can also assign a Warlord Trait to it. Note, that more than one model in your army can have a Warlord Trait (e.g. by using Stratagems), but they are only considered your Warlord for the purpose of that trait.
The CHAOS keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
The DAEMON keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Heavy Support
The CHARACTER keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Elites
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
Hit Roll
When a model makes an attack, make one hit roll for that attack by rolling one D6. If the result of the hit roll is equal to or greater than the attacking model’s Ballistic Skill (BS) characteristic (if the attack is being made with a ranged weapon) or its Weapon Skill (WS) characteristic (if the attack is being made with a melee weapon), then that attack scores one hit against the target unit. If not, the attack fails and the attack sequence ends.If an attack is made with a weapon that has an ability that says it ‘automatically hits the target’, no hit roll is made – that attack simply scores one hit on the target unit. An unmodified hit roll of 6 always scores a hit, and an unmodified hit roll of 1 always fails. A hit roll can never be modified by more than -1 or +1. This means that if, after all the cumulative modifiers to a hit roll have been calculated, the total modifier would be -2 or worse, it is changed to be -1. Similarly, if, after all the cumulative modifiers to a hit roll have been calculated, the total modifier would be +2 or better, it is changed to be +1.
The DAEMON and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Elites
Characters
Some models have the CHARACTER keyword. These models can make Heroic Interventions in Charge Phase and are not easy targets in the Shooting Phase (see Look out, Sir, rule). If your Warlord has the CHARACTER keyword he may be able to have a Warlord Trait (see Warlord Trait section on model’s faction page).Note that CHARACTERS cannot use their Aura Abilities while performing actions.
Wound Roll
Each time an attack scores a hit against a target unit, make a wound roll for that attack by rolling one D6 to see if that attack successfully wounds the target. The result required is determined by comparing the attacking weapon’s Strength (S) characteristic with the target’s Toughness (T) characteristic, as shown on the following table:
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If the result of the wound roll is less than the required number, the attack fails and the attack sequence ends. An unmodified wound roll of 6 always successfully wounds the target, and an unmodified wound roll of 1 always fails. A wound roll can never be modified by more than -1 or +1. This means that if, after all the cumulative modifiers to a wound roll have been calculated, the total modifier would be -2 or worse, it is changed to be -1. Similarly, if, after all the cumulative modifiers to a wound roll have been calculated, the total modifier would be +2 or better, it is changed to be +1.
Army List
Datasheets collatedHeavy Support
Fortifications
The KHORNE keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Troops
Elites
Lords of War
Fortifications
Unstoppable Ferocity
Khorne Daemons hunger to spill blood and claim skulls, and their fury in the midst of battle is without limit.
If this unit makes a charge move, is charged, or performs a Heroic Intervention, then until the end of the turn add 1 to the Attacks characteristic of all its models and add 1 to the Strength characteristic of all the melee weapons the unit is armed with.The DAEMON, KHORNE and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Lords of War
The BLOODLETTER keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
Troops
Elites
Heavy Support
The BLOODLETTER keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
Troops
Elites
Heavy Support
The HERALD OF KHORNE keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The BLOODLETTER and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
Troops