Chaos Daemons – The Masque of Slaanesh
| No | NAME | M | WS | BS | S | T | W | A | Ld | Sv | |
85 The Masque of Slaanesh |
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| 1 | 85 The Masque of Slaanesh |
8" | 2+ | 2+ | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 6+ | |
The Masque of Slaanesh is a single model that attacks with its serrated claws. Only one of this model may be included in your army.
WEAPON | RANGE | TYPE | S | AP | D | ABILITIES |
| Serrated claws | ||||||
| Serrated claws | Melee | Melee | User | -2 | 2 | Each time you make a wound roll of 6+ for this weapon, that hit is resolved with an AP of -4 instead of -2. |
| Each time you make a wound roll of 6+ for this weapon, that hit is resolved with an AP of -4 instead of -2. | ||||||
ABILITIES | |
ABILITIES |
Daemonic, Quicksilver Swiftness, Daemonic Ritual The Eternal Dance: At the beginning of each Fight phase, choose an enemy unit within 1" of the Masque of Slaanesh. For the rest of the phase, add 1 to any hit rolls that target the chosen unit. Locus of Beguilement: Your opponent must subtract 1 from any hit rolls in the Fight phase that target a DAEMONETTE unit within 6" of the Masque of Slaanesh. Dazzling Acrobatics: The Masque of Slaanesh can Advance and/or Fall Back and still charge in the same turn. |
WARLORD TRAIT! | |
WARLORD TRAIT! |
The Murderdance: If your Warlord charges in the Charge phase, add D3 to their Attacks characteristic until the end of the ensuing Fight phase (roll at the end of the Charge phase). |
| FACTION KEYWORDS: CHAOS, DAEMON, SLAANESH | |
| KEYWORDS: CHARACTER, INFANTRY, DAEMONETTE, HERALD OF SLAANESH, THE MASQUE OF SLAANESH | |
Datasheet-related Stratagems
1CP | ||
RAZOR-SHARP CARESS Slaanesh Daemons Stratagem Gorging on their prey’s emotions, Daemonettes rake their talons through the stoutest armour. Use this Stratagem in the Fight phase. Select one DAEMONETTE INFANTRY unit from your army. Until the end of the phase, the Armour Penetration characteristic of melee weapons models in that unit are equipped with is improved by 1 (e.g. AP -1 becomes AP -2). | ||
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. | ||
1CP | ||
LOCUS OF GRACE Slaanesh Daemons Stratagem Slaanesh’s favoured Daemons lead their minions in an exquisite choreographed dance, every movement of which severs an enemy’s limb or lops off their head. Use this Stratagem at the start of any Fight phase. Select a SLAANESH DAEMON CHARACTER from your army – until the end of the phase, each time you make a wound roll of 6+ for a friendly SLAANESH DAEMON unit within 6" of that character, the model that made that attack can immediately make an extra attack against the same target using the same weapon. These bonus attacks cannot themselves generate any further attacks. | ||
This datasheet has HQ Battlefield Role. Full list of Chaos Daemons units sharing same Battlefield Role follows:
HQ
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.
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.Quicksilver Swiftness
Slaanesh’s Daemons are graceful and impossibly quick, moving to strike their foes faster than the eye can see.
This unit always fight first in the Fight phase, even if it didn’t charge. If the enemy has units that have charged, or that have a similar ability, then alternate choosing units to fight with, starting with the player whose turn is taking place.The CHAOS and CHARACTER keywords are used in following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Elites
The KHORNE keyword is used in following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Troops
Elites
Lords of War
Fortifications
The TZEENTCH keyword is used in following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The NURGLE keyword is used in following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Elites
Lords of War
Fortifications
The SLAANESH keyword is used in following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Troops
Elites
Lords of War
The CHARACTER and KHORNE keywords are used in following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Lords of War
The KHORNE and DAEMON keywords are used in 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.
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 DAEMONETTE keyword is used in following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Troops
Advance
When a unit makes an Advance, make an Advance roll for the unit by rolling one D6. Add the result in inches to the Move (M) characteristic of each model in that unit until the end of the current phase. Each model in that unit can then move a distance in inches equal to or less than this total, but no model can be moved within Engagement Range of enemy models. A unit cannot shoot or declare a charge in the same turn that it made an Advance.- Advance: Models move up to M+D6".
- Cannot move within Engagement Range of enemy models.
- Units that Advance cannot shoot or charge this turn.
Fall Back
When a unit Falls Back, each model in that unit can move a distance in inches equal to or less than the Move (M) characteristic shown on its datasheet, and when doing so you can move it within Engagement Range of enemy models, but it cannot end its move within Engagement Range of any enemy models – if it cannot do this then it cannot Fall Back. A unit cannot declare a charge in the same turn that it Fell Back. A unit cannot shoot or attempt to manifest a psychic power in the same turn that it Fell Back unless it is TITANIC.- Fall Back: Models move up to M".
- Units that Fall Back cannot charge this turn.
- Units that Fall Back cannot shoot or manifest psychic powers this turn unless they are TITANIC.
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 following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Fast Attack
The DAEMON keyword is used in following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Heavy Support
The SLAANESH keyword is used in following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Troops
Elites
Lords of War
The CHARACTER keyword is used in following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Elites
The INFANTRY keyword is used in following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The HERALD OF SLAANESH keyword is used in following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
The DAEMONETTE and INFANTRY keywords are used in following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
Troops
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 DAEMON and CHARACTER keywords are used in following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Elites
The SLAANESH, DAEMON and CHARACTER keywords are used in following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Lords of War
The SLAANESH and DAEMON keywords are used in following Chaos Daemons datasheets:
HQ
Troops
Elites
Lords of War
Army List
Datasheets collatedHQ
Heavy Support
Fortifications