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Zarakynel

NoNAME  M WS BS S T W! A Ld Sv Base
450
Zarakynel (base: 105 x 70mm)
1
450
Zarakynel		 14" 2+ 3+ 7 7 11-18 6 10 4+ 105 x 70mm
12" 2+ 3+ 6 7 4-10 5 10 4+
10" 2+ 3+ 5 7 1-3 4 10 4+
Zarakynel is equipped with: slicing claws; the Souleater Blade. Your army can only include one ZARAKYNEL model.
WEAPON
RANGE
TYPE
S
AP
D
ABILITIES 
Slicing claws
Slicing claws
Melee
Melee
User
-4
3
Each time the bearer fights, it makes 4 additional attacks with this weapon.
Each time the bearer fights, it makes 4 additional attacks with this weapon.
The Souleater Blade
The Souleater Blade
Melee
Melee
+2
-3
3
Each time an attack is made with this weapon, an unmodified wound roll of 4+ inflicts 3 mortal wounds on the target and the attack sequence ends.
Each time an attack is made with this weapon, an unmodified wound roll of 4+ inflicts 3 mortal wounds on the target and the attack sequence ends.
ABILITIES
ABILITIES
Daemonic, Quicksilver Swiftness, Daemonic Ritual
Daemon Lord: The model has a 4+ invulnerable save.
Dance of Serpents: Each time an attack is made against this model, subtract 1 from that attack’s hit roll.
Emissary of the Prince of Excess (Aura): While a friendly SLAANESH DAEMON unit is within 9" of this model, models in that unit can use this model’s Leadership characteristic instead of their own.
Sinistrous Talon: At the end of the Fight phase, if any non-VEHICLE models were destroyed by this model that phase, this model regains D6 lost wounds.
PSYKER
PSYKER
 This model can attempt to manifest two psychic powers in your Psychic phase and attempt to deny two psychic powers in your opponent’s Psychic phase. It knows Smite and two psychic powers from the Slaanesh discipline.
WARLORD TRAIT!
WARLORD TRAIT!
 Inspiring Leader (Aura): Add 1 to the Leadership characteristic of friendly units while they are within 6" of this WARLORD.
FACTION KEYWORDS: CHAOS, DAEMON, SLAANESH
KEYWORDS: CHARACTER, MONSTER, PSYKER, KEEPER OF SECRETS, ZARAKYNEL

Datasheet-related Stratagems

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.

Psychic Powers

Smite

Smite has a warp charge value of 5. Add 1 to the warp charge value of this psychic power for each other attempt that has been made to manifest this power by a unit from your army in this phase, whether that attempt was successful or not. If manifested, the closest enemy unit within 18" of and visible to the psyker suffers D3 mortal wounds. If the result of the Psychic test was 11 or more, that unit suffers D6 mortal wounds instead.

  • Warp Charge 5: A Psychic test of 5+ is required to manifest Smite.
  • Warp charge increases by 1 for each other attempt to manifest Smite made in this phase.
  • If manifested, closest visible enemy unit in 18" suffers D3 mortal wounds.
  • If manifested with a Psychic test result of 11+, enemy instead suffers D6 mortal wounds.

Slaanesh

D6PSYCHIC POWER
1

CACOPHONIC CHOIR

The psyker emits an ear-piercing chorus of screams that shatters the sanity of its foes.

Cacophonic Choir has a warp charge value of 6. If manifested, roll 2D6 (adding 2 to the result if the Psychic test result was more than 10). The closest enemy unit that is within 18" of the psyker and visible to it suffers a mortal wound for each point that the total exceeds their highest Leadership characteristic.

2

SYMPHONY OF PAIN

The psyker’s chants unleash destructive Chaos energy.

Symphony of Pain has a warp charge value of 6. If manifested, the nearest enemy unit that is within 18" of the psyker and visible to it is struck by unbearable pain. Your opponent must subtract 1 from all hit rolls made for this unit until the start of your next Psychic phase.

3

HYSTERICAL FRENZY

The psyker sends out a psychic lash that goads its allies.

Hysterical Frenzy has a warp charge value of 8. If manifested, select a single friendly SLAANESH DAEMON unit within 18" of the psyker that is within 1" of an enemy unit. That unit can fight as if it were the Fight phase.

4

DELIGHTFUL AGONIES

The psyker manipulates the pleasure centres of its allies’ minds, causing even great pain to register as sheer ecstasy.

Delightful Agonies has a warp charge value of 5. If manifested, select a single friendly SLAANESH DAEMON unit within 18" of the psyker. Until the start of your next Psychic phase, roll a D6 each time a model in that unit loses a wound – on a 6 that model does not lose a wound.

5

PAVANE OF SLAANESH

As the psyker sings, its spasming victims’ flesh tears and bones snap as they dance themselves to death.

Pavane of Slaanesh has a warp charge value of 6. If manifested, select an enemy unit that is within 18" of the psyker and visible to them. Roll a D6 for each model in the unit; the unit suffers a mortal wound for each roll of 6.

6

PHANTASMAGORIA

The psyker summons illusions to terrify and entice their foes.

Phantasmagoria has a warp charge value of 6. If manifested, enemy units must subtract 1 from their Leadership characteristic until the start of your next Psychic phase whilst they are within 12" of the psyker.

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:

WEAPONRANGETYPESAPD
Close combat weaponMeleeMeleeUser01

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:

The KHORNE keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:

Fortifications
Skull Altar

The TZEENTCH keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:

Troops
Horrors

The NURGLE keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:

Fortifications
Feculent Gnarlmaw

The SLAANESH keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:

Elites
Fiends
Lords of War
Zarakynel

The CHARACTER and KHORNE keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:

The KHORNE and DAEMON keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:

Fortifications
Skull Altar
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.
Manifesting Psychic Powers
The same PSYKER unit cannot attempt to manifest Smite more than once during the same battle round. When you select a PSYKER unit to manifest psychic powers, you select one psychic power that unit knows and attempt to manifest it. With the exception of Smite, you cannot attempt to manifest the same psychic power more than once in the same battle round, even with different PSYKER units.

To manifest the psychic power, you must first pass a Psychic test. The opposing player can then select one of their PSYKER units that is within 24" of the PSYKER unit attempting to manifest the power and attempt to deny that power before its effects are resolved by passing a Deny the Witch test.

So long as the Psychic test was successful and the psychic power was not denied by a successful Deny the Witch test, the psychic power is successfully manifested and its effects, which will be described in the power itself, are then resolved. If the PSYKER unit can attempt to manifest more than one psychic power in its Psychic phase, you can then attempt to manifest those, one at a time, as described above. The number of psychic powers each PSYKER unit can attempt to manifest in its Psychic phase is listed on its datasheet.

  • Select psychic power.
  • You cannot select the same psychic power more than once per battle round, unless that power is Smite.
  • Attempt to manifest the psychic power by taking a Psychic test.
  • The opponent can attempt to deny the psychic power by taking a Deny the Witch test.
  • If successfully manifested, resolve the psychic power’s effects.
  • Select another psychic power.
Deny the Witch
When a PSYKER unit attempts to deny a psychic power, you must take a Deny the Witch test for that unit by rolling 2D6. If the total is greater than the result of the Psychic test, the Deny the Witch test is passed and the psychic power is denied. Only one attempt can be made to deny a psychic power. If a PSYKER unit can attempt to deny more than one psychic power in a psychic phase, this will be listed on its datasheet.

  • Deny the Witch: Passed if 2D6 exceeds result of the opposing PSYKER’s Psychic test.
  • Only one attempt can be made to deny each psychic power.
Smite
Smite has a warp charge value of 5. Add 1 to the warp charge value of this psychic power for each other attempt that has been made to manifest this power by a unit from your army in this phase, whether that attempt was successful or not. If manifested, the closest enemy unit within 18" of and visible to the psyker suffers D3 mortal wounds. If the result of the Psychic test was 11 or more, that unit suffers D6 mortal wounds instead.

  • Warp Charge 5: A Psychic test of 5+ is required to manifest Smite.
  • Warp charge increases by 1 for each other attempt to manifest Smite made in this phase.
  • If manifested, closest visible enemy unit in 18" suffers D3 mortal wounds.
  • If manifested with a Psychic test result of 11+, enemy instead suffers D6 mortal wounds.
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.
Saving Throw
The player commanding the target unit then makes one saving throw by rolling one D6 and modifying the roll by the Armour Penetration (AP) characteristic of the weapon that the attack was made with. For example, if the weapon has an AP of -1, then 1 is subtracted from the saving throw roll. If the result is equal to, or greater than, the Save (Sv) characteristic of the model the attack was allocated to, then the saving throw is successful and the attack sequence ends. If the result is less than the model’s Save characteristic, then the saving throw fails and the model suffers damage. An unmodified roll of 1 always fails.

The CHAOS keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:

The DAEMON keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:

Lords of War
Aetaos’rau’keres

and others...

The CHARACTER keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:

The PSYKER keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:

Troops
Horrors
Psychic Tests
When a PSYKER unit attempts to manifest a psychic power, you must take a Psychic test for that unit by rolling 2D6. If the total is equal to or greater than that power’s warp charge value, the Psychic test is passed. If you roll a double 1 or a double 6 when taking a Psychic test, that unit immediately suffers Perils of the Warp.

  • Psychic test: Passed if 2D6 equals or exceeds psychic power’s warp charge.
  • If double 1 or double 6 rolled, PSYKER suffers Perils of the Warp.
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.
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:

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:

WOUND ROLL
ATTACK’S STRENGTH vs TARGET’S TOUGHNESSD6 ROLL REQUIRED
Is the Strength TWICE (or more) than the Toughness?2+
Is the Strength GREATER than the Toughness?3+
Is the Strength EQUAL to the Toughness?4+
Is the Strength LOWER than the Toughness?5+
Is the Strength HALF (or less) than the Toughness?6+

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.
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The MONSTER keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:

Invulnerable Saves
Some models have an invulnerable save. Each time an attack is allocated to a model with an invulnerable save, you can choose to use either its normal Save (Sv) characteristic or its invulnerable save, but not both. If a model has more than one invulnerable save, it can only use one of them – choose which it will use. If you use a model’s invulnerable save, it is never modified by a weapon’s Armour Penetration value.

  • Invulnerable save: Saving throw that is never modified by attacking weapon’s AP.
  • A model with an invulnerable save can use it instead of its normal Sv.
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 SLAANESH and DAEMON keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:

Elites
Fiends
Lords of War
Zarakynel

The SLAANESH keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:

Elites
Fiends
Lords of War
Zarakynel

The SLAANESH, DAEMON and CHARACTER keywords are used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:

Lords of War
Zarakynel

This datasheet has Lords of War Battlefield Role. Full list of Chaos Daemons units sharing same Battlefield Role follows:

The KEEPER OF SECRETS keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:

Lords of War
Zarakynel

The ZARAKYNEL keyword is used in the following Chaos Daemons datasheets:

Lords of War
Zarakynel
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