The Staff of Slaanesh is still here and now is flat 6 or 3 mortals depending on the roll, but they can no longer issue commands anywhere on the battlefield, and is simply a once per turn free issue of a command. She lost access to all the spell lore and their melee profile worsened. Oddly these guys took a bit of a backseat in this book, with Synessa (the spellcaster) getting pretty significantly worse. If nothing else, the 5+ ward if you take the Aegis means it’s reasonable to keep them alive past the first battle round against shooting armies. There are some pretty potent combos in here, in particular Strength of Godhood being fantastic on the Keeper as a means of lifting their damage output. Overall I’m quite positive on both, with the Keeper being generally more compelling at their new price point compared to Shalaxi if only due to access to Command Traits and artefacts. Refine senses has been tweaked to also give +1 to wound against heroes in addition to +1 hit and save. Irresistible Challenge now inflicts D3 mortals if the opponent cannot finish within 0.5” of Shalaxi if they pick the charge option, but no longer requires all the attacks from the hero to target Shalaxi. The Excess of Violence command ability is now just a once per battle ability (regardless of number of Keepers) that let’s another unit fight for a second activation with Strikes-last effect applied to 2nd, consistent with other updates to fight twice abilities.įor Shalaxi, their Soulpiercer is now a fixed profile of 2A/3+/2+-3/D3+3 for a significant increase in output, and their Cloak of Constriction has been changed to be a flat -1 to hit and wound for melee attacks against this model. For the keeper, the Sinistrous Hand now gives flat 3 for killing a model or 6 for killing a hero, up from D3 and D6, and Dark Temptations has had the choice rewritten to be D3 mortal wounds to a nominated unit within 3” OR you gain D3 depravity, opponent’s choice.
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