Kill Team: Nachmund is just around the corner, and you’ve already heard about the Butcher and Balefire Acolyte from the Chaos Legionaries kill team. Cast your gaze now upon the just desserts of worshipping the Dark Gods – the Anointed.
Having given themselves completely, body and soul, to the worship of Chaos, the Anointed are filled with infernal power – and daemons. They’re riddled with them. Giving up their bodies to possession isn’t just a fun activity for the weekend – they can let their daemons take control in the heat of battle.
When you’re close enough to see the fear in the eyes of an enemy operative, it’s time to take the kid gloves off. The Anointed’s already strong daemonic claw becomes truly horrifying, adding the Ceaseless trait to make their melee attacks incredibly reliable. The claw already has Rending, which makes critical hits more effective, and Lethal, which triggers those crucial crits on a five or six.
Rolling five extremely high-quality attack dice in melee is very good, but being able to do it all over again is absolutely shocking. In other words, the Anointed takes full advantage of his 3 APL.
Sure, once you give control over to your daemon, you can no longer use your ‘strong hand’ to do such petty actions as shooting weapons or completing mission actions, but that’s a problem for the rest of your kill team. In fact, if you take the Mark of Slaanesh, you get extra Movement, leaving your enemies nowhere to hide and terrifying them into abandoning their posts.
If you haven’t already figured this out, the Legionary operatives are utterly terrifying to face in combat. Pre-order the Kill Team: Nachmund box tomorrow and prepare to go off the chain.