Spoiler: Storm Troll (Trollbloods)

I had another little "moment" a couple of hours ago. I read about the Storm Troll, and it's Animus causes a model to gain Electro Leap.

The model itself is quite good (someone wrote a spotlight on it here), since it causes disruption to warjacks that hit it, limiting them to initial attacks. It also has critical disruption on it's claws, but that Animus gives me the creeps. It can shoot some models, and it can grant immunity to something we don't really use, but it can also give an Axer Electro Leap.

That's a Thresher attack, where each kill inflicts a POW 10 hit on a model within 4", and since Thresher attacks are simultaneous, they won't leap to models he's already hitting (unless they survive the Thresher of course). Domination is giving me headaches :D

Spoiler: Archidon (Skorne)

It's a flying Heavy Warbeast. It's seven points. It's in a faction with eMakeda. I'm not familiar with the finer points of Skorne beast handling, but I can see where this is going: eMakeda, Archidon, Road to War, Instruments of War, Rush, and Leash.

I'm not entirely sure how we're supposed to survive a heavy warbeast, coming from seventeen inches away, ignoring intervening models, ignoring free strikes, and delivering five boosted MAT 6 and PS 17 attacks. I've been doing this with Scavengers for a while, but this one is far deadlier, and won't care shit about non-living casters. It's also in the same type of lists that will feature Molik Karn... sigh...

Spoiler: Venator Slingers (Skorne)

They're a 4/6 unit, with arcing fire, and each direct hit releases a 3" AoE that causes continuous corrosion. That got my attention, but I was somewhat relieved when I noticed their RAT 5. Then I noticed that Lord Arbiter Hexeris has Black Spot: Give us back our shit!

With Black Spot, they spawn an incredibly powerful AoE, and get to shoot again whenever they hit directly (and they're effectively RAT 7). I also noticed that eHexeris has Vampiric Harvest, so if he activates, moves into range, pops Black Spot, and has a unit of Slingers wipe out a unit, he can get every wounded warbeast in his battlegroup up and running.

More power to Bane Thralls, who couldn't care less and ignore his harvest ability. We didn't need more reasons to bring Bane Thralls though, but who knows, maybe this will turn out to be less powerful on the table (though I can't see how the shield wall units are getting out of this one, so maybe it will end up being to our advantage, since tournament armies will need to consider this).

Spoiler: Gatorman Witch Doctor (Minions)

WHY GOD WHY!!! The bastard should be MINE! He's a three point (FA:2) solo with Dominate Undead, Sacrificial Strike, and Zombify! He can also force minion warbeasts, which is pretty nifty, but Zombify could be very annoying.

Zombify is a RNG 5 *Action, that grants a friendly (non caster) warrior model/unit tough and undead. That means they wont give up souls, they wont allow us to use our nifty abilities, and they'll refuse to die. Frigging thing isn't even an upkeep spell.

Spoiler: Naga Nightlurker (Legion)

I finally received the Domination spoilers, and I stumbled upon the Naga Nightlurker. This is going to hurt, a lot. It's a five point Warbeast, with Eyeless Sight, Pathfinder, Prowl, Serpentine, Soulless, Critical Poison (ranged), and Critical Shadow Bind (Melee). It has a RNG 10 shot, and a PS 12 Bite, but it has Wraithbane as it's animus: A model gains Magical & Blessed weapons.

Legion now has access to ranged attacks that ignore clouds, concealment, stealth, incorporeal, and spells that add to defense or armor. I don't like that one bit, and while the beast itself is less than impressive, that Animus is a killer. Luckily, a five point light won't fit into every list, but it's something to look out for.

Edit: Main forum discussion can be found here.