Chaos Dwarfs 1.6 (beta) out now!

As mentioned on Patreon, this is a smaller update compared to the previous recent ones, mainly attempting to address some balance issues and adding in more magic items from Total War. Some items have been moved around to the special characters as well. I've also removed Ghorth and Hothgar that lacked both official models and rules and did not add much to the army list overall. I might consider adding them back eventually if I can figure out what to do with them, but in the meantime I doubt they will be particularly missed. Ideally I would like to add even more magic items to the book; so I hope the rumours about their inclusion in 4th Ed Age of Sigmar comes true; you can look forward to more additions if that's the case. In the meantime, hope you enjoy this update, and many thanks to my Patreons as always, your support is hugely appreciated!

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This update changes the following:

• Added over a dozen additional magic items.
• Added Hellbound army special rule.
• Daemonic units are no longer immune to Poisoned Attacks.
• Updated Backstabbers, Cowardly Despoilers and Treacherous Gits to be the same as the Hobgoblin book.
• Animosity is the same as the Orcs & Goblins book.
• Removed Darkforged Weapon. Its results have been turned into separate magic items instead.
• New Hero: Sorcerer-Priest.
• Blood of Hashut is an arcane item.
• Increased cost of armour for characters.
• Sorcerer-Prophets may not take pistols or naptha bombs. Cost 225 pts. Can take Altar of Hashut.
• Overlord costs 145 pts.
• Despot renamed to Overseer. Cost 70 pts. Can ride Great Taurus.
• Daemonsmiths are no longer Wizards. Costs 60 pts. Cannot take Altar of Hashut.
• Hobgoblin Chieftain has light armour by default. Can upgrade to medium armour. Can take shortbow or bow. Does not have throwing weapons.
• Great Taurus is a Monstrous Beast. Cost 95 pts.
• New Mount: Bale Taurus.
• Lammasu is a Monstrous Beast. Can be taken as Rare Units. Can be upgraded to a lvl 2 Wizard. Cost 105 pts.
• Weapon Teams are special units.
• Devastators renamed to Blunderbusses.
• Hobgoblin Archers are a separate unit.
• Orc and Goblin Slaves are Expendable.
• Bull Centaur Renders are a Rare Unit.
• Black Orcs start with hand weapons. Can take spears, additional hand weapons and/or great weapons. Shields cost 2 pts. Cost 12 pts by default. Do not have Armed to the Teeth.
• Iron Daemons can wheel when charging. Steam Cannonade may fire within the model's front arc as normal. Cost 190 pts.
• You may not take 1-2 Hobgoblin Spear Chukkas as a single special choice.
• Juggernaut Siege Tower has a 5+ armour save by default. The crew has medium armour. It's no longer pushed by a Bull Centaur. If you roll one or more natural 1's on the Hit roll when firing the Siege Cannons, the Juggernaut suffers a Wound with no saves allowed. Any shots that Hit penetrate ranks in the same manner as a Bolt Thrower. The crew are armed with crossbows.
• Kolossus Armoured Plating costs 10 points. Great Hammer can only be taken twice. Daemon Crystal costs 20 pts.
• Wizards cannot choose Lore of Shadows.
• Astragoth has the Black Hammer of Hashut and Stone Mantle magic items. Does not have armour. He  uses spells from the Lore of Fire and Hashut. Cost 350 pts.
• Zhatan the Black has the Obsidian Axe, Armour of Gazrakh and Chaos Runeshield. Has the Boundless Cruelty special rule. Cost 285 pts.
• Daemonspite Crucible: Every time the bearer kills an enemy Wizard in close combat, the bonus increases by +1.
• Master of the Legion of Azgorh: If Drazhoath the Ashen is your Army General, units of Infernal Guard (but not Ironsworn) may be taken as Core Units instead of Special Units.
• Cinderbreath has T6.
• Drazhoath costs 600 pts.
• Gorduz Backstabber has the Blade of Malice. Cost 90 pts.
• Removed Ghorth the Cruel.
• Removed Hothgar.
• Zealot Berzerkers have light armour and Hatred instead of Mark of Hashut. Cost 12 pts.
• Rykarth costs 125 pts. Has a great weapon, no magic items. Can take 50 pts of magic items. Rykarth has the Hold Your Ground ability with a 6" range.
• The Petrified Sorcerer may make up to two Supporting Attacks.
• A Sorcerer-Prophet on an Altar of Hashut add +12" to the range of their spells. Once per Magic phase, the Sorcerer-Prophet may sacrifice one of the slaves chained to the Altar to Hashut before they attempt to cast a spell. Roll a D6 and add the result to the casting result of the spell. Altar of Hashut costs 75 pts.
  

Hobgoblins 1.1 out now!

This update changes the following:

• Message of Doom: Until the start of the caster’s next magic phase, the target unit treats all enemies as causing Fear and suffer -1 to their Leadership.
• Khan's Guard: If a unit with this special rule is joined by a character with the Quell Treachery special rule, they become Stubborn as long as the character remains in the unit.
• Fixed bug with Ravagers missing from army list.
• Assassins have Poisoned Attacks, cost 100 pts.
• Wolf Raiders cost 9 pts.
• Ravagers cost 10 pts.
• Archers and Mangudai may replace shortbows with bows.
• Khans, Orloks and Kheshig may take bows or shortbows.
• Cowardly Despoilers no longer suffer -1 to their Combat Resolution for getting charged.
• Treacherous Gits results cause D3 Hits for each complete rank instead of D6 Hits.
• Fixed bug with Kheshig on Dire Wolves having S4.
• Characters on Wolf Chariots replace the crew, costs 40 pts.
• Chariots have Ded Shooty.
• War Wagon has Backstabbers.
• Preying on the Weak: A Corpseripper Vulture gains the Heroic Killing Blow special rule against models with half or less of their starting Wounds left.
• Scavenger: Each time a Corpseripper Vulture causes an unsaved Wound, roll a D6. On a 6, they regain one Wound lost earlier during the game.
• Corpseripper Vulture costs 175 pts.
• Shaman Elder may be mounted on a Corpseripper Vulture.
• Assassin renamed to Throat-Slasher.
• Hobgobla Khan has the Horn of the Steppe: Enchanted Item. One use only. This item can be used at the start of each of your Movement phases. Once used, all friendly Hobgoblin units within 12" gain +1 to their Combat Resolution for the remainder of the turn. Costs 230 pts.
• Pelt of Wulfag: Enchanted Item. The wearer of this item gains the Natural Armour (6+) special rule against missile attacks, and any unit they are with must always pursue in close combat, and may add +D6" to their pursuit move.
• Maglah Khan has the Trickster's Quiver. Cost 110 pts.
• New Special Character: Nergui
• New Special Character: Sobutai
• Increased the cost of barding for Dire Wolves for characters.
• New Rare Unit: Wind Daemons

Vampire Counts 1.6 (beta) out now!

Another huge update here; I had planned to mostly just include new units and magic items, but it ended up being a much bigger overhaul! Lots of balance changes throughout; I expect I will need to go over and adjust quite a few things before the proper 1.6 release still; mainly to sort out potential broken combos that might be a result of the new magic items/powers - though I have tried to keep most of them fairly low on the power scale. Vampire Counts now probably have the widest selection of magic items out of any of the army books! 

I have also added in a bunch of new units based on lore, 3rd edition as well as suitable models from Age of Sigmar - you now have more options than ever to customize your army. I have also removed three special characters that never had official models and whose rules were lackluster to say the least. These characters can still be created using the magic items in the list if you wish, however.

Hope you enjoy the update, and many thanks to my Patreons! Thanks to you guys I can get hold of the Highlands Miniatures Bretonnians for my collection, which I expect will be a joy to paint down the road!

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This update changes the following:

• Added dozens of additional magic items from Age of Sigmar.
• The Drakenhof Banner may only be taken if your army includes a von Carstein Vampire Character.
• Royal Standard of Strigos may only be taken if your army includes a Strigoi Vampire.
• Cursed Pendant of Mousillion may only be if your army includes is a Blood Dragon Vampire.
• Banner of the Endless Nightmare may only be taken if your army includes a Necrarch Vampire.
• Massive Monstrosity: Model on foot only. The model gains +1 Wound and becomes Monstrous Infantry. It should be placed on a 40x40mm base. Cost 20 pts.
• Von Carsteins may take polearms. Increased cost of armour.
• Lahmian Vampires have Dodge (6+), cost 245/85 pts.
• Strigoi Vampires can take magic weapons, but do not have Armour Piercing. Cost 240/120 pts.
• Necrarchs Vampire Lords may take the Master of the Dead upgrade.
• Blood Dragon Vampires cost 245/110 pts.
• Coven Thrones are a Rare Unit. Are Vampiric, not Undead. Has Ld8, Fly (7).
• Mortis Engine has Fly (7).
• Cairn Wraith (Hero) does not have great weapon by default. Have Ld7. Have the Soulstriders special rule. Cost 50 pts.
• Barrow Chariot has two crew. Can take spears, bows, scythed wheels. Cost 75 pts.
• Skeleton Warriors have Unit Size 20+. Can take great weapons. Do not have shields by default. Cost 3 pts.
• Skeleton Archers are a separate unit.
• Crypt Ghouls have WS3, cost 7 pts. Skirmish upgrade costs 1 pt.
• Sylvanian Levy cannot take torches. You may only include Sylvanian Peasant Levy if your army includes a von Carstein Vampire.
• New Core Unit: Strigany
• New Core Unit: Skeleton Horsemen
• New Special Character: Ushoran
• New Special Unit: Crypt Guard
• New Rare Unit: Morbheg Knights
• New Special Character: Grand Justice Gormayne
• New Hero: Crypt Ghast Courtier
• New Special Unit: Flesh Golems
• New Special Unit: Skeleton Chariots
• New Rare Unit: Skeleton Catapult
• Grave Guard may not take shields with great weapons.
• New Special Character: Awlrach the Drowner
• Abyssal Terror is a Monstrous Beast. Cost 75 pts.
• New Hero: Swain
• New Hero: Strigany Mystic
• Corpsecart Balefire has a range of 18".
• Spectral Steeds is an army special rule.
• Blood Knights may only take a standard up to 50 points.
• Lahmian Handmaidens have Dodge (6+) and Ld8. May take throwing weapons.
• Cairn Wraiths (unit) renamed to Wraithwisps. Are a special unit. Have W1, A1. Do not have great weapons by default. Can take crossbows, great weapons, two hand weapons or polearms. Cost 13 pts.
• Tomb Banshees are Heroes instead of Rare.
• Black Coach may take two additional Nightmares.
• Varghulfs are Monstrous Beasts. Cost 105 pts.
• Mournguls are Monstrous Infantry. Has the Terror special rule. Cost 100 pts.
• Neferata pays 9 pts for medium armour.
• Melkhior costs 455 pts.
• Walach Blood Chalice gives him +D3 Attacks.
• Rod of Flaming Death is limited to Dieter Helsnicht.
• Dieter Helsnicht is a Monstrous Beast. Costs 335 pts.
• Vlad von Carstein costs 435 pts.
• Mannfred von Carstein costs 565 pts.
• Walach Harkon costs 475 pts.
• The Red Duke costs 375 pts.
• Isabella von Carstein has medium armour.
• Konrad von Carstein costs 215 pts.
• Added multiple new Vampiric Powers for all bloodlines.
• Curse of the Revenant: The model gains a 3+ Ward save once they are reduced to a single Wound.
• Summon Ghouls: The model allows one unit Crypt Ghouls to deploy as Ambushers.
• Unholy Cynosure works once per turn. Costs 25 pts.
• Nehekhara's Noble Blood: The model adds +6" to the range of all their spells.
• Crimson Gem of Lahmia adds +D3 Power dice.
• Prince Vhordrai costs 600 pts.
• Removed Gunther Spengler.
• Removed Sethep.
• Removed Gashnag.
• Neferata has Dodge (6+), costs 510 pts.
• New Special Character: Sekhar, The Fang of Lahmia
• Aura of Dark Majesty costs 30 pts.
• Nightshroud offer no armour save. Is a Talisman instead of armour.
• Ghostly Howl renamed to Death Shriek. Death Shriek for Terrorgheist works the same as a Banshee. Terrorgheist cost 240 pts.
• Pestilential Breath: A Zombie Dragon has a Breath Weapon. Any model hit suffers a Strength 2 Hit with the Ignores Armour saves special rule.
• The Red Thirst: Whenever a model with this special rule kills a model in close combat, roll a D6 at the end of the Close Combat phase. On the roll of a 6+, the model recovers a single Wound lost earlier in the battle.
• Warrior Pride: Infantry or Cavalry only. The model can re-roll failed armour saves. Cost 25 pts.
• Master Strike costs 15 pts.
• All enemy models (to a maximum of 3) in base contact with the bearer of the Talon of Death suffer a Strength 5 Hit at the start of each round of close combat.
• Undead they may make march moves if they are within Army General's Inspiring Presence range or are joined by a character with the Lore of Necromancy.
• Unholy Lodestone has a range of 12", cost 20 pts.
• Cloud of Horror: An enemy unit that is attacked in the flank or rear by one or more Bat Swarms is automatically Disrupted.
• Resurrecting Fallen Warriors: Any characters in the unit can only be healed if targeted separately from the rest of the unit, in which case only they are healed.
• Black Coach costs 150 pts.
• Evocation of Death: Immediately after the total number of power dice is determined in each player's turn, roll 2D6 for each Black Coach on the battlefield, and then roll a number of dice equal to the result. For every natural 6 rolled, discard one dice from the magic pool. Each discard dice increases that Black Coach's abilities for the rest of the game
• Liche Lords may take light or medium armour.
• Barrow Chariot costs 50 pts.
• Doomrider costs 20 pts.
• Swiftness: The model gains Movement 10 and the Swiftstride special rule. Cost 10 pts.
• Frostblade: The wielder gains the Ice Attacks special rule. Cost 55 pts.
• Wailing Helm costs 20 pts.
• Casket of Ages is no longer one use only.
• Wristbands of Black Gold costs 20 pts.
• Ring of the Night costs 20 pts.
• Banner of Endless Nightmare costs 10 pts.
• Icon of Vengeance costs 5 pts.
• Curse of Undeath heals D3 Wounds.
• Invocation of Nehek: Infantry and Warbeasts gain D6 plus the caster's Wizard level in Wounds.
• Red Fury gives a maximum of +3 Attacks. Costs 30 pts.
• Walking Death costs 25 pts.
• Black Periapt costs 30 pts.
• Staff of Damnation: If cast successfully, this item casts an augment spell. All friendly units containing Undead models within 6" of the bearer gain +1 Attack until the start of the bearer's next Magic phase.
• The Cursed Book only requires one power dice.
• The Balefire Spike: This item gives the wielder the Devastating Charge and Flaming Attacks special rules. Cost 15 pts.
• The Sceptre de Noirot makes the bearer roll an additional D6 when determining the number of Zombies or Skeletons raised with the Invocation of Nehek and Raise Dead spells from the Lore of Necromancy.
• Krell costs 200 pts.
• New Core Unit: Glooms
• Standard of Everlasting Death costs 10 pts.