new bloodthirster rules

[Jack Shrapnel]

from Faeit:

"Even though we saw leaks revealing the stats, point costs, etc for each of the Bloodthirsters, a lot of what was there was hard to read or hazy from the images. Now we have a little bit better information regarding the three new Bloodthirsters for Warhammer Fantasy. According to the source, there are no rules included for 40k.


Please remember that these are rumors still at this point. They are from a good source, and from the leaks we saw before where parts of this were revealed, the information seems to match up.

via an anonymous source on Faeit 212
the title of the new White Dwarf is
Blood for the Blood God!
Khorne's Wrath
The New Bloodthirster Seeks to Slaughter All

Inside the are the rules for all three new Bloodthirsters. Some rules in common.
Each can be taken in a Daemons of Chaos, Legions of Chaos or Grand Legion of the Everchosen Army.
Is a Lords Choice, and all come with heavy armour an can take Daemonic Gifts.
M8 WS BS 10 ST6 W5 I9 A6 Ld9


Wrath of Khorne Bloodthirster
Daemon of Khorne, Daemonic, Devastating Charge, Fly, Frenzy, Large Target, Magic Resistance3, Stubborn, Terror
Has a S5 breath weapon with flaming attacks rule
Has hatred characters, and gains 3" to its charge range if charging a unit with characters.

Wrathaxe and Bloodflail: +2 strength the first round of combat, and gain an extra attack

Bloodthirster of Unfettered Fury
Daemon of Khorne, Daemonic, Fly, Large Target, Magic Resistance2, Terror
Axe and Whip

Bloodthirster of Insenate Rage
Daemon of Khorne, Daemonic, Fly, Frenzy, Heroic Killing Blow, Large Target, Magic Resistance 2, Terror.
Great Weapon
"

[voodoo]

He's here!

www.games-workshop.com/en-CA/Khorne-Bloodthirster-2014

[J4far]

I wonder if GW has a copyright on their "slap two words together" name generator they have been using these past couple years. I know they are renaming things to avoid infringement (stormtroopers) or protect their IP, but do they really need to call things "Wrathaxe" or "Bloodflail"? Or whatever the names of the new units are?

On the topic of new Bloodthirsters however, they seems quite cool (both model and rules). I am of the opinion a single entry with upgrade options might have been better, since they are really just upgrade Bloodthirsters as opposed to completely "new" unit entries. The extra 3" charge against characters is my favorite rule they introduced with them.

[Jack Shrapnel]

in case anyone was wondering a size comparison of the new model to the old versions (and the FW giant model)

[J4far]

Scale creep is quite evident when you place all those models side by side. There are musings that the game with change to 32mm scale from 28mm heroic with 9th (or something along those lines).

[Jack Shrapnel]

the really fun part is the biggest model is an old model... the forge world greater daemons are MASSIVE!

[J4far]

Yeah that has always been the case though! That was an Exalted Bloodthirster with Forgeworld rules though wasn't it?

Edit: I do think the FW Bloodthirster is the nicest model overall out of the 4 there, although he is a tad large!