Soulblight Gravelords Tactics: Allegiance Abilities

In this video TheJTJ and Chris C, talk about the Soulblight Gravelords Battletome. We go over an in depth analysis of the Allegiance Abilities. This is part 2 in the full tactical breakdown of the SBGL army.

 

 

Copy of the slides:

 

Old Rules:

• The Unquiet Dead
  4 total grave sites on board
  Need a hero to bring out reserves in 9’’
  Invigorating Aura
  Heal D3 within 9”
• Deathless Minions
  6++ when Within 6” of hero
  Endless Legions
  Generals Command Ability, bring back Destroyed units , 9” gravesite
• Locus of Shyish
  On an unmodified 9+ to cast the spell goes off a second time

 

New Rules:

• The Unquiet Dead
  4 total grave sites on board
  Set up reserve within 12” and 9” away from enemy, no Hero needed
• Locus of Shyish
  On an unmodified 9+ to cast the spell goes off a second time.
• Deathless Minions
  6++ wholly within 12” of hero or gravesite
• Reanimated Horrors
  – 1 Bravery of enemy within 6”
  -2 Bravery if within 6” of 2 or more units. Deathrattle or Deadwalker
  Death units not affected
• Endless Legions
  End of battleshock roll a dice, adding number of enemy units destroyed this phase to the roll, on 5+ bring back destroyed unit at half strength. 12” Gravesite, 9” away from enemy
• Deathly Invocation
  Heroes can add wounds/models back to units wholly within 12”
  Number of units based on chart.
  D3 wounds back
  Cannot use Invocation of Nagash on same unit that turn
  Unit cannot be affect one that once a turn.

 

Differences:

• The Unquiet Dead
  12” set up range up from 9”
  Do not need Hero to activate
  No gravesite healing
• Locus of Shyish
  No Change
• Deathless Minions
  Unit has to be Whole within 12” not within 6”
• Reanimated Horrors
  New
• Endless Legions
  Not command point driven
  No need for hero
  Need to roll 5+
• Deathly Invocation
  Now a Allegiance Ability not a Warscroll Ability
  Units Wholly within 12” Heal not within 6”

 

Tactics:

• The Unquiet Dead
  You can use the 2 points outside territory to bring up units in opponents backfield. – they have to account for that and deploy with that in mind.
  Deploy the gravesite next to OBJ in you territory – but a little away from the OBJ in enemy territory
  When setting them up decide if you want to be aggressive with them or Defensive. Will opponent alpha strike and lock you down, or will they sit and allow you to move to them?
  Legion of Night works well with Gravesites – you can outflank and have a source of healing on the edge – however it could also been seen as redundant.

 

• Locus of Shyish
  Roll is unmodified, so no stacking casting buffs to make this go off.
• When selecting spells look for ones that help you when they go off 2 times. Some good choices.
  Amaranthine Orb
  Overwhelming Dread
  Fading Vigour
  Decrepify
• Stacking debuffs on units may not work in 3rd edition.
  Spells that do not work with Locus:
  Amethystine Pinions
  Soulpike
  Warscroll Spells

 

• Deathless Minions
  Another benefit of Gravesite – keep this in mind for placement
  Vyrkos Dynasty Artefact Ulfenkarnian Phylactery – extends this to 18”
  Kastelai – Artefact Grave sand Shard, 1 turn of 5+ instead of 6+ for units wholly within 12”
  This works on the hero model also

 

• Reanimated Horrors
  Stacks with- Soul Crushing Contempt LOB Command Trait.
  Spells
  Spirit Gale
  Nagash – Soul Stealer

 

• Endless Legions
  Try to position or screen at least one Gravesite so it can be far enough away to bring back units.
  Consider this for Gravesites in opponents territory as well, having a summonable unit spawn in the opponents back field mid to late game can be huge.

 

• Deathly Invocation
  Units have to be wholly within
• List of summonable units
  Deadwalker Zombies
  Black Knights
  Grave Guard
  Deathrattle Skeletons
  Dire Wolves
  Fell Bats

 

Chris –

• If you look at Allegiance Abilities in a vacuum it appears to be a downgrade or nerf. However the wholly within changes were inevitable, but a lot of the wholly within 12” feels like it should be slightly larger, possible wholly within 15”
• My hot take on Endless Legion is in some circumstances is it can be really strong. Place a Grave Site at the back of an enemy deployment zone or near a back objective. You now also have a threat of a unit popping up there without the need for any of your Heroes or ANY models to get to the gravesite to activate it. Doesn’t “Cost” anything (CP) to bring a unit back. But is less reliable when you really need it.
• Deathly Invocation – BIG NERF since a unit can only receive it once per turn. So you cannot have multiple heroes bring back models to the same unit in the same turn.

 

JTJ –

• Gavesites are better for Reserves but no healing takes the overall staying power of the army down. Now healing is more Hero dependent and Heroes can be sniped.
  Glad locus of shyish stayed the same. I think there can be some power magic builds out there.
• Reanimated Horrors is a nice buff, but does not work on ¼ of the armies in the game. But nice it freed up the banners on the units to do other things.
  Endless legion is hot garbage compared to the old rule. The only thing that makes it better is the no need for heroes/CP.
• Deathly invocation is much much worse, no stacking heals. I think if they left the stacking heals in this would have made the book sooo much better. The wholly within restriction was expected.
• In general looking at the Allegiance Abilities in a vacuum it is a significant downgrade over LON

 

 

 

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