The rules are in for the new Chaos Lord Discordant and well… it seems Chaos players may not be thrilled. Check out the latest on the new model.
Warhammer Community previewed a new character coming to Chaos that was hiding in plain sight all along!.
While the new Lord Discordant has finally been spotted and it’s definitely magnificent looking! His in-game rules, however, may have left a lot to be desired by the hardcore Chaos Fans.
The Lord Discordant
Lords Discordant are Chaos Space Marines who have a sinister, arcane mastery over machinery, similar to Warpsmiths in their training and fell purpose. However, while Warpsmiths are generally found behind their mechanical charges, enacting repairs, Lords Discordant prefer to lead from the front, fighting from the backs of scuttling Daemon Engines known as Helstalkers.
Behold the new HQ option that is coming out of the blue for Chaos. It’s a cross between a Chaos Lord and a Maulerfiend! The rider is The Lord Discordant and his mount is a Helstalker. It looks to be coming in two similar variants. You’ll be able to change around the weapon hanging on the side as well as the face of the mutated machine.
The weapon choices you can pick from are a tricked-out autocannon and an extra spicy flamer! His Datasheet was spotted over the weekend, and here’s the breakdown
Rumored to be 150 points before upgrades, he’s T6 with 12 wounds, hits on 2’s with a 2+ save/ 5+ Invulnerable.
An 18″ range on a two-damage flamer is no joke, and the mounts attacks are pretty neat too for sure. When you charge or Heroicly intervenes he becomes an impressive strength 10 which is nice.
His Spirit Theif ability is vicious and will make quick work of low Toughness, low wound vehicles for sure, potentially comboing out heals to his engines or additional moral wounds to the enemy.
Plus with his Aura of Discord ability, he really helps a line of daemon engines do work, and prevents enemy vehicles from replying in kind.
Bringing a Lord of Discord will allow you to prey on heavy-mechanized lists. Dreadnoughts, Killa Kans, Knights, etc will be hitting a bit worse while your Daemon Engines are hitting even better! Remember, you can always pop the Daemon Forged stratagem and reroll everything.
The glaring problem that most players are quickly realizing is that he is over 10 wounds. That means in most cases that without seeing any other mechanics or detachments out there, he potentially can get targeted and picked off by the enemy at any time.
It’s so important of an ability we believe, that we featured a satire article, and devoted about 15 minutes of our podcast on recently!
Still, the model looks dope, and we are hopeful that it will see some sort of play on the table after release! Between Abaddon and the new Lord Discordant, you’ll be hard-pressed to find the points to fit both of them in your list!
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What do you think about the Lord Discordant model? Has this inspired you to run a Daemon Engine-themed army? Will you be running a couple of these guys or Abaddon? Let us know in the comments of our Facebook Hobby Group.
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