New Be’lakor rules and datasheets have been updated by GW, for both AoS and Warhammer 40k!
Thanks to GW listing the rules online, we have the 40k & AoS rules for the new model release! He definitely got some big buffs, while keeping a lot of the same flavor as before which is always cool for lore fans!
New AoS Be’lakor Warscroll Spotted!
Description
- This model can fly.
Abilities
- The Dark Master: Once per battle, at the beginning of the enemy heroes phase, you may choose 1 enemy unit on the battlefield. Until your next hero phase, at the beginning of each phase (including the phase in which the unit was chosen), you may roll a dice for that unit. On a 3+, in that phase that unit cannot move, shoot, fight, use command abilities, chant prayers, try to cast spells, try to dispel persistent spells, or try to dispel spells.
- Lord of Torment: If an enemy unit fails a battleshock test while it is within 12″ of this model, you can heal up to D3 wounds allocated to this model.
- Shadow Form: Ignore modifiers (positive or negative) when making save rolls for attacks that target this model.
Magic
- Enfeeble Foe: Enfeeble Foe has a casting value of 6. If successfully cast, pick 1 enemy unit within 18″ of the caster and visible to them. Until your next hero phase, subtract 1 from wound rolls for attacks made with melee weapons by that unit.
First up, the ability to choose who to freeze in your opponent’s hero phase and not the beginning of the game. This is a really nice change and can totally mess up your enemy’s plans! Just hope you primed that dice up and hit the 66% chance! Regaining wounds is never a bad thing, but the enemy will have to fail a battleshock test, which isn’t too hard to set up.
He’ll always get the same save, which is really nice, but that also means you can never increase it, but a 4+ it’s fairly decent.
Lastly, Enfeeble Foe is fairly easy to cast and will really reduce the combat power of a unit within 18″ of Be’lakor. Especially considering the balance of how many units use melee and not ranged in AoS.
Next, we’ll check out his weaponry:
Blade of Shadow: The attacks for this will go on a sliding scale depending on how many wounds he’s taken. But at the full profile, he’ll dish out some serious damage. Getting 8 attacks hitting and wounding on 3’s, with -2, and D2.
Mortal Claw: Nothing crazy here with an attack hitting and wounding on 3’s again, -1, and D2.
Piercing Tail: This attack has a longer range, hits on a 2+ and then goes off his damage chart for the wound roll, but still does D2.
Overall some massive buffs! But with him being so much bigger, what else would you expect. With 14 wounds, better abilities, and way more damage, we expect him to wreck through some epic battles!
You can find the full rules for Be’lakor in an upcoming supplement for Warhammer 40,000, so stay tuned to Warhammer Community to find out when you can bring the First Prince’s schemes to your tabletops.
To learn more about that, you’ll have to keep your eyes peeled for his full rules coming later this year.
Let’s check out the datasheet and compare it to the current one.
All The New Be’lakor 40k Daemon Rules
GW put out a short post covering some of his new 40k rules – Let’s break it down.
First, he’s got a standard sweeping attack which we will cover below, along with an ability to double attacks (now 12 total), which should help him dig out of horde combats.
The Piercing Strike however is great, and the stat line did seem to get changed last from +2S in his model Datasheet to +4S in the GW preview. All that aside, the main power of these attacks is that they prevent invulnerable saves! That means he might just be one of the best character killers in the game moving forward!
He is also getting a 4+ Invulnerable and -1 to wound rolls for incoming ranged shots. Shadow Form is also pretty good, if he is attacked, the hit roll cannot be re-rolled, additionally, they must subtract 1 from it. These are both great to help make him tougher and last longer on the field, together they kinda push him over the top, he will be a massive pain to deal with.
New Be’lakor Daemon 40k Rules
There was an IKEA-style sheet of rules spotted in a PDF from GW so let’s compare it to the old sheet and see what’s changed.
Old rules
New Rules
New Bonuses:
- Wounds up to 16 (was 8)
- Movement at 12″ degrading down to 6″ (was 14″ non-degrading)
- Attacks at 6 degrading down to 4 (was 6 non-degrading)
- Strength up to 8 degrading to 6 (was 6)
- Toughness up to 7 (was 6)
- Armor Save at 6+ (was 4+)
- Sweeping Strike at -3AP and 1 damage (was -2AP 2 damage for talons)
- Piercing Strike is at +2S? (preview said +4s), -4AP, and D3+3 damage (was +1S, -5AP, and flat 3 damage)
What we don’t know:
- Leadership debuff to enemies?
- Re-rolls?
Overall, Be’lakor has a ton of changes looking to make him stand apart from generic princes. Doubling the wounds on him is a great step, but he can be freely targeted and not bubble-wrapped. Losing damage on the talons/sweeping strike also hurts, especially with all those units going up to 2 wounds now. Hopefully, he keeps his re-rolls and maybe even gains some extra rules.
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