It’s a fine ability but it is COMPLETELY worthless outside of Be’lakor’s army of renown. He also gets two powers from the Noctic Disciple, a new psychic discipline just for him with some fun toys.īe’lakor’s Warlord Trait that he must take is Shadow Lord, which lets him pick a friendly non-vehicle Disciples of Be’lakor unit within 9” during the Command phase to re-roll hit rolls until the next Command phase. While the VEHICLE restriction cuts out a few potential combos, this could let you push re-rolls onto a few things that might not get them otherwise with the new CORE restrictions popping up more in the future. This is an incredible 1-2 punch that ensures that, even if Be’lakor doesn’t have an ignore wounds roll or damage reduction, he’s still a complete pain to kill.īe’lakor also packs two auras – Lord of Torment gives enemy units within 6” -1 to their Leadership and Combat Attrition tests, while The Dark Master buffs friendlies, giving friendly DAEMON and DISCIPLES OF BE’LAKOR units (excluding VEHICLES) within 6” re-rolls on hit rolls of 1. This combines well with Shadow Form, which gives incoming attackers -1 to hit (all attacks), and prevents them from re-rolling the hit roll. The big benefits to Be’lakor are Immortal Vigour, which gives Be’lakor a 4+ invulnerable save and forces opponents to subtract 1 from the wound roll for ranged attacks against him. His degrading profile hits his Movement, Strength, and Attacks, but he starts on S8 and has the option to hit at S12 with his sword, so overall the drops aren’t so bad. Sitting at T7 and 16 wounds, Be’lakor is far tougher than your bog standard Daemon Prince, and he can still benefit from Obscuring and Dense terrain.
While he is costly at 360 points, he comes with an incredible array of offensive and defensive rules and an updated profile. We’ll then cover more in future articles and return to the Disciples of Be’lakor in a future Start Competing article.īe’lakor’s finally got a new datasheet for 40k and it was well worth the wait. As usual with our reviews, we won’t be covering everything in exhaustive detail, but rather the most interesting aspects of the book. These are of varying importance and utility to chaos players and in this review we’ll be covering all three in turn. An appendix featuring the collected rules for the traitor legions.The Disciples of Be’lakor, an army of renown.