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The Blacktalons

Released: November 2023.

Neave Blacktalon is Sigmar’s foremost assassin. It is her charge to hunt those that would threaten Sigmar’s people, cutting down the God-King’s most hated foes with wild swings of her whirlwind axes. Her companions, the Blacktalons, are heroes all and together they operate with swift, deadly efficiency.

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Special Rules

When picking a warband from the Blacktalons faction, the following rule is in addition to the bullet points under ‘The Warbands’ in the core rules and ‘Step 1 – Choose Your Faction and Fighters’ in the core rules.

  • Each fighter with the Blacktalons (Blacktalons) runemark can only be included once in your warband.

Reaction

RunemarkReaction
Blacktalons[Reaction] Shield of Azyr: A fighter can make this reaction after they are targeted by an attack action but before the hit rolls are made. Count up to two critical hits from that attack action as hits instead. If this fighter has the Hero (Hero) runemark and is within 6" of another friendly fighter with the Blacktalons (Blacktalons) runemark and the Champion (Champion) or Destroyer (Destroyer) runemark, count up to three critical hits from that attack action as hits instead.

Abiltiies

RunemarkAbility
BlacktalonsChampion[Double] Storm of Justice: Pick a visible friendly fighter with the Blacktalons (Blacktalons) runemark within a number of inches of this fighter equal to the value of this ability. That fighter makes a bonus move action or a bonus attack action.
BlacktalonsDestroyer[Triple] Headshot: Add the value of this ability to the damage points allocated to enemy fighters by each hit and critical hit from the next ranged attack action made by this fighter in this activation.
BlacktalonsMystic[Triple] Nebulous Sea-fog: Until the end of the battle round, subtract 1 from the Attacks characteristic (to a minimum of 1) of attack actions made by enemy fighters while they are within 6" of this fighter.
BlacktalonsHero[Quad] Windrider: A fighter can only use this ability if an enemy fighter has been taken down by an attack action made by them this activation. Remove this fighter from the battlefield, then set this fighter up on a platform or the battlefield floor, more than 6" from all enemy fighters. You can subtract the value of this ability from that 6", to a minimum of 0.

Fighter Profiles

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The Blacktalons box contains:

  • 1x Neave Blacktalon
  • 1x Hendrick, the Silver Wolf
  • 1x Rostus Oxenhammer
  • 1x Shakana Goldenblade
  • 1x Lorai, Child of the Abyss

Hero

Neave Blacktalon

Axe
Range
1
Attacks
6
Strength
5
Damage (normal/crit)
2/4
Ranged
Range
10
Attacks
3
Strength
4
Damage (normal/crit)
1/4
Blacktalons
285
Move
7
Toughness
5
Wounds
30
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Fighters

Rostus Oxenhammer

Hammer
Range
1
Attacks
4
Strength
6
Damage (normal/crit)
3/6
Blacktalons
200
Move
4
Toughness
6
Wounds
25
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Shakana Goldenblade

Sword
Range
1
Attacks
3
Strength
4
Damage (normal/crit)
2/4
Ranged
Range
3/15
Attacks
4
Strength
3
Damage (normal/crit)
1/2
Blacktalons
180
Move
4
Toughness
5
Wounds
25
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Lorai, Child of the Abyss

Dagger
Range
1
Attacks
2
Strength
3
Damage (normal/crit)
1/3
Blast
Range
3/7
Attacks
3
Strength
3
Damage (normal/crit)
3/7
Blacktalons
160
Move
5
Toughness
3
Wounds
20
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Hendrick, The Silver Wolf

Sword
Range
1
Attacks
4
Strength
4
Damage (normal/crit)
2/4
Sword
Range
1
Attacks
3
Strength
5
Damage (normal/crit)
2/5
Blacktalons
155
Move
4
Toughness
5
Wounds
25
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