Troll Impaler

Trollblood Light Warbeast

Pitching enormous spears with bone-crushing force, impalers are the living ballistae of the trolls. Each carries a quiver of massive wood-and-iron projectiles bearing only the most basic resemblance to the puny twigs smaller races call spears. These savage implements obliterate men and knock even the greatest beasts off their feet.

Basic Info

Troll Impaler
	SPD	5
	STR	9
	MAT	5
	RAT	5
	DEF	12
	ARM	17
	HP	22
	Cost	11
	Fury	3
	Threshold	9

Weapons and Attacks

• Thrown Spear - Ranged attack: 8", POW 13.
  • Critical Smite - On a critical hit, the model hit can be slammed d6" directly away from this model. If the model hit has a larger base than the attacking model, it is moved only half the distance rolled. The POW of collateral damage is equal to the STR of this model.
  • Thrown - If this model has a STR buff/debuff, it is added to the POW of this weapon.
• Battle Spear - 2" melee RNG, P+S 13.

Special Abilities

• Light Warbeast
• Regeneration [d3] - This model may be forced to heal d3 damage boxes, once per activation. It can't run in the same activation.
• Set Defense - Charge attacks, slam attacks, and impact attacks versus this model suffer a -2 to hit penalty.

Animus

• Far Strike - COST 1, RNG (SELF), DUR (TURN), OFF (NO)

The spellcaster's ranged weapons gain Snipe. Far Strike lasts for one turn. (An attack with a weapon with Snipe gains +4 RNG.) (Snipe - This attack gains +4 RNG)

Thoughts on Troll Impaler

Troll Impaler in a nutshell

The Troll Impaler is a troll that throws spears at people and is very expensive for a light.

Combos & Synergies

• The Impaler is a nice self-supporting shooter.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Ranged knockdown just gets shaken by beasts or jacks and is overkill against infantry.
• Its weaponry suffers the same sort of problem. Murdering infantry and not doing much to harder targets.
• The overwhelming consensus if you want a beast in this role is to go for the excellent Dire Troll Bomber.
• MAT 5 does not provide adequate melee capability. As a dedicated ranged beast its ranged damage-dealing is mediocre and has slim chance at the critical effect.

Tricks & Tips

• Try to line up the slams.
• You may slam knocked down models.

Comparison to Mk2

Far Strike no longer buffs other models, so the Impaler is not so useful as it once was. Especially as the Bomber can now Far Strike itself.

Other

Trivia

Placeholder.

Theme Forces this is a member of

• Themes for generic warbeasts (Edit)
  • Band of Heroes - (Article) (Category)
  • Power of Dhunia - (Article) (Category)

Other faction models

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	Battlegroups
	Warlocks	Borka1 - Borka2 - Calandra - Gunnbjorn - Grim1 - Grim2 - Grissel1 - Grissel2 - Doomshaper1 - Doomshaper2 - Doomshaper3 - Horgle2 - Jarl - Madrak1 - Madrak2 - Madrak3 - Ragnor
T R O L L B L O O D S
	Warlock attachments	Trollkin Runebearer
	Lesser Warlock	Horgle1
	Light warbeasts	Night Troll - Pyre Troll - Slag Troll - Storm Troll - Swamp Troll - Troll Axer - Troll Bouncer - Troll Impaler - Winter Troll
	Heavy warbeasts	Dire Troll Blitzer - Dire Troll Bomber - Dire Troll Mauler - Earthborn Dire Troll Dozer & Smigg - Mulg the Ancient - Rök
	Gargantuan	Glacier King - Mountain King - Sea King
	Units, Solos, & Battle Engines
	Units	Dhunian Knot - Kriel Warriors - Stone Bearer - Fire Eaters - Pummeler Crew - Pyg Burrowers - Pyg Bushwhackers - Scattergunners - Thumper Crew - Champions - Fennblades - Highwaymen - Long Riders - Runeshapers - Scouts - Sluggers - Warders Special WA: Trollkin Sorcerer Sons of Bragg
	Solos	Fell Caller Hero - Fennblade Kithkar - Northkin Shaman - Stone Scribe Chronicler - Troll Whelps - Trollkin Champion Hero - Trollkin Skinner Braylen Wanderheart - Horgle1 - Horthol - Janissa Stonetide
	Battle Engines	War Wagon
	Theme Forces
	Band of Heroes - Power of Dhunia

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		Minion Battlegroups
		Warlocks	Bloody Barnabas - Calaban - Helga - Jaga-Jaga - Lord Carver - Maelok - Midas - Rask - Sturm & Drang Requires a 2+ warlock game
T R O L L B L O O D	M I N I O N S
		Other Controllers	Lesser Warlocks: Brun & Lug - Dahlia & Skarath - Rorsh & Brine - Wrongeye & Snapjaw 'Jack Marshals: Raluk Moorclaw
		Warjacks & Warbeasts	The minion battlegroup members you can include in a Trollblood army depends entirely on what type of model is commanding them. There are too many permutations to list here, please refer to one of the model entries above for full details of what minions it can control.
		Minion Units, Solos, & Battle Engines
		Units	Bog Trog Ambushers - Croak Raiders - Bone Grinders - Brigands - Commandos - Razorback Crew - Slaughterhousers - Bokur & Swamp Shamblers - Gatorman Posse - Gobber Bellows Nyss Hunters - Blythe & Bull - Boomhowlers - Lynus & Edrea -
		Solos	Mist Speaker - Bog Trog Trawler - Croak Hunter - Efaarit Scouts - Feralgeist - Witch Doctor - Gobber Tinker - Gremlin Swarm - Ogrun Bokur - Gobber Chef - Thrullg - Totem Hunter Alten Ashley - Brun & Lug - Dahlia & Skarath - Gudrun - Hutchuk - Lanyssa - Maximus - Raluk - Rorsh & Brine - Saxon - Victor Pendrake - Wrong Eye & Snapjaw
		Battle Engines	Meat Thresher

Rules Clarifications

Rules Clarification : Open Fist (aka, Power Attack Throw)     (Edit) See the Throw article for a recap of the core Throw rules. When you make a Throw Power Attack, no other abilities of the Fist weapon (such as Chain Strike) are applied unless they specifically mention Throws. If you do a Power Attack Throw and you choose to throw the target directly away, no deviation is rolled to determine the final position of the model. (Locked thread) A model that cannot be targeted by melee attacks (such as Una2's feat) cannot have models thrown at them, either. (Infernal Ruling) Unresolved: Since throwing Model [A] at Model [B] involves making a melee attack vs Model [B] which is out of your melee range, it technically breaks a whole bunch of core rules. The Infernals are currently checking it.