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. Beyond the starter box he does not get that much use. When using him in a journeyman league, Stack pulverizer and rage from the mauler for a nice POW 18 range 8 attack. Or snipe and pulverizer for a POW 15 range 12 attack. Boost everything.

Combos & Synergies

• The Impaler is a nice self-supporting shooter.
• STR boosts apply to his range weapon. In the right army and with the right boosts....yea.
• Out of the starter box you can put pulverizer on him and with snipe he's a real threat.

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.
• Unless you have a warlock with a ranged weapon (especially Madrak) and you therefore want the warlock to be able to cast the Far Strike animus it's hard to justify the Impaler costing 2 points more than an Ice Troll - and if you want Far Strike it's normally worth going all the way for the Dire Troll Bomber.

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

Originally released in Primal Mk1 (2006)

Theme Forces

• Kriel Company - (Article) (Category)
• Themes for any-and-all warbeasts (Edit)
  • Band of Heroes - (Article) (Category)
  • Power of Dhunia - (Article) (Category)
  • Storm of the North (Article) (Category)

Other Trollblood models

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	Battlegroups
	Warlocks	Borka1 - Borka2 - Calandra - Gunnbjorn - Grim1 - Grim2 - Grissel1 - Grissel2 - Doomshaper1 - Doomshaper2 - Doomshaper3 - Horgle2 - Jarl - Kolgrima - Madrak1 - Madrak2 - Madrak3 - Ragnor
T R O L L B L O O D S
	Warlock attachments	Trollkin Runebearer
	Lesser Warlock	Horgle1
	Light warbeasts	Ice Troll - Night Troll - Pyre Troll - Slag Troll - Storm Troll - Swamp Troll - Troll Axer - Troll Basher - Troll Bouncer - Troll Impaler - Winter Troll
	Heavy warbeasts	Dire Troll Blitzer - Dire Troll Bomber - Dire Troll Brawler - 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 - NK Bears - NK Fire Eaters - NK Raiders - Pummeler Crew - Pyg Burrowers - Pyg Bushwhackers - Pyg Lookouts - 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 - Valka Curseborn
	Battle Engines	Hearthgut Hooch Hauler - War Wagon
	Theme Forces
	Band of Heroes - Kriel Company - Power of Dhunia - Storm of the North

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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 Agata, Queen of Carnage - Alten Ashley - Brun & Lug - Dahlia & Skarath - Eilish Garrity - Gudrun - Hutchuk - Lanyssa - Maximus - Raluk - Rorsh & Brine - Saxon - Victor Pendrake - Wrong Eye & Snapjaw
		Battle Engines	Meat Thresher

Rules Clarifications

Rules Clarification : Smite      (Edit) This rule changed in Mk3 to no longer say it "adds the weapon's POW". It still does add the POW, however, because the whole section on calculating Slam damage was reworded in the main rulebook. Smite is not a Power Attack Slam, it is just an attack which causes a model to be slammed. As such, you can smite friendly models. You can trigger Critical Smite on a free strike. If you Smite on a charge, then the slam damage will be boosted. See also the clarifications on being slammed

Rules Clarification : Thrown      (Edit) You do not add the model's base STR to the thrown spear, just modifiers. The base STR is already included in the POW of the weapon. (Locked thread)

Rules Clarification:  : Warbeast      (Edit) (Click Expand to read)

See also the Warbeast page for a recap of the core warbeast rules. Forcing If an ability doesn't specify how much it costs to force, it costs 1. (Infernal Ruling) Animi A single Animus can be on several models at the same time. (Infernal Ruling) If a model has an animus on it from any source and then another animus is cast on that model, it will lose the first instance of an animus and will be replaced by the second. It does not matter if either the first animus or the second animus is from a warlock or warbeast. (Infernal Ruling) An animi cast by a warlock is an animi and spell. (Infernal Ruling) Transferring Damage If both the warlock and the warbeast are damaged by the same attack (such as an AOE), then you need to apply the 'normal' damage to the warbeast before the transferred damage. This distinction can be important when you're working out who/what actually destroyed the beast. (Infernal Ruling) Frenzy Step 4 of Frenzy was errata'd in 2016. Make sure you're using the latest version of the rules. You cannot trigger optional abilities during a Frenzy (such as Cleave). (Infernal Ruling) You must trigger compulsory abilities during a Frenzy ... unless that ability generates an extra attack (like Berserk). In that case, you don't get the Berserk attack. (Infernal Ruling) A warbeast may not make an Assault shot as part of a Frenzy activation. (Refer latest errata) If the closest target to a warbeast resolving a Frenzy cannot be charged, then the warbeast will forfeit movement and action (as per the rules of having to charge and not being able to). (Infernal Confirmation)

Rules Clarification : Regeneration - None yet. (Edit)
Rules Clarification : Set Defense - None yet. (Edit)

Rules Clarification : Far Strike      (Edit) Rules Clarification : Snipe      (Edit) Although Snipe the spell and Snipe the Attack Type are two different "sources", they are multiple instances of the same effect. As such, they're not cumulative. Refer to the "Rule Priority" section of the core rulebook. Snipe does not affect the range of weapons that use the Spray template, or one's which have RNG = CTRL.