From the Underworlds They Comeĭeep strike power. Deathless SpiritsĪll Death armies have a 6+ Feel No Pain save when wholly within 12″ of a friendly Hero. Your units are mostly melee based so you’ll be in melee range most of the time, nice little buff that will help get a few extra models but it wont change the game by itself. Chainrasp Credit:Skails Army Traits Aura of DreadĪll enemy units suffer -1 Bravery within 6″ of a Nighthaunt unit. We will cover Legion of Grief in a future article, hopefully if and when Legions of Nagash gets a new battletome we can examine them closer as they currently occupy this weird in-between of a Legion of Nagash subfaction and yet not getting all of its tools. They’re still not doing great mind you but at least for now it’s the better option. For a while Legion of Grief was the new hotness but Nighthaunts have made a bit of a turnaround and show up more often. In short, Nighthaunts are currently a better pick. It’s a half measure that has a lot of nice buffs for you and gives you more flexibility in options. It gets access to a lot of the same army traits and their own command traits, artefacts and spells but do not get access to anything else from the Legions of Nagash battletome. The Legion of Grief is a weird mish-mash of kind of a Legion of Nagash but also not.
The expansion is largely forgotten save for one very important boon for you: the Legion of Grief. With the release of the Forbidden Power endless spell expansion. Nighthaunts were the original battletome that debuted with the second edition and was the book you had to use.
It suffers from early battletome syndrome and it’s just very hard for them to make up the lost ground of having inferior army traits to newer, fresher books. You’ll see the occasional list appear on tournaments but not as often as one would like. They used to do reasonably well, then faced a decline that they haven’t really recovered from. Nighthaunts have been through an interesting up and down. Lack of Ranged Options – Most of your army is melee, while they can be quick to close the gap you are in a weak position until you do so.Poor Army Traits/Artefacts – As a launch battletome Nighthaunts have really mediocre army traits and artefacts.It was a launch battletome so it’s likely they did not know at the time those would be so important. No Subfactions – In a rather baffling decision, Nighthaunts don’t have subfactions like other books.Lack of Unit Options – While you have a lot of character options, you don’t have a ton of actual unit choices leaving large openings in your line.Bravery Shenanigans – As is approriate for spooky ghosts, you can manipulate bravery in your favor.Many Character Options – This book has a lot of characters which can drastically influence your army composition.Mobility – Your units are fast and can fly over terrain.Access to high rend – Many of your units have access to rend, shredding your opponent into ribbons.Immune to Rend – All of your units ignore modifiers to saves, positive or negative making high rend opposition useless.Many of your units have the SUMMONABLE keyword which allows many powers and spells to heal and restore dead models. Numbers – Nighthaunts are a bit of a horde army, you can field large units with your 10 bravery and cheap units.Briar Queen and the Thorns of the Briar Queen.The Dolorous Guard (White Dwarf December 2019).The Forgotten Scions (White Dwarf December 2019).
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