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This time I present another individual warband sneak peek, the Devourers!

When The Black Star Zibaba tore screaming through the night sky, many though they saw lesser stars fall from it to the lands below. Those who, foolishly curious, investigated, found strange black stones that seemed warm and pulsing with life. Such fools inevitably brought their discoveries back to their homes and villages and, soon enough, all contact was lost with them and the lands which they inhabited. When relatives, tax collectors, or Vanatori investigated, they found not hovels and peasantry, nor even ruins and corpses, rather they found horrific "forests" and mounds of slimy chitin, flesh, and barbed tentacles, and from these alien environs erupted veritable hordes of creatures formed from mad arrays of barbs, claws, teeth, and maws with seemingly know purpose but to consume all who encountered them!

Soon enough, the various powers made to move against and eradicate these "Devourers" but found that, despite their seemingly bestial and ravenous nature, they should both strategic and tactical acumen and seemed to be guided in their actions in some, as yet unknown, way. Whenever they were driven out, it was only at a terrible cost and the land left behind was so horribly transformed that it had to be completely razed and made barren and unusable in the near future. The Devourers it seemed di not, on fact, merely devour. They transformed both themselves and the very land they inhabited with a horrible mutative fecundity unlike the darkest and most horrific of sorcerous dreams. To make matters worse, both Pasterci and Cults of Zibaba inevitably arose nearby whenever an infestation was discovered, making the task of rooting out the creatures even more difficult and making the surrounding lands tumultuous even once the Devourers had been eliminated.

Despite the efforts of Boyars and Vampir alike, some small Devourer spawn always seems to escape their pogroms and, soon enough, has grown and spawned its own small horde with which to infiltrate, infect, and absorb biological matter. These "scouting bands" of Devourers devour everything organic, terraforming an ever growing swath to their preference and spawning ever increasing numbers of horrors until they become a true threat to even the mightiest of military forces in the region.

So what makes the Devourers different from the other Outsiders from a game standpoint? The Devourers are particularly single minded once set to a purpose. Accordingly, if they lose a battle, they may choose to use the same Objective in their next battle rather than rolling for a new one. Further, they are viscously bestial in nature and so gain +1 die to their attack pool and the Animal Trait but may still Climb and use their Leader's Command Characteristic if within range. Moreover, Devourers who roll the "Dead" Injury result may reroll but, if they survive, must still miss the next game as they were actually killed and are simply being replaced with a new duplicate of the original.

Devourer warbands also have access to Abilities and Spells that make them even more deadly in combat. The Devouring Maw Ability grants the warrior the Malice (Living Warriors) Trait and their Arcons have access to the spell "Hail of Barbs" which allows them to make a ranged attack against an enemy model within 24".

Run! Run as fast as you can, lest you become yet more organic fodder for the devouring horde!

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Description

This time I present another individual warband sneak peek, the Devourers!

When The Black Star Zibaba tore screaming through the night sky, many though they saw lesser stars fall from it to the lands below. Those who, foolishly curious, investigated, found strange black stones that seemed warm and pulsing with life. Such fools inevitably brought their discoveries back to their homes and villages and, soon enough, all contact was lost with them and the lands which they inhabited. When relatives, tax collectors, or Vanatori investigated, they found not hovels and peasantry, nor even ruins and corpses, rather they found horrific "forests" and mounds of slimy chitin, flesh, and barbed tentacles, and from these alien environs erupted veritable hordes of creatures formed from mad arrays of barbs, claws, teeth, and maws with seemingly know purpose but to consume all who encountered them!

Soon enough, the various powers made to move against and eradicate these "Devourers" but found that, despite their seemingly bestial and ravenous nature, they should both strategic and tactical acumen and seemed to be guided in their actions in some, as yet unknown, way. Whenever they were driven out, it was only at a terrible cost and the land left behind was so horribly transformed that it had to be completely razed and made barren and unusable in the near future. The Devourers it seemed di not, on fact, merely devour. They transformed both themselves and the very land they inhabited with a horrible mutative fecundity unlike the darkest and most horrific of sorcerous dreams. To make matters worse, both Pasterci and Cults of Zibaba inevitably arose nearby whenever an infestation was discovered, making the task of rooting out the creatures even more difficult and making the surrounding lands tumultuous even once the Devourers had been eliminated.

Despite the efforts of Boyars and Vampir alike, some small Devourer spawn always seems to escape their pogroms and, soon enough, has grown and spawned its own small horde with which to infiltrate, infect, and absorb biological matter. These "scouting bands" of Devourers devour everything organic, terraforming an ever growing swath to their preference and spawning ever increasing numbers of horrors until they become a true threat to even the mightiest of military forces in the region.

So what makes the Devourers different from the other Outsiders from a game standpoint? The Devourers are particularly single minded once set to a purpose. Accordingly, if they lose a battle, they may choose to use the same Objective in their next battle rather than rolling for a new one. Further, they are viscously bestial in nature and so gain +1 die to their attack pool and the Animal Trait but may still Climb and use their Leader's Command Characteristic if within range. Moreover, Devourers who roll the "Dead" Injury result may reroll but, if they survive, must still miss the next game as they were actually killed and are simply being replaced with a new duplicate of the original.

Devourer warbands also have access to Abilities and Spells that make them even more deadly in combat. The Devouring Maw Ability grants the warrior the Malice (Living Warriors) Trait and their Arcons have access to the spell "Hail of Barbs" which allows them to make a ranged attack against an enemy model within 24".

Run! Run as fast as you can, lest you become yet more organic fodder for the devouring horde!

www.deviantart.com/morgulia
linktr.ee/horizonpointstudios1…