The pain parasite! Really grimdark...

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Drukhari, Cronos

10th Edition Index

You pay 50pts for one, you can either take 1 or 2, making a unit of 2 monsters!

Let's check their stats!

Stats

Movement 7"
Toughness 7
Save 3+/6++/5+++(armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 7
Ld 6+
OC 2

Weapons

Weapon Loadout: Spirit Syphon and Spirit-Leech Tentacles and any number of models in the unit can be equipped with Spirit Vortexes... so why not?

Ranged Weapons

Spirit Syphon

12" Range, D6 Shots, Hitting on Auto, S5, AP-1 and 1 Damage each.
Torrent (Hits are automatic, just roll for number of shots)
Ignores Cover (Target cannot get benefit of cover against these attacks)

Spirit Vortex

18" Range, D6 Shot, Hitting on 3+, S5, AP-1 and 1 Damage each.
Ignores Cover (Target cannot get benefit of cover against these attacks)
Blast (+1 shot for every 5 models in the target unit, rounding down)

Melee Weapons

Spirit-leech tentacles

4 Attacks, Hitting on 4+, S5, AP0 and 1 Damage each.

Abilities

Pain Parasite

Each time a Pain token is used within 9" of this unit, on a roll of 4+, you gain 1 pain token

Thoughts

So it is a Pain token farm. While 50pts is not much to pay for a Monster unit, they are not very powerful. If you are going to run them in multiples, you may as well first play 2-3 induvidual Cronos units. There is no cap on using that ability for multiple units per time that a pain token is used.

This means, hypothetically, one Cronos can cover one 18" bubble on one side of a battlefield and another Cronos on the other side, but where one unit uses a Pain token within 9" of BOTH Cronos, you can roll 4+ twice!

Unless an FAQ says otherwise... (Looking) and nope, you can stack them! From now until the new Drukhari Codex.

Thank you for reading!

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Army Rule and Detachment Rule Reviews

Faction	Detachment	Review Number
Agents of the Imperium		Army Rule #2
Aeldari		Army Rule #4
Astra Militarum		Army Rule #1
Astra Militarum	Combined Regiment	Detachment Rule #1
Astra Militarum	Bridgehead Strike	Detachment Rule #2
Chaos Daemons		Army Rule #10
Chaos Daemons	Daemonic Incursion	Detachment Review 15
Chaos Daemons	Blood Legion	Detachment Review 16
Chaos Daemons	Legion of Excess	Detachment Review 17
Chaos Daemons	Scintillating Legion	Detachment Review 18
Chaos Daemons	Plague Legion	Detachment Review 19
Chaos Daemons	Shadow Legion	Detachment Review 20
Chaos Knights		Army Rule #8
Chaos Knights	Tratoris Lance	Detachment Review #11
Chaos Knights	Iconoclast Fiefdom	Detachment Review #12
Death Guard		Army Rule Review #6
Death Guard	Plague Company	Detachment Review #4
Death Guard	Flyblown Host	Detachment Review #7
Imperial Knights		Army Rule #9
Imperial Knights	Noble Lance	Detachment Review #13
Imperial Knights	Questor Forgepact	Detachment Review #14
Space Marines		Army Rule #3
Space Wolves	Champions of Russ	Detachment Review #9
Space Wolves	Champions of Fenris	Detachment Review #10
Thousand Sons		Army Rule #7
Thousand Sons	Cult of Magic	Detachment Review #5
Thousand Sons	Hexwarp Thrallband	Detachment Review #8
World Eaters		Army Rule #5
World Eaters	Berzerker Warband	Detachment Review #3
World Eaters	Vessels of Wrath	Detachment Review #6