The Shadow Lord! The Dark Master! The First Daemon Prince!

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Chaos Daemons, Be'lakor

10th Edition Index

Be'lakor is the First Daemon Prince in the lore of Chaos. Once a mortal, he managed to balance the favour of all four of the Greater Gods of Chaos to reach ascension. Therefore he plays a pivotal role in the history and balance of the Chaos Gods and the Great Game.

He costs 375pts to field and he is a Monster with a lot of keywords!

Let's check his stats and abilities!

Stats

Movement 12"
Toughness 11
Save 3+/4++ (armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 20
Ld 6+
OC 5

Weapons

Standard weapons: Betraying Shades, Blade of Shadows

Ranged Weapons

Betraying Shades - witchfire

18" Range, 9 Shots, Hitting on 2+, S5, AP-2 and 1 Damage each.
Psychic (This weapon has the Psychic keyword)
Ignores Cover (An enemy cannot get Benefit of Cover against this attack)
Devastating Wounds (Rolls of 6 to Wound cause Mortal Wounds)

Betraying Shades - focused witchfire

18" Range, 12 Shots, Hitting on 2+, S6, AP-3 and 1 Damage each.
Psychic (This weapon has the Psychic keyword)
Ignores Cover (An enemy cannot get Benefit of Cover against this attack)
Devastating Wounds (Rolls of 6 to Wound cause Mortal Wounds)
Hazardous (After using his weapon, roll a dice, on a 1, this model takes 3 Mortal Wounds)

Melee Weapons

The Blade of Shadows - Stike

7 Attacks, Hitting on 2+, S14, AP-4 and D6+1 Damage each.
Devastating Wounds (Rolls of 6 to Wound cause Mortal Wounds)

The Blade of Shadows - Sweep

14 Attacks, Hitting on 2+, S8, AP-3 and 1 Damage each.
Sustained Hits 1 (Rolls of 6 to Hit score 1 additional hit.

Abilities

Deadly Demise D6 (When this model is destroyed, roll a dice to see if it explodes. On a 6 it does so, dealing D6 damage to every unit within 6" of this model)
Deep Strike - If this unit arrives on the Battlefield from Reserves, it can be set up anywhere on the battlefield more than 9" from enemy models.
Stealth - When targeting this unit with a ranged attack, do so at -1 to Hit.
Supreme Commander - This model MUST be your Warlord.

The Dark Master (Aura)

The area of the battlefield within 6" of this model is within your army's Shadow of Chaos.

Shadow Form Abilities

At the start of the Battle Round, select one Shadow Form ability. Until the end of the Battle Round, this model has that ability:

• Wreathed in Shadows (Aura, Psychic)
  While a friendly Legiones Daemonica or Shadow Legion unit is within 6" of this model, that unit can only be targeted by a ranged attack if the attacking model is within 18"

• Pall of Despair (Aura, Psychic)
  In the Battle-shock step of your opponent's Command phase, if an enemy unit is below Starting Strength within 9" of this model, that unit must take a Battle-shock test. (Units made of 1 model are below Starting Strength once they have taken a wound)
  In addition. For each enemy unit that fails a Battle-Shock test within 9" of this model, this model regains D3 wounds.

• Shadow Lord (Aura, Psychic)
  While a friendly Legiones Daemonica or Shadow Legion unit is within 6" of this model, each time that unit makes an attack, re-roll Hit rolls of 1.

Thoughts

I think the main danger here is that Be'lakor and his surrounding units only needs to deal with enemies that are nearby. Especially if you can only deal with him at range.

Then, when the fighting is thickest, he can regain wounds by making damaged enemy units panic. Very powerful!

That makes 5 Chaos Daemon Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 10% Completed! The total of the remaining Index reviews is now 128.

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I shall leave all Army and Detachment rules here and the few Chaos Daemon datasheets I have done already:

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 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 Review #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

Datasheet Review list (Alphabetical)

Faction	Unit	Review Number
Chaos Daemons	Beasts of Nurgle	#98
Chaos Daemons	Daemonettes	#29
Chaos Daemons	Lord of Change	#75
Chaos Daemons	Nurglings	#82

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