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Hello everyone! Zak Ludick here from Cape Town, South Africa and this is a Warhammer 40k - Datasheet Review post!

What is it all about? It is not there to just give a stat. It is there to give MY review of the unit in the game of Warhammer 40,000

The last of the Indexes! A new challenge!

Right, I am finally ahead and by my best estimations as I explained in this Post, I should be able to keep ahead of the release curve and get the remainder of the Indexes reviewed before those Codex releases.

So I embark on a new challenge. I have calculated that there are roughly 148 reviews to do. I have chosen my frequency and have given myself 96 days to review them all. That means that I am aiming at Day 96 being the 21st of July 2025!

Today is Day 16/96.
I have reviewed 25/148.

Time elapsed: 16.66%
Review Completion: 16.89%
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Back to the review!

Chaos Daemons, Contorted Epitome

10th Edition Index

This is a Character and Psyker that can lead Daemonettes. It on its own is quite good in melee and while it does not have Psychic shooting attacks, it can be used to protect the Daemonettes from damage.

This model is 100pts.

Let's check their stats and abilities!

Stats

Movement 9"
Toughness 6
Save 5+/4++ (armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 8
Ld 7+
OC 2

Weapons

Standard weapons: Coiled Tentacles, Ravaging Claws

Ranged Weapons

None

Melee Weapons

Ravaging Claws

8 Attacks, Hitting on 2+, S4, AP-1 and 1 Damage each.
Devastating Wounds (Rolls of a 6 to Wound cause Mortal Wounds)

Coiled Tentacles

D6 Attacks, Hitting on 4+, S5, AP-1 and 2 Damage each.
Extra Attacks (These attacks can be made alongside other melee attacks that are being made for this model.)

Abilities

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.
Fights First - In Melee this unit strikes first.

Swallow Energy (Psychic)

While leading a unit, models have a 4+ Feel no Pain against Mortal Wounds and Psychic attacks.

Horrible Fascination (Psychic)

At the start of your opponent's Shooting Phase, one model from your army can use this ability. This model, the Psyker can select an enemy unit within 12" and visible to it. Roll a D6. On a 1 this model's unit takes D3 Mortal Wounds. On a 2-5, until the end of the phase, each time a model in that enemy unit makes an (ranged) attack, subtract 1 from the Hit rolls. On a 6 that enemy unit is not eligible to shoot this phase!

Thoughts

I think that against shooting armies, this unit should be sent via Deep Strike to shut down enemy shooting as much as possible. This model on its own is really tough and it does a lot in melee. I would definitely attempt to shoot this unit off the table before they can come into contact with me... Of course I would not bother with Mortal Wounds because this model makes them ignore roughly 50% of those wounds!

That makes 13 Chaos Daemon Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 26% Completed! The total of the remaining Index reviews is now 120.

Thank you for reading!

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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	Be'lakor	#370
Chaos Daemons	Bloodcrushers	#371
Chaos Daemons	Bloodletters	#372
Chaos Daemons	Bloodmaster	#373
Chaos Daemons	Bloodthister	#374
Chaos Daemons	Blue Horrors	#375
Chaos Daemons	Burning Chariot	#376
Chaos Daemons	Changecaster	#377
Chaos Daemons	Daemonettes	#29
Chaos Daemons	Lord of Change	#75
Chaos Daemons	Nurglings	#82

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