Idea for an AoS unit

[Sorin Von Carstein]

Hello I am fairly new to AoS, from warhammer, I liked the Soulblight Battletome, and there was something I kinda missed, a unit of enslaved/Mesmerized mortal, akin of the Thralls of Mordheim, so I thought about it, and come with this

Number of miniatures 10

Points cost 100



Bravery 4*

Wounds 1

Armor 6+

Movement 4``



Rusty blade hit 5+ wound 5+ Rend - Damage 1



Special rules:

Midnight snack: This unit at the begining of each combat fase if is a Soulblight Vampire hero within 6`` this unit can suffer d3 mortal wound to heal the vampire the same amount of wounds.

Controlled, if the unit is wholly within 6`` of a vampire lord, they can use his value of bravery instead of theirs.

Alive, but barely anymore: This unit can`t be deployed from a graveyard, or use deathly coordination, they can benefit from Deathly invocation, and invigorating aura



Keywords: Death, soulblight gravelords, thralls, summonable



The role of this unit is to support heroes, that is why I leave them as weak as possible, so they are more like a group of groupies, any opinion is welcome, and sorry for the speling, english is not my 1st lenguage

 

[The Sun King]

Hi Sorin! That is a cool idea

My input would be that the Mortal Thralls is a bit too close to Zombies in their gameplay. I think you have also made them way too expensive - if you compare them with a unit like Deathrattle Skeletons you'll see what I mean. But I really dig the idea behind the unit. I've always felt that the vampiric armies lacked mortal servants as a unit option.

 

[Sorin Von Carstein]

Then a better armor (So they are different to zombies), a reduction in points or both, could work too...
I also thought about giving them option to swap weapons, to either Halberds, spears or bows

 

[Unas the slayer]

Yep, the idea has merit.
I like it, with a little work it would be a balanced unit.

 

[Sorin Von Carstein]

2nd try with your feedback, Im trying to make it a support unit with some flexibility

Number of miniatures 10

Points cost 90

Options: Can be armed with either Rusty blade, and paveses, or with a discarded halberd


Bravery 4*

Wounds 1

Armor 5+

Movement 5``



Rusty blade hit 5+ wound 5+ Rend - Damage 1
Discarded halberd hit 5+ wound 4+ Rend -1 Damage 1



Special rules:
Shield: A unit equiped with shields add +1 to their armor save against missiles

Midnight snack: This unit at the begining of each combat fase if is a Soulblight Vampire hero within 6`` this unit can suffer d3 mortal wound to heal the vampire the same amount of wounds (This wounds arent count for bravery checks).

Controlled, if the unit is wholly within 6`` of a vampire lord, they can use his value of bravery instead of theirs.

Alive, but barely anymore: This unit can`t be deployed from a graveyard, or use deathly coordination, they can benefit from Deathly invocation, and invigorating aura

 

[The Sun King]

I like this version! Maybe 90 pts for a unit?

 

[Sorin Von Carstein]

Edited

 

[The Sun King]

I like the idea of running a block of 30 of these with halberds and having a Vampire close by to use crimson feast on them. Still probably not anywhere near as good as zombies but it would be cool.