Friday, April 5, 2024

Horus Heresy 2e Review: Knight Abyssal

Warpstone Flux Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
4/5 stars. Beautifully cheap. 

Background.
Strong psychic nulls who can evoke dread in even the non-sensitive humans. These are the leaders of the Sisterhood and had a wealth of experience at bringing down daemons and psychics alike. 

Strengths.
I want to list the points cost here as the major attraction. It is seriously good for the cost!

The stat line has 6's in both BS and WS which already makes the character formidable, but once you count in all the extra rules, it gets more interesting. Chief among them are the Ex Oblivio rule which will serve you well here for eliminating enemy characters. Fear and Fearless are similarly strong, and the precision strikes and shots really nice. 

The wargear is good, and the option to take a paragon blade superlative!

Weaknesses.
T=3 is as much a problem as ever here. The 2+ armour save will help, but if you take a weight of fire, you might well be dead. Obviously, take a retinue or embed in a large blob of troops. 

Builds.
Knight Abyssal, Paragon Blade, Archaeotech Pistol (105 points).
The pistol can be dropped if you really need the points, but otherwise this is the main build to consider here. Really strong at enemy praetor elimination where needed - you just need to get into the right location. 

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