Sacral Vault

A massive edifice dedicated to ritual sacrifice, the sacral vault is constructed to harness and store the energies of death, literally housing the souls of those killed around it to power the dark rituals of the attending bokor. The souls trapped within are unleashed to rend enemies to bloody rags, but not before their bodies are turned against their comrades.

Basic Info

• Minion - Works for Template:Circle minion, Template:Legion minion, and Template:Trollbloods minion.
• Template:Battle Engine

Abilities

• Template:Construct
• Template:Eyeless Sight
• Template:Gunfighter
• Template:Pathfinder
• Template:Soulstorm
• Template:Telemetry
• Template:Crypt of Souls
  • Template:Arcane Vortex
  • Template:Strength of Death

Weapons

Spectral Fury
File:Gun icon.jpg		RNG			ROF			AOE			POW
		12			1			Template:-			13
Template:Magical Weapon Template:Deathly Domination Template:Reload

Theme Forces

• Minions
  • Template:Blindwater
  • Template:Will Work for Food

• Other Factions
  • Unlike Minion units and Minion solos, Minion battle engines cannot normally be taken in other Factions themes. The exceptions are:
  • Legion players can use it in Template:Oracles of Annihilation. It becomes a Blighted model, but stays a Minion model.
  • Circle players can use it in Template:Secret Masters. It stays a Minion model.

Thoughts on Sacral Vault

Sacral Vault in a nutshell

The Sacral Vault is an extremely effective anti-infantry battle engine, with its soulstorm to keep it safe from weapon masters, collecting souls from friendly and enemy warrior models, and taking over useful enemy troops. With a sizeable CMD range and telemetry it can provide crucial bonus for your warlocks, and your magic-wielding solos.

Combos & Synergies

• Any cheap infantry to feed it souls
• Gatorman Bokor & Bog Trog Swamp Shamblers One gets the souls, the other the bodies. Waste not, want not.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Does little against bricks apart of removing critical unit leaders/solos.
• It is slow, and anti-shooting tricks nullify its combat output.
• Like every battle engine, it is not benefiting from battlegroup spells.
• Soulstorm does almost nothing to slow down a heavy warjack / warbeast intending to destroy it. And its gun is not much to be relied on against heavy targets.

Tricks & Tips

• Your opponent can't promote a Grunt if their Leader dies under your control (instead they pick a Grunt to become a unit commander). If your opponent has some "Leader-only" abilities/wargear (such as Revenant Crew, Croe's Cutthroats, or Stormblade Infantry) then using Deathly Dominion can be a good way to snipe out that Leader and eliminate that ability/wargear.
• Placing models within 2" (usually with Telekinesis, Apparition or Slipstream) will not trigger Soulstorm.

Other

Trivia

• Released in Hordes: Exigence, 2014 September