Paingiver Bloodrunner Master Tormentor

Even the smallest motion or step a master tormentor takes conveys the potential for immediate death. The shadows find her wherever she strides, and those trying to track her motions amid the darkness discover their eyes are deceiving them. The razor lash with its serrated bone blades is the signature weapon of a master tormentor and requires considerable skill to employ. Bloodrunner Master Tormentor comes in a blister. A player may field two Bloodrunner Master Tormentors for each warlock in his Skorne horde.

Basic Info

Abilities

• Template:Advance Deployment
• Template:Pathfinder
• Template:Stealth
• Template:Anatomical Precision
• Template:Apparition
• Template:Sprint
• Template:Veteran Leader

Weapons

• Barbed Whip - 2" reach, POW 3, P+S 8 melee weapon
  • Template:Chain Weapon
  • Template:Weapon Master
  • Template:Thresher

Theme Forces

• Template:Disciples of Agony. She gains Sacrificial Pawn [Minion warrior] in this theme.

Thoughts on Paingiver Bloodrunner Master Tormentor

Paingiver Bloodrunner Master Tormentor in a nutshell

The Bloodrunner Master Tormentor is a roving circular area of devastation for single wound infantry. It does little for anything else - but as far as single wound non-construct infantry are concerned it's sheer murder. The strong charging threat range combined with the ability to sprint back to safety and the way it buffs an already good unit make it a pretty popular choice of solo.

It will never crack enough armour to send vs multi wound models, but what it does it does very well if you play them as a pair they buff each other with veteran leader. If you Ambush your bloodrunners they are likely too out of position to get veteran leader, but there is very little difference between MAT 9 (with gang) and MAT 10.

The Master Tormentor is now a veteran leader for all paingivers, a group which doesn't just include Paingiver Bloodrunners but Paingiver Beast Handlers and both Morghoul and Xekaar

Combos & Synergies

• Paingiver Bloodrunners - they get Veteran Leader to help finish what it leaves alive.
• Lord Assassin Morghoul gives the Bloodrunner Master Tormentor parry and Morghoul gains from the Veteran Leader benefit to land that mortality or assassination.
• Beast Master Xekaar gets the Veteran Leader benefit to help with his spell slinging.
• Supreme Archdomina Makeda - dash with its free strike immunity can get the BRMT some very interesting places, and her ability to keep shooting away plus Stealth means delivering the Master Tormentor should be relatively easy.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• The Master Tormentor doesn't hit hard. It's going to masssacre single wound infantry, and if it makes a solo the charge target it's going to kill any but the toughest solo - but it's almost useless against warjacks and warbeasts. (Spike Damage is still decent. Even if you fail, it's only 4 points.)
• it has fairly average armour so it’s 5 hp means very little. On average dice a unboosted Pow10 will deal four damage

Tricks & Tips

• Sprint (or run) behind solid objects or deep into the woods - and use Apparition to gain line of sight when you activate so you can charge

Other

Trivia

Released in Hordes: Metamorphosis (2009)