Desert Hydra

Skorne Army of the Western Reaches Exalted Gargantuan Warbeast

Model stats and abilities

Model Statistics

Base size = 120mm		SPD	MAT	RAT	DEF	ARM	FURY	THR
Health = 55
FA = 2
Cost = 28		5	6	6	10	19	4	8
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Model Advantages and Abilities

Unstoppable	This model does not have to forfeit its Combat Action when it advances or is placed out of one or more enemy models' melee ranges during its Normal Movement. No errata for Unstoppable (Create)
Pathfinder	This model treats rough terrain as open terrain while advancing. While charging, slam power attacking, or trample power attacking, this model does not stop its movement when it contacts an obstacle. No errata for Pathfinder (Create)
Trample Power Attack	This model can make a trample power attack. No errata for Trample Power Attack (Create)
Headbutt Power Attack	This model can make Headbutt power attacks. No errata for Headbutt Power Attack (Create)
Slam Power Attack	This model can make slam power attacks. No errata for Slam Power Attack (Create)
Dual Attack	This model can make melee and ranged attacks in the same activation. When this model makes its initial melee attacks, it can also make its initial ranged attacks. A model with Dual Attack can make its initial melee and ranged attacks in any order you choose. This model cannot make ranged attacks after making a power attack.   Errata-Dual Attack and Unit Charges (2023-10-27) Question: If a unit with Dual Attack charges a single model, are all placed in melee range, and the first model kills the charge target, can the remaining members of the unit make ranged attacks, or do they forfeit their Combat Action because they don't have any enemy models in their melee range? Answer: The check for melee range is done at the end of movement. If you kill the targets before they attack, they can still do their ranged attack. (Malkav13) Explanation: This post is correct. Infernal Ruling: elswickchuck (Bulldog) - PP Community forum   Errata-Dual Attack and Special Attacks (2023-08-10) Question: Can a model with Dual Attack make any combination of ranged special attack and normal melee initial attacks, or its melee special attack and normal ranged initial attacks? (Example: Bison Both Barrels and Ram, or Mariner Thresher and gunshot). Answer: No. Explanation: The bison can not use dual attack and also make a special attack. That is correct in that (Thresher) example too. Infernal Ruling: elswickchuck (Bulldog) - PP Community forum
Bulldoze	When this model is Base-to-Base (B2B) with an enemy model during its Normal Movement, it can push that model up to 2 inches directly away from it. A model can be pushed by Bulldoze only once per turn. Bulldoze has no effect when this model makes a trample power attack. No errata for Bulldoze (Create)
Multiple Heads	This model can make 5 initial attacks each Combat Action, using any combination of ranged and melee initial attacks with the Head location. This model loses one initial attack for each of its aspects that are currently crippled. This model cannot be forced to make additional ranged attacks. No errata for Multiple Heads (Create)
Regeneration	This model can be forced to remove d3+3 damage points once per activation. This model cannot use Regeneration during an activation it runs. No errata for Regeneration (Create)
Snacking	When this model boxes a living model with a melee attack, it can choose to remove the boxed model from play. When it does, this model can remove d3 damage points. No errata for Snacking (Create)

Weapons

Acid Spray
	RNG	ROF	AOE	POW	LOCATION
	Sp 8	1	-	14	Head
Pistol	A model making an attack with this weapon targeting a model it is in melee with ignores the Target in Melee bonus when resolving this attack.   Errata-Pistol (2023-09-17) Question: Does the pistol benefit apply to models not in melee with the attacking model when the pistol is on a spray? Answer: No, it only applies to models with which the attacking model is in melee. Explanation: The intent is that a model only ignore the penalty for being in melee with the models that model is in melee with. Pistol only works against the models in the melee with the attacking model. Infernal Ruling: Dark Legacy - PP Community forum
Damage Type-Corrosion	This causes corrosion damage. No errata for Damage Type-Corrosion (Create)
Continuous Effect-Corrosion	The corrosion continuous effect deals 1 point of corrosion damage each turn to the affected model during its controller's Maintenance Phase until it expires. Models with Resistance:Corrosion never suffer this continuous effect. No errata for Continuous Effect-Corrosion (Create)

Bite
	RNG	ROF	AOE	POW	LOCATION
	2	-	-	18	Head
Critical Grievous Wounds	A critical hit occurs if the attack directly hits and any two dice in the Attack Roll show the same number. This Critical grants the following weapon qualities or has the following effects: Grievous Wounds A model hit by this weapon loses Tough and cannot have damage removed from it for one round. No errata for Grievous Wounds (Create)

Warbeast Rules

Warbeast Rules

• A warbeast is
  • an Independent Model.
  • a Cohort model.

Warbeast Animus

  Errata-Animus (2023-07-11)

	Question: Are Animi considered spells for all rules that affect spells (or that trigger when a spell is cast?
	Answer: An Animus that is cast is a spell for other effects.
	Explanation:
	Infernal Ruling: DarkLegacy Infernal - PP Community forum

Animus

Sand Storm	Cost	RNG	AOE	POW	DUR	OFF
	2	Self	-	-	Rnd	No
When a friendly model is targeted by a ranged atack while within 5 inches of this model, the attack suffers -3 RNG.
No errata for Sand Storm (Create)

Errata

No Errata specifically for this model.

Lore

With five huge heads independently biting and spitting acid at its foes, the Desert Hydra is one of the most devastating warbeasts the Skorne Empire has ever captured and conditioned for war. Each head can release a focused spray of highly corrosive acid or snatch up opponents to be devoured by its gaping, hellish jaws. Flesh hooks protruding from beneath armored plates keep the beast maddened with pain, spurring it to further carnage even after suffering multiple decapitations.

Trivia

• The rules were released in Hordes: Devastation (2015), but the actual model wasn't released until 2017.01
• This model was only ever released in the High Impact Polystyrene (HIPS) sprue. A mold defect means that the left side of three of the heads is missing the flesh hooks. Many complaints were heard from the skorne community.