Soulless Voidtracer

Though the majority of soulless taken in by the Retribution live out brief lives as anti-magic escorts for the group’s soldiers, a select few receive specialized training to become voidtracers. They are skilled but expendable mage hunters, trained to sacrifice themselves for the success of the mission. Without fear of death, they fight ably alongside other Retribution forces to clear the way to their target with swift, reflexive swordplay. Like other soulless, voidtracers absorb arcane energies employed by the mages they hunt, but they can also reflect it back to the spellcaster in a focused impulse, creating a deadly feedback surge.

Basic Info

Abilities

• Template:Soulless
• Template:Stealth
• Template:Arcane Void
• Template:Spell Ward

Weapons

• Two-handed Sword - 1" reach, P+S 12 melee attack.
  • Template:Magical Damage

Theme Forces

• Template:Legions of Dawn
• Template:Shadows of the Retribution. Soulless Voidtracers gain "optional Take Down" in this theme.

Thoughts on Soulless Voidtracer

Soulless Voidtracer in a nutshell

The Soulless Voidtracer is a support solo for the Mage Hunters, causing spells in their vicinity to backlash on the caster, shutting down single wound casters completely and making multi wound ones reconsider.

Combos & Synergies

• Combine with other anti magic effects (soulless escorts, banishing ward, arcane vortex, and so on) to deny casting against all relevant targets in your list, or at least make them pay through the nose to get it to land.
• In pairs (i.e. max FA), Arcane Void will trigger from both Voidtracers if an enemy spell targets a model in both of their command ranges. While you sacrifice coverage, a multi box solo (or caster) will happily take d3 damage to get a key spell out. 2d3 risks the solos death before the spell has effect (1/3 chance, with an additional 1/3 to be left on 1 health) and is a significant chunk out of a casters health pool, making them think twice before using it.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Anti-magic model, so if the enemy brings no offensive spell casting she is significantly less useful.
• Arcane Void requires that the spells initial target be within her command range. AoE spells that scatter into command won't cause backlash damage.

Tricks & Tips

• While not exactly potent in melee she still has a sword for killing things, and is still a body on the board (with stealth and magic resistance no less) to control and contest objectives. The anti magic is why you brought her, but some games you just won't need it, put the rest of her kit to use. Being cheap really helps here.
• Never forget when playing against Soul Collectors that this girl has no soul!

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Trivia

Originally released in Warmachine: Reckoning (2015)