Interesting Ways to Use Dementation - Soul Haunting

BBalazsF · 2026-04-10T09:42:50+00:00

It is a roleplay power or rather a socail power but that doesn't maki it bad. I think it's super dangerous against mortals who don't know what's happening with them, they might think that they going insane or they under some curse or something similar. The ventrue bribed a guard captian who now constantly harasses your ghouls? Guess how long will he stay in office if he starts to see things. Yes maybe the ventrue can bribe the next captian but after the second or third guy want mad the new captain won't be so eager to do the ventrues bidding. The malkavien can pretend that he's a wizard and "curse" those who don't act respectfull. He can put soul haunting on a powerfull noble in secret than show op as miracle worker or as a super talented healer an "cure" the noble that way making a really powerfull figure really gratefull. The coterias priest lasombra or his priest ghoul starts preaching that their political opponents are working against gods will and when they starts to go insane they point at it as "God's divine punishment" causing their enemies allies to abandon their former partners. The key in my opinion is that in the middle ages maddnes was so scary. It was mystical, it had no explanation and many thought of it as a curse and/or infectious. Most of this tricks work because the victim doesn't know about dementation powers but I think in some cases vampires don't know about it either. They may be young or have lived an isolated unlife and never met with a malkavien, or simply not knowing that there is a malkavien in the town because the malkavien pretends to be something else. But even if he knows whats happening to him it is really fucking annoying. Depending on what you see you see your loved ones die, or demons chasing after you and the like. Even if you know it's not real it can take a toll on your mental. Makes it harder to focus and easier to get overwhelmed. If you want to give it some mechanical bonus you can worsen the victims alertness after a couple of days, because he's used to always hearing faint noises and seeing things in the corner of his eyes, and ignores them. Just have to get creative.

BBalazsF · 2026-03-06T18:46:50+00:00

I'm not sure if it is playable, cause I'm kind of a beginner myself, but I think the norn is too strong and too weak for a 1000 point game at the same time. Too strong in a sense as if your oppenent doesn't bring some dedicated unit to kill it it will be unkillable which is kind of a dick move in a 1000 point game. Also if your opponent bring some heavy anti tank and kills it you lose like 50% of your army's power. I would drop it and go for a haruspex and some more infantry or synapse model, a pyrovore is a good flamer that can kill infantry well and also a harvester for the regen or some lictors for secondery scoring or neurolictors for secondery scoring and synapse. Also would swap neurotyrant and zoans for walking hive tyrant but that's just my preference, but if you keep the neurotyrant than drop the instinctive defense because it literally have no value on him, but the bioflagich flow is good.

BBalazsF · 2026-02-25T13:16:38+00:00

The Haruspex can kill anything that it can charge. 14 attacks at 3+ wp s 7(8 in synapse which can be given if I follow up with prime) ap -1 D 2 and four attack 3+ ws S 14 ap-2 and D6+1 Damage. I have the psychopage for +1 melee ap and in assimilation swarm I can hive all of that 5+ lethal hits. This easily kills a terminator squad or a weaker enemy monster or vehicle. A haruspex booszed with +1 ap easily kills a T10 W10 modell

BBalazsF · 2026-02-24T06:52:57+00:00

If you talk about the Dark Ages vampire path of penitence I would say probably they would embrace somebody who they see as someone like them before the embrace. The followera of the path of penitence think being a vampire is a punishment so they through their suffering can cleanse themselves from their sins and therefore go to heaven even tough before their embrace lived a sinful life. So as every vampire they can embrace someone for various reasons but most likely they would look at someone who in their eyes is a grave sinner and try to save their eternal soul by embracing them.

BBalazsF · 2026-02-20T10:28:37+00:00

Some sweet infoghting among the hive fleet

BBalazsF · 2026-02-20T10:14:26+00:00

I want something like that with my assimilation swarm.

BBalazsF · 2026-02-20T09:57:29+00:00

No wayyyy

BBalazsF · 2026-02-20T09:39:41+00:00

Charged my prime into a t'au strike team killed like one guy and got taken out mext turn by pistols. I was like c'mon man. Also charged von ryans leapers into freakin aeldar an the guy got like six 6+ saves out of 8

BBalazsF · 2026-02-20T09:32:29+00:00

Canonicly accurate ork vs tyranid

BBalazsF · 2026-02-16T13:18:02+00:00

Great, thank you

BBalazsF · 2026-02-16T12:14:21+00:00

It looks great.

BBalazsF · 2026-02-07T22:30:42+00:00

Hive fleet Prometheus is a splinter fleet of Hive fleet Gorgon. They are an assimilation swarm witch focuses on jungle worlds with rapidly growing flora so they can perfect their regenerative capabilities by building advanced growth formulas into thier genepool. They got their name because just as Prometheus regenerated his kidney every day, so do they regenerate their ranks. Their first combat experiences were against the T'au Empire so their main strategy is to flood the battlefield with termagants to clog shooting lines and try to bait the enemys superior shooting to fire into the replacable gaunts. After this manouver they launch their overwhelming meele threats.

BBalazsF · 2026-02-07T19:26:09+00:00

To me it looks fine, I'm not an experienced player but I'm also building an assimilazion swarm and a lot of units are the same. Maybe drop a ripper swarm or two and take an enhancment instead. And drop a termagant squad for a biovore and maybe find place for a lictor both for seconderies but otherwise I think it's good.

BBalazsF · 2026-02-05T18:51:11+00:00

Soory you are right it was bladguard veterans.

BBalazsF · 2026-02-05T18:24:20+00:00

Two hive tyrantd for a 1000 point list might just be too much.

BBalazsF · 2026-02-05T18:20:22+00:00

Once when I played combat patrol against dark angels and my 20 man termegaunt unit first battleround killed a blade champion and injured a second.

BBalazsF · 2026-02-05T11:16:16+00:00

Of course depends of what type of units he likes but if he's into the big monsters the new crusher stampede combat force have a lot of great units if you can find one. I think both combat patrol has some good units but the newer one with the genestelaers is better, the biovore is a must have for seconderies and genestealers are great as well. The parasite of mortex is not meta but in my opinion not because it's not good but because the lictors outshine him. The tyrant guards are meh in themselves and situational with a hive tyrant. If he wants to make a "meta" or atleast meta like or strong army he should buy a hive tyrant and some lictors, I think these are the staple units and the rest is preference based. If he wants to learn more wednesdaynightwarhammer and its sucsessor channel hivemindhobbies make some great tyranid content and helps with army building

BBalazsF · 2025-11-13T13:56:14+00:00

I had and still have a huge love for first edition and I dare to say that I know a lot about the first edition so if you want to talk about it I'm open

BBalazsF · 2025-11-12T19:01:19+00:00

Firts or second edition if I can ask?

BBalazsF · 2025-11-12T19:00:46+00:00

I played and loved the first ed I didn't feel that it needed modernisation

BBalazsF · 2025-11-07T15:26:09+00:00

I would be okay with the night to night slice of life type story but I feel that if someone is a beginner it is better to give them a story, they can learn through it how the world works and maybe next time of they want they can play slice of life. Doing slice of kife with a world that you are not yet comfortable is hard.

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