Skull Altar

I finally finished up the Skull Altar! 

The Skull Altar is "Faction Terrain" for the Blades of Khorne. Most factions in Age of Sigmar have some sort of Faction Terrain that can be set up on the field of battle and gives some sort of benefit. 

I THINK in previous editions, the faction terrain had a point value to it (or maybe I'm just thinking of Endless Spells - I KNOW they did) but there is zero cost to bringing them along (as with Endless Spells, now!)... which is a clever way to get everyone to buy them - If everyone else is playing with them and gaining whatever benefit they give, you're kind of hamstringing youself is you DON'T!?

That's not entirely the reason I bought it. I also just think it looks kind of cool... 

I do think it's a little silly that BOTH SIDES can employ Faction Terrain... Like, how does that work... two armies approach each other and they say; "hang on, let me build my altar to the Blood God... yeah, you go ahead and build your thing too..." It would make more sense if the party defending got to deploy it... but then, there would have to be some advantage to being attacker. 

Maybe they're all magically summoned... or not-so-magically summoned in the case of the Skull Altar of Khorne!

Ah well... 

Skull Altar

Other side of Skull Altar

Skull Altar with Slaughterpriest (and some friends!) 

What the Skull altar does is while there is a Slaughterpriest on there they gain +1 to Chanting rolls (which is a d6 roll so, 16.67% increase in chance of success) and any attacks directed at the priest hit the Altar first (Which has a 4+ save - better than the Slaughterpriest's 5+ save - and 10 health to burn through before you start affecting the priest). Also, invocations and prayers and other abilities that have a range are measured from the Skull Altar instead of the Slaughterpriest and they can also attempt to Banish D3 Endless Spells within 18".

Maybe not game changing stuff... but benefits, for sure... that are FREE (in terms of the point-cost within the game)... if you spend real world dollars and buy that extra thing for your army... 

Now that this is out of the way and cleared off a big chunk of the workbench... I really need to just finish off those Skullreapers (one or two ARE completely finished, the others just have a strap or two or small bits that need touching up!?) and the Lord of Khorne on the Juggernaut... and then I'm on to other things - probably finishing up the Stormcast Eternals Vigilant Brotherhood Spearhead!! And maybe some other stuff for other spearheads - like the new Nighthaunt one. 

Oh, and maybe the stuff I need for Warhammer Quest: Cursed City - Night Wars, since Amanda is back from England and we were supposed to get back to playing when she returned.