Emergent victors from the Skullpit! Seeing one of these should put up warning bells for you!

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So I embark on a new challenge. I have calculated that there are roughly 148 reviews to do. I have chosen my frequency and have given myself 96 days to review them all. That means that I am aiming at Day 96 being the 21st of July 2025!

Today is Day 14/96.
I have reviewed 20/148.

Time elapsed: 14.58%
Review Completion: 13.51%
Less than 1% behind.

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Back to the review!

Chaos Daemons, Bloodmaster

10th Edition Index

A Skullmaster is a non-Epic Character unit. You can have up to three of them in your army. They are Bloodletters who have been thrown into the Skullpit and have emerged victorious. I assume this is some sort of arena where Bloodletters fight one another. This Bloodletter is then blessed and enhanced by Khorne.

When you see one of these... thing of THAT unit of Bloodletters as far superior...

It is 65pts to field one of these models and thus, with a unit of Bloodletters at 110pts = 175pts for a squad of 11.

Let's check their stats and abilities!

Stats

Movement 8"
Toughness 4
Save 5+/4++ (armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 4
Ld 7+
OC 1

Weapons

Standard weapons: Blade of Blood

Ranged Weapons

None

Melee Weapons

Blade of Blood

5 Attacks, Hitting on 2+, S6, AP-2 and 3 Damage each.

Abilities

Deep Strike - If this unit arrives on the Battlefield from Reserves, it can be set up anywhere on the battlefield more than 9" from enemy models.

Bloodmaster

While this model is leading a unit, each time models in that unit makes an attack, add 1 to the Wound Roll.

A Gory Path

When this model's unit Consolidates, it can move up to 6" instead of 3".

Thoughts

Auto Lance permanently for the unit! +1 to Wound permanently is no joke! The game works by comparing Strength of the attacking weapon and the Toughness of the defender. If they are equal, it is 4+. 1 or more strength above is 3+ and double is 2+. 1 or more toughness is 5+ and double is 6+

So you can potentially wound the following with S5 Bloodletters:

T1-2: 2+
T3-4: 3+
T5: 4+
T6-9: 5+
T10+: 6+

With the Blood Master this becomes:

T1-4: 2+
T5: 3+
T6-9: 4+
T10+: 5+

The Bloodmaster himself is S6 so his roll table is even better when leading a unit:

T1-3: 2+
T4-T5: 3+
T6: 4+
T7-T11: 5+
T12: 6+

Becomes:

T1-T5: 2+
T6: 3+
T7-T11: 4+
T12+: 5+

This makes these ankle-biters something that starts threatening to chew through huge tanks and monsters and be absolutely deadly against infantry.

The 6" Consolidate is also great. It means that after wiping out an enemy, they can get closer to the next one faster and since their wounding ability from the Blood Master is NOT Lance and needing a Charge move, if you can consolidate into another unit, it would be great.

That makes 8 Chaos Daemon Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 16% Completed! The total of the remaining Index reviews is now 125.

Thank you for reading!

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I shall leave all Army and Detachment rules here and the few Chaos Daemon datasheets I have done already:

Army Rule and Detachment Rule Reviews

Faction	Detachment	Review Number
Agents of the Imperium		Army Rule #2
Aeldari		Army Rule #4
Astra Militarum		Army Rule #1
Astra Militarum	Combined Regiment	Detachment Rule #1
Astra Militarum	Bridgehead Strike	Detachment Rule #2
Chaos Knights		Army Rule #8
Chaos Knights	Tratoris Lance	Detachment Review #11
Chaos Knights	Iconoclast Fiefdom	Detachment Review #12
Death Guard		Army Rule Review #6
Death Guard	Plague Company	Detachment Review #4
Death Guard	Flyblown Host	Detachment Review #7
Imperial Knights		Army Rule Review #9
Imperial Knights	Noble Lance	Detachment Review #13
Imperial Knights	Questor Forgepact	Detachment Review #14
Space Marines		Army Rule #3
Space Wolves	Champions of Russ	Detachment Review #9
Space Wolves	Champions of Fenris	Detachment Review #10
Thousand Sons		Army Rule #7
Thousand Sons	Cult of Magic	Detachment Review #5
Thousand Sons	Hexwarp Thrallband	Detachment Review #8
World Eaters		Army Rule #5
World Eaters	Berzerker Warband	Detachment Review #3
World Eaters	Vessels of Wrath	Detachment Review #6

Datasheet Review list (Alphabetical)

Faction	Unit	Review Number
Chaos Daemons	Beasts of Nurgle	#98
Chaos Daemons	Be'lakor	#370
Chaos Daemons	Bloodcrushers	#371
Chaos Daemons	Bloodletters	#372
Chaos Daemons	Daemonettes	#29
Chaos Daemons	Lord of Change	#75
Chaos Daemons	Nurglings	#82

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