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Originally Posted by Calchet
Looking at the 7th book, there are multiple Anvils of Doom, belonging to different clans - so, while each throng can field one and only one, either attached to a normal Runelord or included with Thorek Ironbrow of Karak Azal, they are not actually unique as such.
There are even described three different varieties of Anvil of Doom, though they function no differently in mechanical terms:
- Anvil of Doom dedicated to Grimnir, emphasising fury
- Anvil of Doom dedicated to Grungni, emphasising effort
- Anvil of Doom dedicated to Valaya, emphasising loyalty
The possible effects from striking these Anvils, are:
- Rune of Wrath and Ruin - Damages and slows an enemy unit, and prevents it from flying, with an Ancient Power roll dealing additional damage. (Earthmeld + area-of-effect Damage? Perhaps even toss in a Storm?)
- Rune of Hearth and Hold - All friendy Dwarf units may reroll failed Fear or Terror tests until your next shooting phase, with an Ancient Power roll instead granting immunity. (Fanaticism + something?)
- Rune of Oath and Honor - Allows one friendly Dwarf unit (other than gyrocopters) to make a move in the shooting phase, with an Ancient Power roll instead letting 1d3 units do so. (Area-of -effect Quickness with lowish precision?)
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Intresting stuff. Very intresting. I guess that the Anvils could be a non-unique summon then. Since I couldn't find the "basic anvil" miniature anymore, I thought that now the one used Thorek is the only one. I guess Thorek's Anvil could be a special unique summon. He'd be a way too badass as a hero, since even basic anvil will likely be like F2A2W2E2S3H4 (holy forging Batman!) and Thorek will likely have death magic to boot to cast the Rune of Doom.
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Originally Posted by Fantomen
I´d go for "Dwarrows" if it was my call.
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Dwarrows sound intresting. But I'll stick with the "Dwarfs" for now, since it's the term used in the WH line. Although I'm really tempted to use "Dwarrow" in some context, perhaps as a name or to refer to the dwarf ancestors? The lore suggests that the first dwarfs were really badass, being more like demi-gods than mortals. It'd make sense they were referred by different name.
And thanks for the intresting linguistic conversation, I guess you learn something new every day. I did some graphics yesterday, decided that they're shiny enough to preview.
From left to right: Clandwarf, Heavy Clandwarf and Crossbow.
The crossbow is still kind of akward, I'll do some more work in it later.