Lamenter

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Lamenter Infernal Light Horror

Though considered a minor horror compared to its more hulking and massive counterparts, the lamenter makes up for its size with a streak of unmistakable cruelty. The very appearance of these creatures is an assault on the mind—it can shatter sanity and fray nerves. A lamenter often toys with its victims needlessly, impaling them with its wickedly sharp impaling limbs. Each is surrounded by a swarm of invisible floating parasites that gnaw on the souls of its enemies, inflicting mental torment.

Basic Info

Lamenter
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Abilities

• Horror - This model is the Infernal equivalent of a warjack or warbeast. They have a number of unique rules (which you can read here), but fulfil the same role; namely, being big and stompy.
• Eyeless Sight
• Flight
• Soulless
• Dodge - This model can advance up to 2" immediately after an enemy attack that missed it is resolved unless it was missed while advancing. It cannot be targeted by free strikes during this movement.
• Soul Parasites - Living non-soulless enemy models and enemy models with Soul Vessel suffer -2 to their attack rolls while within 4" of this Lamenter.

Weapons

Piercer (x2)
		RNG				POW				P+S
		1				6				13
Damage Type: Magical Critical Paralysis - On a critical hit, a living model hit has its base DEF reduced to 5 and cannot run, charge or make slam or trample power attacks for one round.

Theme Forces

• Dark Legacy
• Hearts of Darkness, but only if taken by Princess Regna

Recent Changes

2021.10 Mega Update

• +1 ARM

Thoughts on the Lamenter

Lamenter in a Nutshell

The Lamenter is a support melee light Horror. It brings a pair of decently powerful melee attacks with Crit Paralysis. Notably, the Lamenter can fly, has dodge, and a unique rule, Soul Parasites, that lets it impair attack rolls of nearby living, non-soulless enemy models. If placed well, can really be a headache for your foe to deal with, and can help make your nearby models more survivable.

When to Summon

As a Light horror, the Lamenter is most often summoned by Great Princess Regna Gravnoy, who is restricted to summoning only Lights. Full Infernal Masters will most often want to summon Heavy horrors instead, to get the most bang for their (sacrificed solo) buck. That said, there may be some rare instances when you don't have enough Essence to summon a Heavy, or feel as though you have enough killing power and need some support instead. Consider placing a Lamenter next to a Soul Stalker, anything under Zaateroth's feat, or another high-DEF solo that you need to survive to really capitalize on its -2 attack debuff.

Combos & Synergies

• As mentioned, Great Princess Regna Gravnoy is probably the most common summoner for this model. Have her bring it out when you need a little extra melee presence, and then don't care when it dies, since it only cost a few Essence.
• Zaateroth Ghost walk and fly allows for a horror that can get anywhere safely. Her feat also stacks with the Soul Parasites aura to give your models truly awesome effective DEF.
• Place a Lamenter behind a line of tightly packed Howlers to both increase their survivability in melee and effectively screen the Lamenter from ranged attacks.
• If it gets jammed, use the Infernal Gate's Gate of Worlds ability to place it safely out of melee reach, so it can continue to annoy.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Quite easy to shoot off the board with boostable guns and CRAs
• Against opponents without many living non-soulless models, its best ability won't do much.

Tricks & Tips

• One of the only units with both Dodge and Flight, which can spring a surprise to an unwary opponent.

Other

Trivia

• Released with the Faction launch (2019.06)
• In the IKRPG this Horror was called a "Quelvitar"

Other Infernal models

Infernal Index       (Edit)
Unique Rules : Masters, Horrors, Essence, & Summoning
Battlegroup
Infernal Masters	Agathon - Omodamos - Zaateroth
Attachment (1)	Lord Roget d'Vyaros
Master Infernalist	Princess Regna
Lesser	Foreboder	Heavy	Desolator - Soul Stalker - Tormentor
Light	Lamenter - Shrieker	Colossal	Guardian of Souls - Harvester of Souls
Units, Solos, & Structures
Structures	Infernal Gate
Solos	Eilish1 - Eilish2 - Great Princess Regna Gravnoy (Master Infernalist) - Hermit of Henge Hold - Lord Roget d'Vyaros (Attachment) - Lynda the Forgotten - Nicia2 - Orin1 - Saxon Orrik - Runewood2 - The Wretch - Umbral Guardian - Valin Hauke, The Fallen Knight
Units	Croe's Cutthroats - Cultist Band - Griever Swarm - Howlers
Theme Forces			Mercenaries
Dark Legacy - Hearts of Darkness			J.A.I.M.s
This index was last updated: 2021.07 (1) - Note that an Infernal Master Attachment is not part of the battlegroup, they are merely listed there for convenience.

Rules Clarifications

Rules Clarification : Horror      (Edit) Horrors cannot spend essence outside of their activation. For instance, they can't boost free strikes. (Infernal Ruling) If both the master and the horror are damaged by the same attack (such as an AOE), then you need to apply the 'normal' damage to the horror before the transferred damage. This distinction can be important when you're working out who/what actually destroyed the horror. (Infernal Ruling) Tithe is optional (despite the use of the word "must" in the Tithe rules; it's used in much the same way as "a warjack must spend 1 focus to run"). (Infernal Ruling)

Rules Clarification : Eyeless Sight      (Edit) A model that ignores Stealth must ignore both aspects: both (1) the auto-missing, and (2) the 'not counting as an intervening model' parts. This can have some strange interactions with casters & channelers, if one has Eyeless Sight and one does not. There are examples on the Category:Channeler page. Blind vs Eyeless Sight (Edit) If a model is Blinded, and then given Eyeless Sight, then that model ignores Blind ... but it is technically still Blinded. So if you somehow later lose Eyeless Sight (for instance walking out of the range of Menoth's Sight), it will immediately go back to suffering the effects of Blind. (Infernal Ruling) Also this means stuff that only works vs Blind models (ie Hidden Blade) will still trigger vs a "Was Blinded but then got Eyeless" model. Anti-Cloud abilities vs Burning Earth (Edit) If you make a piece of terrain "Burning Earth" it counts as a cloud effect in addition to it's original type. This has 2 odd rulings: If any part of the terrain piece is "hit" by an ability that makes clouds expire (such as Gale Winds) then the entire terrain piece is taken off the table. (Infernal Ruling) If a model can ignore clouds but not the original terrain type, they don't ignore the terrain. For instance if you have a burning forest, then Eyeless Sight can't see through the forest. (Infernal Ruling)

Rules Clarification:  : Flight      (Edit) (Click Expand to read)

Flight doesn't ignore: Impassable terrain. Most hazards. The exception is they do ignore Acid Bath and Burning Earth as long as they don't land in them. Templates that stay in play and do damage to models moving through them (such as a Scather). Free strikes. Trampling with a flying model (Edit) Flight allows you to trample "over" medium- and larger-bases. Although you trample "over" them, you don't get to make a trample attack vs them and you don't ignore their free strikes. Refer the core rulebook. Unless, of course, you have an exception like Blade Rush. Flight on a Cavalry model (Edit) Although flyers can move over obstacles/models, and horses can pause to do impacts while charging, flying horses cannot make impact attacks while overlapping models/obstacles. You need to pause in a legal position. Charging through models (Edit) You can't charge all the way through your charge target, with the intention to turn around and face them once you're on the other side. Because you aren't able to satisfy the "must keep the charge target in melee range" clause at the point after you are through the model but before you turn to directly face. At that point the target is behind you, not in your front arc, and thus not in your melee range. Your melee range only extends to your front arc. Refer to the latest errata. You can still "skim" through the edge of their base, if you're careful and smart with your positioning.

Rules Clarification : Soulless - None yet. (Edit)

Rules Clarification : Dodge      (Edit) Dodge triggers after any missed attack - melee, ranged, or magic. An enemy model with 2" melee range that is B2B with you before you Dodge, will be exactly 2" away afterwards, and thus will be able to attempt a 2nd melee attack. If you're missed by an AOE attack, but it doesn't deviate very far and still hits you then: Dodge still triggers, but the AOE does damage before you get the Dodge movement. (Infernal Ruling) If an enemy can attack you when you advance and then stop moving (such as Countercharge or Defensive Strike) and they miss you, then you can trigger Dodge (because you're no longer advancing). Dodge plus Riposte (Edit) If a model has both Dodge and Riposte, you can choose whether to dodge or riposte first. Appendix A Step 13 applies here, because the controller of the model being attacked is not the active player.

Rules Clarification : Soul Parasites      (Edit) If a Soul Vessel model has its soul stolen by a Colossal Horror, then Soul Parasites no longer works on that model. (Infernal Ruling)

Rules Clarification:  : Magical Damage      (Edit) (Click Expand to read)

* The "Damage Type: Magical" is not inherited by "secondary" damage from a weapon. That is, stuff like arcs (Electro Leap) or hazards (Scather). (Infernal Ruling) All spells have "Damage Type: Magical" (refer errata). This is inherited by "immediate" secondary damage (such as Eruption of Spines). (Infernal Ruling) and might be inherited by "lingering" secondary damage (see below). If a spell leaves a template in play that does damage to models that walk around in it, then: if it is not described as a hazard it will do magical damage to models that walk around in it. (Example: Razor Wall) if it is a hazard then it will not do magical damage to models that walk around in it. Instead, it does whatever damage type is specified by the spell description. (Example: Breath of Corruption). (Infernal Ruling) If a weapon/spell includes Magic Damage and another kind of elemental damage it will still damage Incorporeal models. Incorporeal models are not affected by the rule "if an attack does multiple types of damage and a model is immune to at least one it is immune to the entire attack." The phrase "immune to non-magical damage" should be interpreted as "immune to damage that doesn't include Damage Type: Magical" (not interpreted as "has immunity to Corrosion and Electricity and Cold and etc.")

Rules Clarification : Paralysis - None yet. (Edit)