Editing Tamurkhan (section)

==On The Tabletop==
[[File:TamurkhanMaggotLord.jpg|300px|thumb|right|For the same price as [[Baneblade#Stormblade|Stormblade]] (200 dollars at the time of writing), you get this absolute monster.]]
Tamurkhan along with Bubebolos is an absolute beast, and his points costs reflect it. In his Sargath body he's surprisingly weak, gaining -1 Movement, -1 Weapon Skill, -2 Initiative, -1 Attack, compared to a regular Chaos Lord, but this doesn't matter as you can (and probably should) upgrade him to his Tyrant body where he gains +1 Movement, -1 Weapon Skill, +1 Toughness, +3 Wounds, -4 Initiative compared to a regular Chaos Lord. He also MUST be the General if he's in your army and he has different weapons depending on which body he's in. Sargath has the better weapon with Armour Piercing and Multiple Wounds (2), and in his Tyrant Body he gains a Great Weapon that forces the survivor to take a Toughness test on an unsaved wound, suffering a -1 to their Toughness when they fail - which is fairly pointless since every high Toughness model he's up against is likely to die before they fail, and every low Toughness model could already be wounded by him and his Toad Dragon on a 2+ anyway (since he's effectively Strength 7, and his Toad Dragon is Strength 8).

He also has Mark of Nurgle, which is a given, and the "Will of the Gods" special rule, which is probably supposed to be The Will of Chaos since this came out before the Warriors of Chaos got their 8th edition book. The Will of Chaos means he can re-roll panic checks, but Will of the Gods is also the rule that allows a model to join a unit, even if they cannot thanks to rules like being on a monster, so make your own judgement and talk it over with who you're playing against first, since Forgeworld didn't add it to their FAQ or fix their PDF.

Thankfully for his Sargath body, Tamurkhan's greatest rule doesn't rely on him surviving very long, and considering how large of a target he it he'll be given a lot of firepower from any sort of siege machine. His possessor rule means that if he's killed in close combat, he'll immediately try to possess his killer; otherwise he'll posses the nearest Infantry or Monstrous Infantry model within 6" (this can be your own model too, so keep your characters away from him). In this case a dice is rolled for both models and added to their weapon skill; if Tamurkhan has the higher score, he immediately becomes the model he tried possessing, inflicting -1 Movement, +1 Toughness, +1 Wounds, -1 Initiative on whichever profile they had, while keeping their Strength and Attacks and changing their Weapon Skill to 7, their Ballistic Skill to 3, and their Leadership to 9. He also loses whatever equipment he had (meaning his Chaos Armour and whatever weapon he had) and starts using the equipment of the model he possessed, so if you're lucky he'll get a massive boost in damage output if he's killed by somebody like an Ogre Tyrant (oh wait), or another Chaos Lord.

All of that is extremely underwhelming for 645/835 points, but thankfully he's also got Bubebolos! Compared to a regular Chaos Dragon, it cannot fly but gets +2 Movement, -1 Weapon Skill, +2 Strength, +1 Toughness, +4 wounds(!), -1 Initiative, -2 Attacks and -1 Leadership. His 4 attacks might seem disappointing until you remember that he inflicts 2D6 attacks for Thunderstomp, and has the Tongue Lash rule, easily his best rule as it gives him an ASF poisoned attack at Strength 4, and should the victim survive the attack (technically it doesn't even need to hit the target) they suffer -1 to hit. This combos excellently with the Mark of Nurgle both Bubebolos and Tamurkhan have, meaning anyone the tongue attack is directed at can only hit Bubebolos and Tamurkhan on a 5+ at absolute best (if they have WS 6 for Bubebolos or WS 8 for Tamurkhan), and at all other times can only hit the pair on a 6+!

Bubebolos also nicked [[Archaon|Archaon's]] special rule, but did it better, with no attacks being able to wound him on better than a 4+, and no attacks weaker than Strength 4 can even hurt him (just in case you wanted to say "Fuck You" to those [[elves]]). He one ups the regular dragon with a better Breath attack which has an odd way of wounding: the enemy must take a Toughness test at -1 to their Toughness, and if they fail they suffer D3 wounds with no armour save allowed, giving you another ability to fuck over anybody who's Strength 3 and/or Toughness 3. Lastly, you might think Initiative 2 might leave him vulnerable for Initiative Test or die spells, but not so since if he's hit by any spell that would instantly kill him, he instead loses D6 wounds - given that he has 10, it means he'll still live quite a long while.

If there's one thing that can royally fuck over Tamurkhan, though, it's the Eye of the Gods table. Turning him into anything really fucking sucks since you lose the possession attack, and since he's only armed with Chaos Armour and a Magic Weapon, even as a Daemon Prince he won't live very long.

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