Editing Lucrezzia Belladonna (section)

==On the Tabletop==
In 5th edition, Lucrezzia is a Hireling Sorceress who can be recruited by a [[Dogs of War]] army for the cost of 358 points... plus another 150 points for her Poisonous Items, at 50 points apiece. Riding a standard warhorse, Lucrezzia has the following statblock: Movement 4, Weapon Skill 3, Ballistic Skill 3, Strength 4, Toughness 4, Woudns 3, Initiative 5, Attacks 2 and Leadership 7. She is armed with a sword and knows three spells from the ''Battle Magic'' school.

This version of Lucrezzia has two special rules. The first, ''Expert Poisoner'', allows her to take her three signature "Poisonous Items" - these are basically magic items, except they're immune to anything that normally affects or negates magical items, because their power stems from chemistry rather than sorcery. Her second special rule is ''Stunning Beauty'', which means that any fleeing friendly units that are within 6" at the start of her turn will immediately rally.

Lucrezzia's Poisonous Items are the '''Phial of Poison''', the '''Poisoned Stiletto''', and the '''Potion of Pavona'''.

The '''Phial of Poison''' is deployed by an enemy agent, who'll try to poison one of the rival army's leaders before the fight. Roll a d6 for each character in the opposing army, starting with the cheapest and working your way up to the most expensive. If any character rolls a 1, that character loses 2 wounds immediately with no save possible - and ''only'' that character! Lucrezzia's assassin only managed to poison one guy, you just have to randomly determine who it is!

The '''Poisoned Stiletto''' is an alternative weapon that Lucrezzia can deploy instead of her sword. If she uses it, she automatically strikes last, but any hit she makes whose armor save is failed results in an automatic wound.

Finally, the '''Potion of Pavona''' is a cocktail that Lucrezzia can either drink herself or ogive to another character on her side at the start of the battle. Roll a d6; you can boost that many characteristics by +1 each (maximum value: 10) - but if you roll a 1, then the potion was improperly mixed and the drinker instead suffers 1 unsaveable Wound due to being poisoned, and gets no buff.

Lucrezzia returned to Warhammer in 6th edition in the pages of [[White Dwarf]], in the year 2003 (at least one source claims she showed up in White Dwarf #266). Featured in that issue's Warhammer Chronicles article, she underwent a number of changes.

Firstly, her statblock changed: Movement 4, Weapon Skill 3, Ballistic Skill 5, Strength 3, Toughness 4, Wounds 3, Initiative 3, Attacks 1 and Leadership 8.

Secondly, she now takes up a Lord and a Hero slot and must automatically be the army general. Also, she now costs a flat 380 points to field.

This version of Lucrezzia rides a Barded Warhorse and fights with two hand weapons; a sword and stiletto dagger. She's now a Level 4 [[Wizard]] who can use either the Lore of Shadow or the Lore of Death. Her special rules have also changed.

'''Stunning Beauty''' now causes all fleeing human troops that come within 8" of Lucrezzia to automatically rally, unless they're Immune to Psychology. Except this also works during the enemy's turn as well as Lucrezzia's.s

'''Expert Poisoner''' now has been changed into four subrules:
* ''Lucrezzia's Kiss:'' Lucrezzia can kiss the weapons of a single Character or Unit Champion, granting that individual the Killing BLow power due to her lethally poisonous lipstick now smeared on the blade.
* ''Stiletto Dagger'': Lucrezzia's attacks are Poisoned Attacks.
* ''Potion of Pavona:'' As per 5th edition, except it can now be given to Unit Champions.
* ''Phial of Poison:'' Now you roll a d6 for every character in the enemy army, and every guy who rolls a 4+ suffers 1 automatic wound. So there's now a chance you can poison all the enemy characters.