Dancing Blades

(WIP) The Dancing Blades are an obscure Aspect Temple that was first founded on the Craftworld of Khunandra by one of Asurmen's disciples, Sabresh. These agile warriors bring destruction to the battlefield through the fast and precise blows of their special mono-molecular blades. These peculiar weapons owe their name to the innatural process by which they are forged, a process so complicated that the mon-keigh are still trying to reproduce. The result is a blade so thin that the tip is composed of just one molecule and it's more than capable of penetrating flesh and armor alike. But that's not their only means of defense (and attack). Around an unit of Dancing Blades orbits a cloud of wraithbone shards that, thanks to the link between the warriors, can launch itself to the enemy, cutting soldiers in half or blowing holes into tanks. The more trained mind of an Exarch is able of directing it with more precision while a powerful psyker could easly reconfigure it to function as a shield fully capable of blocking enemy shots as well as intense beams of energy.

Fan-made Rules

8th Edition

Unit of Dancing Blades

Name	M	WS	BS	S	T	W	A	Ld	Sv	Pts
Dancing Blade	7"	3+	3+	3	3	1	2	8	3+	-
Dancing Blade Exarch	7"	3+	3+	3	3	2	3	8	3+	-

An unit is composed of 3 models, can add 3 more models for x PP, can add 6 more for xx PP, one model can be upgraded to an exarch for y points. A Dancing Blade is equipped with shuriken pistol and a mono-molecular blade. A Dancing Blade Exarch is equipped with a shuriken pistol and a Mono-molecular Blade. A Dancing Blade Exarch may swap his shuriken pistol for another Mono-molecular Blade or he can swap both his weapons for a twin shuriken catapult.

Weapon	Range	Type	S	AP	D	Abilities
Mono-molecular Blade	Melee	Melee	User	-1	1	Each time you make a wound roll of 6+ for this weapon, that hit is resolved with an AP of -4 instead of -1. If the bearer has more than one Mono-molecular Blade, it can make 1 additional attack with this weapon each time it fights.

Abilities:

• Ancient Doom

• Battle Focus

• Precise Blow:
  • This unit automatically wounds on a 5+ when making its attacks with a mono-molecular blade, unless the target has the VEHICLE keyword.

• Storm of Blades:
  • When this unit charges or it’s charged and the target doesn’t have the VEHICLE keyword, roll a die: If the unit has up to 5 models, the enemy unit suffers a mortal wound on a 5+, D3 on a 6+. If the unit has from 6 to 8 models, the enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds on a 5+, D3+1 on a 6+. If the unit has 9 models, the enemy unit suffers D3+1 mortal wounds on a 5+, D6+2 on a 6+.

• Commander of a thousand blades (Exarch only):
  • You can add 1 to the result of the die that determines the number of mortal wounds inflicted by the Storm of Blades rule.

Keywords:

• Faction: <Craftworld>, Faction: Aeldari, Faction: Aspect Warrior, Faction: Asuryani, Elites, Infantry, Dancing Blades

Sabresh, Phoenix Lord of the Dancing Blades

Name	M	WS	BS	S	T	W	A	Ld	Sv	Pts
Sabresh	7"	2+	2+	4	4	6	4	9	2+	-

This model costs x points and y PP. This model is equipped with a shuriken pistol, a bi-dimensional blade and Kanshe, the Soul-eating Sword.

Weapon	Range	Type	S	AP	D	Abilities
Bi-dimensional Blade	Melee	Melee	+1	-3	1	Each time you make a wound roll of 6+ resolve the hit with an AP value of -6 instead of -3. This weapon automatically wounds on a 5+.
Kanshe, the Soul-Eating Blade	Melee	Melee	user	-6	1	This weapon always wounds on a 2+, unless the target has the VEHICLE keyword. In addition, if you manage to allocate damage onto a model that doesn’t have the VEHICLE keyword and that still has at least one wound remaining, roll a die. If the result is equal or higher than its remaining wounds carateristic that model suffers another wound with the weapon profile (saves can still be made). Continue until the roll fails or the enemy model is slain. Also, if he uses this weapon in the fight phase, Sabresh has to make only one single attack for that phase.

Abilities:

• Ancient Doom

• Battle Focus

• Shield of Blades:
  • This model has a 5+ invulnerable save. Friendly units of Dancing Blades within 6” have a 6+ invulnerable save.

• Tempest of Blades:
  • When this unit charges or it’s charged and the target doesn’t have the VEHICLE keyword, roll a die: on a 4+ the enemy unit suffers D3 mortal wounds, D6 on a 6+.

• Way of the Blade:
  • This model and any friendly unit of Dancing Blades within 6” can re-roll all wound rolls during the fight phase, adding 1 to the result if the target unit has the ORK keyword.

Keywords:

• Faction: Aeldari, Faction: Aspect Warrior, Faction: Asuryani, Character, HQ, Infantry, Sabresh, Phoenix Lord, Unique