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Rare Units: Glooms and Winged Nightmares

November 2005·p. 100

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Glooms are the resentful spirits of sacrificed slaves, weak individually but supported by numbers through Spirit Levy. Ethereal and Tormented rules make their presence different from obedient skeleton infantry. Winged Nightmares instead combine great monster corpses into flying terror-causing beasts whose charges impale victims. Rebasing Spirit Host figures and removing a monster’s saddle provide straightforward ways to field these contrasting Rare choices.

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RulesWD 311 · p. 25

Protect the Neophytes

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