The Skorne are the Persian Empire of Immoren. They are DEEPLY interested in the study of souls and death, and they study the Trollbloods to death, fascinated by their souls, which go DOWN, as opposed to UP after the individual dies, because Trollbloods are tied to earth and stone. They also recently learned about the Retribution of Scyrah, which reincarnates, unless the newborn is born soulless (which is an increasing phenomenon in the game world). The Skorne have the best light beasts in the game, allowing you to force an opponent to re-roll or to roll an extra dice to add to your previous two dice, turning many near-misses into hits. They also have a handful of dinosaurs, recently getting a pterodactyl. Persians with dinosaurs? YES.
However, their premier beast is the Titan, which is this big, four-armed beast. The Skorne generally mistreat their warbeasts, which is their way with everything. Torture is their day-to-day. Titans are epic slam machines. A slam is a "power attack," costing either one focus (for Warmachine), or putting one fury on said warbeast (for Hordes). Basically they bum-rush the other guy and knock him down, which means that anyone who wants to give him a sharp poke in the ribs can do so without any effort, meaning they have to roll for damage, rather than roll for attack. Anyone with a gun can bust off a shot and hit automatically too (unless they roll snake-eyes), since the target is incapable of dodging. While knocked down, the target cannot attack either, and it must be given one fury, or spend on focus to get up, unless it choses to forfeit either its move or action. That's devastating, and personally, it sucks to be knocked down. Additionally, if the target is a warjack knocked down in shallow water, its boiler goes out and the jack is inert for the rest of the game. You can't start up a furnace that's full of soaked coal. Warbeast don't have this problem BUT warbeasts are subject to being poisoned where jacks are not, which makes up for it.
The Skorne have really cool stuff, like saber-toothed tiger cavalry, a unit of harpooners (which can drag the target toward them, and away from whatever protection it had), and a bunch of really cool casters. The battle-box caster reminds me of Voldo from Soul Caliber, and that's awesome, because Voldo is DELIGHTFULLY creepy.
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Morghoul. Wait, Voldo. Uhhh...Volghoul? Mordo. |
Morghoul is, I guess, some kind of assassin-caster, which is pretty sweet. Guess which picture is which guy. However, having an assassin-caster is a gamble though, because if you have offended the dice gods, you pretty assuredly lose, having delivered the one kill they need to win right to the guys most capable of killing him. Open mouth, insert foot-cannon.
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Its only creepy because of his horrible poses and tight clothing. You know what, that's really all he is, weapons aside. |
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