T9A Supplement: Giants of the Ninth Age 2ed_2021_beta1_EN

Latest updated, Beta1 for 2021.

Hotfix covering a few ambiguities and inconsistencies, as well as updates for a couple of giants.

• Intro slightly reworded, Addition of the 5 giants who already existed in army books, with an extra wacky option
• Cultist Giant:
– Redesigned into a possessed giant with access to two Manifestations and a Jekyll/Hyde mechanic
– Base cost 265 ↗ 295
– Renamed Possessed Giant
• Dreaded Giant:
– Medusa Mask reworked and renamed into Dread Mask
• Giant Dwarf:
– Base HP 7 ↘ 6, Big Brother HP 8 ↘ 7
– Category swap: Special → Engines of War
– Limitation 3 ↘ 2 Units/Army
– Heavy Armour removed, Shield added
– Hatred only against Gigantic
– Giant of the Deep redesigned to Light Armour and Shield Wall, cost 60 ↘ 50
– Giant Seeker now loses the armour but gains the missing Seekers rules, cost 55 ↘ 50
– Base cost 250 ↗ 260
• Imperial Giant:
– Giant Repeater: Str 5 ↘ 4, AP 3 ↘ 2, now counts towards Imperial Armoury instead of Sunna’s Fury, cost 100 ↘ 80
– Big Fan of Sunna, gains Fearless
• Highborn Giant:
– Light Armour moved from the profile to Giant See, Giant Do
– Shoreguardian Bow profile changed to something similar to the Sky Reaper’s, cost 50 ↗ 55
• Citizen Giant:
– Infernal Armour moved from the profile to Giant See, Giant Do
• Feudal Giant:
– Limitation 3 ↘ 2 Units/Army, minus 1 per mounted Duke
– Base cost 295 ↘ 265
– The Blessing removed
– Base version is now a Serf Giant, with an option for an intermediate Serf, and a One of a Kind Knight version with a huge lance
• Saurian Giant:
– Mind-linked replaced with Skink Companion
• Sylvan Giant:
– Sapling Bow: Quick to Fire and Poison Attacks added to the model when taking this option (renamed as a whole as Giant Sentinel)
• Ancient Giant:
– +1 Armour moved from the profile to Giant See, Giant Do
– Limitation 3 ↘ 2 Units/Army and cannot be taken in Monarchs of Undeath armies
– Base cost 265 ↗ 280
– Lethal Strike added to Giant See, Giant Do
– Sepulchral Guard replaced with Scarab Giant
• Verminous Giant:
– Discipline 6 ↗ 7
– Living Bomb, Toxic Attacks replaced with Str 4 AP 1, cost 40 ↘ 35
– Big Sneaker, Multiple Wounds (2, against Character) added, Distracting removed, Hard Target is now conditional, cost 55 ↘ 40

First beta version