The Great Hunger
The Great Hunger gathers their forces. Slowly at first, then with terrible inevitability. Swollen corpses drag themselves from shallow graves, and grail thralls crawl from the ruins of farmsteads long abandoned. They are drawn together by the same gnawing emptiness that festers within them. Where the hunger stirs, the afflicted rise, and before long a warband forms - a shambling mass of ravenous bodies bound together by the simple and terrible need to feed.
The warbands of the Great Hunger carry whatever tools of slaughter the rot has not yet claimed - all are clutched in swollen, blackened hands. Their armour is the decaying remnants of what vestments they wore in life. The more cogniscent among them bind scraps of bone, wood, or shattered shields across their bodies in crude imitation of war gear, while others fight nearly naked, their diseased flesh sloughing away with every movement. It matters little. Pain is forgotten by those claimed by the Hunger. Steel breaks, flesh tears, and still they come forward, driven only by the endless, devouring void gnawing within them.
Faction Rules
Though the Great Hunger is but one of Beelzebub’s many iterations of the Black Grail, the rapidly perpetuating effect on its host's metabolism causes it to ever divide and grow, with multiple unique strains stabilizing over time.
Any model in a Great Hunger Warband can have 1 Strains, except for Ravenous which can have a maximum of 3 Strains. Strains can be purchased upon recruiting a model, or during the Quartermaster Step. Once a model has a Strain, it cannot be removed or lost for any reason.
A model with the Unending Starvation Strain adds +1” to their Movement Characteristic.
Some Cult of the Black Grail Weapons have the
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Models in a Great Hunger Warband cannot have Beelzebub’s Axe, Black Grail Shields, Bolt-Action Rifles, Blunderbusses, Compound Eyes Helmets, Corruption Belchers, Gas Grenades, Infested Rifles, Machine Guns, Musical Instruments, Muskets, Pistols, Troop Standards or Viscera Cannons.
The Great Hunger is an eternally evolving agony, where those infected fluctuate between festering famine and expulsive consumption.
Agonised Churning: When you Activate a friendly model that is within 8” of a friendly Matagot Hag and has at least 2
Ruinous Masticating: At the start of this Turn, place 1
Spasmodic Wretching: At the start of this Turn, place 1
Vile Craving: When you Activate a friendly model that is within 8” of a friendly Matagot Hag and has at least 2
A Great Hunger Warband can have 0-2 Plague Knights, which must be mounted on either 32mm or 40mm bases. These Plague Knights have the Ravenous Infection Ability (see the Ravenous Warband Entry) at no additional cost in , and can only be given one of the following Plague Knight Ranks instead of the ones listed in the Cult of the Black Grail Special Rules:
- Butcher King (10 ): At the end of a battle, if this Plague Knight is not Out of Action and it has taken at least one enemy model Out of Action with a Melee Attack, gain 1
- Knight Companion of the Feast: Add +1 Diceto Risky Success Roll for a Ravenous InfectionAction(see Ravenous) if the model taking theActionis a friendly model within 3” of this Plague Knight.
- Knight of the Twin Cleavers: This Plague Knight has the Ignore Off-handKeyword, and its Melee Attacks have theShrapnelKeyword.
Captains
A Matagot Hag can take a Mother’s Call
- Feast Command: The model carries out a Ravenous Infection Action. Place an additionalInfection Markernext to the target if theRisky SuccessRoll is a Success or Critical Success.
- Fight Command: The Ravenous carries out a Melee Attack, and adds +1 Diceto the Success Roll.
- Move Command: The Ravenous carries out a Move (it cannot Charge or Retreat).
A Matagot hag can have a Cup of Filth, Grail Devotees and/or a Foetid Palanquin. They cannot have any other Battlekit.
A model with the Unending Starvation Strain adds +1” to their Movement Characteristic.
The Matagot Hag is an undying vessel of The Great Hunger and the favoured child of Beelzebub, for in his heart he hates all things in Creation and the natural circle of life. This creature is a wretched husk of a once-human mother cursed to endlessly birth monstrosities.
Her bloated and distended body is locked in an obscene cycle of constant regeneration and decay - her flesh splitting open in great, festering ruptures only to stitch itself back together, swollen with the next abomination writhing in her womb. Her skin, stretched thin and sickly pale, is mottled with blackened veins and pulsing sores, her eyes long rotted away, leaving only hollow sockets weeping thick, infectious ichor. The Grail Thralls she births carry her aloft, treating her as a living effigy of gluttony and suffering. Though mindless hunger drives her, the Hag is not without purpose - her whispered, guttural croons are hymns of devotion to Beelzebub, calling forth ever more horrors to devour the world.
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Elite
A Corpse Guard can have any Battlekit from the Cult of the
A model with the Unending Starvation Strain adds +1” to their Movement Characteristic.
Only the strongest human devotees can survive the compounding blessings of the Cult of the Black Grail. The ones that do are inducted into the ranks of the Corpse Guards, bodyguards to the nobility of the Cult of the Black Grail. If they serve with distinction, they may one day join the ranks of the Infernal nobility.
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A Lord of Tumours can have any Battlekit from the Cult of the
A model with the Unending Starvation Strain adds +1” to their Movement Characteristic.
A high-ranking noble officiant in the Cult of the Black Grail, the Lord of Tumours spreads filth and corruption amongst friend and foe alike. They commune with the Lord of the Flies through a trance-like ecstasy and can channel the very power of the Seventh Circle of Hell which Beelzebub rules.
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A Plague Knight can have any Battlekit from the Cult of the Black Grail Armoury Tables. It must have a suit of Armour. No restrictions apply to any other Types of Battlekit.
Ranking lowest in the nobility of the Black Grail, these great armoured warriors were once truly depraved worshippers of Beelzebub. When the Cult of the Black Grail came for them, they willingly submitted to the authority of the Lord of Flies. As a result they retain a semblance of sentience and the ability to wield weapons as they did in life. They aspire to win favour in the eyes of Beelzebub and one day be promoted in the hierarchy of the Order of the Fly.
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Infantry
A Gregori Gula cannot have Battlekit.
The Gregori Gula are rare, winged predators - gaunt, angelic abominations draped in rotting flesh and hiding a myriad of waiting mouths. Unlike the mindless thralls, they stalk prey with patience, each kill chosen with eerie precision. When struck down, they do not die, but collapse into a dormant cocoon of necrotic tissue, seeping toxins and viral remnants into the battlefield. If a thrall ventures too close, it is consumed, and the Gula rises again, unfurling its wings in a storm of infectious gas that cripples all nearby. The only solution is fire and absolute destruction, for so long as even a trace remains, the Gregori Gula will endure.
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A Ravenous cannot have any Battlekit, and can have up to 3 Hunger Strains.
A model with the Unending Starvation Strain adds +1” to their Movement Characteristic.
The boons of the Cult of the Black Grail lead slowly but surely down the path of utter corruption. Only very few of the chosen can withstand the blessings of the Lord of the Flies. Most are turned into Grail Thralls, destined to join the endless legions of empty, hollowed-out and diseased husks who must obey the whims of the Cult of the Black Grail nobles for all eternity, while suffering the torment of their countless supernatural infections.
Thralls come in two varieties: Grail Thralls, which have become almost impervious to pain, and Fly Thralls, controlled by the gargantuan hell-flies that have buried their proboscis deep into the central nervous system of their victims, allowing far greater mobility in exchange for less resistance to pain.
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A Ravenous cannot have any Battlekit, and can have up to 3 Hunger Strains.
A model with the Unending Starvation Strain adds +1” to their Movement Characteristic.
The boons of the Cult of the Black Grail lead slowly but surely down the path of utter corruption. Only very few of the chosen can withstand the blessings of the Lord of the Flies. Most are turned into Grail Thralls, destined to join the endless legions of empty, hollowed-out and diseased husks who must obey the whims of the Cult of the Black Grail nobles for all eternity, while suffering the torment of their countless supernatural infections.
Thralls come in two varieties: Grail Thralls, which have become almost impervious to pain, and Fly Thralls, controlled by the gargantuan hell-flies that have buried their proboscis deep into the central nervous system of their victims, allowing far greater mobility in exchange for less resistance to pain.
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A Hound of the Black Grail cannot have any Battlekit.
These are parasitic carcasses of canines infested with maggots and flies spawned from the body of Beelzebub himself. Their unholy mission is to prowl No Man’s Land and spread disease and pestilence in the name of their dark master.
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Mercenaries
Combat Helmet
The simple combat helmet has proven its value on the battlefield time and again.
Reinforced Armour
Reinforced armour is a master-crafted suit made individually for the most important and elite troops. Each one is richly decorated and often carries the personal device of the warrior who wears it.
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- Place the model to one side, along with any MARKERS it may have. It is inside the Sin Eater and cannot be affected in any way or carry out any Actionsexcept as described below. While it is in the Sin Eater it is considered to be Down for the purposes of Morale Checks. A Sin Eater can only have 1 devoured model at a time.
- When it is Activated, it can take a Fight Actionand must target the Sin Eater. Add-3 Diceto the roll for the Melee Attack, and do not use any of the model’s abilities or any of the special rules for its weapons.
- If the Sin Eater is taken Out of Action, before removing them from the battlefield, deploy the devoured model within 1" of the Sin Eater and place it Down. If this is impossible, the model is taken Out of Action. In either case, the Sin Eater is then removed from the battlefield.
- If a devoured model is still inside a Sin Eater when the game ends, it is considered to have been taken Out of Action.
- Each time the Sin Eater is Activated, place 1 Blood Markernext to the devoured model. As soon as a devoured model has 6Blood MarkerS, it is immediately taken Out of Action (ignoring any rules that would prevent this) and is no longer considered to be inside the Sin Eater.
- A Sin Eater that has a devoured model inside it can take a Purge Action.If it does so, take a Success Roll for the Sin Eater with+4 Dice. If the roll is a Failure, nothing happens. If the roll is a Success or Critical Success, deploy the devoured model within 1" of the Sin Eater and place it Down. If this is impossible, the devoured model remains inside the Sin Eater. Once released the model can be Activated normally.
Tenderizer Maul
| Range | Melee |
| Hands | 2 Hands (Melee) |
Reinforced Armour
Reinforced armour is a master-crafted suit made individually for the most important and elite troops. Each one is richly decorated and often carries the personal device of the warrior who wears it.
Combat Helmet
The simple combat helmet has proven its value on the battlefield time and again.
Sin Eaters were once mortal men and women, but their overwhelming greed, combined with the corrupting influence of the Hellgate, turned them into an abominable form that matches their inner foulness. Sin Eaters are among the few creatures outside Beelzebub’s followers that he deems worthy as their boundless gluttony mirrors his essence.
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Armoury
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