Hedonites of Slaanesh – Scourge of Ghyran Syll’Esske, the Vengeful Allegiance
8" 9 4+ 4 5+ Not a single Slaaneshi fiend but a mortal and daemon joined in malicious harmony, Syll’Esske has entered the war in Ghyran in the hope of gathering sycophants to join their host. They aim to achieve this via gratuitous acts of violence, cutting a bloody swathe across the land and impressing each other with particularly vile feats of depravity. | ||
| MELEE WEAPONS | Atk | Hit | Wnd | Rnd | Dmg | ||
| Axe of Dominion | |||||||
| Axe of Dominion | 4 | 3+ | 3+ | 2 | 3 | ||
| Scourging Whip | |||||||
| Scourging Whip | 6 | 2+ | 4+ | 1 | 2 | ||
BATTLE PROFILE
Unit Size: 1 Points: 180
Base size: 50mm
Can be reinforced: No
Regiment Options: 0-1 Slaaneshi Beguiler or Dark Egotist, Any HEDONITES OF SLAANESH
Notes: This unit is legal for Matched Play for battles fought using the General’s Handbook 2025-26 battlepack.
 Passive |
CHAMPIONS OF THE GILDED THRONE: Blessed by Syll’Esske, nearby daemons and mortals fight with a synergy that defies comprehension.
Effect: When players are alternating picking units to use a FIGHT ability, when it is your turn to pick a unit, instead of picking 1 unit, you can pick a friendly non-HERO HEDONITES OF SLAANESH DAEMON unit wholly within 18" of this unit and a friendly non-HERO SYBARITE unit wholly within 18" of this unit. Resolve the second FIGHT ability immediately after the first.
 Your Hero Phase | 6 |
WANDERING MINDS: The dark enchantments woven by Syll and the domineering aura of Esske cause mystical wards and mental defences to slip away like silk sliding from burnished silver.
Declare: Pick up to 1 visible friendly non-HERO SYBARITE INFANTRY unit and up to 1 visible friendly non-HERO HEDONITES OF SLAANESH DAEMON INFANTRY unit to be the targets, then make a casting roll of 2D6.
Effect: If you picked a SYBARITE target, subtract 1 from ward rolls for damage points inflicted by its combat attacks until the start of your next turn. If you picked a DAEMON target, it has WARD (5+) until the start of your next turn.
Effect: If you picked a SYBARITE target, subtract 1 from ward rolls for damage points inflicted by its combat attacks until the start of your next turn. If you picked a DAEMON target, it has WARD (5+) until the start of your next turn.
| KEYWORDS | SPELL |
| End of Any Turn |
VIOLENT OFFERINGS: Esske will go to great lengths to please Syll, delicately prising magical trinkets from severed heads and limbs to gift to the source of his obsession.
Effect: If any damage points were allocated to an enemy WIZARD or PRIEST by this unit’s combat attacks this turn and that enemy unit has been destroyed, add 1 to this unit’s power level for the rest of the battle. This unit can be affected by this ability multiple times and the effects are cumulative.
KEYWORDS | UNIQUE, HERO, WIZARD (1), INFANTRY, WARD (5+) |
| CHAOS, HEDONITES OF SLAANESH, DAEMON, SYBARITE |
Hit Roll
Roll a dice. If the roll equals or exceeds the attacking weapon’s Hit characteristic, the attack scores a successful hit: move on to the next step. If not, the attack fails and the attack sequence ends. Unmodified hit rolls of 1 always fail. If an unmodified hit roll for an attack made with a weapon is a 6, that attack is a critical hit.| Critical hits have no effect on their own but often trigger additional effects (see 20.0 Weapon Abilities). | ||
Cover
Subtract 1 from hit rolls for attacks that target a unit that is behind or wholly on this terrain feature, unless that unit charged this turn or has the FLY keyword.17.2 Mortal Damage
Some abilities inflict mortal damage. If an ability inflicts mortal damage on a unit, add that number of damage points to the unit’s damage pool for that ability (see 18.2 Allocating Damage).
 Your Movement Phase |
RETREAT: The fighters disengage from combat, though at the cost of lowering their defences.
Declare: Pick a friendly unit that is in combat to use this ability.
Effect: Inflict D3 mortal damage on that unit. That unit can move a distance up to its Move characteristic. That unit can move through the combat ranges of any enemy units but cannot end that move within an enemy unit’s combat range.
Effect: Inflict D3 mortal damage on that unit. That unit can move a distance up to its Move characteristic. That unit can move through the combat ranges of any enemy units but cannot end that move within an enemy unit’s combat range.
| KEYWORDS | CORE, MOVE, RETREAT |
7.0 Combat Range
Each model has a combat range that extends 3" horizontally from its base and any distance vertically from that circle to form a cylinder. The combat range of a unit extends 3" horizontally and any distance vertically from every model in that unit. Units from opposing armies that are within each other’s combat range and that are visible to each other are in combat with each other. When a unit that is not in combat enters the combat range of a visible enemy unit, it moves into combat.
A model is considered to be in combat with an enemy unit if that unit is within the model’s combat range and visible to it’
A model is considered to be in combat with an enemy unit if that unit is within the model’s combat range and visible to it’
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FAQ / Errata
FAQ
| Q: | If a model in base-to-base contact with an enemy model retreats 3" directly away from the enemy model, is it still in combat with that enemy model? |
| A: | No. |
Errata
Addenda: 7.0 Combat Range
Add the following:
‘A model is considered to be in combat with an enemy unit if that unit is within the model’s combat range and visible to it.’
‘A model is considered to be in combat with an enemy unit if that unit is within the model’s combat range and visible to it.’
| Passive |
FLY: Soaring above the battlefield, this unit can reach destinations that are inaccessible to other troops.
Effect: As this unit moves, it ignores other models, terrain features and the combat ranges of enemy units. It cannot end its move in combat unless specified in the ability that allowed it to move. Ignore any vertical distance moved for this unit.
Obscuring
While every model in a non-MONSTER non‐WAR MACHINE unit that does not have the FLY keyword is within 1" of this terrain feature, the following apply:- That unit is only visible to enemy units that are within its combat range.
- The Range characteristic of that unit’s ranged weapons is halved (rounding down to the nearest inch).
Unstable
Models can move across but cannot be set up on or end any type of move on any part of this terrain feature that is more than 1" tall.1.4.2 Obscuring Terrain
Examples: Wyldwood, fortress wallTerrain Abilities: Cover, Obscuring, Unstable
6.0 Visibility
A target model is visible to another model (which we’ll call the ‘observing model’) if you can draw a straight line through the air (whether horizontal, diagonal or vertical) from any point on the observing model to any point on the target model that does not intersect any objects except for other models in the observing model’s unit. A target unit is visible to an observing unit if at least 1 model in the target unit is visible to at least 1 model in the observing unit. A model is always considered to be visible to itself.If a rule or ability requires a target to be both within a given range of and visible to the unit using that ability, or to a model in that unit, both conditions must be met by the same model in the target. You could not, for instance, target a unit where one model is within range but not visible and another model is not in range but is visible.
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| In some cases, it might not be immediately clear whether a model is visible. If so, stoop down to get a look from behind the observing model. If any part of the other model is visible, even if it is just the tip of a spear, then that model is visible for rules purposes. | ||
FAQ / Errata
FAQ
| Q: | If a non-FLY INFANTRY HERO (e.g. a Scinari Cathallar) is a Shrine Guardian of a Shrine Luminor, and that Shrine Guardian is within 1" of an obscuring terrain feature, is the Shrine Guardian visible to enemy abilities that target the Shrine Guardian? |
| A: | Yes. |
Errata
6.0 Visibility
Add the following:
‘If a rule or ability requires a target to be both within a given range of and visible to the unit using that ability, or to a model in that unit, both conditions must be met by the same model in the target. You could not, for instance, target a unit where one model is within range but not visible and another model is not in range but is visible.’
‘If a rule or ability requires a target to be both within a given range of and visible to the unit using that ability, or to a model in that unit, both conditions must be met by the same model in the target. You could not, for instance, target a unit where one model is within range but not visible and another model is not in range but is visible.’
Combat attacks
Combat attacks are made with melee weapons. The target unit(s) must be within the combat range of the attacking model and visible to it. The model must attack with all of the melee weapons it is armed with.1.0 Wizards and Priests
WIZARDS are special units that can cast spells, and PRIESTS are special units that can chant prayers. Spells and prayers are powerful abilities that can have a dramatic impact on the battle.
The HEDONITES OF SLAANESH keyword is used in the following Hedonites of Slaanesh warscrolls:
18.1 Ward Saves
Units with the WARD keyword have the ‘Ward Save’ passive ability. The number after the WARD keyword indicates the ward value for the ward save. If a unit had WARD (5+), for example, its ward value would be 5. If a unit has more than one ward save, only the ward save with the lowest value applies to it; the other has no effect. Passive |
WARD SAVE: Whether through their uncanny reflexes, unnatural toughness or a source of mystical protection, these warriors can avoid otherwise lethal attacks.
Effect: In step 1 of the damage sequence (see 18.0), make a ward roll of D6 for each damage point in this unit’s damage pool. If the roll equals or exceeds this unit’s ward value, remove that damage point from the damage pool.
2.0 Spells
The declare step of each spell will tell you to make a casting roll of 2D6. If the roll does not equal or exceed the spell’s casting value (at the top-right corner of the spell), the spell fails and its effect is not resolved.If the unmodified casting roll includes 2 or more rolls of 1, the spell is miscast: the spell fails, its effect is not resolved, D3 mortal damage is inflicted on the WIZARD that used it, and that WIZARD cannot use any more spells in that phase.
Enemy reactions can only be used if the casting roll equals or exceeds the spell’s casting value. So long as the spell is not unbound (see 4.0), then it is successfully cast: resolve its effect.
EXAMPLE SPELL
| Your Hero Phase | 6 |
MYSTIC SHIELD: The caster's allies are bathed in an unearthly glow that protects them from harm.
Declare: Pick a visible friendly unit wholly within 12" of this WIZARD to be the target. Then, make a casting roll of 2D6.
Effect: The target has WARD (6+) this turn.
Effect: The target has WARD (6+) this turn.
| KEYWORDS | SPELL |
FAQ
| Q: | Is mortal damage inflicted by a miscast considered to be ‘mortal damage inflicted by a SPELL ability’ for the purposes of abilities like a Morghast Archai unit’s ‘Ebon-wrought Armour’ ability? |
| A: | No. |
The non-HERO SYBARITE keyword is used in the following Hedonites of Slaanesh warscrolls:
1.1 Power Level
Each WIZARD and PRIEST has a power level shown after the keyword, e.g. WIZARD (2). A WIZARD’s casting power level determines how many Spell abilities they can use per phase. A PRIEST’s chanting power level determines how many PRAYER abilities they can use per phase.
13.1 Fight Abilities
Abilities with the FIGHT keyword follow a different sequence to other abilities. When the players are using Combat Phase
abilities as described in 13.0, they cannot use FIGHT abilities.After the players have finished using
Combat Phase
abilities that are not FIGHT abilities, they must alternate picking 1 eligible unit to use a FIGHT ability, starting with the active player. Each unit in combat must use a FIGHT ability if it is able to.Once a player has no more units that are eligible to use a FIGHT ability, the other player continues to pick units that are eligible to use a FIGHT ability, one after another, until there are no more units that are eligible to use a FIGHT ability.
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Errata
Addenda: fought
Add the following definition:
‘fought: A unit has fought if it used any FIGHT abilities in the same turn.’
‘fought: A unit has fought if it used any FIGHT abilities in the same turn.’
The HERO keyword is used in the following Hedonites of Slaanesh warscrolls:
Infantry Hero
Monster Hero
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Hedonites of Slaanesh warscrolls:
Infantry Hero
The CHAOS keyword is used in the following Hedonites of Slaanesh warscrolls:
The HEDONITES OF SLAANESH keyword is used in the following Hedonites of Slaanesh warscrolls:
Those HEROES can join an eligible regiment as a Slaaneshi Beguiler.
The UNIQUE keyword is used in the following Hedonites of Slaanesh warscrolls:
Infantry Hero
War Machine Hero
The WARD keyword is used in the following Hedonites of Slaanesh warscrolls:
The DAEMON keyword is used in the following Hedonites of Slaanesh warscrolls:
The WIZARD keyword is used in the following Hedonites of Slaanesh warscrolls:
Infantry Hero
Those HEROES can join an eligible regiment as a Dark Egotist.
The SYBARITE keyword is used in the following Hedonites of Slaanesh warscrolls:
Infantry Hero
War Machine Hero
The non-HERO DAEMON keyword is used in the following Hedonites of Slaanesh warscrolls:
Beast
• Fiends
Cavalry
• Seekers
The non-HERO SYBARITE and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Hedonites of Slaanesh warscrolls:
The non-HERO HEDONITES OF SLAANESH, DAEMON and INFANTRY keywords are used in the following Hedonites of Slaanesh warscrolls: