Idea: Grotesquerie with Aberration as Warlord? Personal Traits.

I was thinking about making the Aberration of a Grotesquerie the Warlord.
Via Personal traits he can get one of the following:

Counter-attack
Furious Charge
Outflank
+1 extra Victory Point for Characters killed in a challenge by Aberration
Feel No Pain
Fearless + It will not die

Could be funny, in combination with Succubus and/or Haemonculus.
Could also make it hard for the enemy to get Slay the Warlord.

Not very fluffy though. A Grotesque Archon?
And FNP would be redundant too.

Your thoughts?

Fearless and IWND are also redundant...

Why not justify it as a crazy Haemonculus that turned himself into some kind of monster?
I think it's a nice idea but remember that you don't get to reroll the trait

@Fisheyes: Turn one both are not redundant, unless you have a character with em.
No joke my Grotesques almost ran off the board turn one once.
And they don't get IWND before turn 5, 4 with Hammy iirc.

Edit: They don't get IWND before turn 4, 3 with Hammy.

@CptMetal: Lame! Well i guess GW also thinks Grotesques shouldn't be Warlords.
Edit: Maybe a Haemonculus fashioned a Grotesque, so magnificent, Commorrites pay slaves to watch it lead a raid?

Aberations : The only leaders Archons trust enough to give them troops without fearing a coup d'etat.

Good Guy Abe : receive an army, doesn't try to kill his master.

Honestly I think your on to something, since a lot of times I find myself using a lhamean as my Hq (there not characters so no Warlord Trait) aside from having a haemonculous from the grotesquerie. Even so, the abberation is tougher in lots of ways.

however, I would not roll on personal, the actual dark eldar traits are better in most ways imo. There none to shabby for an abberation and not redundant outside #1 which gives you fear and is not great to begin with and as a coven grotesque you have it anyways. I find them of better use than the personal in this case though.  

Can an Abberation (or any character) from the Covens book choose whether to roll on their warlord traits or the regular DE ones or does it have to be the Covens ones?

Regular or Covens, but not DE.

Only Haemonculous get access to the warlord coven traits. otherwise you have to roll on Dark Eldar or The main rulebook.

Page 48 of the coven book says:
If your warlord is a haemonculous, You may choose to roll on the table to the right instead of those found in warghammer 40,000: The rules or Codex: Dark eldar.

Even better. So you could actually have an Aberration with labyrinth Cunning!

Does the abby have permission to select from the codex?

Jimsolo wrote:

Does the abby have permission to select from the codex?

I think there's nothing disallowing it in the Supplement.

Also has anyone tried a grot bomb in 7th?
How about 2 Grotesqueries at minimum (4 squads of 3 and 2 hammys) for 780 points?

Or are double formations forbidden somewhere?

I can't comment on the abberation question beyond pointing out that the main codex specifically says "a dark eldar warlord" with no modifiers as to whom can take from it's warlord traits.

Double formations are completely legal provided they do not require any unique characters or models.

Grot bombs have been tried repeatedly, They aren't bad by any means but there's generally too much actual ID in play to make them the be all end all of play.

2 Grotesqueries in many comp environments would cut your source codex's by a third which is why it isn't usually recommended. If you want 4 fearless squads and can do without the psuedo-drugs then just take a Covenite Coterie instead, in terms of FOC slots it's identical.

That said I think a FAR, FAR more interesting chestnut just showed itself to be discussed:

RAW a base codex Haemonculus appears to be able to roll on the supplement table even though it wasn't purchased there.

Marrath wrote:

Jimsolo wrote:

Does the abby have permission to select from the codex?

I think there's nothing disallowing it in the Supplement.

Also has anyone tried a grot bomb in 7th?
How about 2 Grotesqueries at minimum (4 squads of 3 and 2 hammys) for 780 points?

Or are double formations forbidden somewhere?

I've run a grot bomb in the ITC events I've been attending. I experimented with it a bit before allying in a Corsair Void Dreamer with a Shimmershield. The addition of an Invulnerable save changes the game significantly; without it I wouldn't run the bomb in a serious setting.