The Changeling

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Overview

ID

wh3_dlc24_tze_cha_changeling

Race

Tzeentch

Faction

The Deceivers

Unit size

1

Strategic

Tier unit
Cost (MP):	1000 (1000)
Turns:	1
Upkeep:	250
Weight:	Medium
Size:	Small entity

Tactical

Health:	4321 (4321 per model)
Barrier:	600
Leadership:	75
Speed:	50
Melee Attack:	45
Melee Defence:	35
Charge Bonus:	30

Melee Weapons

Base Damage:	250
Armour-Piercing Damage:	125
Melee Interval:	4 s
Melee Reach:	3
Bonus vs. Buildings:	+1%
Magical Attacks:	Yes
Flaming Attacks:	Yes

Protection

Armor: 35

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Attributes

Siege Attacker: This unit can attack gates or walls, allowing you to instantly launch a siege battle without having to wait for siege towers or battering rams to be built.
Causes Fear: This unit frightens all enemy units, reducing their leadership when nearby. It is also immune to fear. Fear penalties do not stack.
Encourage: This unit provides a leadership bonus to nearby allies. Units within range of both the Lord's aura and an encouraging unit will receive the larger of the two bonuses.
Hide (forest): This unit can hide in forests until enemy units get too close.
Daemonic: Daemonic units cannot be routed, but take damage when their Leadership is low. Daemonic units also have:
- Physical Resistance
- Fear and Terror Immunity

Resistances

Physical Resistance: 20%. Damage of physical (non-magical) attacks is reduced by this amount.

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Depthless Daemonic malice and a low tolerance for boredom incite the Changeling’s ever-shifting schemes... and appearance.

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The Changeling is a Tzeentch Legendary Lord unit introduced in Total War: Warhammer III with Shadows of Change. In the campaign, he leads The Deceivers.

Description[ | ]

The Changeling personifies the part of Tzeentch’s psyche that is the meddler, the deceiver, the trickster. He can take the form of other beings, from the tiniest of insects to the most massive of Greater Daemons. None, save for perhaps Tzeentch himself, know the Changeling’s true form, for he goes cowled and cloaked when in his own shape – perhaps even the Changeling himself has forgotten it. That so many of his pranks have caused terrible wars is no concern to him, for he loves the discord of conflict to breed more opportunities to deceive and dismay. When battle begins, the Changeling is wont to adopt the shape and skill of his foes, in turn pounding them to pieces with malicious enthusiasm and borrowed muscle.

Introduction description[ | ]

An eternity of meddling in the Chaos Realm inevitably led Tzeentch’s brother-Gods to vie for the Changeling’s destruction.

For it was the Changeling who cut away Slaanesh’s hair as the Dark Prince slept to weave a cloak presented to a champion of Tzeentch. It was the Changeling who sealed the doors of Khorne’s citadel while he was campaigning, forcing the Blood God to shatter his own proud gates when he returned.

Yet it is the Daemon’s boredom with such inanities of the Great Game, rather than the ire of the Chaos Realm, that leads him to the Old World to seek greater tapestries of disruption. By the time the deceiving horror becomes known to his victims, be they kings, emperors, or even gods, they will be impotent to act against him.

Attributes[ | ]

Spellcaster
▲ Spellcaster: This unit can cast spells.
▲ Shapeshifter: This unit can transform into other units on the battlefield..
▲ Barrier: This unit has a barrier that absorbs damage until depleted. When not taking damage, the barrier will slowly replenish. Maximum barrier health is proporsional to remaining unit health.