question about animus

[RMH420]

Hey so I have a few questions about how a Warlock can cast its warbeasts animus as spells.

1) How many times can a warlock cast a warbeast's animus in 1 turn, as many as they have fury for?

2) Can a warlock cast a beasts animus on more than one target if he has the fury to do it. Like if pMadrak has 4 Fury and he has a Dire Troll Bomber and Troll Impaler can he cast the Impaler's Snipe on both of them?

3) What if you have 2 of the same warbeast, can you then have your warlock cast that animus on 2 separate models. So if you had 2 Impalers and a Bomber can you cast one of the Impalers animus on the Bomber then on an one of the Impalers?

4) When a Warlock casts a warbeasts animus, the warlock pays for the cost in Fury? Does the warbeast aslo get forced?

5) In the point of origin section of the rules it says that "a model that can cast an animus as a spell can also channel that animus" does that mean that the warlock can channel a warbeasts animus through the warbeast (Like Madrak could cast Snipe off of an Impaler and use the Impaler as the point of origin for casting the spell) or visa versa?

Sorry if all this seems like silly questions. I just find the working in the book for the Spells and Animi section really confusing.

Thanks for any help.

[Northern Ronin]

1: The only model who is limited about how often it can use an animius is a warbeast. A warlock may cast an Animus as many times as they can afford.

2: Is the same question as 1.

3: Answered by 1 (Which is sure, but you still only need 1 Impaler to do it).

4: If the Warlock casts the Animus, they pay for it just as if it was a Spell, and that Animus is also a Spell (in addition to being an Animus). The warbeast is not forced in any way when its Warlock is using its Animus as a spell.

5: The quoted rule is just saying that Animi cast by a Warlock may be channeled. It does not allow you to channel through a warbeast that is not normally a Channeler. Trolls (since you seem to play them as they're the focus of your questions), have no means they can channel a spell yet. Hexeris though, has a Spell that makes a Warbeast an Arc Node, thus he could channel an Animus through that Arc Node just like a normal spell.

[DrFish]

The above are correct, but I think Jaster may have misunderstood #3. I think the question was if when a warlock cast an animus of a warbeast of which there are 2 present, that he could then for the cost of one cast the animus twice. The answer to that is no. Treat animi as spells on the spell card of the warlock.

[RMH420]

No he got question 3 right. I knew you had to pay for it twice. My confusion was if two models could have Far Strike (Impaler Animus) on them during the same turn at overlapping times without it expiring off of one of them and if I needed two instances of the animus in order to cast it on two different targets. But I guess the key here is that most Animi aren't upkeep spells, and its upkeep spells that you can only have 1 instance of on the field at once. That sound about right?

Basically the situation I'm trying to get is if I can run my Warlock, a Bomber, and an Impaler, have my warlock activate and cast Far Strike on both of the beasts, so now they both have range 12, and the Impaler saves all its Fury for boosting. Get what I'm saying?

[Hjelmen0]

Yes, that is legal. You do not need X beasts in play in order to have X active instances of a particular animus, just one beast and your warlock can cast its animus as many times as it has fury to so.

[PG_machine007]

But I guess the key here is that most Animi aren't upkeep spells, and its upkeep spells that you can only have 1 instance of on the field at once. That sound about right?

Yes that is correct. A model/unit can only have 1 friendly and 1 enemy upkeep on them at a time, and only one instance of an upkeep spell from a single model can be in play at a time.

A thing to note though, that if two different models have the same upkeep spell (I.e Arcane Shield) Then two instances of it can be in play, with one version of it coming from each model.

Example: So model A can have Arcane shield from Haley, and then model B can have arcane shield originating from a Journeyman Warcaster.

[PG_Devilsquid]

Just remember, you can only have one Animi on a model at a time.

[Northern Ronin]

Basically the situation I'm trying to get is if I can run my Warlock, a Bomber, and an Impaler, have my warlock activate and cast Far Strike on both of the beasts, so now they both have range 12, and the Impaler saves all its Fury for boosting. Get what I'm saying?

This is completely legal (Warlock could even Far Strike himself in that mix too!), just be mindful of the Range of the Animus, and that you can only have 1 Animus active on a Model at a time.

[Gamingdevil]

Just remember, you can only have one friendly Animus on a model at a time.

Fixed.
Currently, I don't think there are any offensive Animi, but you could have 1 or more of those active as well.