The Hounds of Morkai are just Reivers with some neat new tricks

Hunters Beyond Death

The Hunters Beyond Death ability in 9e has 3 parts:

• Ignore Look Out, Sir if the target is a Psyker
• Add 1 to hit rolls when targeting Psykers
• Add 1 to damage when targeting Psykers

The first part and second parts are easy - these guys are Psyker Psnipers, so we will give them +2 when shooting psykers, and +1 when punching them.

The second part is a little trickier, since Damage isn't a characteristic in Apocalypse. We decided to go with rerolling wound rolls, so it is symmetrical with Witchfire.

Final Text (a little clunky, but we tried to follow Apocalypse templating as best we could): When this unit makes a Shoot action, add 2 to hit rolls and you can reroll wound rolls for attacks made by this unit that target a PSYKER for that action. Additionally, when this unit makes a Fight action, add 1 to hit rolls and you can reroll the wound roll for attacks made by this unit that target a PSYKER for that action.

Morkai's Howl and Runic Totems

We were originally looking at these two abilities separately, but they really work together:

• diminish psychic checks within 18"
• diminish psychic checks further within 6"
• don't psyke me bro

When viewed as one ability, they are thematically the same as the Sisters of Silence Psychic Abomination:

This unit cannot be targeted or affected by Command Assets that are psychic powers, or weapons with the Witchfire ability. Psyker units within 6" of this unit cannot be selected to manifest psychic powers.

It's close enough for us, so we just slapped it on there, renamed it, and filed off the serial numbers.