how are you guys building makeda1?

My current list.

War Room Army

Skorne - Makeda1 Balanced

Theme: Masters of War
2 / 2 Free Cards 75 / 75 Army


Archdomina Makeda - WB: +29
- Molik Karn - PC: 19 (Battlegroup Points Used: 19)
- Titan Gladiator - PC: 15 (Battlegroup Points Used: 10)
- Scarab Pack - PC: 10

Mortitheurge Willbreaker - PC: 4
Orin Midwinter, Rogue Inquisitor - PC: 5

Cataphract Cetrati - Leader & 5 Grunts: 18
- Tyrant Vorkesh - PC: 0
Praetorian Ferox - Leader & 4 Grunts: 20
Paingiver Beast Handlers - Leader & 3 Grunts: 5
Tyrant Commander & Standard Bearer - Tyrant & Bearer: 0
Legends of Halaak - Valgesh, CIdaar & J'Deth: 8


THEME: Masters of War
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GENERATED : 10/23/2017 19:09:20
BUILD ID : 2050.17-09-10

Molik is pretty self explanatory. With rush and quicken he has a 12" walking threat before side step and is always an assassination threat under Makeda.

The scarabs provide cheap disposable shield guards and lane blockers.

Cetrati come with a free tycom and walk 9 under quicken. Their high mat and weapon master pair well with makedas feat.

The ferox provide a jamming/flanking force that's hard to remove. The will breaker can provide tough for the ferox or make sure an important role is made.
Tough on both primary unit s should mean you burn 33% less health on your feat turn.

I like having the legends as another fast hard hitting unit but the argument could be made to drop them for radeem instead.
Orin is there to make sure Makeda or karn aren't nuked with spells and toss out a chain lightning when needed.

Marketh seems pretty good with her. Souls to upkeep her 1 upkeep, can jackhammer (? I think) or lash.

Are arcuarii any good with her? She gives them retal strike, and fm shield guard for delivery. Might be one the only lists they arent awful in

Marketh can't Jackhammer but he can Lash.

I haven't played any games since the theme dropped, but I really like a Soldier with her. It's a great Shield Guard and Jackhammer target.

In theme, I'll miss the Cyclops Shaman. Craft Talisman and Spirit Blade are situationally excellent, as is the gun, while Primal Magic provides value almost every game due to the flexible Rush and Krea bubble.

I have Orin in for now (though I prefer both Orin and a Shaman) but am looking forward to trying Eilish. He just seems stupid good with Mak1 given that her feat can keep him alive--meaning that you can probably shove him forward and use him to strip defensive upkeeps. Will have to see how this plays out on the table, but in my head it makes sense and is tech I am thirsting to try.

I've yet to see a sensible Mak1 list in theme that doesn't have a Molik/Glad/Scarabs battlegroup. I think it's a real weakness of the theme that our Gargs aren't allowed.

Heres a little battle report of mine with this list:

(Makeda 1) Archdomina Makeda [+29]
- Molik Karn [19]
- Rhinodon [12]
- Scarab Pack [10]
- Aptimus Marketh [5]
Eilish Garrity, the Occultist [5]
Cataphract Arcuarii (min) [11]
Cataphract Cetrati (min) [12]
- Tyrant Vorkesh [0(6)]
Legends of Halaak [8]
Paingiver Beast Handlers (min) [5]
Praetorian Swordsmen (max) [13]
- Praetorian Swordsman Officer & Standard [4]
Tyrant Commander & Standard Bearer [0(6)]


it was against a Calaban gunline with the battle engine, 2 ironback spitters, rorsh and brine, full unit of nyss hunters, targ for ancillary shot, blindwalker. He was under Will Work for Food. his list was generally build to slaughter infantry

I win the roll and deploy first. I'm sorry i do not know the name of the scenario, but it had the circle in the middle, two boxes on either side with objectives in the boxes

Turn 1:

Everything runs up, my swords have the right facing off vs the nyss, Cetrati are central left, Arcuarii are behind them. Makeda put quicken on the swords and did my favourite move to get her up which is walk 6 and fate walker up further since she usually has nothing better to do.

Calabans turn 1 involves things moving up. Nyss have 2 man CRAs at my swordsman, one is shield guarded onto a scarab and the other misses. the ironbacks send artillery downrange and corrode scarabs and a swordsman or two. Over all not much damage done to me because i was outside of his main threat ranges.

Turn 2:

Makeda positions herself in the central zone behind the big central LOS blocking rock and casts carnage and feats. i'm anticipating an absolutely withering amount of fire and spell slinging. Carnage is up in case primalled brine tries to go in on the legends or my cetrati.

My swordsmen show me what the power of high rolling can do and the only two of them who can reach his nyss charge in and kill 2 a piece, making for 4 kills and side stepping to engage a further one. the rest run and spread out. the cetrati shield wall and their line goes base to base with the central los blocking rock, to essentially extend the amount of blocked LOS to a decent amount of my army and makeda herself whos bunkered down behind it. Arcuarii stay behind everything due to their potato statline, legends stand boldly on the left, rhino touches the right box.

Calaban responds by holding his feat. he puts a shot into the cetrati with the ironback and launches artillery into my swords and drifts back and kills paingivers too. i let the paingiver die since it had corrosion on it anyway.. corrosion is pretty good vs maks feat since she cant do anything about it next round. He places a feralgeist in the right box, a tinker in the middle. he leaves the left since it has his objective. overall he was trying to avoid my feat and hoping i was slowed down. Makeda protects the swordsmen inside her control and loses about 3 health

Turn 3:

Cetrati push up. one swordsman gains magic weapons from the armoury. eilish puppet masters the swords and they go in hard with power swell to remove the tinker and feralgheist and a further few nyss. his nyss now number around 3-4. arcuarii shoot the objective down to 2 hp and the legends finish it. i score on all 3 zones and his obj putting me up 4-0.

i think he generally hoped i couldnt score quite that much because of his feralgeist. Makeda bunkers herself, surrounding herself with eilish and models to block LOS to her

Calabans feat is fairly devastating, wiping the cetrati with brine and his guns. Calaban is denied an arc node due to shield guard but has his blind walker. he casts a few spells but suffers 7 damage or so due to eilish. Marketh goes down, all my swords go down. Molik karn gets parasited and loses most of his boxes but lives.

he denies me all three zones, but after his turn of destruction calls it as it is trivial for me to clear either the right or left zone due to the left having molik, a jackhammer caster, 4 arcuarii and the legends vs lanyssa and brine. the right has a single nyss in it in range of the rhino

Overall, makeda1s feat + field marshal was crippling for calaban. Vorkesh's sacred ward also proved to be a massive annoyance to a guy whos a pretty good spell slinger. i really like that the list is almost 100% either weaponmasters, or models who have power swell. makes up for makedas inherent lack of damage buff

Yep. Also worth noting: if Marketh hits with the Lash, a model near *Makeda* moves, not a model near Marketh.