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Post by sand20go on Aug 26, 2019 17:53:53 GMT
Slowly but surely (now that painting of SO MANY DOOMREAVERS) is over I can get working on finishing up OW2. Should make significant progress this week - up to and including getting her on the table.
Question for the community - anyone have a merc options that they like?
I am pretty sure (to the point of certainty) that I will take the Hermit with her. Telemetry plus the get out of jail free card feels....well...good. I am THINKING that Nyss might be an option here....squishy (bad) but puts scourge and a big CRA into play. Add in a couple of destroyers in her battle group and you start to get silly. But thoughts?
(what I WISH is that we had a gosh darn merc unit/solo other than Gorman that could blind construct battle engines. THAT would feel strong ;-)
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Post by auraco on Aug 26, 2019 18:39:44 GMT
The hermit is good, I would also consider Alexia2, even when everything is going well you know you'll be loosing doom reavers so she won't be lacking souls to use. OW2 also doesn't care that she isn't faction, wind storm helps protect her, scourge and blind both help her and her thralls hit and curse of shadow is a great damage buff that makes her thrall hit really hard for created models that have an absurd threat range of potentially 21''. She's also fast enough to follow the rest of the list.
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sorokin
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Post by sorokin on Aug 26, 2019 19:18:08 GMT
Reinholdt so he can reload her bird.
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Post by auraco on Aug 26, 2019 19:33:00 GMT
Reinholdt so he can reload her bird. Reinholdt means not adjunct, this is clearly not a sacrifice I'm ready to do. Also she's probably our caster who gets the most out of the extra range from the adjunct, being able to sling spells 15'' away is really good. |
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Post by Soul Samurai on Aug 27, 2019 4:33:29 GMT
But the bird! Bird is the word!
Everybody's heard about the bird!
Bird bird bird, bird is the word!
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Post by borderprince on Aug 27, 2019 4:43:52 GMT
Alexia1.
Good in the grind as you get to:
- Reduce (your Doomreavers)
- Reuse (their bodies)
- Recycle (their souls)
- Remove (when people get rid of the bodies)
I find Wolves can struggle into attrition and having Risen who can benefit from OW2 debuffs (getting them to almost acceptable against warriors) is something. Alexia1 herself can do lots of work late game with access to debuffs. If you can get two ARM debuffs onto an opposing model, she can remove a colossal in one round. That's living the dream, but she becomes a really significant threat.
For solos I'm currently torn between following Auraco's suggestion of trying to get a Menite Archon in (but points get really tight). I think it'll probably be the Hermit for Telemetry on a key turn (effectively removing the need to boost most spells, freeing focus for other things).
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Post by auraco on Aug 27, 2019 15:38:06 GMT
The thing about the menite archon is that righteous fury is friendly faction, so you'd need to bring more faction models to trigger it, without it the archon is a lot less impressive.
I did play a game of wolves with a menite archon, double void archon and the Croes to trigger the righteous venceance, granted it was only one game, but it worked pretty well.
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Post by borderprince on Aug 27, 2019 17:27:29 GMT
The thing about the menite archon is that righteous fury is friendly faction, so you'd need to bring more faction models to trigger it, without it the archon is a lot less impressive. I did play a game of wolves with a menite archon, double void archon and the Croes to trigger the righteous venceance, granted it was only one game, but it worked pretty well. That was why I was thinking the Menite Archon with Alexia1. Without Valachev the Risen are Friendly Faction to the Archon (and Righteous Vengeance isn't limited to living), you get more of them through the game and don't care that much if they die. Alexia1 can also spawn Thralls to run into inconvenient positions to trigger the Archon's Vengeance. At least in theory, haven't tried it yet. |
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Post by auraco on Aug 27, 2019 18:04:13 GMT
The thing about the menite archon is that righteous fury is friendly faction, so you'd need to bring more faction models to trigger it, without it the archon is a lot less impressive. I did play a game of wolves with a menite archon, double void archon and the Croes to trigger the righteous venceance, granted it was only one game, but it worked pretty well. That was why I was thinking the Menite Archon with Alexia1. Without Valachev the Risen are Friendly Faction to the Archon (and Righteous Vengeance isn't limited to living), you get more of them through the game and don't care that much if they die. Alexia1 can also spawn Thralls to run into inconvenient positions to trigger the Archon's Vengeance. At least in theory, haven't tried it yet. Yeah that works, haven’t played it yet, but the theory is sound. Just play agressive with the risens and you should be good to go with the Menite Archon |
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