So... What does Moshar do?

I have an old Mohsar Tactica from early MK3 on him. A lot of it still applies today, just some upgrades with the fulcrum and such!

lormahordes.freeforums.net/thread/468/macdaddys-mohsar-tactica

Its a bit dated but Maybe Ill update it Today or this weekend if I get time . He is arguably one of my favorite casters to play

edit: Wow that is dated -___- defanitly updating for themes and such. Ok so a quick run down:

1: Weapons: Mohsar has a good gun. You wont use it often, but in a theme like devo host or Wild hunt you can leverage it to good effect. He is also Rat 6 base so with sand he can port, aim, and spray at rat 8! (9 if you have a fulcrum though only applicable in secret masters and bones.)

2: Spells: He has a great spell list,
--Sands is not my favorite spell, but it threatens a nasty assassination with an argus and a good gunline.
--Curse of shadows is a solid damage buff and our faction appreciates a solid damage buff. 
--Pillars can be game breaking, or be way to easy to remove. Gunlines really crap on them, they are best utilized in an all melee army or into beast/jack bricks
--Don't underestimate Sunhammer, Into lists with BG's that have 5 or more heavies, the chip damage really adds up overtime.
--Crevasse is an amazing infantry hate and scalpel spell.  You can even crevasse a friendly model to spray down something hard to reach. 
--Mirage is great, a nice threat increase or un-jamming spell. 

3: Feat: its kind of bad...actually its really bad. Opponents can play around it and it does little at all into warmachine because most jack lists have lots of ways to allocate outside of power up. Into hordes it has some silly potential to ruin an opponents day, but its more annoying than game changing. 

4: Themes: He plays well with all our themes in my opinion. But I prefer him in bones.

--Bones: He gains access to the fulcrum, making him Fury 9 for accuracy, and rat 7 on the spray, which are both amazing and mean he can safely not boost against most targets. This helps him with fury as he tends to spend everything. It also gives him access to more crevasse for infantry hate, and he makes the wolds hit really hard. He runs a solid combined arms gunline there. 

--Wild Hunt: I would only build for assassination here. Take reeves, a few war wolves, some purebloods and wyrds, and at least 1 argus. Sands of fate to within 2" of caster, Bark, spray, (maybe even curse if you have the fury). Proceed to shoot it to death. 

-Devo Host: He helps deliver the army with the pillars as cover, (do not play into guns though...) Mirage is strong on any unit in the theme making them threat really far. (ravagers threat 13"!) He also helps with hitting power and can use sands to threaten assassination. 

Finally, he dies to a stiff breeze, so always camp and be super aware of random assassinations. 14/14 is a terrible statline. (This is another reason why I play him in bones) 

Thanks for the rundown!

I had not considered the Argus. Very good point there.

Until we hit CID, and Dev Host list with tharn hearts but no Death Wolves to claim them looks like a mistake to me.
Sure you dont want to wedge em in?

Sands cam also be used to prevent charges from garg/dangerous guys... It's 6 fury but perhaps worth it.

Feat is... Seriously underwhelming.

Ok so here are some tips:

Feat:
Particularly a smart opponent will be very careful with his Fury until you feat. With Arkadius, He will most likely not spend any until after he shoves all the heavies in your face. There are some primary uses for the feat I leverage that are match up dependent.

1: Trading: If you get the alpha, kill some heavies, then when your opponent commits what is left, Feat after he retaliates and buy yourself a 2 Turns for trading. (One for retaliation, the other for after his beasts and caster a useless)
2: Assassination: Warlocks caught by your feat have no way at all to gain fury. If you see a warlock who is naked or only camping one, You can feat and set up the assassination for next turn. This is difficult, but can be potent when used properly. 
3: Resource denial: Into warmachine, the feat is pretty bad. Osssrum does not like losing Power up, but he has his feat to literally just face tank and kill you anyway. He should have enough shooting (esp with fire for effect) to remove pillars with ease. In general, I think you may be disappointed with Moh into Ossrum. If you really want to leverage this aspect of the feat, try looking at ways to make models stationary, or Knock them down. With your feat up, its very likely those jacks will be useless for a turn.

Pillars:
Keep in mind with pillars that most opponents have the ability to remove them. In fact, most of the time they will remove them. But the key is making them expend the resources to remove them. Pillars soak attacks, they put forward a small puzzle for your opponent to sole, putting pressure on their clock, and order of activation. It takes a lot of practice to learn how to apply them, but I cast the spell every game. Its a very important aspect of his toolkit. There are also some other cute uses for them
1: Using them at targets for sprays to get through Cloud-walls or to scalpel key models
2: Frenzy targets for heavies
3: Use them for slams and throws for the additional die of damage.

Once you put Moh on the table, you'll see how use-full pillars can be. Just use them with the mindset of "my opponent will remove them" But make sure that you are forcing your opponent into awkward and detrimental situations in order to clear them.  

Biggest thing to learn with Mohsar is that his pillars get stronger the longer the game goes on.

For a long time I kept trying to get real use out of his pillars on turn#2 and #3, and was constantly disappointed. Early on your opponent simple has too many resources for the pillars to be of much use. Later in the game, after there's been some serious piece-trading, suddenly those pillars begin to shine as you can take take 1-2 pieces out of the game for a turn every turn. Your best bet is to actually forget that pillars exist until turn #4, and then frustrate your opponent to hell thereafter.