Friday, July 12, 2013

Kovnik Andrei Malakov

Another quick thing about another guy that has me excited.

Khador doesn't have a lot of reasons to take warjacks but this guy gives them one. Redline + Boundless Charge (which Sorscha1, 2, Vlad1 and Butcher2 all have) brings the threat on a Juggernaught to 11.5" and it hits ludicrously hard. For 7 points. Khador have been struggling with the POW 12s stopping their infantry from getting to Haley's Stormwall, a Juggernaught has less trouble with that. With signs and portents you need to shoot off arcane shield (with Eiryss) but that is almost enough to one round Stormwall on average dice. With Aiyana and Holt you do it for sure. With Vlad1 in particular you can take a Jack on Vlad (Conquest or Behemoth) and the Juggernaught on Malakov and you have a lot of threat you can project. With Conquest and Behemoth you have enough focus to put one high POW boosted shot into the Stormwall that turn which is enough for the Juggernaught to one round it. The other options are the Spriggan for 13" of threat or double Beserkers, if you need to give them focus you can (and then they probably explode), otherwise you can hot-swap Redline. A charge for free with two POW 18s and a head butt is plenty of damage, particularly again with Signs and Portents or Sorcha2's feat. Behemoth with him is an interesting consideration. Conquest I'm not sure about. Conquest + Boundless Charge + Redline + 3 focus will kill anything in the game but I don't know how much protection sucker offers him. It might not be enough. It doesn't work on magical attacks or AOEs and boosted blast damage will probably kill this guy.

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