Meat Thresher

The Meat Thresher is a rolling death machine conceived of twisted farrow ingenuity and built of plunder. A scorching-hot steel cylinder holding panicked razor boars provides locomotion and is also the meat thresher’s primary weaponry, flattening foes under its crushing weight. Those that escape being ground to pulp are mowed down by heavy-caliber rounds from the hailer mounted atop this surprisingly effective contraption.

Basic Info

• Minion - Works for Template:Circle minion, Template:Legion minion, Template:Skorne minion, and Template:Trollbloods minion.

Abilities

• Template:Battle Engine
• Template:Construct
• Template:Pathfinder
• Template:Bulldoze
• Template:Dual Attack
• Template:Exhaust Fumes
• Template:Turn up the Heat

Weapons

Hailer
File:Gun icon.jpg		RNG			ROF			AOE			POW
		12			d3+1			Template:-			13
Template:Volume Fire
Crusher
File:Sword icon.jpg		RNG				POW				P+S
		1								16
Template:Grinding Wheel Template:High Impact Template:Knockdown Template:Trash

Theme Forces

• Minions
  • Template:Thornfall
  • Template:Vengeance of Dhunia
  • Template:Will Work for Food

• Other Factions
  • Unlike units and solos, battle engines cannot normally be hired in other Factions themes. The exceptions are:
  • Circle players can use it in Template:Secret Masters. It stays a Minion model.
  • Legion players can use it in Template:Oracles of Annihilation. It becomes a Blighted model, but stays a Minion model.
  • Trollblood players can use it in Vengeance of Dhunia. It becomes a Minion/Trollblood model

Thoughts on Meat Thresher

Meat Thresher in a nutshell

This thing is pretty scary for a Battle engine, running down its foes and laughing maniacally as it does so. Or maybe that's just the Minion player. At 16 points for an effectively SPD 8 model (using Turn Up the Heat) it can do really impressive work.

Combos & Synergies

• Swamp Horror - it really likes the 2" reach from Swamp Horrors animus. (Wrong Eye & Snapjaw and Underchief Mire can also bring a Swamp Horror to any minion army.)
• Farrow Commandos, Lanyssa and Croak Trappers gain stealth while standing in the exhaust fumes.
• It's only MAT 6, RAT 5, so anything that ups it's chances to hit (like knock down effects) really help, especially since one bad roll can stop its rampage dead in its tracks.
• Helga on Wheels makes the Thresher cavalry giving it nice things like impact attacks and a boosted to hit roll on the charge. She also grants reposition(3) and is probably the best reason to play 1 or more Meat Threshers.
• Vengeance of Dhunia has the Krielstone to grant +2 armour this really helps the meat thresher pay back its value but it is competing with the War Wagon

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Skorne will almost certainly get more out of their BE, the Animantarax, at only one point more. The Animantarax isn't as maniacally fun, however.
• Exhaust Fumes can be a huge trap if the enemy brough any blasts, e-leaps, eruptions of spines, or similar things, since the Threasher is the perfect place for your enemy to use as a starting point for these things.

Tricks & Tips

• It knocks down models before the damage roll, so it applies the Trash buff to anything and everything that can be knocked down.
• Knock down the enemy then pour fire into them with Dual Attack.
• You are mostly there to mulch infantry; any damage you do to heavies is extra.

Other

Trivia

Released in Hordes: Exigence (2014.09)