Rorsh & Brine

Rorsh cares nothing for goals or sides in the battles wracking western Immoren and offers his services for reasonable payment and no questions asked. He carries his lever-action pig iron and a fondness for explosives from one battlefield to the next. His greatest weapon is the gargantuan bipedal fighting boar Brine, whom Rorsh takes particular delight in unleashing to rend enemies limb from limb.

Basic Info

Rorsh

Mercenary - This model will work for Template:Cryx Mercenary, Template:Cygnar Mercenary, Template:Khador Mercenary, or Template:Menoth Mercenary.

Minion - This model will work for Template:Circle Minion, Template:Legion Minion, Template:Skorne Minion, or Template:Trollblood Minion.

Abilities

• Template:Tough
• Template:Diversionary Tactic
• Template:Farrow Warlock
• Template:Feign Death
• Template:Lesser Warlock
• Template:Souie

Weapons

Dynomite
File:Gun icon.jpg		RNG			ROF			AOE			POW
		6			1			4			12
Lever Action Pig Iron
File:Gun icon.jpg		RNG			ROF			AOE			POW
		10			2			Template:-			12
Cleaver
File:Sword icon.jpg		RNG				POW				P+S
		0.5				4				11

Spells

{{Category: Template:Pigpen }}[[Category: Template:Pigpen ]]

Brine

Abilities

• Template:Bacon
• Template:Companion
• Template:Extended Control Range
• Template:Pain Response
• Template:Retaliatory Strike

Weapons

Claw (x2)
File:Sword icon.jpg		RNG				POW				P+S
		1				3				15
Template:Open Fist
Gore
File:Sword icon.jpg		RNG				POW				P+S
		1				4				16
Template:Critical Knockdown Template:Hard Head

Animus

{{Category: Template:Pig Farm }}[[Category: Template:Pig Farm ]]

Theme Forces

• Mercenaries
  • Template:The Irregulars

• Minions
  • Template:Thornfall. Rorsh gains Rise and Brine gains Salvage in this theme.
  • Template:Vengeance of Dhunia. They become Trollblood/Minion models in this theme.
  • Template:Will Work for Food. Rorsh can upkeep his spells for free in this theme.

• Other Factions
  • Infernal players can use this model in the Template:Hearts of Darkness theme, but only if Crosse2 is leading the army.
  • Furthermore, Mercenary/Minion models can be hired by other Factions. Normally those Factions' themes will have a limit on how many models they can hire. Refer to #Other Theme Forces, below.

Thoughts on Rorsh & Brine

Rorsh & Brine in a nutshell

Imagine a ninja surronded by enemies, he throws a bomb at his feet and disappears in the explosion. Next thing he appears on the other side of the room stabbing his target through the neck. Now imagine that ninja is a pig the size of a warjack.

Brine is an extremely mobile beatstick, and Rorsh is his enabler. Diversionary Tactics + Extended Control Range + Brine charging = 14" non-linear threat range, and it's pretty easy to end that charge still in Rorsh's control range. Brine can really get places and then trash casters and heavy warbeasts (although not warjacks - Pig Farm doesn't help there).

Combos & Synergies

• Battle Boar Because Primal is awesome on Brine if he's being used as a heavy missile. For that matter Primal is awesome when applied to Gator warbeasts like the Swamp Horror and this is how you do it.
• Warlocks (or warcasters, as R&B are available in most themes in the game) with additional damage buffs or ARM debuffs. Brine's strength is that 14" nonlinear threat range; a damage buff beyond the animus lets him effectively initiate trades against warjacks. Arm debuffs also benefit Rorsh's boosted pig iron shots.
• Gatorman Witch Doctor Pathfinder, Parry, and the ability to move through obstructions lets you get the most out of Brine's threat range and makes him very difficult to avoid. Gastonne2 and casters with Curse of Shadows can do the same.
• Any model that can knock down Rorsh without hurting him, thereby preventing him from being targeted by ranged attacks. Shaking the knockdown the next turn leaves their mobility unimpeded.
• Fiona loves models with long threat ranges to channel through, because that way she can get really juicy angles on enemy casters. You can also safely set up Pain Response with Dark Rituals by channeling through Rorsh and have him transfer to Brine (note that you can't channel through Brine directly as he's not a Warrior model). Curse of Veils also cranks up Rorsh's shooting, and they both benefit from the feat.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Pillow fisted against warjacks.
• The effectiveness of Rorsh's Spell declines sharply against models with reach, is negated by pathfinder, and is pretty rarely useful anyway.

Tricks & Tips

• Remember your retaliatory strikes. You have roughly a 1/9 chance of a crit knockdown on enemy heavies which is absolutely devastating when it happens. Reminding your opponents of this ability may lead to them using more activations to knock brine down and minimize that risk.
• Against targets you cannot effectively damage, consider taking advantage of the hard head rule by slamming and boosting the the damage roll. Throwing targets is also viable as all power attacks are free under pain response.
• Brine is a very cheap beast that can be launched at the first target of opportunity without regret. With the right buffs he is frequently able to trade up on points in the process.
• Rorsh's shooting ability should not be underestimated, though he usually waits until after Brine has been delivered to use it. 2 boosted pow12 pig irons and potentially a third boosted 12 with a great aoe size does work.

Other

Trivia

Released in Hordes: Metamorphosis (2009).