Vanquisher

One of the first warjacks developed by the Protectorate after the Cygnaran Civil War was the Crusader, a massive warjack boasting heavy armor and capable of crushing attacks. It has served as the foundation for several masterpieces of war. The Templar, for one, smashes enemies with overwhelming force from an unassailable position behind its thick shield. Of more recent production, the Vanquisher wields a great “blazing star” spiked ball in one hand and a flame belcher in the other. This weapon sends an oil-filled cannonball that bursts and ignites on impact.

Basic Info

Abilities

• Template:Construct

Weapons

• Flame Belcher - 10" range, 4" AOE, POW 14 ranged attack
  • Template:Fire Damage
  • Template:Continuous Fire
• Blazing Star - 2" reach, P+S 16 melee attack.
  • Template:Chain Weapon
  • Template:Thresher

Theme Forces

• Protectorate
  • Template:Exemplar Interdiction. Vanquishers gain Blessed melee weapons in this theme.
  • Template:Guardians of the Temple
  • Template:The Creator's Might
  • Template:The Faithful Masses. Vanquishers gain Hand of Vengeance in this theme.
  • Template:Warriors of the Old Faith

• Other Factions
  • Infernal players can use this model in the Template:Hearts of Darkness theme, but only if Feora is leading the army. It gains Accumulator [Soulless] in this theme.
  • Khador players can use this model in the Template:Warriors of the Old Faith theme.

Thoughts on Vanquisher

Vanquisher in a nutshell

The Vanquisher is a heavy warjack that does a line in infantry killing - it flambees them with a medium AoE or it threshes them with a large thresher attack.

After its rather large points reduction (-4) the Vanquisher went from being the worst warjck in the faction to... likely still being the worst warjack in the faction, because all the other jacks also were made cheaper and have significantly better stats than it does, while filling a niche that isnt already filled by light jacks at half the price.

Combos & Synergies

• The Choir of Menoth lets it put significant hurt on heavies and brings it's blast damage to effective POW 9.
• Grand Scrutator Severius can increase his accuracy and damage, both in melee and at range, by adding one to all rolls, MAT7 thresher is nice, MAT7 thresher that can also re-roll failed hits, ignores shields and can get up to POW19 with both Sevy and Choir of Menoth suddenly makes the Vanquisher very dangerous if your local meta favours infantry armies.
• Malekus - one of the Warjacks worth casting Open Fire on. Also his feat is very powerful with that gun.
• Reznik2 - The Vanquisher can utilize his feat both in melee with Thresher or at range with the AOE gun. Curse also helps with the terrible RAT, Boundless Charge makes it faster and Spell Pircer is great on guns.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Low SPD4 and low gun range of 10" gives him relatively low threat range.
• MAT is mediocre for the thresher, RAT is mediocre for the gun.
• Easy to hit at DEF 10 and not that hard to take down in a world where most lists chew through Khador heavies (DEF 10, ARM 20) on the regular.
• if you just want an AOE gun to lob shells at troops with, use a Redeemer for 3 points less.
• For one point more you can get a Reckoner, which has Flare, Ashen Veil, +1 Speed, +1 POW on the mace and gun and +2" range on the gun. In return you give up thresher and AOE 4" on the gun; this trade is pretty much always worth it.
• When it come to infantry clearing, the Repenter cost half of what the Vanquisher does and its walk and shoot range is only 1" shorter than the Vanquishers, whole having all the benefits of the spray rule.

Tricks & Tips

• Remember that Thresher can let you hit multiple heavies at the same time.
• Remember that Thresher also hits friendlies.
• A hymn of battle and the chain weapon bonus gives him around a 58% chance of taking out a MoW Shocktrooper in a single swing with or without the shield wall order.

Other

Trivia

• Released in Warmachine: Prime (2003)