Vassal of Menoth

The unclean sorcerous technology of warjacks is forbidden to most who serve the Protectorate, but the ruling Synod has sanctioned the collection of wizards and mechaniks known as the Vassals to sully their souls with the power necessary to construct the weapons of modern war. Mostly captured from foreign lands, the Vassals sometimes take the field and lend direct arcane support to the warjacks they helped fashion to subjugate their former countrymen.

Basic Info

Abilities

• Template:Iron Sentinel
• Template:Magic Ability

Weapons

• Template:Unarmed

Spells

{{Category: Template:Arcane Bolt AttackTemplate:Empower SpellTemplate:Enliven }}[[Category: Template:Arcane Bolt AttackTemplate:Empower SpellTemplate:Enliven ]]

Theme Forces

• Protectorate
  • Template:Exemplar Interdiction
  • Template:Guardians of the Temple
  • Template:The Creator's Might. He gains Reposition [3] in this theme.
  • Template:The Faithful Masses
  • Template:Warriors of the Old Faith

• Other Factions
  • Infernal players can take this unit in the Template:Hearts of Darkness theme, but only if Feora is leading the army.
  • Khador players can take this unit in the Template:Warriors of the Old Faith theme.

Thoughts on Vassal of Menoth

Vassal of Menoth in a nutshell

The Vassal of Menoth helps the focus management/disruption of your jacks with Empower, and helps their survivialability/maneuverability with Enliven. Although he has a magic attack, with no way to boost the roll it's really not a real threat.

In every theme you can take 2 Vassals as a Req option and honestly if you are going War jack heavy you should honestly consider using this to your advantage. 2 free solos offer a good way of contesting objectives as well as dishing out all of the support listed above.

Combos & Synergies

• He's a warjack support solo, so he works well with any warcaster that likes to take a bunch of jacks. Oh hello Mk3, didn't see you there. What's that you say? That's every warcaster now? Ok.
• Enliven stacks nicely with Amon's ability to give Parry and Steady. You can take one punch on the chin, then walk away without suffering a free strike.
• Durst likes a big Battlegroup but doesn’t have to focus for it. Deceleration helps them on the approach and they will likely die and trigger Righteous Vengeance at some point.
• The Dervish is probably the best jack to enliven because it's immune to free strikes.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• He is effectively 2 points for one extra focus a turn. Enliven sounds good on paper but it doesn't ignore free strikes so doesn't save you from melee. Also Enliven has to be used the next time the warjack is damaged or not at all. You can't save it for later.
• Victim stats - unless he has Iron Sentinel even an Electro Leap will kill him.
• Short range on his CMD-based abilities.
• Priority target

Tricks & Tips

• You can use Enliven defensively to extricate your warjack from a fight in the following turn. Or you can use it offensively to jam your warjack even deeper into the enemy lines after it gets hurt.
• When using Enliven defensively, remember to leave an escape route behind your jack; don't move the Vassal up B2B with jack and box it in.

Other

Trivia

Released in Warmachine: Legends (2008)