Underchief Mire

Among the war-embattled croaks driven to western Immoren, being a leader can be a burden. Underchief Mire competes with his oversized brother to earn the right to succeed their father, the aging chief of their displaced tribe. In this contest, Mire has a unique advantage, having formed mystical bonds with beasts of the marshes, including several fetid swamp trolls. Caustic mists rise at Mire’s command to melt the flesh from his foes, and the croak warlock can walk unharmed amid these vapors, hiding from sight before retaliating. He has earned a place of respect among the wilderness peoples for his cunning and his courage, staying neutral in their conflicts.

Basic Info

• Minion - Will work for Template:Circle minion, Template:Legion minion, Template:Skorne minion, and Template:Trollblood minion.

Abilities

• Template:Amphibious
• Template:Immunity: Corrosion
• Template:Pathfinder
• Template:Attuned Spirit
• Template:Lesser Warlock
• Template:Limited Battlegroup Swamp Trolls in his battlegroup are considered to be friendly Minion Gatorman light warbeasts. (And they are not considered to be Trollblood models).
• Template:Prowl

Weapons

• Spear - 2" reach, POW 4, P+S 10 melee attack
  • Template:Poison

Spells

{{Category: Template:Caustic MistTemplate:Weald Secrets }}[[Category: Template:Caustic MistTemplate:Weald Secrets ]]

Theme Forces

• Minions
  • Template:Blindwater
  • Template:Will Work for Food. Mire can upkeep his spells for free in this theme.

• Other Factions
  • 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 Underchief Mire

Mire is the first Jr. warlock for Minions that doesn't come with his own warbeast. This allows him a lot of flexibility during list construction. His spell list can help deliver models by creating a cloud wall, and help mitigate one of Minion's beasts biggest drawbacks, lack of pathfinder. Weald secrets also provides a big buff to ranged units by giving them hunter. Late game he becomes a decent melee solo with a mat 6, rng 2 poison spear and 4 fury to burn.

Underchief Mire in a nutshell

Underchief Mire is a lesser warlock that brings a gatorman warbeast (or Swamp Troll) with him and can also throw out a cloud or two and do a little work himself in the endgame. He's mostly a packet of Fury efficiency and ability to maneuver - but can also bring Farrow warlocks access to animi like Rage or to the Dracodile.

Combos & Synergies

• Any minion model or units without Pathfinder and/or Hunter.
• He can bring a Blackhide Wrastler or a Swamp Horror with him, so anything that enjoys a source of Rage or Elasticity likes him. He even get to cast the animus for free once per turn.
  • Farrow Armies lack Warbeasts with these animi, so he has a nieche in a bacon focused army.
    • Rage is great on any Farrow Warbeast, as is Elasticity (especially with Overtake from Will Work for Food), but is great on a Meat Thresher!
• A Swamp Gobber Bellows Crew for more clouds.
• He can even bring a Dracodile to a Farrow focused army. Dr. Arkadius will like that very much, since he can boost its spray with Raw Adrenaline.
• A Swamp Troll or Boneswarm can use Swarm to trigger Prowl for Mire.
• Weald Secrets can greatly assist any ranged unit or solo by providing them hunter: Longchops, Wolf With No Name, Alten Ashley or Scythe come to mind. A heavy warbeast is also a good target.
• Rask - They can extend their cloud walls together and Rask loves outsourcing a Wrastler to Mire for free Rages.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• His defense is so-so, enough that most shooting models, while standing still to aim, will hit him. His ARM is low enough that boosted blast damage hurts him, even if your opponent does miss. His journeyman-sized CTRL range means he has to play slightly closer than you'd likely want him to, considering how valuable he likely is. Having a ranged warbeast or two (Ironback Spitter for example) mitigates this nicely, but any melee beatstick you bring forces the Underchief to be alot closer to actual combat than he probably should be.
• Weald Secrets is friendly faction; taking him in any list other than Minions means this spell may never actually be cast (unless he puts it on one of his beasts).
• Caustic Mist can easily be ignored by any model who can take more than 1 box of damage, or ignores corrosion. It's situational at best.
• If taken in the Skorne Disciples of Agony theme force as your allotted solo, he can take Gatormen warbeasts, same as the selected Skorne Warlock. However, even though his warbeast and the Skorne Warlock's warbeasts may be the same models, the Underchief's warbeasts are considered minions and not Skorne (and vice versa.) Thus, Friend Faction buffs won't apply.
• Similarly, if he is taken in a trollblood army and takes swamp trolls in his battlegroup, they cannot recieve trollblood specific buffs.
• He cannot be taken for free in any theme he's available in.

Tricks & Tips

An Ironback Spitter as his beast can be amazing. It allows him to sit behind it, use the Ironback as his bodyguard (combined with the Ironback's animus, Counterblast, while forcing the Ironback for attack and damage roll boosts every turn. Especially since the Ironback can rain corrosion damage AOEs into enemy infantry, while your Croak Raiders are completely immune!

Other

Trivia

• The design of this model is based on the winning entry from a Company of Iron competition. In the competition players would create their own force, backstory, and paint scheme. Congratulations to David Schultz!
• Released at Warmachine Weekend (2018.10)