Agata, Queen of Carnage

The barbarous farrow Agata calls herself a queen, and her kingdom realm is one of slaughter and blood. Waging a never-ending campaign of vicious savage raids and seemingly random attacks across the Iron Kingdoms, Agata is a ferocious and unpredictable opponent. Her qualities as a leader are similar, and they have earned her esteem among the most vicious sorts of farrow in western Immoren.

Basic Info

• Minion - Works for Template:Circle minion, Template:Legion minion, Template:Skorne minion, or Template:Trollblood minion.

Abilities

• Template:Tough
• Template:Parry
• Template:Pathfinder
• Template:Countercharge
• Template:Duelist
• Template:Riposte
• Template:Side Step
• Template:Sprint

Weapons

• Punch Daggers (x2) - 1" reach, P+S 12 melee weapons
  • Template:Combo Strike

Theme Forces

• Minion
  • Template:Thornfall. Agata, Queen of Carnage gains Rise in this theme.
  • Template:Will Work for Food

• Other Factions
  • As a Minion solo, Agata, Queen of Carnage can also be taken in a bunch of other Faction's themes. Refer to #Other Theme Forces.
    Special mention to the following, which have no limit to the number of Minion solos:
  • Template:Disciples of Agony (Skorne)
  • Template:Oracles of Annihilation (Legion) In this theme, this Minion becomes a Blighted model. Also, enemy models that end their activation within 2" of this model suffer continuous corrosion.
  • Template:Secret Masters (Circle) - this model may be taken as a requisition option in this theme despite not being a Circle solo

Thoughts on Agata, Queen of Carnage

Agata, Queen of Carnage in a nutshell

Agata is a cross between a Kayazy Eliminator and a Praetorian Swordsmen, alternatively you can think of her as the more nuanced version of Maximus.

She is a melee monster who can make a boosted P+S 17 charge attack with combo strike or kill a couple of enemies before sprinting away to a degree of safety. She has lots of movement shenanigans and can get deep into enemy line but this is mired by quite a low natural threat range. Once in melee she does require dedicated effort to remove, but she does need assistance getting there.

Combos & Synergies

• Lord Carver is her Veteran Leader.
• She can slam two times under Helga1's feat, with Parry, +1 speed and Side Step she can also get some very interesting slam angles.
• Sturm & Drang - offer Deceleration and Telekinesis 2 very useful spells for delivering a model into melee. Shield guard is just an added bonus.
• Azazello unfortunately a lot of his kit doesn’t work with her as she already has the abilities. But his feat is great and Beacon improves her threat range.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• She needs screening - the enemy will try to shoot her off the board. It's easier than trying to melee her off, at least!
• Will Work for Food has a range of melee solos, some do her job better. Thornfall Alliance has fallen out of favour with the similar theme bonuses and greater options offered in Vengeance of Dhunia
• Her 8.5 inch threat range can be a problem, often she won’t get a choice in what she wants to engage unless your opponent forgets about counter charge.

Tricks & Tips

• When you counter-charge, try to do so to the side of the enemy to set up next turn's charge.

Other

Trivia

Released for the Widower's Wood boardgame (2016-2017), then for Company of Iron (2017), then finally for Hordes.