Mekanolyth

Template:Legionbox This model is playable only in an Unlimited format.

"The Mekano are Legion. Surrender to the will of the Dra-cog-nic master"

Basic Info

This model is a Warlock.

Warlock Rules A warlock is an Independent Model. a Leader model. a Battlegroup Controller controls warbeasts. Warlocks use Fury Manipulation Uses ARC to determine how many fury points it gains each turn. Begins the game with a number of fury points equal to its ARC. Cannot exceed its ARC stat in fury points as a result of leeching. Can spend fury points only during its activation (unless a special rule states otherwise) for the following: Buy additional attacks Boost attack rolls Boost damage rolls Shake some effects Can leach fury points from warbeasts in its battlegroup in its control range. Spirit Bond allows the warlock to gain a fury for each of its dead battlegroup warbeasts. Reaving allows the warlock to pull fury points from a warbeast in its battlegroup when it dies.

Feat: Troubleshoot

While in Mekanolyth's Template:Control range, friendly Faction models can reroll ranged attack and ranged damage rolls, and their ranged weapons gain +2 RNG. Troubleshoot lasts for one turn.

Abilities

• Template:Construct
• Template:Eyeless Sight
• Template:Pathfinder
• Template:Arcane Machinery
  • Template:Arcane Reconfiguration
  • Template:Kinetic Invigoration
  • Template:Target Lock

Weapons

Gatling Bow
File:Gun icon.jpg		RNG			ROF			AOE			POW
		12			3			Template:-			12
Template:Magical Damage

Spells

{{Category: Template:BroadsideTemplate:Hellish VolleyTemplate:JumpstartTemplate:Mortality }}[[Category: Template:BroadsideTemplate:Hellish VolleyTemplate:JumpstartTemplate:Mortality ]]

Theme Forces

• Template:Children of the Dragon. She gains Tactician [ Blighted Nyss ] in this theme.
• Template:Oracles of Annihilation. In this theme she can start the game with friendly upkeeps in play.
• Template:Primal Terrors
• Template:Ravens of War

Thoughts on Lylyth4

Lylyth4 in a nutshell

Mekanolyth is a battlegroup oriented range powerhouse. She wants to run as many beasts with guns as her average Fury stat can handle. She then makes these beasts hit like a semi-truck with Broadside giving them all an additional shot. She provides a very potent to hit, and damage buff in the form of Mortality. With this being said she has some flaws that her previous versions did not. For one she doesn't have stealth, Wind wall, or prowl to keep her safe from shooting. This in combination with being somewhat Fury starved she is very easy to kill from a distance.

Spell thoughts

• Hellish Volley: like Flashing blade on steroids this is how you break infantry formations that try to jam Lylyth.
• Jumpstart: In Legion if your beast is knocked down or stationary it's probably dead. the key benefit of this spell for Lylyth is the ability to change facing and aim, you will seldom cast it but you do want it occasionally - be aware it is one of 2 spells negatively affected by Arcane Reconfiguration.

Feat thoughts

This of course works really well with her Broadside spell & Hellish Volley. It needs you to build into it with as many guns as you can muster - but that is why you are playing Lylyth4 anyway right?

Drawbacks & Downsides

• No backup melee weapon, and no Gunfighter. Hellish Volley alleviates this somewhat - just don't get stuck in melee and in a "no spell" zone at the same time! Also watch out for models that cannot be targeted by ranged attacks.
  • Also she cannot charge to get further up on the field, due to not having a melee weapon or gunfighter to charge with.
• She will spark endless discussions about how Riot Quest models are ruining the aesthetic integrity of the game.
• Bethayne1 and Bethayne2 have much easier times applying their (multiple) debuffs and also making their troops tougher into guns. So detractors will call her a discount version of two of the faction's best warlocks.
• Her kit fits a big battlegroup but she doesn’t have the fury to make that work effectively.

Tips & Tricks

• Between Feat and Far-strike from a Nephilim Bolt Thrower she can get a 25" threat range on her bow. This is a huge threat vector and an unsuspecting caster can easily get three mostly boosted POW 12s to the face.
• Arcane Reconfiguration does not change the cost of your animi since they are not "on your card" but rather being cast as "one of its own".
• Kinetic Invigoration does not need her beasts to be in her control range, so you can have a beast hang out with a Shepherd so it can boost and then Run & Gin to safety.

List Building Advice

Theme thoughts

Children generally struggles into Tough-focused lists, which Mortality solves. She also gains access to three character beasts with excellent guns and there is a lot of solos and units in here with guns.

• Azrael - Azrael has "premium gun" written all over him. Two spears per activation and a reroll mean he has a high chance of smiting something, too.
• Zuriel - Hits like an absolute truck with Mortality and Broadside means he can lay down 3 sprays per turn and still bring the heat in melee, then Run & Gun away.
• Typhon - Three sprays base and an extra one with Broadside.
• Blighted Nyss Archers - Mortality makes them hit harder, which is amazing with 22 shots per unit and the reolls make RAT 5 less of an issue
• Craelix - Mortality + Poison mean he starts to hurt warbests with his bow. Or weaken high DEF targets to make them even easier to hit for the rest of your army.
• Virtue Champion - Blight Cloud and Deflection make these almost impossible to take down at range and they extend this quality to the Virtue Host. Also they have very guns that leave behind Scathers.
• Blight Archon - Mortality ups their output significantly and you can outsource support beasts (Mekanoshredder, Blood Seer, Naga) onto them.
• Spell Martyr - You want to land those Mortalities at a safe distance, so these guys are mandatory.
• Blighted Nyss Swordsmen - She can get them to pretty stupid defense levels against shooting, 18, 20 with concealment, and 22 with cover. Caine boosting will have a tough time into that!
• Blighted Nyss Raptors - DEF 16 under Deflection and they benefit from the feat for rerolls and extra range!

Not the best theme for her as Blighted Ogrun don’t have the defence to leverage Deflection that well, but there are some stand outs.

• Ammok - Like Lylyth1, Lylyth4 has no need for the free upkeep provided by the Succubus but increasing mortality by 2 inches is fantastic.
• Warspears - Prey + Mortality + her feat makes for some very accurate and hard hitting attacks
• Thagrosh Hellborne - He can run a mean Typhon to make excellent use of Mortality and the feat. Blight Burst is a very good control element and Fog of War stack with Deflection to make her list competent into gunlines.

This theme is a blend of Virtues and Thags0, taking the strongest parts from both Children and Terrors. Minions alos abuse Mortaliy well but dont gain anything else fromher, so you can largely ignore them.

The Mark Target theme benefit really helps improve the out of activation attacks caused by Broadside.

• Harrier - They are 3 pt, SPD 7 mark target bots with Flight and you can take them for free a two pieces per requisition card. A quintessential model in Ravens.
• Stinger - Generally regarded as an awful beast but Lylyth’s feat and being the only lesser with a ranged weapon makes it... less awful? It can give her counterblast, too.
• Strider Scouts are defence 17 under Deflection, their poor armour wont help if they get knocked down though.
• Grotesque Banshees - Deflection and Force Barrier make them Def 16 vs shooting. Mortality generally polishes their mediocre accuracy.
  • add in the Grotesque Assassin and the unit is harder to kill than the Strider models at range, due to being blast immune.

Battlegroup

• Archangel - The biggest and most devastating gun platfrom in the faction! It loves +2 to hit, +2" RNG, rerolls, Motality and extra shots.
• Blightbringer - Getting two Blights Ash AOE onto the board can be really good for the rest of your army. Consider this in PT with Warspears.
• Naga Nightlurker - Strongly consider this one so you can bypass Wind Wall and Hymn of Passage.
• Nephilim Bolt Thrower - There is natural synergy here due to the Far Strike Animus and getting an extra shot out the Thrower thanks to Broadside is pretty neat, too.
• Ravagore - Compared to an Archangel, they have a higher base POW on their guns, better range, and benefit from Kinetic Invigoration. Two shoot as much under Broadside as the Angel does. The Angel has better base RAT and Deceptively Mobile, though. RAT 5 still misses a lot, even with all of Lylyth's trimmings.
• Carnivean - Can get a 15" assault shot, or two. She also helps them hit.
• Teraph - Burning Earth works on out of activation shots, so long as you hit.

Starting a 25 point Brawl list

This list was added to WMU 2021.12

As of Brawlmachine v1.2, Lylyth4 is on the Epic list, meaning she should normally not be part of the format.

Theme - Oracles of Annihilation

Mekanolyth: [+28 WBP]

• Nephilim Bolt Thrower: [9 pts]
• Ravagore: [14 pts]
• Teraph: [9 pts]

Incubus: [Free] Template:Grey

Spell Martyr: [1 pt]

Virtue Champion: [6 pts]

Croak Raiders: (max) [14 pts]

The focus is on using Mortality on a target that can then be bombarded by Croak shots, and potentially Ravagore and Teraph shots, if called for. Virtue Champion functions as a bodyguard to threaten those who approach Menaolyth, and help limit her LOS with Blight Cloud.

Other

Trivia

Released 2021.10