Rocinante

An old warjack that has served the Damiano family for generations, Rocinante takes to the field once more alongside the Steelhead Captain Amador Damiano. Amador's appearance is blurred to Rocinante, and as far as it's concerned, he is none other than the same Damiano who was the first to take it under his control. Rocinante has developed a few quirks over the years, one being an interest in children, and another being its 'watch dog' attitude toward anyone who appears remotely hostile toward Damiano. The warjack protects its allies while laying about with its weaponry amidst the enemy.

Basic Info

Abilities

• Template:Construct
• Template:Bond (Template:Quick Work-alt)
• Template:Defensive Strike
• Template:Guard Dog
• Template:Tried & True

Weapons

Cannon
File:Gun icon.jpg		RNG			ROF			AOE			POW
		14			1			4			14
Template:Powerful Attack
Battle Blade
File:Sword icon.jpg		RNG				POW				P+S
		2				7				18
Template:Powerful Charge

Theme Forces

• When taken by Damiano
  • Template:The Irregulars
  • Template:Kingmakers
  • Template:Steelies

• When taken by anyone else
  • Template:Soldiers of Fortune

Thoughts on Rocinante

Rocinante in a nutshell

Rocinante is a Nomad with a very effective and focus efficient gun - all the damage rolls in a 4" AoE are boosted as well as the attack itself. If attacked by another heavy in melee Rocinante folds like a cheap tent - but fortunately he gets a lot of work done with no focus investment while hanging back round the warcaster. Cap it off with an extra point of MAT and RAT over the standard merc heavy and you have a winner. An excellent choice in Soldiers of Fortune. It really is a great heavy.

Combos & Synergies

File:Captain Damiano.jpg

Damiano1

• Captain Damiano gives it Quick Work, allowing it to shoot its AoE deep.
• Magnus the Warlord gives it Unyielding, making up for its low toughness. It stays near him most of the time allowing him to mix Guard Dog with his Escort spell to make him hard to assassinate while being able to use its gun without needing to be fed Focus.
• Captain Bartolo Montador likes good guns to broadside with and appreciates its focus efficiency.
• Lieutenant Crosse, Resistance Fighter likes focus efficent jacks and can increase its range to 16" with Fire Group. He also reaches DEF 20 under Guard Dog and Dark Blessing.
• Caine's Hellslingers are also fans of good guns, especially guns that have powerful attack and up to pow 10 blast damage on feat turn. Caine also doesn't mind the extra defence for if something does make it into melee with his fragile statline.
• Models with Repair, especially the cheap Gobber Tinker, can keep it alive even better thanks to Tried and True.
  • This goes doubely for Widget, who can not only repair it, but also give it an out of activation shoot.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• He's sold as an "upgrade kit" - you need to buy a normal Nomad model for the main body, legs, etc.
• DEF 10 and ARM 18 means it is one of the easiest to kill heavies in the game. Fortunately Rocinante can stay back for a while and use focus-efficient shooting.
• With Captain Damiano Quick Work encourages you to play this squishy heavy forward where it can be turned into scrap metal.
• If you aren't getting many rounds out of the shooting then there's very little to justify the additional cost over a standard Nomad.

Tricks & Tips

• Fire until you want to walk Rocinante into melee. He's still doing work when he's shooting and won't survive in a brawl. Fortunately if he walks into combat and beats the enemy with the Battle Blade the enemy will probably not survive.

Other

Trivia

• Rocinante is the name of the comedic protagonist knight's horse in Miguel de Cervantes' novel, Don Quixote.
• Rocin means "old horse"; the -ante prefix means, literally, "prior", and has the connotation "better than". Essentially the Knight was trying to give the horse a name that meant something like "superhorse" or "expert horse", but ended up with a name that most people would take to mean "nearly dead horse".
• Having the warjack named after Rocinante implies the warjack's controler is like Quixote; A crazy old man living in a romantic dream, and perhaps drawing others into his dream. As for whom would represent Sancho Panza or Dulcinea in the Iron Kingdoms... that's up to the reader/player.
• Rocinante was destroyed along with the rest of Damiano's army (and Damiano himself) at the Battle of Henge Hold by Zaateroth's forces.