Rutger Shaw, Professional Adventurer

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

Rutger Shaw enlisted in the Cygnaran Army as a young man and trained as a trencher, demonstrating a unique knack for marshaling warjacks as well as skill with a blade. Military service and long years of battle hardened him, even as his conscience chafed at fighting at the whim of callous officers. He opted out and turned sell-sword, spending recent years travelling the Iron Kingdoms guided by his taste for adventure and coin.

Basic Info

Mercenary - This model will work for Template:Crucible Guard mercenary, Template:Cygnar Mercenary, Template:Khador Mercenary, or Template:Menoth Mercenary.

Abilities

• Template:Jack Marshal
• Template:Tough
• Template:Drive Shield Guard
• Template:Dual Attack
• Template:Iron Sentinel
• Template:Partner

Weapons

Hand Cannon
File:Gun icon.jpg		RNG			ROF			AOE			POW
		12			1			Template:-			12
Mechanikal Sword
File:Sword icon.jpg		RNG				POW				P+S
		0.5				6				12
Template:Magical Weapon Template:Weapon Master

Theme Forces

• Mercenary
  • Template:Soldiers of Fortune. Rutger Shaw, Professional Adventurers gain Mark Target in this theme.
  • Template:The Irregulars

• Other Factions
  • Infernal players can use this model in the Template:Hearts of Darkness theme, but only if Crosse2 is leading the army.
  • Furthermore, Mercenary 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 Rutger Shaw

Rutger Shaw in a nutshell

Rutger Shaw is a skilled jack marshal whose main ability is to give his marshaled warjack Shield Guard, and has Iron Sentinel to let him hang close to his 'jack until it gets to charge range. His drive is decent. His melee ability is decent. His ranged ability is decent. He simply has too much competition in faction and a specialist is often preferential to a generalist.

Combos & Synergies

Taryn grants him Dodge and he gives her Tough so they operate as a rather expensive unit. In Irregulars, Shaw would be taken with a jack to marshal. In which case you will want to pick a good one.

• Talon The Talon, with its shield, is extremely tough for its points cost and is good at jamming up the enemy. With Flank, it's MAT 10 on the charge.
• Freebooter Charges for free if he's with Shae. Low ARM for a heavy is offset by it being costed like a light but having a lot of damage boxes.
• Mangler With Aggressive, the Mangler charges for free and hits like a truck with Flank and Crush. At ARM 19, it's a fine shield guard on the way in. Dirty Meg has a much better drive, but his is probably the second best in Mercenaries.

• Toro Rutger can finally field the jack he has in the fluff! Between giving an arm 20 'jack shield guard and the toro having counter-charge for some efficiency, they make a solid duo.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Like all jack marshals, Rutger lacks the ability to give his marshalled 'jack a focus, nor can it benefit from the new Power Up rule.
• While solid all around, he's not exactly the right tool for any job or the best at anything so he struggles to find a place in many lists.

Tricks & Tips

As with most jack marshals, Rutger Shaw really wants to use Crush in melee with his jack for extra attacks and damage.

Other

Trivia

• Released in Forces of Warmachine: Mercenaries (July 2010)
• Despite being a mercenary for hire, Rutger's backstory portrays him with a heart of gold who goes out of his way to help the downtrodden while his partner, Taryn is more practical and callous, though she follows him around anyway to pull his skin out of the fire.
• Rutger and Taryn have been partners for almost a decade and carry a barely-disguised torch for each other, though due to their characterization in the fluff, will probably never do anything about it.
• In lore Rutger's 'jack is a Toro, although his is armed with a hammer instead of a sword. (If you want to convert it then the Grolar’s hammer looks perfect, but it will no longer be tournament legal).