The Forsaken

Twisted beyond recognition, the Forsaken are the malignant children of the dragon's accursed touch, and their very presence is anathema to life. They feed upon the rage and misery of the battlefield and can mimic their master's burning aura to generate a mantle of blighted essence so overwhelming they can strike the living dead by mere proximity.

Basic Info

Abilities

• Template:Ferocious
• Template:Magic Ability
• Template:Resolute Rage

Weapons

Claw
File:Sword icon.jpg		RNG				POW				P+S
		0.5				5				12

Spells

{{Category: Template:Blight ShroudTemplate:Consume Fury }}[[Category: Template:Blight ShroudTemplate:Consume Fury ]]

Theme Forces

• Template:Children of the Dragon
• Template:Oracles of Annihilation
• Template:Primal Terrors
• Template:Ravens of War

Thoughts on The Forsaken

The Forsaken in a nutshell

The Forsaken is a moderately cheap solo that remains the premiere form of fury management in Legion, and truly in Hordes as a whole. No other singular model can remove the raw amount of fury from the table that a Forsaken can (besides a mostly empty Warlock), let alone two. They allow Legion to run more beasts safely than any other Hordes faction, something that has been a hallmark of the faction since time immemorial.

On top of their support abilities, a Forsaken is no slouch in combat. While their MAT leaves something to be desired, the fury they store allows them to boost and buy attacks just like a warbeast, and they can hold more fury than the average heavy. If that wasn't enough for you, they Blight Shroud special attack is a flexible, powerful magic attack that can shred low ARM infantry and soundly wound warbeasts or camping warlocks/warcasters. While the POW of the attack is low, there is no attack roll - it auto hits. Additionally, against jamming infantry, who typically have very low ARM values, you don't often need to roll high to remove a sizeable number of enemy models from the table. Don't let that low damage fool you against enemy beasts that ran hot or against camping casters/warlocks, as you can roll an absurd number of damage dice against them and do a surprising amount of damage.

Resolute Rage bumps its ARM significantly while loaded with Fury, adding to their survival and helping to ensure they can deliver Blight Shroud where needed.

Almost every Legion list wants a Forsaken, and some of the more brazen warlocks in the lineup will often want two.

Combos & Synergies

Forsaken don't have a lot of special combos. They simply do their job and work. That said:

• Abby1 brings an Elite Cadre for Forsaken, offering them native Ashen Veil. this is a pretty good perk, especially considering Forsaken are high priority targets with only slightly above average DEF.
• Typhon or the Blightbringer, if maxed out, will instantly fill a Forsaken, giving them the most effective follow up turn.
• Don't forget the power of boosting. If you're running a caster with a universal STR buff/ARM debuff (Kryssa's feat, Lylyth1's Parasite, etc), Forsaken will hit out of their weight class.
• Kallus1 - Unyielding makes it ARM 21 if topped off with Fury. Dark Guidance helps with MAT 5.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• High priority target. It'll be sniped relatively easily if you use it aggressively.
• Unfortunately it's not a Blighted model so it doesn't benefit from Blight Archon's Vet. Leader or Tactician in CotD theme force.
• It can't gather fury on the same turn it spends fury.
  • If you fill it up to max fury, it can't be used for fury management again until 2 turns later (fill to max this turn, spend it next turn, ready to gather again the turn after that).

Tricks & Tips

Depending on your desired aggression level, you can opt to fill your Forsaken(s) up very early and commit them to combat right away. This isn't a bad strategy, just make sure you're okay losing their fury management abilities for the late game. You have to walk a tight rope and plan ahead. A Beast that you commit deeply doesn't need fury management, because its going to die during the opponents turn anyway, and if it doesn't, it will be crippled to unusuableness anyway so a frenzy might actually be beneficial to you and walking up your Forsaken to remove the fury points might put it in danger. Running your beasts turn 1 and vacuuming the fury that generated, then reserving your Forsaken as a late game workpiece might be a better idea instead.

Other

Trivia

• Released way back in Primal Mk1 (2006)
• Forsaken are remarkably smaller than other solos in the faction; looks like the fluff's "malignant children of the dragon's accursed touch" part is to be taken literally.