Blight Wasp

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Moving as a single mass of beating wings, scything claws, and pulsing stingers, swarms of blight wasps sow panic and death across the battlefield as they inject enemies with the poison of dragon blight itself. A single dose of blight wasp toxin is enough to kill a man, but the creatures mindlessly sting over and over again as the hapless victim writhes in agony before finally succumbing to death.

Basic Info

Abilities

• Template:Warbeast
• Template:Eyeless Sight
• Template:Soulless
• Template:Flight
• Template:Hunting Pack

Weapons

Stinger
File:Sword icon.jpg		RNG				POW				P+S
		0,5				5				10
Template:Critical Poison

Animus

{{Category: Template:Hornet's Nest }}[[Category: Template:Hornet's Nest ]]

Theme Forces

• Template:Children of the Dragon
• Template:Oracles of Annihilation
• Template:Primal Terrors
• Template:Ravens of War. Blight Wasps gain Mark Target in this theme.

Thoughts on Blight Wasp

Blight Wasp in a nutshell

Blight Wasps are fast melee lesser warbeasts who like to attack in packs. They are the flimsiest among their peers to such degree that sometimes even boostable blasts can one-round them (or just cripple them beyond repair). They also need to operate in groups to get their quasi-gang bonus going, which is a worse mechanism since you must cram 3-4 Wasps onto a single target, all in melee range to get the crucial attack and damage bonus. What makes the Wasp shine is its animus though. Killing Spree can be a nightmare to tightly packed infantry formations, since even a single lesser can chew through hordes on infantries with the right support - though not necessarily the Wasps themselves. Critical Poison is rather gimmicky and is nice if triggered but not something to base your strategy on.

Combos & Synergies

• More Blight Wasps - Retaining many rules from their warbeast pack era, Wasps do enjoy each other's company. With Hunting pack they can reliably fight heavier or more elusive targets, though you must bunch up for the bonus.
• Beast Mistress, Blight Archon or Thagrosh0 - They all can cast the Wasp's animus (Thagrosh even for free), leaving the beast's Fury stack to be used for boosting/buying attack and damage rolls.
• Blighted Nyss Sorceress - Free charge goes a long way toward managing the Wasps' Fury economy. Blight Storm ensures that you never roll too low to trigger at least a single point of damage, making your Killing Spree against single wound infantry a terrifying prospect.
• Shredder and Mekanoshredder - Best targets for Killing Spree, even more so if the Shredder can trigger Flank on its targets.
• Spawning Vessel - Can make even more Wasps from friends and foes alike.
• Absylonia2 - Probably the best warlock if you want to run Wasps; she provides free charge and run, offers accuracy and damage buffs, and more important, under feat a 2" melee range makes the triggering of Hunting Pack and Hornets' Nest a cakewalk.
• Thagrosh2 - A beast polisher second only to Absylonia2, Manifest Destiny helps the wasps to hit harder and more accurate. They are also eligible for Sacrificial Pawn.
• Nephilim Bloodseer - Hornets' Nest is one of the rare non-self animus in the Legion, something that the Bloodseer can cast.
• Lylyth1 - Feat allows you to fish more reliably to critical poison, but it is Parasite that makes the Wasps truly shine. A pack of four against will deliver - with free charge - 3 attacks each, the last of them hitting at MAT8 and effective P+S16.
• Kallus1 - You won't be using Ignite on a single Blight Wasp, but Dark Guidance can increase their chances to land Critical Poison attacks as well, which can make them hit above their weight class against infantry and beasts.
• Kallus2 - He likes cheap beasts who can run forward and start setting targets on fire for his feat; and the Wasp can fit the task.
• Bethayne2 can abuse Blight Wasps' speed to easily deliver a Spell Driver beast into the enemy's back arc. The Harrier is just as capable of doing it, but if you want to do the Breath of Corruption assassination, it is more likely that the Wasp will die from the concentrated damage from Spell Driver and the spell, so it is up to your personal preference.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• 0,5" melee range makes it hard to trigger Hunting Pack against small and medium-base targets.
• Horrible defensive stats
• Their excellent but expensive animus works only on lessers
• The more you lose from them, the weaker they become as you will have no way of triggering Hunting Pack.
• Unlike the Harrier you can't get them for free in Ravens of War

Tricks & Tips

• Unlike the other lessers, here you get 4 Wasps in a box. If you don't want to use them for the Hunting Pack, you may trade the excess with other Legion players.
• Hunting Pack does not distinguish between battlegroups, e.g the Wasps from the warlock's battlegroup can trigger the bonus for the Wasps from a Blight Archon's battlegroup.

Other

Trivia

• Released in Hordes: Exigence (2014)
• Until 2019 the Wasps had a unique rule of being a warbeast pack and came in a group of 4. They were beasts and units, having a whole lot of confusing rule interactions, so PP had decided to scrap the whole ruleset and turned them into "regular" lesser warbeasts, along with the Aradus Scarabs (their pic still shows Warbeast Pack under their name).

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