Ravagore

The warlocks that serve the dragon Everblight can call upon a myriad of dragonspawn, each a perfect engine of draconic destruction. The Ravagore emulates it progenitor’s fearsome breath by engulfing foes in gouts of blighted fire.

Basic Info

Abilities

• Template:Eyeless Sight
• Template:Pathfinder
• Template:Soulless

Weapons

Blight Blast
File:Gun icon.jpg		RNG			ROF			AOE			POW
		14			1			4			15
Template:Fire Damage Template:Arcing Fire Template:Scather
Talon (x2)
File:Sword icon.jpg		RNG				POW				P+S
		1				4				16
Template:Open Fist
Bite
File:Sword icon.jpg		RNG				POW				P+S
		1				3				15

Animus

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Theme Forces

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

Thoughts on Ravagore

File:RavagoreClassic.jpg

Classic sculpt - Can you spot the difference?

Ravagore in a nutshell

Ravagore is your mobile, flesh and blood artillery - it is a ranged threat to reckon with. Its shot is rather inaccurate, but with its impressive range and eyeless sight and arcing fire, it's relatively easy to aim and ignore benefits like Concealment and Stealth that would normally hamper the Ravagore's poor RAT more than other similar gun platforms. On top of this, the lingering AOE scather can act as board controlling tool for enemy infantry. Thanks to its high POW it can end unwary, low ARM warlocks and warcasters with a single shot, and soften other heavies on the approach with its superior range. With certain warlocks, he melee prowess is actually not awful as well.

Unfortunately, the Ravagore's stock as a board control piece has waned as the prevalence of single wound infantry has become less popular. The scather aspect is still valuable certainly, but not its usefulness is not as widespread as it once was. This is especially true as it no longer can set large swathes of the board on fire, as it traded in its animus for the much less useful Recoil animus. Recoil has its uses, but they're fairly limited; the Ravagore doesn't really need to scoot up the board too swiftly thanks to his long range, and most things can't threaten him back when shooting from maximum distance, meaning Swift Hunter on the retreat just risks losing your aiming bonus next turn. To make it all worse, most of the Ravagore's favorite warlocks already have ways to scoot and shoot, or would rather have the Bolt Thrower's Snipe animus instead.

The Ravagore can certainly can and will still be fielded, but his high cost often outweighs everything he brings to the table.

Combos & Synergies

Warlocks

If you're brining a lot of guns, you're probably thinkng about the Ravagore since he's the highest single shot Legion can put on the field in the heavy warbeast bracket. Any warlock who has general DEF debuffs will like a Ravagore, as well as warlocks with guns of their own. Also consider warlocks with access to ARM debuffs, as our STR buffers won't help the Ravagore's damage output at range (though he can be a last ditch target of these and be a reasonable melee threat in the end game). In many cases, you also might want a Ravagore simply to bring a ranged threat to the list to keep opposing gunlines honest, especially those with an infantry backbone like Retribution and certain Cygnar lists.

• All the Llylths are unsurprisingly huge fans of the Ravagore.
  • Lylyth1 doesn't necessarily need to bring a gunline, but Parasite allows you to build one just as easily as it allows a melee force. On top of that, she is the only Lylyth without additional movement tech, so Swift Hunter is somewhat useful on her (though she may still prefer Snipe in most cases).
  • Lylyth2 with a pair of Ravagores can cover 16" of board in scather AOEs which is an absolute nightmare for an enemy focusing on infantry. On top of that, Pincushion makes those shots more accurate and more powerful just the same as any other gun she brings. She's also the one who actually appreciates the
  • Lylyth3 can appreciate the Ravagore's arcing fire and long range for her feat turn, as he can comfortably drop his shots on important models you don't want moving the following turn (or a stationary warlock/warcaster!). Battle Host ups their walking threat range to a whopping 21".
  • Lylyth4's Mortality is a self-evident accuracy &damage fixer, while Broadside works all the better the more warbeasts you have. She probably is the only caster where you'd consider casting Recoil: Side-step can be activated with kills from your Broadside shot and can also be stacked with Run&Gun from your Arcane Machinery (though not the two together since you need to activate either Lylyth first for Broadside+R&G, or the Ravagore to get Recoil). Still, a 4-7" move after 1 or 2 kills is pretty nice.
• Thagrosh1 can bring a little ranged threat to his lists by slotting a Ravagore in. Fog of War works nicely with Legion guns since your army will ignore Concealment while the enemy won't. Death Shroud keeps him a little safer in melee, more valuable on his already relatively high armor compared to other models.
  • Last ditch Draconic Blessing on a Ravagore can save your skin if he's all you have left to punch with. They're not stellar in terms of damage on their own, but he's still a heavy with three initials and four fury to spend.
  • Draconic Blessing makes the affected unit immune to fire. This is a great boon for the Ravagore's gun, as it's fire type damage, so it allows you to shoot your own models and units in the back and place those Scather templates exactly where you want them.
• Absylonia2 can keep the enemy from shooting at your Ravagores with Return Fire, though that's more of a scare tactic than something actually useful. That said, much like any of her beast choices, her feat and Alpha Hunter turn the Ravagore into a pretty scary threat despite his role as a gun. Similar to Thgrosh1, a Ravagore in an Abby2 list, can dent opposing heavies on the way up the field to help ensure a devestating feat turn.
• Since Kallus1's main focus is on infantry but still has a ton of warbeast points, sometimes you may want to bring a ranged presence in the form of a Ravagorem and to spend those 30 free points. The Ravagore can be a nice complement to a large swarm of melee infantry. If the Ravagore has to be commited to melee in the late game, Ignite and Dark Guidance make him a solid beater.
• Bethayne1 can make single Ravagore even more of a serious threat thanks to Blood Thorn and +2POW to its already impressive shot. Combine it with Disintegration on a right target and it can be a +4 damage swing, possible from 14" away! In the late game it all makes him a powerful melee beatstick.

Non-warlocks

• Shepherds or a Forsaken can help fury management, as the Ravagore can be fury intensive. Especially when firing on large clumps of multiple targets (wen boosting all the blast damage rolls).
• Croak Raiders - They can buff fire damage.
• Ravens of War - Lesser Warbeasts gain Mark Target which will make this guy more accurate - which is the big guy's core issue.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• The Ravagore is a 5pts upgrade from the Teraph which offers a gun with similar control elements, a better animus that also controls the game and can dig in to leverage a stat legion are better known for (DEF not HP or ARM)
• It struggles without buffs against heavies once the enemy gets in close combat with it
• Desperately needs dedicated fury management models to do the most work, further increasing its already high cost.
• Situational at best animus. Swift Hunter is very good for ranged warlocks, but so is the Far Strike animus, so you have to pick and choose, which one to apply and Far Strike is usually better.
• Poor RAT for a dedicated gun, which contributes to its high fury output.
• Scather is only ever as good as the enemy's single-wound infantries, making the Ravagore meta-dependant

Tricks & Tips

• 4" Scather templates really mess up infantry movement even if they miss
• Look for the ranged assassinations; Ravagores have a very high threat range, Eyeless Sight, and boosted RAT 5 hits DEF 16 50% of the time and DEF 15 66% of the time.
• Like almost all ranged heavies it actually does more damage in melee than at range - but it’s average MAT will see it struggle vs high DEF targets

Other

Trivia

• Originally released in Forces of Hordes: Legion of Everblight (2010)
• Resculpted in 2012 and now comes in a multi-kit