Dominar Rasheth

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

In an empire known for discipline and precision, it is a rare man who can excel in spite of his unsavory appetites and predilections. Rasheth leads a house well known for its ability to train mighty titan warbeasts, and profits from the recent push for western expansion has allowed him to delve ever deeper into decadence. Too slothful to walk on his own, the Dominar is carried into battle by a team of Agonizers.

Basic Info

• This model is a Warlock.

Warlock Rules A warlock is an Independent Model. a Leader model. a Battlegroup Controller controls warbeasts. Warlocks use Fury Manipulation Uses ARC to determine how many fury points it gains each turn. Begins the game with a number of fury points equal to its ARC. Cannot exceed its ARC stat in fury points as a result of leeching. Can spend fury points only during its activation (unless a special rule states otherwise) for the following: Buy additional attacks Boost attack rolls Boost damage rolls Shake some effects Can leach fury points from warbeasts in its battlegroup in its control range. Spirit Bond allows the warlock to gain a fury for each of its dead battlegroup warbeasts. Reaving allows the warlock to pull fury points from a warbeast in its battlegroup when it dies.

Feat : Plague Wind

1. While in Rasheth's Template:CTRL range, enemy models suffer a -2 STR, DEF, and ARM.
2. When a living model is destroyed in his Template:CTRL range, Rasheth can remove 1 damage point.

Plague Wind lasts for one round.

Abilities

• Template:Dark Rituals
• Template:Impervious Flesh
• Template:Steady

Weapons

• Template:Unarmed

Spells

{{Category: Template:Blood MarkTemplate:Breath of CorruptionTemplate:CarnivoreTemplate:CastigateTemplate:InfluenceTemplate:Sunder Spirit }}[[Category: Template:Blood MarkTemplate:Breath of CorruptionTemplate:CarnivoreTemplate:CastigateTemplate:InfluenceTemplate:Sunder Spirit ]]

Theme Forces

• Template:Disciples of Agony
• Template:Masters of War
• Template:The Exalted
• Template:Winds of Death

Thoughts on Dominar Rasheth

Dominar Rasheth in a nutshell

Rasheth is a Cryx-style debuff warlock that messes with the enemy, and comes with channeling abilities. Awful in melee, with luck it doesn't come to that. He's considered possibly Skorne's biggest (literally and figuratively) power caster for a reason, but is very vulnerable to anyone who can reach him. For those who are more familiar with Warmachine factions, he can be considered a slightly weaker version of Warwitch Deneghra, but he also shuts down enemy channeling and in a faction with much better guns than Cryx brings.

Maximising his Feat & Spells

Rasheth is a debuff caster with his bread and butter being MAT fixing with Carnivore to kill high DEF targets, ARM debuffing with Blood Mark to kill high ARM targets, and a feat that stacks on top of both those.

His feat also keeps his tough targets (heavy beasts, battle engines) alive in melee. He also has two situational control elements, preventing channeling, and using Breath Of Corruption to control enemy infantry. Finally there's a zap in Sunder Spirit, and the very situational Influence.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Literally the worst caster/lock defensive stats in the game. At least he has a lot of boxes and Impervious Flesh...
• He's very hard to screen on his large base.
• With no weapon, he can't charge for extra range on spells, or extra distance on a turn 1.
  • This can cause problems in scenarios with a killbox where he needs to run on turn 1 if going first (or on turn 2) to avoid killboxing himself.

All these issues are negated (somewhat) by keeping him safe on the back line. he's still hard to screen, but he hopefully can regain hp using his feat/carnivore/transferring damage through blood mark. On the other hand, if you hang back too much, he'll have trouble getting enemies into his feat range if kept back.

Tricks & Tips

• If you put Blood mark on an enemy warbeast with full fury, you can't transfer damage to it.
• If you start on a scenario with a killbox, you need to run or get a speed bonus in either first or second turn to not trigger it. The easiest way to get one is the Tyrant Commander. (Steam Roller 2017 solves this reducing to 12" the killbox limit)

List Building Advice

Strategy

Rasheth is basically an attrition warlock. A MAT buff in Carnivore, an ARM debuff, and a feat that lowers the enemy MAT and ARM (and weakens the enemy attacks if you're using ARM skew). Oh, and he blocks channeling. In short he does most of what you could want - and works really well with Battle Engines. On his own he is considered possibly the best Skorne warlock, although his main theme is the strictly average Winds of Death theme.

Hia army can be almost anything; his spell selection make it so that he can make almost any model shine. That being said, he doesn't help things defensively, so it's better to not take too many fragile models.

He likes fast solos/units to arc through. Void Spirits, and Praetorian Keltarii are good examples; but take care to use one that you have other uses for.

Having at least one shield guard and/or keeping an unit to block charge lane to Rasheth is a prudent, but not strictly necessary, move. Rasheth can prove very fragile.

Theme thoughts

Rasheth works well with most things - but especially shooters thanks to his debuffing. He needs some Skorne warriors to channel through - and debuffs mean that a high volume of attacks help.

• Winds of Death has advance deploying infantry to channel through in Venator Slingers, can use Venator Reivers and light artillery to burn things down. Importantly it has access to a triple battle engine build.
• Disciples of Agony has Paingiver Bloodrunners who can really get places before you Dark Ritual them, and other than for Dark Rituals Rasheth doesn't care whether his guns belong to Skorne or minions; debuffs are debuffs. Oh, and it can bring the always excellent Siege Animantarax. This is a theme that currently needs exploring as for Rasheth it was new in Oblivion and it may overtake Winds of Death as his home theme.
• The Exalted is an excellent theme that doesn't synergise that well with Rasheth. No shooting - although Exalted can get some strange places.
• Masters of War is a decent all round theme with some melee and some shooting.

This is where he has most synergy. Blood Mark + Feat = something's going down, given how much focus fire he puts out. The battle engines not only get excellent benefits from Rasheth's offensive debuffs, but also gain toughness from his feat. And the Siege Animantarax and Supreme Guardian are good without the buff.

• Venator Slingers aren't that fast, but have the advantage of advance deploy so can be decent arc nodes.
• Venator Reivers and/or Venator Slingers can bring a lot of massed ranged attacks vs your rebuffed targets.

This is basically a new theme that gives Rasheth just about everything he wants in a different way to Winds; Paingiver Bloodrunners and the Paingiver Bloodrunner Master Tormentor are amazing to channel through, Croak Raiders or possibly Farrow Brigands (backed by a Paingiver Task Master are already decent at burning down heavies even before Rasheth's debuffs. And he has access to a great range of warbeasts. It remains to be seen whether this will dethrone Winds as Rasheth's favourite theme.

Works better as an assassination list than people would think at first glance; if Rasheth Dark Rituals through an Immortal then the soul goes to the Advocate ready to turn them incorporeal for a carnivore-and-feat buffed charge. Also the Ancestral Guardians survive being channeled through, and speed up the Immortal Vessel (which is of course your primary channeling target). It's incredibly against the fluff but it works.

• The Immortal Vessel is the single best model to channel through. It doesn't hurt the vessel and Rasheth gets +2 to hit, which helps even if you are Fury 8.

A very solid theme force that likes Rasheth's debuffs. The theme is as good as the sum of its parts would indicate, no better, and no worse.

• Praetorian Karax are cheap infantry that you can shoot in the back with Breath of Corruption, letting you put a cloud wall exactly where you want.

• Extoller Soulward can give your arc node Eyeless Sight.

Battlegroup

• A Cyclops Savage's Future Sight can help to land spells more easily.
• Titan Gladiators, Titan Sentrys, or even Rhinodons provide cheap heavies, who can destroy a Blood Marked target easily.
• The Mammoth needs a special mention, because he is hard to get rid of on feat turn and can hide Rasheth handily.

Other

Trivia

Released in Forces of Hordes: Skorne (2010)

Video Battle Reports

• 2019.11 Arcane Assist, vs Dreamer1
• 2019.04 Arcane Assist, vs Garryth2
• 2018.11 Arcane Assist, vs Lukas1
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