Daemon

Recently unleashed upon the enemies of the Retribution, House Vyre’s myrmidons were developed with distinct capabilities all their own. A powerful assault myrmidon, the Daemon smashes foes with its rune fists or blasts them with concentrated arcane energy from its vortex cannon.

Basic Info

Abilities

• Template:Construct

Weapons

Vortex Cannon
File:Gun icon.jpg		RNG			ROF			AOE			POW			LOCATION
		10			1			Template:-			12			Right
Template:Magical Weapon Template:Reload Template:Vortex Blast
Light Rune Fist
File:Sword icon.jpg		RNG				POW				P+S				LOCATION
		1				3				14				Right
Template:Blessed Template:Magical Weapon Template:Open Fist
Heavy Rune Fist
File:Sword icon.jpg		RNG				POW				P+S				LOCATION
		1				5				16				Left
Template:Blessed Template:Magical Weapon Template:Open Fist

Theme Forces

• Template:Defenders of Ios
• Template:Forges of War. In this theme this model gains Shield Guard.
• Template:Legions of Dawn. (1) In this theme this model can ignore friendly Dawnguard models when determining LOS, and it can advance through friendly Dawnguard models if it has enough movement to move completely past them. (2) If someone 'Jack Marshals this model in this theme, it gains Flank [Dawnguard].
• Template:Shadows of the Retribution

Thoughts on Daemon

Daemon in a nutshell

The Daemon is a comparatively cheap speacialist heavy that brings a powerful Vortex Blast gun with up to 2 shots. It doesn't really pack a punch in melee, at least not like the Manticore or Sphinx do, unless your target benefits from significant ARM buffs like Arcane Shield, in which case it can actually come out on top damage wise, thanks to its Blessed fists. You take the Daemon for its battlefield control, but it does eat focus as it needs to use Reload and hit with its gun to initiate. It regularly wants the full 3 focus so keep your Arcanists handy. The bigger the target hit the bigger the pull effect. The downside of its gun is that it’s mainly going to hurt infantry, but the pull is better on bigger targets. Typically you will either be getting the full benefit of the control or some good damage on multiple targets.

Combos & Synergies

The Daemon wants models that boost it's effective RAT and range. Defence debuffs, RAT buffs, movement shenanigans to allow it to aim or retreat after shooting so it can overextend a little.

• Moros - Paralysis

Garryth1 - Crippling Grasp makes any attack better and Field Marshal Repo 3" means it can be 13" away from what it just shot. Garryth also loves models that can pull enemy models out of a charge lane against the enemy caster, or even the enemy caster into his threat range for a quick and dirty assassination.

• Garryth2 - Road to War, Mortality
• Ravyn - Snipe, Open Fire, Energizer, Feat
• Kaelyssa - Phantom hunter shots against clumped up squishy support or even against warcaster/warlock models can really bring models together in the best ways for you.
• Vyros2 - Synergy helps make up for his weak melee and he prefers inexpensive heavies and a threat extending gun.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Its melee is not great. Blessed is useful, but against a target without some sort of stat buff it's going to get out punched by other heavy options.
• low range, and kind of slow. See above sections for more info
• While the gun has high potential, it's surprisingly easy to mitigate. Anti shooting tech such as Stealth, Shield Guards, Sucker, Sac Pawn and so on can reduce its effects, as can simply spreading out (though a full 2" spread between each model gives a unit a massive footprint and can cause problems).
• If you want a heavy with melee game and a gun that controls the battlefield the Manticore is arguably better.

Tricks & Tips

• As with above. Use with Kaelyssa to catch your opponent off guard. The AFG can also help out by making stuff easier to hit.
• Applicable with all jacks, but Mechaniks are also good to boost the fists up to 18/16 with blessed to help take down spell hardened foes.
• Ossyan can let the Daemon deal some hurt to Shield Walling/medium based heavy infantry as the additional die of damage from feat with judicious boosts from his Field Marshal can crack almost any armour.
• Buying the Aeternae kit gives you all the pieces necessary to make any of the non-character Vyre jacks, so buy that one over the standard Daemon/Banshee/Sphinx kit if you intend to magnetise.

Other

Trivia

• Daemon is a Latin word, from the Greek and Proto Indo-European daimon. Originally referring to any sort of ghost or spirit, in modern times it's often used interchangeably with the term Demon, which carries a more malevolent bent (like the greek kakodaímōn).
• Don't mix it up with the computing term of the same name.
• Released in the Warmachine: Wrath expansion (2011)