Purifier

Faith alone is insufficient to protect the faithful. Thus, the Devout was built to guard the Protectorate’s leaders from heretics and engraved with holy inscriptions to protect its controller from accursed magic. The Dervish, on the other hand, is a divinely inspired weapon that uses its chassis’ unparalleled reflexes wholly for offense. The Purifier, crafted as a literal interpretation of wrathful scripture, has a singular drive to eradicate unbelief through the cleansing fires of the Creator.

Basic Info

Abilities

• Template:Construct
• Template:Fire Immunity
• Template:Flame Trail
• Template:Overtake
• Template:Ashen Veil

Weapons

• Immolator (x2) - 1" range, POW 4, P+S 13 melee weapons.
  • Template:Continuous Fire
  • Template:Chain Weapon
  • Template:Beat Back

Theme Forces

• Protectorate
  • Template:Exemplar Interdiction. This model gains Blessed melee weapons in this theme.
  • Template:Guardians of the Temple
  • Template:The Creator's Might
  • Template:The Faithful Masses
  • Template:Warriors of the Old Faith

• Other Factions
  • Infernal players can take this warjack in the Template:Hearts of Darkness theme, but only if Feora is leading the army. It gains Accumulator [Soulless] in this theme.
  • Khador players can take this warjack in the Template:Warriors of the Old Faith theme.

Thoughts on Purifier

Purifier in a nutshell

The Purifier is an anti-infantry second cousin to the Dervish, cutting through infantry and setting them on fire. Anti light 'jack capability too, ignoring shields and causing continuous damage.

With Fire Immunity and Ashen Veil it’s slightly easier to deliver than the Dervish, but it lacks the movement shenanigans and combo strike. Because of flame trail as long as you have 1 damage box left the Purifier can still do work, just trample or walk into as many guys as you can until free strikes get you.

Combos & Synergies

Other than the obvious Choir of Menoth for extra damage, there's a few casters with real synergy:

• Feora, Protector of the Flame loves more things being set on fire.
• Feora4 keeps models on fire and removes fire immunity.
• Vladimir3 - his feat allows him to really utilise flame trail, you may end up dead from free strikes trying to get B2B after each side step though.
• Sovereign Tristan Durant and High Allegiant Amon Ad'Raza both like jacks they can damage buff. Amon also offers Parry and Mobility so he can run past a lot of models and set them on fire.
• Durst1 can bring it up to DEF 17 against living models
• High Exemplar Cyrenia makes Purifiers effective DEF 17 on feat turn, and they also make great Positive Charge targets with beat back.
• Amon - unlike the Dervish the Purifier gets the benefit of the field marshal. You can use him to walk past infantry then smack something just to trigger Synergy.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• The Dervish is cheaper, generally better at getting places (it can even walk behind shields) and better against the jacks and beasts common in the current metagame (the Purifier prefers infantry)

Tricks & Tips

• Let it burn. The Purifier can set on fire what it doesn't kill.

Other

Trivia

Released 2016.06