Ammok, the Truthbearer

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Legion Logo.jpg Ammok, the Truthbearer

Legion Blighted Ogrun Character Solo - (Warlock Attachment)

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Prime
This model is available in one Prime Army, Dragon's Host. It can also be used in the Unlimited game mode. You can view the other Mk3 models that made it into a Legacy Army at this page.

Note that the rest of this page is about the model's Mark III rules.

Speaking in the tongue of a mad seer, the Truthbearer prophesies destruction for the enemies of Everblight. His burden oozes a miasma of blighted energies that corrupts all that it touches. Graven with runes whose true purpose was lost with the fall of the Black Kingdom of Morrdh, this is the Malihedron. Ammok’s madness shields him from its power, and he chants deranged prayers as he marches into battle holding it aloft.

Basic Info

Ammok, the Truthbearer
Missing Info
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Warcaster 0
BASE Medium
SPD 5
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MAT 6
RAT N/A
M.A. N/A
DEF 11
ARM 16
CMD 10
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FOCUS N/A
FURY N/A
THRS N/A
HP 8
F. Field N/A
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FA C
UNIT SIZE N/A
COST 3
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Warcaster 1
COST N/A
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Understanding
the Statblock
  • Attached - Before the start of the game, attach this model to a friendly Faction warlock for the rest of the game. Each Faction warlock can have only one model/unit attached to it.

Abilities

  • Tough symbol.jpg Tough
  • Exorcist - While within 10" of this models, enemy models lose Incorporeal.
  • LeadershipBlighted Ogrun ] - Friendly Blighted Ogrun models in this model's command range gain Rise.
  • Rise - If this model is knocked down at the beginning of your Maintenance Phase, it stands up.
  • Spiritual Conduit - While its warcaster is in this model's command range, when the warcaster casts a spell and is the point of origin for the spell, the spell gains +2 RNG.
  • Unbinding (★ Action) - Enemy upkeep spells on models/units within 5˝ of this model expire. For each upkeep spell that expires as a result of Unbinding, the model maintaining the spell suffers d3 damage points.

Weapons

  • Club - 1" reach, P+S 12 melee weapon

Theme Forces


Thoughts on Ammok, the Truthbearer

Ammok, the Truthbearer in a nutshell

Ammok is a utility support warlock attachment. Being locked in the Primal Terrors theme he does not compete with the other attachment, the Succubus. He brings 4 things onto the table and each can be very valuable in certain matchups, or completely dead abilities. Consider Ammok's usefulness accordingly:

  • Rise - Ammok usually forms the middle of your Ogrun brick, synergizing both with the Ogruns' natural Tough and the Vengeance theme benefit.
  • Unbinding - Extremely useful if you expect potent enemy upkeeps to be targeted against your valuable units, like Rebuke, Crippling Grasp or you can catch an enemy unit in an occasional Unbinding range to strip upkeeps and animi like Arcane Shield or Spiny Growth.
  • Spiritual Conduict - +2" extra range on your spells, not only for offensive ones but also if you need to hot-swap valuable upkeeps.
  • Exorctist - The nightmare of Incorporeal casters and solos like the Feralgeist, the Gremlin Swarm or the Machine Wraith, though you will rarely be close enough to stop them from scoring unpunished. It is more against Incorporeal assassins, like Deneghra2's feat, or Blackbane's Ghost Raiders, and severely limiting their mobility through terrain and other models.

Combos & Synergies

  • Anamag the Doom Feaster, Thagrosh, Prophet of Everblight and Thagrosh2 - are Blighted Ogrun Warlocks with the Tough rule. Anamag notably grants fellow Ogrun Feign Death, meaning that if they succeed their Tough rolls, they cannot be shoot until they Rise, upon which they get to make their Vengeance movement.
  • Lylyth, Shadow of Everblight - Lylyth has Range Amplifier, which can be cumulate with Spiritual Conduit for a range 17" Pin Cushion, without moving.
  • Warmonger Warchief - makes him Mat 7, and grants blood drinker, which is useful only if you want a throwaway pow 12 Charge in the late game.

Drawbacks & Downsides

  • Absolutely abysmal DEF that may be a trouble with his occasional high priority target status
  • Unbinding does not protect you from offensive spells that last for a round, like Mortality, Puppet Master, Deadweight or Breath Stealer.
  • Knocked down models frequently just get killed, before they get to Rise (although synergizes well with Anamag and 'Bond of Gristle & Bone' spell. Feign Death helps prevent getting killed when knocked down).

Tricks & Tips

  • Exorcist does not turn your weapons to Magical - it just lets you to hurt Incorporeal models that could be hurt only with such weapons otherwise. See Magic vs Magical.
  • Keep him back with the caster to prevent Incorporeal Assassinations.

Other

Trivia

Other Legion models

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Battlegroup & Similar
Warlocks

Absylonia1 - Absylonia2 - Anamag - Bethayne1 - Bethayne2 - Fyanna2 - Kallus1 - Kallus2 - Kryssa - Lylyth1 - Lylyth2 - Lylyth3 - Lylyth4 - Rhyas1 - Saeryn1 - Saeryn2 & Rhyas2 - Thagrosh1 - Thagrosh2 - Vayl1 - Vayl2

Other Warbeast Controllers

Beast Mistress - Blight Archon - Thagrosh0

Lesser Blight Wasps - Shredder - Harrier - Mekanoshredder - Stinger
Light Afflictor - Naga Nightlurker - Nephilim Bloodseer - Nephilim Bolt Thrower - Nephilim Protector - Nephilim Soldier - Raek - Teraph
Heavy

Angelius - Azrael - Carnivean - Golab - Neraph - Proteus - Ravagore - Scythean - Typhon - Seraph - Zuriel

Gargantuans Archangel - Blightbringer
Units, Solos, & Battle Engines
Units

Blackfrost Shard - B.N. Archers - B.N. Hex Hunters - B.N. Legionnaires - B.N. Raptors - B.N. Scather Crew - B.N. Swordsmen - B. Rotwings - B.O. Warmongers - B.O. Warspears - Chosen - Grotesque Banshees - Grotesque Raiders - Hellmouth - Ice Witches - Strider Blightblades - Strider Scouts - Spawning Vessel - Virtue Host

Solos

Ammok - Annyssa Ryvaal - Beast Mistress - Blight Archon - B.N Shepherd - B.N. Sorceress - B.N. Warlord - Craelix - Forsaken - Fyanna1 - Grotesque Assassin - Incubi - Spell Martyr - Strider Deathstalker - Succubus - Thagrosh0 - Virtue Champion - B.O. Warmonger War Chief - Yssylla

Battle Engines Throne of Everblight
Theme Forces
Children of the Dragon - Oracles of Annihilation - Primal Terrors - Ravens of War
Minions
Refer to Who Works for Whom and/or Category: Legion of Everblight Minion
This index was last updated: 2021.11

Rules Clarifications

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Rules Clarification : Attached      (Edit)

  • Attached models are not (normally) part of the warcaster's/warlock's battlegroup. (Infernal Ruling)
(You need the Companion rule to become part of the battlegroup).
  • Thus, attachments are not affected by battlegroup-only effects such as Energizer (unless they're a Companion).

Rules Clarification : Exorcist - None yet. (Edit)

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Rules Clarification : Leadership      (Edit)

  • If you have two Leaders handing out the same buff, then sometimes they stack (Bronzeback) and sometimes they don't (Exemplar Bastion). (Infernal Ruling)
    • See specific models for case-by-case Infernal Rulings.
  • If you have two Leaders handing out different buffs (such as Iona's Leadership giving Dodge, and the Wolf Rider Champion's Leadership giving Prowl) then the benefits do stack - they'll get both Dodge and Prowl. (Infernal Ruling)
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Rules Clarification : Rise      (Edit)

Rules Clarification : Spiritual Conduit - None yet. (Edit)

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Rules Clarification : Unbinding and/or Dissolution     (Edit)

  • The model that takes the d3 damage is the model that controls the spell (not the model that the spell is upon). In other words, the enemy warcaster/warlock.
  • If you dispel two upkeeps, whether it is 2 separate d3 rolls or a d3 roll that is doubled is ... unclear. The answer will affect how much focus/fury the caster has to spend to avoid damage. (Infernal Checking)
  • If the enemy caster has a way of redistributing damage (such as Egregore in the Coven), then you work out the total damage dealt from all upkeeps that expired, before dividing the damage. (Infernal Ruling)
  • There is a discrepancy between the card database and Warroom for Unbinding (both are labeled 2017v1). (Infernal Checking)
  • Unbinding vs Vital Magic (Edit)
  • Anti-Upkeep vs a unit (Edit)
    • If an upkeep is on a unit, then all you need to do is make it expire off any member of the unit and the spell will expire from the entire unit.
    • It doesn't matter if the target is in formation or not. (Locked thread)
    • However, if an upkeep is on a single model within a unit (such as Scything Touch) then you need to dispel it off that particular model to make it dispel. (Infernal Ruling)
  • Unbinding as a spell
    • Some models have Unbinding as a regular action, others have it as a magic ability thus it is a spell. Unbinding doesn't have a target so it gets around anti-magic stuff that triggers at "target" (like Arcane Vortex).