Dirty Meg

Dirty Meg Mercenary Privateer Character Solo - ('Jack Marshal)

Boasting a natural aptitude with machinery and a deadly swing with her warjack wrench, Dirty Meg fits right in among pirate crews. Her ability to keep everything from warjacks to the ship's boiler in perfect shape makes her invaluable, and her skills controlling warjacks in combat make her a feared and prized across the Iron Kingdoms.

Basic Info

Special Order Model This model is no longer available through normal US distributors (as of 2018.04). Instead your local game store needs to order it through PP's Special Order Service. More info is available at PP Retailer Support As of 2019.09, PP have removed the SOS info from the Retailer Support website. International distributors can still access the entire catalog of models. See also the Official Press Release and/or Category: Special Order Model.

Dirty Meg
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• Mercenary - This model will work for Crucible Guard, Cygnar, Khador, and Protectorate.

Abilities

• 'Jack Marshal - This model can control a Faction warjack, albeit in a limited manner. Click the link for the full rules.
• Tough - When this model is disabled, roll a d6. On a 5 or 6, remove 1 damage point from this model; it is no longer disabled and becomes knocked down. While knocked down this model loses Tough.
• Drive: Off-Road - Warjacks under Dirty Meg's control which start a move in her CMD range gain Pathfinder for that move. Also, if it ends its activation in Meg's CMD range the warjack gains Reposition [3"]. (Reposition [3"] - At the end of an activation in which it did not run or fail a charge, this model can advance up to 3", then its activation ends.)
• Iron Sentinel - While B2B with a friendly Faction warjack, this model gains +2 DEF and ARM and cannot become knocked down.
• Repair [d6] (★ Action) - RNG B2B. Target friendly Faction construct model. If the model is in range, remove d6 damage points from it.

Weapons

• Junker - 10" range, POW 12 ranged attack
  • Stall - A warjack hit by this weapon becomes stationary for one round.
• Great Wrench - 0.5" reach, P+S 9 melee attack

Theme Forces

• Mercenary
  • The Kingmaker's Army. Dirty Meg gain Feign Death in this theme.
  • The Irregulars
  • The Talion Charter. Dirty Meg gains Sacrificial Pawn [Sea Dog trooper] in this theme.

• Other Factions
  • Hearts of Darkness. She can only go in this theme if Crosse2 is leading the army. Dirty Meg becomes an Infernal model in this theme.
  • As a merc model she can also be taken in a bunch of other Faction's themes. See #Other Theme Forces.

Thoughts on Dirty Meg

Dirty Meg in a Nutshell

Dirty Meg is a cheap jack marshal with repair who happens to also be a Privateer. She can also shoot at warjacks to make them stationary. Her drive is both reposition and, importantly, Pathfinder. Because jack marshalling without power booster is fairly weak, she is usually a repair bot who takes the odd disruption shot.

Jack Marshal thoughts

Most players prefer to take her without a warjack.

If you're going to jack marshal something, there are a few options:

• Talon - the cheap and tough melee light warjack you throw at the enemy and make them choke.
• Buccaneer - the cheapest warjack in mercenaries, its knockdown net can be pretty effective. A knockdown-and-stationary combination can keep a heavy fairly well occupied.
• Freebooter - the light warjack on steroids likes to be marshalled for the flat to hit buff. Also due to Lash and Iron Sentinel, she has a statline of 15/15 with no-knock down tough while base to base with it.
• Or of course you can't go wrong with a Nomad.

Non-jack combos & synergies

She is of course a Privateer so Captain Phinneus Shae and Doc Killingsworth can both buff her.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• She's a special order model.
• You're buying her for the jack marshal ability, not her own merits.
• If you want to repair non-merc warjacks you're probably better off with Colbie Sterling, Captain of the BRI instead. (Or possibly Moorclaw - but he lacks good drives at present)
• She is the only Privateer solo that doesn't work for Cryx.

Tricks & Tips

• Junker before her jack charges.

Other

Trivia

Released in Forces of Warmachine: Pirates of the Broken Coast (2007)

Other Theme Forces

Cygnar (Edit)

• Gravediggers
• Heavy Metal
• Sons of the Tempest
• Storm Division

Protectorate of Menoth (Edit)

• The Creator's Might
• Exemplar Interdiction
• The Faithful Masses
• Guardians of the Temple

Khador (Edit)

• Armored Korps
• Jaws of the Wolf
• Legion of Steel
• Winter Guard Kommand

Crucible Guard (Edit)

• Magnum Opus

Rules Clarifications

Rules Clarification : Stall      (Edit) Remember, stationary only prevents what it says it does. Refer the recap on stationary for what models can/can't do. Abilities that say they cannot be used if the model is stationary (such as Shield Guard) cannot be used while a warjack is inert, either. Refer "Warcaster Destruction", page 59 of the core rulebook.

Rules Clarification : 'Jack Marshal      (Edit) If a warjack gets a marshal benefit (such as Crush) but then moves out of the marshal's CMD range, it keeps the benefit. (Infernal Ruling) Marshals can control character warjacks. (Closed thread) Although they never get the Power Up bonus, a marshaled warjack can gain focus via other means (such as Accumulator, Empower, Spirit Harvester, etc). They can do this even after the Marshal dies and they become autonomous. 'Jack Marshal & Ranking Officer (Edit) If a Ranking Officer joins a unit with the 'Jack Marshal ability, then they can still only take Mercenary warjacks - they don't gain access to Faction warjacks. (Infernal Ruling) They can control that mercenary warjack as normal, even though they're technically no longer the same faction as the jack. (Infernal Ruling)

Rules Clarification : Tough - None yet. (Edit)

Rules Clarification : Drive      (Edit) If the Drive is on an Officer model, and that model dies, then the new unit commander does not inherit the Drive.

Rules Clarification : Off-Road      (Edit) The Pathfinder applies to any advance, not just during activation. The Pathfinder applies to the entire advance, even if you walk out of CMD range. The Reposition only applies during activation (obviously), but it's a "while within" which means you can start your activation outside CMD, walk into CMD range, then end your activation and gain it.

Rules Clarification : Iron Sentinel - None yet. (Edit)

Rules Clarification : Repair      (Edit) When repairing warjacks, you can choose which damage boxes to heal - they don't all have to be the same column. If you get a +1 bonus to a repair roll, that is one extra hitpoint healed. Not +1 to the number of pips showing on the dice.