House Vyre Electromancers

House Vyre Electromancers Retribution Vyre Unit

Unlimited Only This model can only be used in the Unlimited game mode. You can see the other models with / without mk4 rules on this page. Note that the rest of this page is about the model's Mark III rules.

Not content to stand idly by as their myrmidons march to war, House Vyre has recently deployed its own seasoned electromancers. Arcanists trained for years under the tutelage of House Vyre’s most accomplished battle mages, electromancers have done much to further the house’s cause. The voltaic energies forced through their staves lash the battlefield with manipulated storms that arc deadly electrical surges from one target to the next. Warjacks collapse beneath overloaded systems, and scores of infantry fry where they stand.

Basic Info

House Vyre Electromancers
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Abilities

• Immunity: Electricity

Weapons

• Inducer Bolt - 10" range, POW 12 ranged attack
  • Damage Type: Electricity
  • Damage Type: Magical
  • Attack Type - Each time this weapon is used to make an attack, choose one of the following special rules:
    • Energy Leak - When a warjack is hit by this weapon, it suffers a cumulative -1 penalty to its focus limit for one round. Models that cannot suffer Disruption are immune to Energy Leak.
    • Lightning Generator - When a model is directly hit with a basic attack made with this weapon, lightning arcs from the model hit to d3 consecutive additional models. The lightning arcs to the nearest model it has not already arced to within 4" of the last model it arced to, ignoring this model. Each model the lightning arcs to suffers an unboostable POW 10 electrical damage roll. Lightning arc damage rolls are not considered to have been caused by an attack. Resolve lightning arc damage rolls simultaneously with the damage resulting from the attack that caused the lightning arc.
    • Pulse Fire - When a model is hit with this weapon, it suffers d3 damage rolls instead of one.

• Storm Inducer - 2" reach, P+S 10 melee attack
  • Damage Type: Magical
  • Cortex Damage - When a warjack is hit by this weapon, it suffers 1 damage point to its first available Cortex system box.

Weapon Attachment

House Vyre Electromancers may have up to 3 Soulless Escorts added to them. The escort's info has been omitted from this article for brevity.

Theme Forces

• Defenders of Ios. House Vyre Electromancers gain Reposition [3] in this theme.

Thoughts on House Vyre Electromancers

House Vyre Electromancers in a nutshell

Look! Cygnar Stormcallers with pointy ears!

The House Vyre Elecromancers, or e-mancers for short, are a ridiculously efficient unit for their price point. Their main shick is clearing chaff, which they are excellent at due to Lighting Generator and Pulse Fire, but they can also go after light and heavy warjacks with energy leak or cortex damage and leave them without the resources necessary to do their jobs. Add in Repo 3", which the get as a theme benefit from the only theme they are in, and thus might as well be printed onto their card, and you have a stellar unit for 5 points. Running them at max FA is heavily encouraged.

Combos & Synergies

• Kaelyssa can apply stationary with her ROF 3 runebolt cannon, after wards you can destroy their cortices to prevent shaking.
  • Same goes for Goreshade4 with his feat.
• They could always do with the extra range from Ravyn's Snipe.
• Rahn can protect them from stray blasts and make it easier for them to hit enemies.
• Ossyan's feat and Fortune can help them hit and deal devastating damage on feat turn (3d3 POW 12's with an additional die of damage will can put a serious dent in most lights).
• Arcantrik Force Generator - Momentum and Cortex Damage is always a fun combo to take a heavy out of the game for a turn.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Mainly anti infantry and anti warjack tech. Beefy hordes and Cygnar will make them look silly.
• They don't really kill warjacks, just mess them up for someone else to kill them.
• Also like the Stormfall Archers, they die easy... real easy, and their shorter range doesn't help. They have gained Reposition 3" in theme, however.
• But unlike the Stormfall Archers, what they can achieve is often predicated by the roll of a d3.

Tricks & Tips

• Place them behind a huge base to protect them and give them a node to electroleap off of early game, this will help clear low ARM jammers.
• Remember that all three of their melee attacks need to hit against most jacks to kill the cortex, knock 'em down to help them out.

Other

Trivia

• Released in Warmachine: Reckoning (2015)

Other Retribution models

Retribution Index       (Edit)
Battlegroup & Similar
Warcasters	Elara2 - Falcir1 - Garryth1 - Garryth2 - Goreshade4 - Helynna1 - Issyria1 - Kaelyssa1 - Ossyan1 - Rahn1 - Ravyn1 - Thyron1 - Vyros1 - Vyros2
Warcaster attachments	Fane Knight Guardian (Retribution) - Sylys Wyshnalyrr (Retribution) - Madelyn Corbeau (Mercenary)
Other Warjack Controllers	Elara1 (BGC) - Sentinel Scyir ('Jack Marshal) - Artificer ('Jack Marshal)
Light Warjacks	Aspis - Chimera - Gorgon - Griffon - Harpy - Siren Moros
Heavy Warjacks	Aeternae - Banshee - Daemon - Discordia - Hemera - Hydra - Hypnos - Imperatus - Manticore - Phoenix - Sphinx
Colossal	Hyperion - Helios
Units, Solos, & Battle Engines
Units	Cyelna & Nyss Hunters - D Destors - D Invictors - D Sentinels - Heavy Rifle Team - H Halberdiers - H Riflemen - HE Swordsmen - HE Wardens - HS Arcanists - HS Battle Mages - HV Electromancers - MH Infiltrators - MH Strike Force - Ryssovass Defenders - Spears of Scyrah - Stormfall Archers Special: Eiryss3 (CA) - Soulless Escort (WA)
Solos	Aelyth Vyr - Arcanist Mechanik - D Destor Thane - D Sentinel Scyir - Eiryss, Mage Hunter of Ios (1) - Eiryss, Angel of Retribution (2) - Eiryss, Fortune Hunter of Ios (4) - Elara, Tyro of the Third Chamber (1) - Fane Knight Guardian - Fane Knight Skeryth Issyen - Ghost Sniper - Hermit of Henge Hold - HE Warden Executioner - HS Artificer - HS Magister - Houseguard Thane - Lanyssa Ryssyl, Nyss Sorceress Lys Healer - MH Assassin - Narn, Mage Hunter of Ios - Nayl - Priest of Nyssor - Scythe - Soulless Voidtracer
Battle Engines	Arcantrik Force Generator - Dawnguard Trident
Theme Forces
Defenders of Ios - Forges of War - Legions of Dawn - Shadows of the Retribution
Mercenaries
Refer to Category: Retribution of Scyrah Mercenary
This index was last updated: 2021.04

Rules Clarifications

Rules Clarification : Electricity      (Edit) When electricity arcs/leaps, you ignore models with Immunity:Electricity. The arc "skips" them. If you attack a model with Immunity:Electricity, the arc/leap won't go anywhere at all. The arc is "grounded". Incorporeal models do not have Immunity: Electricity (they just ignore non-magical damage). As such electricity can arc/leap to and from incorporeal models.

Rules Clarification:  : Magical Damage      (Edit) (Click Expand to read)

* The "Damage Type: Magical" is not inherited by "secondary" damage from a weapon. That is, stuff like arcs (Electro Leap) or hazards (Scather). (Infernal Ruling) All spells have "Damage Type: Magical" (refer errata). This is inherited by "immediate" secondary damage (such as Eruption of Spines). (Infernal Ruling) and might be inherited by "lingering" secondary damage (see below). If a spell leaves a template in play that does damage to models that walk around in it, then: if it is not described as a hazard it will do magical damage to models that walk around in it. (Example: Razor Wall) if it is a hazard then it will not do magical damage to models that walk around in it. Instead, it does whatever damage type is specified by the spell description. (Example: Breath of Corruption). (Infernal Ruling) If a weapon/spell includes Magic Damage and another kind of elemental damage it will still damage Incorporeal models. Incorporeal models are not affected by the rule "if an attack does multiple types of damage and a model is immune to at least one it is immune to the entire attack." The phrase "immune to non-magical damage" should be interpreted as "immune to damage that doesn't include Damage Type: Magical" (not interpreted as "has immunity to Corrosion and Electricity and Cold and etc.")

Rules Clarification : Attack Type and/or Arcane Savant     (Edit) If you forget to declare your Attack Type before rolling the attack, and you and your opponent can't agree on a fair fix, then the Judge's Policy is that the first listed Attack Type is the one that will be used. If your target can only be targeted by certain kinds of attack (ie a Menoth warjack with Passage), you can first choose the correct Attack Type (ie Magical Damage vs Passage) and then that allows you to target it. The Attack Type selection and target declaration both occur at Step 1 (Refer Appendix A). (Infernal Ruling)

Rules Clarification : Energy Leak      (Edit) This attack can still damage warjacks that don't suffer Disruption ... it just won't apply the -1 focus penalty. If you hit a warjack that currently has full focus on it, that warjack will immediately drop a focus point because it is not allowed to exceed its new lower limit. (Infernal Ruling) You can hit a warjack with Energy Leak 3 times, lowering its focus cap to 0. When the warjack powers up, it won't be able to gain more than 0 focus. Note, this doesn't work against certain warjacks having a focus cap of 4. Those warjacks need to be hit 4 times to prevent them from powering up. (Locked Thread)

Rules Clarification : Lightning Generator      (Edit) Not considered an attack & "Non-attack damage roll" (Edit)   [Show/Hide] There are two ways you can get these "non-attack" damage rolls. Type 1 - A secondary damage roll that is not considered to be an attack. Some attacks create a second damage roll that is explicitly "not considered an attack" (such as Electro Leap). (Note that although the secondary damage roll is not an attack, the original attack certainly is and will trigger stuff normally. These clarifications don't apply to the original attack.) Type 2 - A damage roll that's not from an attack. Some special abilities & special actions tell you to make a damage roll without mentioning whether it is considered an attack or not (such as Vent Steam and Flak Field). When it comes to other abilities that trigger on damage (such as Vengeance) both types function the same way. For brevity we'll refer to both as "Pure Damage". Pure damage is not an attack, so doesn't trigger stuff like Vengeance. Pure damage is not an attack, so doesn't benefit from stuff that affects 'attack damage rolls' (such as Bethayne1's feat). (Infernal Ruling) Pure damage (normally) doesn't actually hit the model(s) it damages, so doesn't trigger stuff like Shock Field. (A few of them do specify they hit, though, like Warhead.) Pure damage is not from an attack, but it is (normally) damage from the original model. This has two implications: It's not an attack from a weapon so: it won't gain damage buffs from the weapon (such as Poison). it won't gain any Damage Types from the weapon. (Infernal Ruling) It is a damage roll from a model so: it can be boosted. (Infernal Rulings) ... unless the rule specifically says it can't, like a Scrap Thrall explosion or Lightning Generator. it will gain benefits that worded "this model gains ... on damage rolls" (such as Prey). (Infernal Ruling) warbeasts with a Crippled Body will roll one less die. (Infernal Ruling) Exception: Some damage is not from an attack and not from a model (for example, Collateral damage). In this case, you should reverse the stuff listed under #2 above.

Rules Clarification : Pulse Fire      (Edit) Each damage roll from Pulse Fire will trigger a separate instance of needing to Overbooster/Transfer. (Infernal Ruling) If you stack it with Backlash, then each damage roll from Pulse Fire will trigger a separate instance of Backlash damage. (Infernal Ruling)

Rules Clarification : Cortex Damage      (Edit) The damage to the cortex is applied before making your normal damage roll.