Prefect Hypatia

Prefect Hypatia Convergence Angel Solo

Prime This model is available in one Prime Army, Convergence of Cyriss. 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.

Aurora is joined by her most trusted and beloved lieutenant, Prefect Hypatia, to lead a host of negation angels into battle at the archnumen’s side.

Basic Info

Prefect Hypatia
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Abilities

• Advance Deployment
• Construct
• Flight
• Apparition - During your Control Phase, place this model anywhere completely within 2" of its current location.
• Blade Shield - This model gains +2 DEF vs ranged attack rolls.
• Dogfighter - This model gains boosted attack and damage rolls against models with Flight.
• Leadership [ Angels ] - At the start of your turn, friendly Angel models in this model's command range gain Apparition.
• Quick Work - When this model destroys one or more enemy models with a melee attack during its Combat Action, immediately after the attack is resolved it can make one basic ranged attack.
• Soul Vessel - This model generates soul tokens as if it were a living model.

Weapons

Primorial Beam
		RNG			ROF			AOE			POW
		10			1			-			12
Damage Type: Electricity Damage Type: Magical Thunderbolt - Enemy models hit are pushed d3" directly away from the attacking model. On a critical hit, the enemy model becomes knocked down after being pushed.
Primordial Blade
		RNG				POW				P+S
		2				6				11
Damage Type: Magical Weapon Master

Theme Forces

• Convergence
  • Clockwork Legions
  • Destruction Initiative
  • Strange Bedfellows. She gains Swift Vengeance in this theme.

• Other Factions
  • Mercenary players can use them in Strange Bedfellows. She gains Swift Vengeance in this theme.

Thoughts on Prefect Hypatia

Prefect Hypatia in a nutshell

Hypatia’s Developer Notes... Prefect Hypatia is a combat solo Angel, with a fairly strong Leadership aura. She will want to choose a unit or two of Angels, and stick close to them. Triggering Apparition on herself and two+ units of Angels makes Hypatia and those units a difficult threat to pin down. Given that Angel units typically excel at harassing the enemy while remaining mobile, allowing them to escape from enemy melee without fear of free strike is a valuable tool. We anticipate that Hypatia is slightly stronger in conjunction with Clockwork Angels over Negation Angels, which is acceptable. As long as she is viable with either.

The above notes predominantly focus on her leadership bubble which is only half of her story; because angels are so low armour their best way of surviving is spreading out and this can be difficult to use on 2+ units in a CMD 7 bubble without risking e-leaps and aoe’s that may threaten them a lot more. What Hypatia is in actuality is a incredibly mobile mixed arms model who isn't likely to crack armour on her own but can spell doom for lots of other solos. On her own she has a natural 14 inch threat range for melee and a 19 inch threat for her respectable gun, when you add in the theme benefit from Strange Bedfellows you could consider her one of the most mobile models in the game.

Her stat line in much greater than a typical angel with her armour being just as respectable as her above average defense.

Combos & Synergies

• Negation Angels, Clockwork Angels - Apparition is simply good and she gives them it.
• Archnumen Aurora really loves her flying models, which include angels.
• Aurora, Numen of Aerogenesis isn't as about the angels as her second form, but appreciates speed - and gets to flank with angels.
• Ionization is a great damage buff to her gun. The Firefly or Prime Conflux provide this.
• Destructotron 3000 offers a passive to hit buff on her gun

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Her only defensive tech is Blade Shield - and at 5 points she's expensive (and squishy) enough for a boosted shot or CRA to take her down.
• She doesn't do an amazing amount of work herself.
• Keeping angels alive means keeping them spread out - this naturally does not mesh well with a low cmd range leadership bubble.
• She will be one of the first models your opponent is going to go after due to her threat range buff for angels. Keep her safe, but not too far back because she needs all your angels in her command bubble.

Tricks & Tips

• Dogfighter works on melee attacks, too. On the other hand, you can only boost once so it doesn't stack with charge damage.
• If you charge an enemy model, make sure you only get in melee with one enemy model. You can't trigger Quick Work if you're still engaged (unless you have Dual Attack or something similar).
• in Strange Bedfellows remember that Swift Vengeance happens first (maintenance) the you get apparition (control). This lets you move into the best possible position to maximise her leadership bubble if there is no one to attack.
• On her own with both these effects triggering she has a 17inch threat range (swift vengeance 3 +apparition2 + normal 7 + 3 charge bonus + 2 inch reach) throw in Aurora1 and her feat and you can threat 19 inch with impunity.

Other

Trivia

Released 2020.04

Other Convergence models

Convergence Index       (Edit)
Battlegroup
Warcasters	Aurora1 - Aurora2 - Axis - Directrix - Locke - Lucant - Orion - Syntherion
Light	Corollary (Attached) - Diffuser - Galvanizer - Mitigator - Negator - Tesselator
Heavy	Assimilator - Cipher - Conservator - Inverter - Modulator - Monitor
Colossals	Prime Axiom - Prime Conflux
Units, Solos, & Battle Engines
Units	Asphyxious4 - Clockwork Angels - Eradicators - Obstructors - Optifex Directive - Negation Angels - Perforators - Reciprocators - Reductors Special CA [Any Unit] : Transverse Enumerator
Solos	Accretion Servitors - Algorithmic Dispersion Optifex - Attunement Servitors - Destructotron 3000 - Elimination Servitors - Enigma Foundry - Frustum Locus - J.A.I.M.s - Prefect Hypatia - Reflex Servitors - Steelsoul Protector - Widget, Mathlete Archeologist
Battle Engines	Nemo4 - TEP
Theme Forces		Mercenaries
Clockwork Legions - Destruction Initiative - Strange Bedfellows		Refer to Category: Convergence of Cyriss Mercenary
This index was last updated: 2021.11

Rules Clarifications

Rules Clarification : Advance Deployment      (Edit) Sometimes you can attach a WA or CA that doesn't have AD to a unit that does have AD. If you do, the attachment effectively gains AD and they can all advance deploy together. (Locked Thread)

Rules Clarification : Construct - None yet. (Edit)

Rules Clarification:  : Flight      (Edit) (Click Expand to read)

Flight doesn't ignore: Impassable terrain. Most hazards. The exception is they do ignore Acid Bath and Burning Earth as long as they don't land in them. Templates that stay in play and do damage to models moving through them (such as a Scather). Free strikes. Trampling with a flying model (Edit) Flight allows you to trample "over" medium- and larger-bases. Although you trample "over" them, you don't get to make a trample attack vs them and you don't ignore their free strikes. Refer the core rulebook. Unless, of course, you have an exception like Blade Rush. Flight on a Cavalry model (Edit) Although flyers can move over obstacles/models, and horses can pause to do impacts while charging, flying horses cannot make impact attacks while overlapping models/obstacles. You need to pause in a legal position. Charging through models (Edit) You can't charge all the way through your charge target, with the intention to turn around and face them once you're on the other side. Because you aren't able to satisfy the "must keep the charge target in melee range" clause at the point after you are through the model but before you turn to directly face. At that point the target is behind you, not in your front arc, and thus not in your melee range. Your melee range only extends to your front arc. Refer to the latest errata. You can still "skim" through the edge of their base, if you're careful and smart with your positioning.

Rules Clarification : Apparition      (Edit) Apparition is an "Other" Control Phase effect, so it happens at Step 7 of the Control Phase. It happens after paying for upkeeps, Power Up, etc If you have another "Other" Control Phase effect, you get to choose the order to resolve them. If a model is B2B with you when you use Apparition then they will be exactly 2" away afterwards. So you'll still be in the melee range of anything with RNG 2 or higher. Unit members must always be placed in formation. Refer to the "Placed" section of the core rulebook. If a trooper can't be placed in formation (because it's more than 2" out of formation to begin with) then it can't be placed at all. The unit commander is always "In Formation" by definition, so can be placed where it likes.

Rules Clarification : Blade Shield - None yet. (Edit)
Rules Clarification : Dogfighter - None yet. (Edit)

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)

Rules Clarification : Quick Work      (Edit) If you're still engaged in melee when Quick Work triggers, you won't be able to make the ranged attack. Unless you have a special rule that lets you shoot while in melee (such as Gunfighter). (Infernal Ruling) Quick Work specifies "Combat Action" so doesn't work with Impact Attacks or out-of-activation attacks Attack-Generating Abilities (Edit) From the core rulebook: When a model is granted more attacks as a result of an attack it made, it gains only one. If two or more special rules would grant the model another attack as a result of making an attack, its controlling player chooses which special rule to apply. If you trigger two attack-generating abilities (such as Black Spot and Kill Shot) you choose to resolve one and "lose" the other (unless you trigger it again later). If you trigger two attack-generating abilities, and one of them is compulsory (such as Black Spot and Berserk), you must choose to resolve the compulsory one. (Infernal Ruling)

Rules Clarification : Soul Vessel      (Edit) The only thing the Soul Vessel rules does is, the model produces a soul when it is destroyed as if it were a living model. For similar logic, things that prevent living models from generating souls (such as Annihilator) also prevent Soul Vessels from generating souls. (Infernal Ruling) A Soul Vessel is not a living model for the purposes of anything except soul generation & collection. Special rules that interact with living models but which aren't soul-related (such as Bloodthirst or Poison) don't do anything vs Soul Vessels. For example: An attack that RFPs living models (such as Snacking) would normally prevent that living model from generating a soul token; but Snacking doesn't work vs non-living. So a Soul Vessel doesn't get Snacked and will produce a soul token.

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 : Thunderbolt      (Edit) If you have multiple effects that resolve on "hit" (such as Thunderbolt & Electro Leap), then you get to choose the order. Thus, you could trigger Electro Leap first (and bounce from their initial position), then move them via Thunderbolt. Or trigger Thunderbolt first, move them, and then Electro Leap (and bounce from their final position). Push - General     (Edit)   [Show/Hide] Pushed models do not change their facing. Pushed models move at half rate through difficult terrain. Also, Pathfinder doesn't apply during pushes. Pushed models stop if they contact anything - a model of any size, or any obstacles or obstructions. You don't get free strikes against pushed models, because it is "involuntary movement" and therefore does not count as an advance. Pushed models suffer the effects of anything they move through (such as acid clouds). If you use a Push vs a charging model (via a free strike for example), this will stop the charge movement (refer core rulebook). However, if the pushed model is in melee range of its charge target after the push, then it is considered a successful charge. (Infernal Ruling) In that scenario, you measure whether the charging model moved 3" or less excluding the push distance. (Infernal Ruling) If you push a model to a position where it regains Incorporeal (for instance you push it out of range of an Exorcist) then what happens is (Being Checked by Infernals) Knockdown (Edit) - Remember, knockdown only prevents what it says it does. Refer to the Knockdown page for a recap of what a model can/can't do.

Rules Clarification : Weapon Master - None yet. (Edit)