Prime
This model is available in two Prime Armies, First Army and Storm Knights. 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.
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Perhaps Nemo’s greatest creation, the Stormwall towers over Cygnar’s enemies with all the majesty and menace of a looming cloudburst. From the thunder of its guns to the blinding cracks of arcing electricity from its lightning pods, the Stormwall is the mechanikal embodiment of the tempest. Powered by both steam and surging voltaic energy, it riddles the enemy lines with cannon shells and hails of bullets before smashing survivors with its electrified fists.
Basic Info
Stormwall
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Huge |
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5 |
| STR |
17 |
| MAT |
6 |
| RAT |
6 |
| M.A. |
N/A |
| DEF |
10 |
| ARM |
19 |
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N/A |
| ESSENCE |
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34 |
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Understanding
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Warjack - All warjacks share the same set of special rules. Most notably being big and stompy. Click here for a newbie-friendly recap, or click here for the full rules.
Colossal - Colossals are mega-warjacks, even bigger and stompier. They use nearly all the same rules as normal warjacks but with a few alterations. These changes are summarized here or can be read in full here.
Abilities
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Construct
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Immunity: Electricity
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Pathfinder
- Activate Lightning Pod - Once per activation, after the Stormwall's Normal Movement, you can mark one unmarked lightning pod circle on this model's card to place one Lightning Pod into play anywhere completely within 10" of this model. When a Lightning Pod is placed, enemy models whose bases are intersected by a line drawn from the centre of the Lightning Pod's base to the centre of this model's base suffer a POW 10 electrical damage roll. Warjacks damaged by a Lightning Pod damage roll suffer Disruption. The S boxes of this model's damage grid represent its Lightning Pod system. While its Lightning Pod system is crippled, this model cannot use Activate Lightning Pod.
Weapons
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| Chain Cannon (×2)
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- Sustained Fire - Instead of making attacks with this weapon during this model's activation, place a wall template completely within this weapon's RNG and field of fire and in this model's LOS, ignoring intervening models. This model cannot place a wall template for this weapon while it is disabled. A model entering or ending its activation in the wall template suffers a damage roll with POW equal to the POW of this weapon. The wall template remains in play for one round. If this model is destroyed or removed from play, immediately remove the wall template from play.
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| Voltaic Fist (×2)
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 Open Fist
- Electro Leap - When a model is directly hit with a basic attack made with this weapon, you can have lightning arc to the nearest model within 4" of the the model hit, ignoring the attacking model. The 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 leap.
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Lightning Pod
The Lightning Pod is a solo put into play by the Stormwall.
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N/A |
| M.A. |
N/A |
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5 |
| ARM |
15 |
| CMD |
N/A |
| ESSENCE |
{{{essence}}} |
| FOCUS |
N/A |
| FURY |
N/A |
| THRS |
N/A |
| HP |
1 |
| F. Field |
N/A |
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Understanding
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Abilities
Weapons
- Unarmed - This model has no weapons.
Theme Forces
Thoughts on the Stormwall
Stormwall in a nutshell
The Stormwall is a powerful weapons platform with the main guns from a pair of Defenders and a pair of Sentinels, better melee than a Stormclad, and almost the toughness of two heavies. A big centrepiece to your army, with good board control tools.
Combos & Synergies
- ARM 19 is fair, but not exactly exceptional. With such a large points investment, you want to be casting Arcane Shield on the Stormwall to keep it in the game as long as possible.
- So if that's not available to your Warcaster, it really is a good idea to include a Journeyman Warcaster.
- Stryker1's feat can put its resilience on the double figuratively, while Darius's feat on the double quite literally.
- Captain Arlan Strangewayes can relieve the focus burden or just keep it in the fight for even longer using Repair.
- The Stormwall is not the first choice to either the Sons of the Tempest or the Gravediggers theme force, but if you do, they both offer excellent RAT fixing solutions for your main guns in the form of Gun Mage Captain Adepts and Rangers.
- Trencher Warcaster Lieutenant - If you're not shied away from putting a colossal under the care of a DEF14/ARM14 model, and happen to have a warcaster with Snipe, the Stormwall's guns can reach enormous distances with Fire Group. The big guns' 20" stationary threat distance completes nicely the two covering fire templates, which can be deployed up to 16" away, forcing many light infantries to choose an alternate route instead of just running forward unobstructed.
Drawbacks & Downsides
- The more jacks you have, the more Power Up focus you have access to. With two Defenders, you can have two fully boosted (i.e. hit and damage rolls) Heavy Barrel shots. With the same two focus applied to a Stormwall, you can only fully boost one Big Gun shot and either boost the attack roll or damage roll for the 2nd.
- This is what makes a Stormwall a worthwhile option with Caine2 - Fire for Effect means you fully boost one Big Gun, allocate one focus to boost the attack roll of the second and use the Power Up focus to boost the damage roll.
- Its MAT and RAT are decidedly average for Cygnar. In particular, its MAT is lower than anything on the Ironclad chassis, so it can be a risk to commit it to melee against models with even a slightly above average DEF.
- On the more expensive side for a colossal, and it's questionable whether it deserves to be.
Tricks & Tips
- If you give up your normal Movement to aim, you can't activate a pod.
- Outside of zapping enemies, Lightning pods are ubiquitous tools. Use them for zone contesting, score on flags, block charge lanes, or just jam the advance of enemy heavy hitters which rely on slams or charges - especially other, huge based models. They are also good beacons to call down AoEs near the enemy (like the lightning AoEs of the Reliant), as even while in melee, their DEF is a manageable 9 - lowering to 7, if you shoot from behind. Due to their immobile nature they're also good at keeping other models of yours in place, if you expect them to be pushed.
- 2 Sustained Fire template can secure you a 9" wide zone. If have Gun mages around, use the same trick, as with the Cyclone, and push enemies into it with Thunderbolt rounds.
- Place Sustained Fire template on enemies, which are engaging your own troops - especially cheap, jamming models with poor ARM. They either have to walk out of it, receiving a free strike, or fight your troops, and getting hit by the template by the end of their activation. Don't play this trick against models with access to Reposition though.
- Lightning pods don't have to be in LOS for the Stormwall - you can drop it behind of your colossal, if it helps Surge / Triangulation, or fry models / solos sneaking up from behind to your lines.
- Things that forbid you to make ranged attacks forbid you to use Sustained Fire too, as you must be able to make ranged attacks, to be able to "do something instead of the attack".
Other
Trivia
Other Cygnar models
Rules Clarifications
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Rules Clarification : Covering Fire and/or Sustained Fire (Edit)
- The size of the wall template is 0.75" by 4". (Infernal Ruling)
- Although it uses the wall template, it is not wall terrain. It does not provide cover nor interfere with models moving.
- Covering Fire templates do not inherit the Damage Type(s) of the weapon that put it into play.
- For instance, if you put Explosivo on the warjack, the Covering Fire remains non-magical.
- However, some versions of Covering Fire already do a specific Damage Type (notably, the Manticore). In this case, the Covering Fire does that Damage Type and no other Type.
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Templates that do damage ( Edit) [Show/Hide]
- Most templates that do damage to models that walk into them are defined as "Hazards" (such as Burning Ground) but there are a few that aren't Hazards (such as Creeping Barrage and Wall of Fire). The differences are:
- A hazard is a terrain element
- Damage from a hazard template is never considered to be from the model or weapon/spell that put it into play. So hazards never gain special rules of the weapon/spell (such as a Damage Type or Poison), nor does it gain special rules of the model (such as Hand of Fate).
- Damage from a non-hazard template is considered to be from the model that put it in play. So non-hazards do get stuff like Hand of Fate. (Infernal Ruling)
- Damage from a hazard is not from an attack (so won't trigger stuff like Vengeance)
- Damage from a non-hazard is also not from an attack. Instead it will be a Special Action (Covering Fire), or a "instead of making an attack, place a template" (Creeping Barrage), or etc.
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- Damage templates from spells is complicated:
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- Spells that leave templates that are not hazards (such as Razor Wall) do Damage Type: Magical.
- Spells that leave templates that are hazards (such as Breath of Corruption) follow the rules for hazards, which are most likely not magical damage but it varies by the hazard.
- The initial damage when you place the template, if any, is Damage Type: Magical.
- For example, Breath of Corruption's initial POW 12 corrosion damage roll is Damage Type: Magical in addition to Damage Type: Corrosion. But the hazard that is put into play from Breath of Corruption is not Damage Type: Magical, just Damage Type: Corrosion.
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- By default, when you put a template into play it doesn't do damage to models they overlap. The exceptions are templates that are created by an AOE weapon, and templates that explicitly say they do damage when they're placed.
- A model which is "placed" also counts as "entering" an area, so the template will damage any one who teleports/spawns into it, too.
- If two templates are overlapping, a model that enters them will take two points of damage.
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Rules Clarification : Open Fist (aka, Power Attack Throw) (Edit)
- Throw ( Edit )
- See also the Throw article for a recap of the core Throw rules.
- If a model is somehow thrown at itself (which can happen with Durst1's feat) it would not move, it would be knocked down, and it would take a standard power attack damage roll but it would not take an additional die for colliding with itself. (Infernal Ruling)
- Because you move the target model between the attack roll and the damage roll, you can get different buffs applied to the two rolls. For instance, if you throw the target in or out of a Flanking model's melee range.
- Incorporeal vs Slammed/Thrown models ( Edit )
- Incorporeal models cannot be moved by someone trying to slam them.
- Slammed models can move through Incorporeal models.
- If they have enough movement to get past them, no dramas.
- If they land on them, you move the Incorporeal model out of the way as per the Rule of Least Disturbance.
- If the Incorporeal model cannot be moved (i.e. it's a flag) then you move the slammed model out of the way, also by the rule of Least Disturbance.
- For the purposes of Collateral Damage, only the model(s) you contacted before you applied the rule of Least Disturbance count as contacted.
- The same logic applies to Throws.
- Collateral Damage
- Collateral damage cannot be boosted and is not considered damage from an attack or model. Refer page 33 of the 2021.08 version of the rules pdf. As a result:
- It doesn't trigger stuff that relies on being hit by an enemy (such as Shock Field) or damaged by an enemy (such as Vengeance).
- It doesn't get bonus damage from stuff that adds to a model's damage roll (such as Signs & Portents or Prey).
- It doesn't matter if the attacker has crippled weapon systems or aspects.
- Throw - Power Attack
- When you make a Throw Power Attack, no other abilities of the Fist weapon (such as Chain Strike) are applied unless they specifically mention Throws. (Locked Thread)
- If you do a Power Attack Throw and you choose to throw the target directly away, no deviation is rolled to determine the final position of the model. (Locked thread)
- A model that cannot be targeted by melee attacks (such as Una2's feat) cannot have models thrown at them, either. (Infernal Ruling)
- Since throwing Model [A] at Model [B] involves making a melee attack roll vs Model [B] which is out of your melee range, it technically breaks a whole bunch of core rules. (Infernal Checking)
- Even though you make a "melee attack roll" vs Model [B] you don't actually make a melee attack vs it. Also, the damage it suffers is from Collateral damage, not from the original attack. So you can't trigger stuff like Snacking from damage you did to Model B.
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Rules Clarification : Electro Leap (Edit)
- Electro Leaps are optional.
- Electro Leap is a weapon property. As such, it doesn't apply to Power Attacks at all.
- A Steamroller flag can be hit by Electro Leap (if it's the nearest model). (Infernal Ruling)
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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:
- 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.
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Rules Clarification : Colossal (Edit)
Huge Base (Edit)
- But this bonus doesn't apply to slams triggered by normal attacks (such as Critical Smite or the Hurricane's Thunder Charge ability).
Also, simply being on a huge base triggers a bunch of rules scattered throughout the rulebook, click to read them. [Show/Hide]
From the 2020.02 edition of the core rules (Edit)
- Fields of Fire
- Page 37 A huge-based model’s front arc is marked on its base. Its front arc is further divided into two 90° fields of fire. These fields of fire determine which models a huge-based model can target with its weapons, depending on the location of those weapons. Weapons located on a huge-based model’s left side (L) can be used to target only models in its left field of fire, and weapons located on its right side (R) can be used to target only models in its right field of fire. Weapons with locations “S,” “H,” or “—” can be used to target models in either field of fire. If any part of a model’s base is on the line separating the left and right fields of fire, the model is considered to be in both fields of fire.
- Concealment, Cover, LOS
- Page 49 Concealment & Cover - Huge-based models never gain the DEF bonuses from concealment or cover.
- Page 60 Clouds - Cloud effects do not block line of sight to huge-based models.
- Page 87 Forests - Forests do not block line of sight to huge-based models.
- Huge-Based models in melee
- Page 54 - Huge-based models never gain the Target in Melee DEF bonus.
- Page 65 - Combined Ranged Attacks cannot target a model in melee unless it has a huge base.
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Rules Clarification : Warjack (Edit)
- The Cortex/Induction core rule means a warjack cannot have more than 3 focus at any time (maybe 4 if they're really special).
- Many abilities give out focus and don't state an upper limit (such as Convection and Empower). Despite not stating an upper limit, they are always "hard-limited" by the core rule.
- A warjack can have more than 3 focus during a turn, though. For instance, a knocked down warjack can Power Up and be Allocated 2 focus, then spend 1 to shake knockdown, then another model could Empower it back up to 3.
- Warjacks cannot spend focus outside of their activation. For instance, they can't boost free strikes or trigger Powerful Attack on Broadsides. (Infernal Ruling)
Inert warjacks
- 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.
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Rules Clarification : Construct - None yet. (Edit)
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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.
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Rules Clarification : Unarmed (Edit)
- Since this model has no weapons it does not have a melee range.
- This means it can't engage other models, declare charges, or make free strikes
- Also it can't gain abilities that require a melee range (such as Ragman granting this model Dark Shroud).
- However, other models that do have melee weapons can engage this model. So this model can still gain the "target in melee" shooting bonus.
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Rules Clarification : Activate Lightning Pod (Edit)
- You cannot Activate a Lightning Pod after running, because that causes your activation to end during your Normal Movement; and placing the pod happens after Normal Movement.
- If a Lightning Pod is placed into a hazard (such as a Scather), then you resolve the Pod's lightning damage before the pod takes damage from the hazard.
- The damage is not from an attack (so won't trigger stuff like Vengeance), but it is from the Stormwall so you can boost it.
- If you use Nemo4 to take the Stormwall into a non-Cygnar army then the Stormwall will change Faction as per Nemo's rules, but the Lightning Pod doesn't.
- If it is Strange Bedfellows the Lightning Pod will be a both a Mercenary and a Convergence model in that theme.
- If it is any other army, the Lightning Pod will be a Cygnar model even though the Stormwall isn't.
- (Infernal Ruling)
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Rules Clarification : Conductor - None yet. (Edit)
Rules Clarification : Created - None yet. (Edit)
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Rules Clarification : Immovable and/or Immobile and/or Buried (Edit)
- There is no functional difference between "cannot move" and "cannot be moved".
Even if you gain bonus movement (such as Dodge) via a spell or theme benefit, you still can't move. (Locked thread)
- Witchwood only:
- Since the Witchwood doesn't have Normal Movement, it can't gain the Aiming bonus.
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Note to Editors
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