Vanquisher

Protectorate Heavy Warjack

One of the first warjacks developed by the Protectorate after the Cygnaran Civil War was the Crusader, a massive warjack boasting heavy armor and capable of crushing attacks. It has served as the foundation for several masterpieces of war. The Templar, for one, smashes enemies with overwhelming force from an unassailable position behind its thick shield. Of more recent production, the Vanquisher wields a great “blazing star” spiked ball in one hand and a flame belcher in the other. This weapon sends an oil-filled cannonball that bursts and ignites on impact.

Basic Info

Vanquisher
	SPD	4
	STR	11
	MAT	6
	RAT	5
	DEF	10
	ARM	19
	HP	32
	Cost	17
	See also How to Read the statblock

Weapons

• Flame Belcher - 10" range, 4" AOE, POW 14 gun.
  • Damage Type: Fire - This weapon does fire damage.
  • Continuous Fire - A model hit by this attack is set on fire. A model on fire suffers a POW 12 fire damage roll in the Maintenance phase of its owner's turn until the fire expires.
• Blazing Star - 2" reach, P+S 16 melee attack.
  • Chain Weapon - Attacks with this weapon ignore the ARM bonus from Bucklers, Shields, and Shield Wall.
  • Thresher (★ Attack) - This model makes one melee attack with this weapon against each model in its LOS that is in this weapon's melee range. Thresher attacks are simultaneous.

Abilities

• Warjack - All warjacks share the same set of special rules. Most notably being big and stompy. Click the link for a full run-down.
• Construct - This model is a construct and is not a living model.

Thoughts on Vanquisher

Vanquisher in a nutshell

The Vanquisher is a heavy warjack that does a line in infantry killing - it flambees them with a medium AoE or it threshes them with a large thresher attack.

Combos & Synergies

• The Choir of Menoth lets it put significant hurt on heavies and brings it's blast damage to effective POW 9.
• Grand Scrutator Severius can increase his accuracy and damage, both in melee and at range, by adding one to all rolls, MAT7 thresher is nice, MAT7 thresher that can also re-roll failed hits, ignores shields and can get up to POW19 with both Sevy and Choir of Menoth suddenly makes that 17 points look much more reasonable if your local meta favours infantry armies.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• His main issue is his price makes him the most expensive non-character 'jack
• low SPD4 and low gun range of 10" gives him relatively low threat range
• MAT is mediocre for the thresher.

Tricks & Tips

• Remember that Thresher can let you hit multiple heavies at the same time.
• Remember that Thresher also hits friendlies.
• A hymn of battle and the chain weapon bonus gives him around a 58% chance of taking out a MoW Shocktrooper in a single swing with or without the shield wall order.

Other

Comparison to Mk2

He got lengthier chain, giving him larger threat range and meaningful thresher attacks. Yes, we finally figured out how to make a long chain. In Menoth's name, nothing is impossible even if it may take bloody forever.

Trivia

• Originally released in Warmachine: Prime (2003)

Theme Forces

Themes for non-character warjacks (Edit)

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

Rules Clarifications

Rules Clarification : Fire      (Edit) Moving into "Shallow water" standard terrain does not cause continuous fire to expire. It's magic fire. You can always use non-standard terrain if you agree with your opponent before the game starts, however. A weapon can inflict continuous fire without itself being a fire damage weapon (for example, the Helios's fists). In this case, the attack can hurt models with Immunity:Fire it just won't apply the continuous effect.

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

Rules Clarification:  : Thresher and/or Flashing Blade and/or Cyclone     (Edit) (Click Expand to read)

Resolving the attack Under this heading, the word "Thresher" is used interchangeably for "Flashing Blade" and "Cyclone" too Thresher makes an attack against every model, and as such it targets every model. Thus if a model "may not be targeted by melee attacks", you have to 'skip' it when you resolve the attack. (Infernal Ruling) All attacks made by a Thresher attack are simultaneous. If a model is out of LOS when you start the Thresh, then you may not attack it as part of the Thresh (even if the Thresh kills what is blocking your LOS) This means you need to target everything, then resolve all effects that trigger on "target" before starting any attack rolls. Then complete all attack rolls and do everything that triggers on "hit" before starting any damage rolls, and etc. In practice and to save time though, if neither player has effects that trigger on "being targetted, hit, damaged, etc" then they'll normally do the hit and damage rolls on a model-by-model basis. If a model collects tokens (for instance the Cryx Harrower that collects souls), it cannot collect them until all Thresh attacks are resolved. Thresher only All attacks made by a Thresher are special melee attacks, and as such won't trigger stuff like Grim Salvation or Rhyas's feat. (Infernal Ruling) No matter how many enemy you kill, Thresher only counts as a single attack for the purposes of triggering Berserk, Quick Work, Black Spot, etc You can do a Thresher on a charge (it's a special melee attack). If you charge & Thresher, only the damage roll against your charge target is automatically boosted - other models caught in the thresh suffer an unboosted damage roll (although you can spend focus/fury to boost it) You can't buy additional Thresher attacks, because they're (★ Attack). You can buy additional normal melee attacks, though. Thresher will hit friendly models. Flashing Blade only You can cast it after your charge movement but before your charge attack. This will essentially interrupt your charge attack, so no damage roll is boosted while resolving the spell's attacks (unless you pay to boost it). If your charge target survives the spell , then you'll get your boosted charge attack against it. Flashing Blade doesn't hit friendly models Cyclone only You can cast it after your charge movement but before your charge attack. This will essentially interrupt your charge attack, so no damage roll is boosted while resolving the spell's attacks (unless you pay to boost it). If your charge target survives the spell and is still in range, then you'll get your boosted charge attack against it. If you used the advance to move out of range of your charge target, it was still as successful charge so it won't cause your activation to end. However, you are still limited to making melee attacks only. Cyclone will hit friendly models. The attack(s) from Cyclone occur simultaneously with "Ends its movement" triggers (such as Admonition). As such, the active player can use the Cyclone attacks before the inactive player uses his Admonition move. (Infernal Ruling)

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.

Rules Clarification : Construct - None yet. (Edit)