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| | * {{Black Industries}}. {{PAGENAME}} gains [[Carapace]] in this theme. | | * {{Black Industries}}. {{PAGENAME}} gains [[Carapace]] in this theme. |
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| | * {{Slaughter Fleet Raiders}}. {{PAGENAME}} gains [[Gang Fighter]] in this theme. | | * {{Slaughter Fleet Raiders}}. {{PAGENAME}} gains [[Gang Fighter]] in this theme. |
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| | ===Drawbacks & Downsides=== | | ===Drawbacks & Downsides=== |
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| | * As with most Cryx jacks, he doesn't hit super hard at P+S 17, and doesn't brawl well in a toe-to-toe fight vs other faction's heavies. | | * As with most Cryx jacks, he doesn't hit super hard at P+S 17, and doesn't brawl well in a toe-to-toe fight vs other faction's heavies. |
| | ** However, at least he isn't the least pillow-fisted, like [[Erebus]] or [[Malice]]. | | ** However, at least he isn't the least pillow-fisted, like [[Erebus]] or [[Malice]]. |
Revision as of 02:16, 26 May 2019
Barathrum is a mechanized terror born from the nightmares of a lunatic, and Lich Lord Terminus has claimed this helljack as his own. Barathrum burrows with its massive talons to await its prey, then explodes from the ground to seize its victims and drag them screaming beneath the earth. Committing to slaughter with reckless abandon, the ’jack cleaves men in two with its talons and impales others on its tusks.
Basic Info
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| Warcaster 0 |
| BASE |
Large |
| SPD |
6 |
| STR |
10 |
| MAT |
8 |
| RAT |
N/A |
| M.A. |
N/A |
| DEF |
13 |
| ARM |
18 |
| CMD |
N/A |
| ESSENCE |
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| FOCUS |
N/A |
| FURY |
N/A |
| THRS |
N/A |
| HP |
28 |
| F. Field |
N/A |
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C |
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N/A |
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15 |
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| Warcaster 1 |
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N/A |
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Understanding
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Abilities
- 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.
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Advance Deployment
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Construct
- Bond [ Terminus ] - If this model begins the game in Terminus's battlegroup, it is bonded to them. This model is not considered to be bonded while under your opponent's control. While this model is bonded to Terminus and in their control range, Barathrum gains Unyielding. (Unyielding - This model gains +2 ARM against melee damage rolls.)
- Countercharge - When an enemy model advances and ends its movement within 6" of this model and in its LOS, this model can immediately charge it. This model can use Countercharge only once per round and not while engaged.
- Dig In (★ Action) - This model gains cover, does not suffer blast damage, and does not block LOS. The model remains dug in until it moves, is placed, or is engaged. It can begin the game dug in.
- Drag Below - During this model’s activation, when this model boxes an enemy warrior model, this model can use Drag Below to remove the boxed model from play. Immediately after resolving this attack, this model can make a full advance and then perform a Dig In special action, then its activation ends. This model cannot be targeted by free strikes during this movement.
Weapons
- Talon (x2) - 1" reach, POW 7, P+S 17 melee weapons
- Feedback - If this weapon damages a warjack that is part of a battlegroup, the warjack's controller suffers 1 damage point.
- Tusks - 1" reach, POW 12, P+S 12 melee weapon
- Hard Head - This model can add this weapon's POW to its head-butt and slam power attack damage rolls.
Theme Forces
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Recent Changes
No changes since 2018.01
Thoughts on the Barathrum
Barathrum in a nutshell
Barathrum is yet another beatstick heavy in the Cryx arsenal. This time with a bit of extra DEF from Dig In, and extra mobility from Countercharge + Drag Below + Advance Deployment. Feedback is just icing on the cake. He is quite popular amongst players, because he is relatively durable and heavy-hitting at his price bracket.
Some people view him as a slightly tougher version of the Seether, because they both have Countercharge, but other than that there's not really much in common.
Combos & Synergies
Drawbacks & Downsides
- It's a special order model.
- As with most Cryx jacks, he doesn't hit super hard at P+S 17, and doesn't brawl well in a toe-to-toe fight vs other faction's heavies.
- However, at least he isn't the least pillow-fisted, like Erebus or Malice.
- In comparison to the Seether, it isn't as focus-efficient. In comparison to a Slayer, he actually does less damage vs anything that is ARM 19 or higher.
- DEF 13 ARM 18 is a useful defensive line but not one that really stops anything. Sure you can gain +4 DEF if you move and Dig In, instead of running, but then you're slow.
- The only Cryx jack with hand-like weapons that aren't actually Open Fists - he can't throw models.
Tricks & Tips
- Deploy as far forward as possible but dug in. You've two turns of avoiding shooting as the rest of your army catches up.
- Drag Below can be used to go behind the enemy lines, protecting you from infantry charges.
Other
Trivia
- Originally released in the Warmachine: Reckoning expansion (2015)
- Nicknames = Shovel hands, Bathroom
- Barathrum means "pit" in Latin - referring to the narrow deadly kind of pits you get in mountains. It might also be translated as "Abyss" in this context.
Other Cryx models
Rules Clarifications
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Rules Clarification : Feedback (Edit)
- Feedback only triggers on damage, not on hits. (Infernal Ruling)
- Feedback doesn't affect 'Jack Marshals, because they don't have a battlegroup.
- If Feedback is on a CMA, it will only be triggered once (not once per participant). Because it's only one attack.
- Warcasters can spend focus to negate Feedback damage.
- Backlash + Feedback (Edit)
- If you stack Backlash and Feedback on the same enemy warjack, then the warcaster will take two damage every time the warjack is damaged.
- Furthermore, the warcaster has to spend two focus to negate this damage.
Because it's two different effects which are both resolved at Step 10a of the Attack Sequence (Apdx A of core rulebook) but have to be resolved one at a time (refer 'Triggers' in the core rulebook).
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Rules Clarification : Hard Head (Edit)
- You can add the POW even if the weapon system is crippled.
- Hard Head doesn't get applied to collateral damage, because that is a separate type of roll. Refer page 45 of the mini rulebook.
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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 : 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)
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Rules Clarification : Construct - None yet. (Edit)
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Rules Clarification : Bond (Edit)
- Bonds are ineffective while the model is under your opponent's control. Refer the core rulebook.
- Bonds & Themes
- If a warjack/warbeast with a bond is in that caster's battlegroup, they can be taken in any theme force. Refer the core rulebook.
- This is true even if the caster isn't a full warcaster or warlock (this interaction changed as of 2018.06).
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Rules Clarification : Unyielding - None yet. (Edit)
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Rules Clarification: : Countercharge (Edit)
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Timing
- If the moving model has Assault, the Countercharge is resolved before the Assault attack. (Infernal Ruling).
- If the moving model has a rule that resolves "at the end of Normal Movement" (such as Slipstream), the Countercharge is resolved before the other rule. (Infernal Ruling)
- The moving model cannot use an "Any Time" after finishing their advance but before your Countercharge. They can use it only after the Countercharge is resolved.
- If the non-countercharging player has a similar "ends an advance" trigger (such as Admonition) then they can trigger and resolve that from your countercharge movement.
- Example: Model [A] charges, and triggers Countercharge on [B]. Model [B] countercharges, and triggers Admonition on [C].
Resolve Admonition on [C]. Then finish resolving Countercharge on [B]. Then finish model [A]'s activation.
Triggering Countercharge
- You can trigger Countercharge if you're engaging, but not engaged.
- You can trigger Countercharge during your own turn, if your opponent has an ability to move during your turn (such as Admonition).
- Some abilities let you "ignore intervening models when declaring a charge" (such as Flight). Unfortunately, you still need LOS to trigger Countercharge, and it's only after CC is triggered that you actually get to declare a charge. In other words, Flight and Countercharge don't work together for LOS purposes.
- What does trigger Countercharge
- Countercharge triggers off any advance, not just in-activation stuff.
- Standing still but changing facing is an advance.
- What doesn't trigger Countercharge
- Aiming, or forfeiting your movement, is not advancing.
- If a model doesn't move, doesn't change facing, doesn't aim ... does nothing but skips straight ahead to its Combat Action, this is not an advance. (Infernal Ruling)
- Being placed (such as Teleport) is not an advance.
- Involuntary movement (being slammed, thrown, or pushed) is not an advance.
- When a unit is moving, countercharge is triggered on a model-by-model basis. So you can countercharge after any model in the unit has finished its move within range, but you can only countercharge that model who just finished its movement. You can't "save it" until the entire unit finishes moving and then say "I'm going to Countercharge the first guy you moved."
Attacks, Boosting, & Other Triggers
- You only get one attack when making a countercharge, regardless of how many initials you normally have.
- The charge attack damage is only boosted if the Countercharger moved 3" or more, as with a regular charge.
- Countercharge occurs outside of activation so you can't spend fury/focus to boost a countercharge attack, nor buy additional attacks afterwards, not trigger stuff that only happens during your Combat Action (like Berserk).
- Even if you trigger Countercharge during your own activation, for the duration of you resolving the CC it "no longer counts" as being in your activation. (Infernal Ruling)
After the Countercharge
- The countercharging model cannot use any abilities that trigger on "during activation" or "during combat action" (such as Sprint), as Counter Charge is not an activation. (Locked thread)
Other interactions
- Countercharge during your own activation (Countercharge vs Admonition etc) ( Edit )
- You can trigger Countercharge during your own activation, but only if an enemy model moves during your activation. For instance, you move towards a model who has Admonition and they trigger that to try to move away. (You do a normal move, they trigger admonition and move, you trigger countercharge from their admonition-move.)
- However countercharge always counts as being out-of-activation, no matter when you trigger it. (Infernal Ruling)
- As a result, you can't trigger only-during-activation effects (such as Critical Shred & Sustained Attack).
- On the other hand, you can potentially get two charge attacks (one for your normal charge, one for the counter charge). (Infernal Ruling)
This ruling still applies even after the 2018.07 update (Infernal Re-ruling)
- Countercharge plus Admonition
- If a model has both CC and Admonition, it can trigger both at the same time. A model moves nearby, it admonitions away, then countercharges back in.
- Countercharge Inception
- If a model [A] has Countercharge, and it charges an enemy model [B] that has Countercharge and Admonition, then ...
- Model [A] charges and triggers CC and Admo on [B]
- Model [B] Admo moves but before it can resolve its own CC, it triggers CC on [A]
- You now have two models that have triggered CC simultaneously. So the Active player gets to resolve their one first.
- Assault vs Countercharge ( Edit )
- Countercharge & Cavalry ( Edit )
- A model with Countercharge and Cavalry can make Impact Attacks during the countercharge. (Refer "Charges Outside of Activation" in the rulebook).
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Rules Clarification : Dig In and/or Foxhole Buddy (Edit)
- Unlike nearly every ability in the game, Dig In doesn't have a "expires after one turn/round" clause.
- Thus you could spend your action on turn 1 to Dig In and (assuming you don't move or get engaged) stay Dug In on turn 2 and use your action to make ranged attacks.
- Being pushed counts as moving. (Locked thread)
- If a model with Dig In is added to play or returned to play, it does not count as "starting the game". It can't be put into play already Dug In. (Infernal Ruling)
- You can use Dig In while you're in someone's back arc. You are engaging, but not engaged.
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Rules Clarification : Drag Below (Edit)
- You cannot use an "at any time" ability during an attack that involves a Drag Below. This is because Drag Below is resolved during Step 12 of the Attack Sequence and causes your activation to end, but you can't use an "any time" ability until after finishing step 14. (Infernal Ruling)
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