Captain Rahera, Terror of the Wailing Sea

Captain Rahera, Terror of the Wailing Sea Mercenary, & Cryx Partisan, Privateer Scharde Warcaster

Fluff

Rules subject to change. This model is unreleased. This model is part of the current CID cycle (What is CID?) and the information shown below does not represent its final rules. This is a new model, and the information here is what was given on final Talion update (21 Feb '19) of the CID cycle

Basic Info

Rahera1
Missing Info
	COST {{{cacost}}} UNIT SIZE {{{casize}}} FA {{{cafa}}} Warcaster 0 BASE Small SPD 7 STR 7 MAT 7 RAT 5 M.A. N/A DEF 16 ARM 15 CMD 9 ESSENCE {{{essence}}} FOCUS 6 FURY N/A THRS N/A HP 16 F. Field N/A WJP +28 WBP {{{wbp}}} IHP {{{ihp}}} FA N/A UNIT SIZE N/A COST N/A N/A N/A N/A Warcaster 1 COST N/A N/A Understanding the Statblock

• Mercenary - Rahera will work for Cryx.
• Partisan [ Cryx ] - When included in a Cryx army, this model/unit is a Cryx model/unit instead of a Mercenary model/unit.

Abilities

• Warcaster - All warcasters come with a stack of standard special rules - most notably being awesome. Click here for a newbie-friendly recap, or click here for the full rules.
• Parry
• Pathfinder
• Tough
• Acrobatics - This model can advance through other models if it has enough movement to move completely past their bases. This model ignores intervening models when declaring its charge target.
• Blood Weaver - When Rahera destroys one or more enemy models with a melee attack, immediately after the attack is resolved, she can cast a spell with COST 3 or less without spending focus.
• Gang Fighter - When making a melee attack targeting an enemy model in the melee range of another friendly Faction warrior model, this model gains +2 to melee attack and melee damage rolls.
• Sprint - At the end of an activation in which it destroyed or removed from play one or more enemy models with melee attacks, this model can immediately make a full advance, then its activation ends.
• Leadership [ Living Privateer or Scharde ] - Friendly Sprint models in this model's command range gain {{{3}}}.

Weapons

• Hand Cannon - 12" range, POW 12 ranged attack
• Blood Axe - 1" reach, POW 6, P+S 13 melee attack
  • Damage Type: Magical
• Bone Cleaver - 1" reach, POW 6, P+S 13 melee attack
  • Damage Type: Magical

Spells

	COST	RNG	AOE	POW	DUR	OFF
Black Spot	3	8	-	-	Upkeep	Yes
(1) Target enemy warrior model/unit suffers -2 DEF. (2) When a friendly Faction model destroys one or more affected models with a basic melee or ranged attack during its Combat Action, immediately after the attack is resolved it can make one additional melee or ranged attack. Attacks gained from Black Spot cannot generate additional attacks from Black Spot.
Bleed	2	8	-	10	-	Yes
When Bleed damages a living enemy model, this model can remove d3 damage points.
Escort	2	SELF	Control	-	Upkeep	No
Warjacks in the spellcaster's battlegroup beginning their activations in its control range gain +2" movement when advancing as part of their Normal Movement. The spellcaster gains +2 ARM while one or more warjacks in its battlegroup are within 3" of it.
Manifest Destiny	3	SELF	Control	-	Turn	No
While in the spellcaster's control range, models in its battlegroup gain an additional die on melee attack and melee damage rolls. Discard the lowest die of each roll. Manifest Destiny lasts for one turn.
Rough Seas	3	SELF	Control	-	Round	No
When a friendly model is targeted by a ranged attack while in the spellcaster's control range, the attack suffers –3 RNG to a minimum of 8. Rough Seas lasts for one round.

Feat : Bloodletting

Model in Rahera’s battlegroup currently in her control range and friendly living warrior models currently in her control range can immediately make one basic melee attack or ranged attack. These attacks must target enemy models currently in Rahera’s control range.

Theme Forces

•     Mercenary    
  
  • The Talion Charter
  • Soldiers of Fortune
  • The Irregulars

•     Cryx    
  
  • Black Industries
  • Dark Host
  • The Ghost Fleet
  • Black Industries
  • Scourge of the Broken Coast
  • Scourge of the Broken Coast

Thoughts on Rahera

Rahera in a nutshell

Captain Rahera is a new Mercenary Warcaster who is also a Cryx partisan. She underwent multiple drastic changes during test and her final version remains to be seen. Unusually the version here is the final version of her seen in CID.

Feat thoughts

Placeholder

Spell thoughts

Placeholder ).

Drawbacks & Downsides

Placeholder

Tricks & Tips

Placeholder

List Building Advice - Mercenary

Strategy

Her main method of winning is ...Placeholder
For example: "using her feat turn to get a melee/ranged/spell assassination" "attrition then win on scenario" "board control then win on scenario" "sending a jack in, to beat the enemy warcaster's face into pulp" "etc"

Theme thoughts

The best theme to take her in is probably Placeholder because Placeholder.

Alternatively, she can run a pretty decent Placeholder force because Placeholder.

Battlegroup

Mercenaries - Escort and Manifest Destiny lend themselves to melee 'jacks like the Buccaneer and Talon over ranged 'jacks. Scallywag has a decent chance of getting Overtake with extra attacks from her.

List Building Advice - Cryx

Strategy

Her strategy remains the same as above, it's just her tools that change.

Theme thoughts

The best theme to take her in is probably Placeholder because Placeholder.

Alternatively, she can run a pretty decent Placeholder force because Placeholder.

Battlegroup

Escort works well on a Seether or a Leviathan. The Seether in particular is melee dedicated and doesn't put too much strain on your supply of focus.

Other

Trivia

Beta rules released in the Talion CID (2019.02)

Which warjacks can she take?

When she is included in a Cryx army Rahera has access to the full range of Cryx warjacks, but she cannot include any Mercenary warjacks in her battlegroup.

When she is included in a Mercenary army Rahera has to choose from the "Human" Mercenary warjacks shown below, but she cannot include any Cryx warjacks in her battlegroup. With the way Mercenary battlegroups work, this model can't simply control any Mercenary warjack, and instead is limited to the following choices:

Mercenary Warjacks (Human)   (Edit)
Light	Buccaneer - Renegade (Magnus only) - Scallywag - Swashbuckler - Talon - Vanguard
Heavy	Freebooter - Gallant - Mangler - Mariner - Mule - Nomad - Rocinante - Rover - Toro - Swabber
Colossal	Blockader - Galleon

Note: Other restrictions may apply, such as 'Jack Marshals can't control Colossals, character warjacks aren't allowed in most theme forces, etc.

Other Faction models

Cryx Index       (Edit)
Battlegroup & Similar
Warcasters	Agathia - Aiakos2 - Asphyxious1 - Asphyxious2 - Asphyxious3 - Coven - Deathjack2 - Deneghra1 - Deneghra2 - Deneghra3 - Goreshade1 - Goreshade2 - Goreshade3 - Mortenebra1 - Mortenebra2 - Rahera - Scaverous - Skarre1 - Skarre2 - Skarre3 - Sturgis2 - Terminus - Venethrax
Warcaster attachments	The Withershadow Combine - Satyxis Blood Priestess - Skarlock Thrall - Doctor Stygius (Partisan) - Madelyn Corbeau (Mercenary)
Other Warjack Controllers	Jack Marshals: Iron Lich Overseer       "Junior Warcasters": Aiakos1 - Asphyxious4 - Deneghra0
Light	Cankerworm - Deathripper - Defiler - Helldiver - Nightwretch - Ripjaw - Scavenger - Shrike - Stalker
Heavy	Barathrum - Corruptor - Deathjack1 - Desecrator - Erebus - Harrower - Kharybdis - Inflictor - Leviathan - Malice - Nightmare - Reaper - Seether - Slayer
Colossal	Kraken - Sepulcher
Units, Solos, Battle Engines, & Structures
Units	Asphyxious4 - Bane Knights - Bane Riders - Bane Warriors - Bile Thralls - BO Boarding Party - BO Ironmongers - BO Smog Belchers - Blackbane's Ghost Raiders - Bloodgorgers - Marauders - Carrion Thralls - Cephalyx Drudges - Cephalyx Overlords - Mechanithralls - Necrosurgeon - Revenant Cannon - Revenant Crew - Satyxis Gunslingers - Satyxis Blood Witches - Satyxis Raiders - Scharde Dirge Seers - Scharde Pirates - Soulhunters - The Devil's Shadow Mutineers - The Withershadow Combine
Solos	Aiakos1 - Agrimony - Axiara - Bane Lord Tartarus - Bloat Thrall - BTO Mobius - Captain Rengrave - Darragh Wrathe - Doctor Stygius - Deneghra0 - Gerlak - Hellslinger - Iron Lich Overseer - Machine Wraith - Master Gurglepox - Misery Cage - Necrotech - Ol' Grim - Pistol Wraith - Satyxis Blood Priestess - Satyxis Raider Captain - Scrap Thrall - Skarlock Thrall - Severa Blacktide - Soul Trapper - Warwitch Siren
Battle Engines & Structures	Wraith Engine
Theme Forces
Black Industries - Dark Host - The Ghost Fleet - Scourge of the Broken Coast
Mercenaries
Refer to Who Works for Whom and/or Category: Cryx Mercenary
This index was last updated: 2021.11

Rules Clarifications

Note to self: I need to update this rules section after the rules are finalised - juckto.