Croak Hunter

Croak Hunter Minion Croak Solo

Some few anuras, a frog-like race commonly called “croaks” for their distinctive throaty calls, have made their way from the Shattered Spine Islands to chase both prey and adventure. The scouts and explorers known as hunters have developed a strong relationship with the gatormen of the Blindwater Congregation and will not hesitate to take up arms alongside these newfound allies. Croak hunters stalk their enemies from hidden positions before attacking them with spears dipped in deadly mixtures of natural poisons, including the toxins secreted by their own skin.

Basic Info

Croak Hunter
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• Minion - Will work for Circle, Legion, Skorne, or Trollbloods

Abilities

• Advance Deployment
• Amphibious
• Immunity: Corrosion
• Pathfinder
• 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.
• Hunter - This model ignores cover and concealment when making ranged attacks.
• Error: Use {{Reposition 3}} or {{Reposition 5}} instead.
• Stealth
• 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.

Weapons

• Thrown Spear - 8" range, POW 10 gun
  • Poison - Gain an additional die on this weapon's damage rolls against living models.
  • Thrown - Apply any modifiers to this model's STR to the POW of this weapon.
• Spear - 2" reach. P+S 10 melee weapon. The same (or a very similar) long poky piece of wood.
  • Poison - As above

Theme Forces

Minions

• The Blindwater Congregation

Non-Minion themes

This solo may be used in the following theme forces without using their single minion solo option:

• Disciples of Agony (Skorne)
• Oracles of Annihilation (Legion) In this theme, this Minion becomes a Blighted model. Also, enemy models that end their activation within 2" of this model suffer continuous corrosion.
• Secret Masters (Circle) - this model may be taken as a requisition option in this theme despite not being a Circle solo

As a minion solo, they can also be taken in a bunch of other Faction's themes as their single allowed minion unit. Refer to #Other Theme Forces.

Recent Changes

No changes since 2017.12

Thoughts on Croak Hunter

Croak Hunter in a nutshell

The Croak Hunter is a useful quick-working skirmisher who plays like a pocket-sized version of his cousin the Totem Hunter. At 3 points what you get is a guy who wants to harass enemy solos, fragile support units, or just taking pot-shots into combats already working in your favor. He's not played much in Minions because Minions have two and three point incorporeal models, Bone Shrines, Swamp Gobber Bellows Crews, and Gobber Chefs - all of which are normally better uses of those last few points.

Combos & Synergies

• Croak Raiders or Farrow Commandos - Advance Deployment really helps set up for Gang Fighter, and that helps set up for a Quick Work.
• Jaga-Jaga, the Death Charmer part of the ranged barrage Jaga can bring, the Croak Hunter loves Signs & Portents
• Ironback Spitter - who cares if you do corrosion damage to this guy- use him as a beacon for the AOE... except he has Stealth so you'd probably need Guidance from the Bog Trog Mist Speaker to make this work unless you're just hoping for a good scatter anyway.
• Bloody Barnabas- Pop N' Drop will give him no shortage of potential targets.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• He's a special order model.
• You lose a lot of mileage against undead and constructs.
• The possible Thrown damage bonuses from STR buffs is largely a trap- if you're in a position where you can give something a STR buff, it's almost certainly better applied elsewhere.
• Without stealth he's as good as dead- beware flares and eyeless sight.
• He's not going to survive sustained melee combat- only commit him to combats you know he can win on the charge.
• He's too cheap to be worth taking for free, and most solos work far more with the rest of your army.

Tricks & Tips

Remember that you can get the points back on this guy by killing as few as two average trooper models. You can sometimes do that in a single turn by combining your charge with a thrown javelin, especially when set up via Gang Fighter.

Other

Trivia

• Although the box they come in calls them a Gatorman they are of a separate and normally allied species.
• Released in Forces of Hordes: Minions (2011)

Other Theme Forces

Circle Orboros (Edit)

• Secret Masters. This theme doesn't have a limit on how many Minion solos you can take. Also, you can spend Requistion Points on Minion solos.
• The Bones of Orboros
• The Devourer's Host
• The Wild Hunt

Legion of Everblight (Edit)

• Ravens of War
• Children of the Dragon
• Oracles of Annihilation. In this theme (1) There is no limit on the number of Minion solos you can take, (2) Minions become Blighted models, and (3) enemy models that end their activation within 2" of a Blighted model in this theme suffer continuous corrosion.
• Primal Terrors

Skorne (Edit)

• Disciples of Agony. There is no limit to the number of Minion solos you can take in this theme.
• The Exalted
• Masters of War
• Winds of Death

Trollbloods (Edit)

• Band of Heroes
• Kriel Company
• Power of Dhunia
• Storm of the North

Rules Clarifications

Rules Clarification : Poison - None yet. (Edit)

Rules Clarification : Thrown      (Edit) You do not add the model's base STR to the thrown spear, just modifiers. The base STR is already included in the POW of the weapon. (Locked thread)

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 : Amphibious - None yet. (Edit)

Rules Clarification : Corrosion      (Edit) If you deploy in corrosion hazard terrain (Acid Pool), then you get corroded before the game starts. Deploying a model in a hazard counts as being "put into play" in the hazard. Being put into play counts as "entering". When you enter a hazard, you trigger the hazard. A weapon can inflict continuous corrosion without itself being a corrosion damage weapon (for example, the Acidic Touch animus). In this case, the attack can hurt models with Immunity: Corrosion it just won't apply the continuous effect.

Rules Clarification : Pathfinder      (Edit) Pathfinder (Edit) - Pathfinder does not apply to involuntary movement (pushes & slams). (Infernal Ruling)

Rules Clarification : Gang and/or Gang Fighter and/or Tag Team and/or Team Effort     (Edit) You can gain the Gang bonus on free strikes, but generally only the first "Ganger" will get it. For example, if a target is engaged by two models with Gang, when it leaves the melee range of the first Ganger it suffers a free strike with the Gang bonus. Then it leaves the melee range of the second and suffers a normal free strike.

Rules Clarification : Hunter      (Edit) Although you ignore cover/concealment, you don't ignore "secondary" bonuses a model gets from it. For example, a model with Prowl will still gain Stealth from their concealment. (Infernal Ruling)

Rules Clarification : Reposition      (Edit) Models out of formation cannot move via Reposition. Refer to the "Out of Formation" rules in the core rulebook. End of Activation (Edit) You cannot resolve two end-of-activation movement effects (refer to "End of Activation Movement" in the core rulebook). For EOA stuff that doesn't involve movement, though, it gets a bit more murky: Some EOA abilities explicitly state your activation ends as part of resolving the ability (like Reposition), and some don't (like Refuge). Whether it is explicit it or not, by definition an EOA ability is the last thing you can do for that activation. For instance, if you resolve Refuge and then continue your activation to cast more spells, then you have not used Refuge at the end of your activation. You cannot do an "at any time" ability during or after triggering an EOA ability; you cannot cast spells, purchase additional attacks, use a mini-feat, etc. If you start resolving an EOA movement (such as Reposition) then you cannot trigger abilities that occur "at any time" (such as Go To Ground). Because you can't trigger it while resolving the EOA movement, and after the EOA movement your activation has ended. (Infernal Ruling) For units: if any model in the unit starts resolving the unit's EOA movement, then no model in the unit can trigger an any-time ability. (Infernal Ruling) See also the training article: LPG - End of Activation.

Rules Clarification : Stealth      (Edit) Stealth models are not invisible and you can target them - you'll just auto-miss most of the time. You can target them with a charge. You can target them with an AOE, have it auto-miss and scatter, luckily land on top of them anyway, and that will hit them.

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)