Enigma Foundry

Convergence of Cyriss Solo

Thanks to the miracle of the clockwork vessel, a member of the Convergence might live a thousand lifetimes upon Caen—provided his soul’s essence chamber remains safe from the predations of enemies. It is the enigma foundries that are essential for safeguarding the essence chambers. They are charged with recovering the souls of those who fall in battle and equipped to rapidly reconstruct clockwork vessels from parts salvaged from the battlefield.

Basic Info

Enigma Foundry
	SPD	5
	STR	8
	MAT	-
	RAT	-
	DEF	10
	ARM	18
	CMD	10
	HP	10
	Cost	4

Weapons and Attacks

• None – Sad panda.

Special Abilities

• Pathfinder
• Construct
• Repair [_] (★ Action) - RNG B2B. Target friendly Faction construct model. If the model is in range, remove _ damage points from it.
• Soul Taker: Gatekeeper - This model can collect soul tokens. When a living friendly Faction model is destroyed while in this model's command range, this model gains the destroyed model's soul token. This model can have up to three soul tokens at any time. This model can spend soul tokens for the following:
  • Reconstruction - During your Maintenance Phase you may remove one soul token from this model to return to play one destroyed medium-based friendly Faction construct Grunt, or remove up to three soul tokens from this Foundry to return one destroyed small-based friendly Faction construct Grunt to play for each token removed. Place each returned Grunt completely within 2˝ of this model and in formation.
• Soul Vessel - This model generates soul tokens as if it were a living model.

Thoughts on Enigma Foundry

Comparison to Mk2

• Became a bit cheaper
• Repair is now D3+3 instead of D6
• Convocation changed to Gatekeeper, allowing to collect souls from victims of friendly fire / attacks too.
• A minor wording change in placing restrictions after Reconstruction, and a big change about what a resurrected unit can do

Enigma Foundry in a nutshell

Enigma Foundries play very similar role, as the Necrosurgeons do in the Cryx army - they collect the remnants of their fallen brethren, only to reconstruct them later. There are two important differences between them: they can only collect friendly faction soul tokens, and can make medium based infantry as well.

Combos & Synergies

• Any infantry unit (apart of Clockwork Angels, as they tend to operate too far from your main force)
• Consequently, casters, who can offer infantry support (Aurora, Lucant, Axis)
• Another Enigma Foundry. It is downright frustrating, if you can put back models just as fast as the enemy kills them.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Completely unarmed.
• Lynchpin model on large base - it is a high priority target.
• Enemies with soul collecting tricks can imperil Reconstruction.

Tricks & Tips

• Its defences are its superb armour and its awesome CMD range - keep the distance from the frontline.
• One way to completely neutralize its Reconstruction (apart of shooting the living daylight out of the Foundry) is to wipe out the unit entirely. To counter it, you can
  • either bring 2 or more from the same unit, or
  • keep a member behind, close to the Foundry to have starting point for Reconstruction (just be vary of the flaws of being out of formation)
• Want to promote Obstructors to Reciprocators? Whack one in the head with another unit member, collect the soul with the Foundry, then create a Reciprocator out of it.
• By the current Steamroller rules, a unit needs 50% of its starting numbers to be alive to control flags / zones. Keep it in mind, sometimes all it takes is a single extra model returned, to put the unit above that limit.
• No one left behind - you can collect the soul of a fallen Foundry with another one.

Other

Trivia

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Theme Forces this is a member of

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Other Convergence models

Convergence Index       (Edit)
Battlegroup
Warcasters	Aurora1 - Aurora2 - Axis - Directrix - Locke - Lucant - Orion - Syntherion
Light	Corollary (Attached) - Diffuser - Galvanizer - Mitigator - Negator - Tesselator
Heavy	Assimilator - Cipher - Conservator - Inverter - Modulator - Monitor
Colossals	Prime Axiom - Prime Conflux
Units, Solos, & Battle Engines
Units	Asphyxious4 - Clockwork Angels - Eradicators - Obstructors - Optifex Directive - Negation Angels - Perforators - Reciprocators - Reductors Special CA [Any Unit] : Transverse Enumerator
Solos	Accretion Servitors - Algorithmic Dispersion Optifex - Attunement Servitors - Destructotron 3000 - Elimination Servitors - Enigma Foundry - Frustum Locus - J.A.I.M.s - Prefect Hypatia - Reflex Servitors - Steelsoul Protector - Widget, Mathlete Archeologist
Battle Engines	Nemo4 - TEP
Theme Forces		Mercenaries
Clockwork Legions - Destruction Initiative - Strange Bedfellows		Refer to Category: Convergence of Cyriss Mercenary
This index was last updated: 2021.11

Rules Clarifications

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