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Convergence of Cyriss Warcaster Unit

Iron Mother Directrix leads the Convergence with formidable brilliance, bold certainty, and unshakable conviction. She wields the entire military might of the Convergence, and every element of her army has its role within her plan. While Directrix does not wish to sacrifice her troops or shed blood unnecessarily, she has no qualms about doing either if it will hasten the manifestation of the Maiden of Gears on Caen. In pursuit of the Great Work there can be neither remorse nor doubt.

Basic Info

Iron Mother Directrix & Exponent Servitors
	SPD	6
	STR	7
	MAT	5
	RAT	5
	DEF	15
	ARM	17
	HP	18
	CMD	10
	WJ Points	+27
	Focus	8

Weapons and Attacks

• Aperture Blast - Range 11, 4" AOE, POW 15.
• Cloak of Blades - Range 2, P+S 11 melee attack.
  • 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.

Special Abilities

• Warcaster Unit - All warcasters come with a stack of standard special rules - most notably being awesome. Furthermore, this warcaster comes with some troopers that can be ordered around. Click here for a newbie-friendly recap, or click here for the full rules.
• Officer
• Construct
• Activate Exponent Servitor - At the end of your Control Phase, you can put one Exponent Servitor into play completely within 2" of this model if there are fewer than two Exponent Servitors in play in Directrix's battlegroup.
• Field Marshal [Arc Node] - Warbeasts/warjacks in this model's battlegroup gain Arc Node.
• Soul Vessel - This model generates soul tokens as if it were a living model.

Feat

• Mathematical Perfection - For one turn, the MAT and RAT of her battlegroup becomes equal to her FOCUS stat.

Spells

• |-

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! 8

! -

! -

! Upkeep

! Yes

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• |-

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! 8

! -

! -

! -

! Yes

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• |-

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! SELF

! -

! -

! Turn

! No

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• |-

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! 8

! (★)

! 13

! -

! Yes

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• |-

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! 6

! -

! -

! Upkeep

! No

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Reposition [3"] - At the end of an activation in which it did not run or fail a charge, a model with Reposition [3"] can advance up to 3", then its activation ends.

Exponent Servitors

Weapons and Attacks

• Aperture Beam - Average Range, ROF 1
  • Imperil - For one round, when a model/unit hit by this attack suffers a damage roll, add +2 to the roll.

Special Abilities

• Construct
• Gunfighter
• Pathfinder
• Steady - This model cannot become knocked down.

Thoughts on Iron Mother Directrix & Exponent Servitors

Iron Mother Directrix & Exponent Servitors in a nutshell

Iron Mother Directrix is the ranged combat specialist of Convergence. Between her having the joint highest RAT of any Convergence warcaster, Fire Group, her feat, and her Servitors having practically the only in-faction ranged damage buff, she runs a gunline very well. However, she has the lowest MAT of any Convergence caster and her melee is strictly secondary (if you want a combined arms caster Forge Master Syntherion is your caster of choice).

Strategy

Directrix' game often revolves around assassinations, or keeping your enemy away from you with the threat of it. She excels when facing WARMACHINE armies, where she can easily cast Domination on pesky 'Jacks or Backlash them, followed by Puncture from a Mitigator or Elimination Servitors. Consequently, she has somewhat harder time against HORDES opponents, but the sheer threat of her battlegroups' guns cannot be underestimated.

Combos & Synergies

• Cipher : The famous crater-to-go vector, he likes Fire Group to spread out the AOEs, Tactical Supremacy can speed him up, and using Domination on enemy jacks can bring them into his short threat range.
• Assimilator : Decent multipurpose vector. Fire Group extends the range of ground pounder, and everyone likes a MAT 8 weapon master.
• Prime Axiom : The dreaded colossal fielded with Iron mother becomes a metal hazard. Fire Group means he can drag from 13" away, and on feat turn, he can easily hit nearly anything, including warcasters. Just remember to get rid of nearby models first, who could intercept shots via Shield Guard, Sacrificial Pawn, or Sucker!
• Shield Wall Troops : Tactical Supremacy really increases their speed under shield wall. Obstructors for cheap ones, Reciprocators for expensive ones, depending on what you can fit in your list

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Directrix's MAT and RAT is mediocre when it's not feat turn.
• She wants to activate first to cast Fire Group, which can cause order of activation issues, especially with her servitors
• She doesn't support infantry very well.
• Ranged denial tricks can hurt her really bad.
• Against Hordes 2 of her spells are useless.

Tricks & Tips

• The Backlash Assassination - Backlash and a handful of Elimination Servitors. This won't kill a caster outright, but can put them on the back foot.
• Domination:
  • Move the jack into an opponent's back arc before attacking them, to get the +2 bonus on the free attack
  • End the jack's movement such that its rear arc is now facing the rest of your army, so you get +2 bonus on any further attacks vs it.
  • End the jack's movement such that it can't see any of your army, so it can't declare charges next turn. It can still trample though, as you'll choose the facing before making the Trample move.
• Her field marshal is great - consider running up a cheap Galvanizer or Diffuser to cast Backlash early on.

Other

Comparison to Mk2

Her servitors used to not benefit from the feat, but now they do. In exchange, they don't benefit from the field marshal anymore. Otherwise, she is pretty much the same.

Trivia

After her transfer into a clockwork vessel, the woman born Viana took the name Directrix and quickly achieved the rank of fluxion, gaining access to the sect's deepest mysteries. She was placed in charge of Foundry of Repudiation, a vital vector assembly workshop. In the following decades she continued to lead forces against the sect's enemies while also exploiting her relationships with other fluxions to gain a broader perspective on the state of the Convergence armories. She was assembling data for a detailed critique of the Great Work. Her battles abroad had convinced Directrix that their military might was sufficient to enter the Phase of Alignment sooner than even the most optimistic predictions. She knew there was no one better suited then herself to lead them to victory.

In 605 AR, she judged the timing right to present her critism of the faith's progress to the Constellation and Father Lucant, following with a detailed and extremely aggressive battle plan to complete their work across Immoren. So persuasive was she that within a year the Constellation named her Iron Mother, recognizing her right to lead the Convergence into this vial phase of the Great Work. Her strategy takes into account every astronometric nexus on the continent, and she has anticipated how to control, connect and activate the nexus lattice in spite of the heavy enemy resistance expected. Further, she intendeds to position Convergence clergy in western Immoren so that they can play a leadership role in the transformation of Caen.

Theme Forces this is a member of

Template:Convergence caster themes

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

Rules Clarification:  : Warcaster      (Edit) (Click Expand to read)

General Damage from a feat is neither an attack nor Damage Type: Magical (unless the feat says it is). FOCUS (uppercase) is the stat printed on the warcaster's card. Focus (lowercase) refers to focus points a model currently has. Your CTRL area is double your FOCUS stat, not double your focus points. (Infernal Ruling) Casting spells or using feats is an anytime ability with the added restriction that you can't use them on the same turn you run even before you run. See also the clarifications on Any Time abilities (below). Some warcasters are also Battle Engines and thus follow all the Battle Engine special rules. There is no particular interaction between the Battle Engine rules and the Warcaster rules. Work out all damage modifiers (such as Decapitation doubling the damage that exceeds ARM) before reducing it with the Power Field. (Infernal Ruling) Restrictions on "Any Time" abilities     (Edit)         [Show/Hide] "Any Time" abilities can be used at any time during a model/unit's activation, except: Before any compulsory forfeiture of movement/action. See step 2 of the activation sequence, appendix A. After the model with the "Any Time" ability has had their activation end "prematurely". By this I mean you resolved something which includes the phrase "its activation ends". Examples include: Running, failing a charge, or failing a slam. Abilities that include "then its activation ends" (such as Reposition and Teleport). In between declaring your charge target and making your charge movement. (Infernal Ruling) In between completing your charge movement and determining whether it was a successful charge. (Infernal Ruling) When you're in the middle of moving. (Note: Impact Attacks count as being in the middle of movement). When you're in the middle of an attack. Which also includes effects that occur "after the attack is resolved". (Although the attack is "resolved" at Step 11, in terms of using an "Any Time" ability the attack is not "finished" until after Step 14. Refer to the first paragraph of Apdx A.) Your opponent interrupted your activation to trigger one of their own abilities (such as Countercharge). Warcasters/warlocks/etc can normally cast a spell or use their feat "At any time". However, there is a core rule saying they cannot do so on the same activation that they run. So, they are subject to all the same restrictions listed above, plus they can't cast/feat before running. Units: See below. In general you can use "Any Time" abilities while you're knocked down or stationary (except Spells and Feats which specify you can't). If you have a gun with a random ROF, you can use an "Any Time" ability inbetween rolling the number of shots and actually making the first attack. (Infernal Ruling) Units with "Any Time" abilities You cannot use an "Any Time" ability before issuing/receiving orders. See step 1 and 2 of the activation sequence, appendix A. A model in a unit can't use an "Any Time" ability after they run (Infernal Ruling) or fail a charge. Because that makes that specific model's activation to end even though the unit's activation is still ongoing, and you can't use abilities on models that are not active. You can use an "Any Time" ability before running, however. A model in a unit can't use an "Any Time" ability after anyone in the unit has begun a Reposition move. (Infernal Ruling) Warcaster/Warlock Cavalry ( Edit ) Warcasters/Warlocks can't cast spells or use their feat while resolving Impact Attacks. Because Impact Attacks occur during movement - you can use spells or feat before moving, or after moving, but not during movement. Exception: If your Impact target(s) include your charge target, then your movement has ended (refer rulebook, last paragraph of 'Impact Attacks') and thus you're fine to use "any time" abilities before starting the Impact attacks. Rules Clarification:  : Warcaster Unit or Warlock Unit     (Edit) (Click Expand to read) This summary is specific to Warcaster/Warlock units. You may also want to check the Warcaster and Warlock pages respectively, for the "regular" rules clarifications. All models in the unit count as part of the battlegroup. So, for instance, Butcher3's argus can be moved via his Energizer spell. Warcaster units can have attachments. They can even attach units (such as the WSC). (Infernal Ruling) The non-caster models are trooper models but are not normally Grunt models. Therefore they're not normally eligible for stuff like Revive. If any member of the unit start to do their reposition movement, the warcaster or warlock in the unit would no longer be able to feat.(Infernal Ruling) Press Forward Order vs Spells cast at Any Time (Edit) You must issue orders before anything else. If you issue a Press Forward order, you must run or charge. If you cast spells before moving, you can't run so you must charge. If you cast spells before moving, then start the spellcaster's Normal Movement but have no valid charge targets, you are in a situation where you must charge but cannot charge. In this situation the spellcaster must either: forfeit their Combat Action, use their Normal Movement to make a full advance, then their activation ends. (Note that you cannot cast more spells after the full advance). forfeit their Normal Movement, then their activation ends. (Infernal Ruling) Steamroller 2018 The non-caster models can contest scenario zones & flags. The caster model cannot contest. The caster model can control zones and flags by itself, but: to control a zone, the entire unit remaining in play needs to be in formation. to control a flag, the entire unit remaining in play must be within 4" of the flag. Units Buying Attacks (Edit) If you make attacks with model [A], then start making attacks with model [B], you cannot 'go back' and buy more attacks with [A]. Because: A model can only buy additional attacks during its Combat Action. A model in a unit must complete its Combat Action before the next model starts theirs (with some exceptions, like CMA). Rules Clarification : Unit of Warcasters or Warlocks     (Edit) Even though they're warcasters, if they're out of formation they suffer the normal penalties (can't make attacks, actions, spells, etc). They can't upkeep each other's spells. They can only dominate one SteamRoller scenario element at a time. Each warlock/warcaster can have different upkeeps on them if those upkeeps are "target SELF" or "target model". If you cast an upkeep that is "target model/unit", that is the only upkeep any of them can have. Units Buying Attacks (Edit) If you make attacks with model [A], then start making attacks with model [B], you cannot 'go back' and buy more attacks with [A]. Because: A model can only buy additional attacks during its Combat Action. A model in a unit must complete its Combat Action before the next model starts theirs (with some exceptions, like CMA). The Legion Twins Rhyas cannot dominate a zone while out of formation. Rhyas can use the feat while out of formation. Haley3 Only Haley Prime is an 'actual' warcaster model, and as such she is the only one that can dominate a scenario element. The echoes can Control/Contest scenarios like a normal unit. Haley Prime can dominate an element even if the echoes are out of formation.

Rules Clarification : Construct - None yet. (Edit)