Maelok the Dreadbound

Maelok the Deadbound

Minion Warlock

The gatorman warlock known as Maelok the Dreadbound exists in a torturous state of undeath as an animated corpse bound to the will of another. Despite his decaying physical form, Maelok is still a mighty bokor who can return slain allies to life, steal the souls of the living, or connect to the spirit world to transform his army temporarily into ghostly horrors unimpeded by flesh, stone, or steel.

Name	Maelok1
Faction	Minions
Type	Warlock
Base Size	Medium
Warbeast Points	Average
SPD	Average
MAT	High
DEF	Average
ARM	High
Fury	Veteran

Weapons and Attacks

• Bite - Chomp. Average P+S, short range melee. He shouldn't be in melee...
  • Damage Type: Magical
  • Spirit Eater - This model can reave fury from enemy warbeasts destroyed by this weapon. Other models cannot reave fury points from enemy warbeasts destroyed by this weapon.
• 2*Claw - Average P+S, short range melee.
  • Damage Type: Magical

Special Abilities

• Minion for Skorne, Legion, Circle, and Trollbloods
• Warlock - All warlocks 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.
• Gatorman Warlock - This model can only have Minion Gatorman warbeasts in its battlegroup.
• Amphibious
• Undead
• Field Marshal [Undead] - Warbeasts/warjacks in this model's battlegroup gain Undead.
• Soul Taker: Cull Soul - This model can gain soul tokens. When a living enemy model is destroyed within 2" of this model, this model gains the destroyed model's soul token. After this model {{{1}}} during your next Control Phase, replace each soul token with 1 {{{2}}} point.

Feat: Spirit World

Minions become incorporeal. Minion undead get an ARM buff.

Spells

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! SELF

! Control

! -

! Round

! -

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! 10

! -

! -

! Round

! Yes

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! Control

! -

! -

! -

! No

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! 8" spray

! -

! 10 (Corrosion)

! -

! Yes

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Analysis of Maelok the Dreadbound

Maelok the Dreadbound in a nutshell

With a 4 point ARM swing on a Posse unit, Revive, and a battlegroup-wide ARM buff on feat turn Maelok is as close to a brick-caster with infantry as Minions currently have access to (Carver1 of course runs bricks with Batten Down the Hatches). And Venom and Mortality are two great offensive spells

Common army selection

• Gatorman Posse If you're running an infantry brick this is a good first choice.
• Blind Walker A spell slinger wants to channel. That's what this beast is for - and mortality is an excellent spell
• Gatorman Witch Doctor - make more of your army undead!

Changes from Mk II

Big sideways nerf by the nerf to the Posse, and by the Revive nerf. In exchange he gained Mortality, and has a larger Fury pool.