It's this one from TAG raid, available in vanilla CA and MAF: In my opinion, she's incredible. Thank God she has no Immunity to shock or Mimetism, otherwise, it would have started coming towards the "broken" territory. Pairing her up with Zerats looks like fun.
"She" is a very nice profile and is a powerful model. It is always good to have another TAG hunter available.
Working fine for me, but they're also in the latest update https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/corvusbelli/infinity-deathmatch-tag-raid/posts/3360489
I can't help but put one foot on the "its worse than new libertos and 50% more expensive reeee" train. But it is certainly an interesting model and it has some upsides over it's non alien counterpart. Pretty stoked it gets a minelayer at least (inb4 MAF doesn't get that one)
If that model is AVA 2 or 3 in MAF it will be a boon. It will add midfield defense to an army that has none. I am definitely happy with it.
I don't play Morat myself, but I am introducing a new player who wants to. Do you feel that the Zerat minelayer doesn't fill the midfield defense role already?
Sorta but not really. The zerat minelayer is good, but so is the zerat hacker, the zerat FO and the zerat Red Fury. So the Zerat is already juggling several different roles here. It's good to have options, and this chick his way, way harder than a zerat within 8 inches. She can afford to suicide run an achilles/HI/TAG, something the zerat can't. But you're right, MAF does have ONE midfield defense model. But two is better than one :P
The addition of this forward deploying beast hunter potentially with minelayer makes me want to run zerats. I like zerats as a profile but I don't use them in MAF since they're all alone out there, having another model up towards there with a different skillset that can lay mines is a big boost IMO.
Don't really rate the Zerat minelayer as a defensive model since thats all it does, and lacking camo it doesn't have the shell game effect or the general defensive utility of other equivalents. Not really enough for the price point and model slot IMO. One of the suggestions I have had for MAF has been for more Zerats to get minelayer including one of the specialist ones So it's good to get a model with minelayer that does have midfield deterrence. Maybe less so on the reactive and more of a "if you stop here she's gotta beast you on my turn" kind of deterrence but that does work also. While a MIM-6 BS 11 Zerat isn't all that great for this it does kind of become good when you can pair it with a MIM nothing berserk nutjob that can break the things the Zerat can't touch
Is this in addition to the other Beast Hunters? They say they are available to all generic armies. Then there are others that are available to certain factions. But since the Tyrok Hunters have their own profile, it looks separate.
It is in addition to the beast hunters, yes. I would wager the Tyrok is only available to Combined and MAF. MAYBE Combined gets Beast Hunters as well, but MAF definitely is only getting Tyroks.
Thread Necromancy: This bad bitch is REALLY, REALLY AWESOME. I've ran her in a small ITS event yesterday and ooh boy. Used forward deployment to set her up and a mine in a particularly murky side of the table that wouldn't allow my opponent to come at her from more than 24 inches away. Then paid a CT to put her in supressive fire. She whooped so much ass. Mission was capture and protect, my oponent was vanilla aleph. Tyrok proceeded to supress a garuda (dead after a lucky T2 hit) and an authorized bounty hunter, that also got killed by a lucky T2 hit in suppressive. Come my active turn she goes apeshit in frenzy and runs forward, killing two proxies, one with T2 fire and the other with DUAL HEAVY PISTOLS IN CC because fuck visual mods, dodge this! She took a wound going at that second proxy, so I decide to YOLO her into the objective and she proceeded to tank two mines and die gloriously berserking a naga, leaving the objective wide open. If this kind of design is what we can expect fro the Morat remake I might actually enjoy it.
Thread necromancy is well deserved, she's a badass. Dangerous in melee, dangerous in close combat, can bring minelayer or a mini-me Skurgot for melee. I'm glad you got some good use out of her, I hope the rework increases her AVA so my converted one can stand alongside the preorder one.
The Trench Hammer also gives her a nasty ARO within 8", and a DAM16 DA anti-materiel weapon your destroying things.
Are you sure this is the model? What's with the hammer? - The prospector holds it. I smell profile updates...
In my games I ended up not using the Hammer at all as I had her set-up in suppressive fire and then she died in my active turn from taking too many AROs. However, I am aware that the hammer is a good option as a aro as it rolls with her PH14 stat which is way better than her BS11. I'm just not sure about using the hammer in active turn yet, as it can't quite compete with B3 for the pistols or even B2 in Melee. Unless she's facing a hardier target, but I'm not sure I'd send her against one tbh.