New Merc for Menoth: Taryn di la Rovissi

[ozmo]

Frontpage has a new merc we can use.
She's a gun mage with two guns, might be good as solo hunter.
Hard to believe it'll be better than Eiryss

http://privateerpress.com/warmachine/gallery/mercenaries/solos/taryn-di-la-rovissi

[HandsomeDan]

Ah yes good ole Chesty di la Rovissi. I plan on having fun with her in a merc army but as is so often the case with Protectorate I doubt she'll be more useful than faction stuff. But I guess any source of accurate direct fire can never be overlooked in a Protectorate force. I'm hoping she gets her own unique set of Amethyst rose abilities rather than just standard ATGM stuff.

[Snake Eyes]

SWEEET! I'm always so happy when we get to use a new Merc. And a Gun Mage! Thank you, Hierarch Severius for taking over... errrr... I mean liberating Lael and giving us access to all their cool stuff!

[canadarobc]

Mmmmmmm Gun Mage. I approve of this. More options are never a bad thing.

[Justicator]

I'm pumped, she looks awesome. I love the concept of gunmages, so I'm really excited we'll be able to field one in Menoth.

[strangedane]

In your FACE Cygnar! That's karma for you! :D

[Moonblade]

And she has big boobies. I wonder how she'll look when I paint her white and red.. big-boob gunslinging menite nun.. yum..

[jandrese]

I'm guarded about her. The GMCA and most other shooty solos are pretty mediocre these days. I'm afraid she's going to have POW 10 RNG 10 guns with only marginally useful secondary abilities for 3 points.

[moorg]

I'm guarded about her. The GMCA and most other shooty solos are pretty mediocre these days. I'm afraid she's going to have POW 10 RNG 10 guns with only marginally useful secondary abilities for 3 points.

Or she could actually be useful, like Kell Bailoch or either Eiryss.

[Invaderzahn]

She is Sculpted with two pistols so I'm hoping that the gets two shots per turn.

[Marius]

Ryan and Holt (although not solos) are both good precedents for her, being the other notable dual wielding gunfighters. So i'm gonna be optimistic about this one. Also, i already own her so even if she's not the best we can get for her points value, i'm gonna be using her. Now lets hope some more of the IK line make it into Protectorate friendly mercs.

[Exemplar's_Gaze]

I demand to see a cat fight between Ryan and Taryn in the fluff.

[Lanz]

I'm guarded about her. The GMCA and most other shooty solos are pretty mediocre these days. I'm afraid she's going to have POW 10 RNG 10 guns with only marginally useful secondary abilities for 3 points.

I doubt it. I found that the majority of merc models that had guns all got upgraded to full rng12 pow12 hand cannons. If anything, she'll have Magelock Pistols, which are rng10, pow10, but she'll have spells to toss through them.

*hopes for an additional-damage-dice spell*

[Lanz]

I know this is an old thread, but I figured I may as well post it here rather than make a new thread.

Here are her cards. Personally, I think she could be really useful. Potentially she can cause 2d3 damage to warjacks per turn, and she can split up her spells for a lot of neat combos.

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s241/Farseer_Emlyn/TaryndilaRovissiFront.jpg

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s241/Farseer_Emlyn/TaryndilaRovissiBack.jpg

[LordGrimlok]

I'm curious as to what she will do for Rutger Shaw. I'm not familiar with either of these 2's fluffs. Anyone care to elaborate on them and how they work together fluffwise? Maybe that'll give a hint towards their potential on the table together.

[Razhem]

Pretty nice. Love the phantom bullet that lets us shoot trough a model. Will be awesome to get LOS from unexpected angles or to make the pop and drop easier when a model is covered by no KD models.

[Razhem]

False alarm, Shadow bullets only work on friendly faction models, so we don't benefit from it.

Rot is cute, but her main selling point to me was shadow bullets, don't really see myself fielding her.

[Mootaz]

Shadow Fire + Eiryss = WIN.

[Lord Xalys]

Pretty nice. Love the phantom bullet that lets us shoot trough a model. Will be awesome to get LOS from unexpected angles or to make the pop and drop easier when a model is covered by no KD models.

Unfortunately, we can't use Shadow Fire: it specifies 'friendly Faction model', meaning Mercs only. Still, could be handy in conjunction with Rutger Shaw, Aiyana & Holt or Eiryss.

I'm more stoked about two accurate shots per turn (RAT7, Black Penny) or a potential 6 corrosion damage points on a 'jack's hull.

LX

[Poet]

Still taking two intervening models out of the way for eyriss to get LOS to something is sweet.
I'm definitely picking her up.
What about Rutger Shaw, and spoilers on him?

[Rosicrucian]

Shaw was spoiled in the merc forum by someone who mailed in for the card. Highlights are MAT, RAT 6, Mk1 TFG defensive stats, POW 12 magic sword, Hand Cannon, Dodge, Tough, Jack Marshal(Merc), Re-roll Drive and Flank with both his marshalled jack and Taryn. 2 points.

[Lord Xalys]

When Rutger is in Taryn's CMD, she also gains Dodge and Tough. Nifty!

P.S. I just realized that Shadow Fire does work on Taryn herself. She could shoot something big with Shadow Fire, then take her second shot on the now exposed squishy that was hiding behind it. Not game breaking, but not bad at all either.

LX

[Moonblade]

6 pure damage on warjack hull per turn for a 2pt. model = wonderful.

[Goldstep]

This was one of those wonderful buys -- IKRPG mini that I bought to use a Gun Mage in Witchfire a while back. Now she works with Highborne and Menoth... my two WM armies Free cake!

[WielderOfTheTrueLaw]

I've been looking to get a merc group that'll work with my army. I'll like to Taryn, Rutger, and an undetermined merc jack.

I love that Taryn's got Iron Rot. Makes her threatening to enemy jacks. Especially if she keeps targeting the same jack. She could potentially strip down half a jacks points and it'll make the Devastator much easier to crack.

[Lord Xalys]

I've been looking to get a merc group that'll work with my army. I'll like to Taryn, Rutger, and an undetermined merc jack.

I love that Taryn's got Iron Rot. Makes her threatening to enemy jacks. Especially if she keeps targeting the same jack. She could potentially strip down half a jacks points and it'll make the Devastator much easier to crack.

A Talon might complement Rutger (and Taryn) nicely and create a dedicated anti-warjack group: a cheap 'jack with Reach to get easier Flank and Stall on the target.

1) Shoot target 'jack twice with Taryn's Iron Rot;
2) Charge target 'jack with Talon (MAT8 thanks to Powerful Charge);
3) Charge target 'jack (now DEF7) with Rutger.

Yeah, me like.

LX

[Rosicrucian]

IMO the Buccaneer is the best jack to marshal with Rutger. His net, which causes knockdown, really benefits from his reroll drive. With 5+3d6 re-rolled you can pretty reliably knockdown even warcasters. The thing is dirt cheap at 3 points and has reach to turn on Rutger's flank. A package of Taryn/Rutger/ Buccaneer would be 7 points. Throw in Eiryss and you could shadow fire their screen, knock down their caster, and then hit them with a disruptor bolt. It might be fun for you guys to try in games of 50+ points.

Rutger and Taryn alone also make a reasonable duo. You get two fancy magelock shots and a hand cannon at range and two accurate POW 10s and a P+S 12 with flank in melee. Since they both have tough and dodge they're fairly survivable too.

[Lord Xalys]

IMO the Buccaneer is the best jack to marshal with Rutger. His net, which causes knockdown, really benefits from his reroll drive. With 5+3d6 re-rolled you can pretty reliably knockdown even warcasters. The thing is dirt cheap at 3 points and has reach to turn on Rutger's flank. A package of Taryn/Rutger/ Buccaneer would be 7 points. Throw in Eiryss and you could shadow fire their screen, knock down their caster, and then hit them with a disruptor bolt. It might be fun for you guys to try in games of 50+ points.

Rutger and Taryn alone also make a reasonable duo. You get two fancy magelock shots and a hand cannon at range and two accurate POW 10s and a P+S 12 with flank in melee. Since they both have tough and dodge they're fairly survivable too.

Good thoughts there! Just remember that Rutger 'suffers' from the same thing as the Dawnguard Scyir: when both the marshal and his 'jack are not yet in melee, you either take the re-roll, or the flank action. After all, you need to activate Rutger first to trigger the Drive.

But yeah, the Buccaneer is a very solid choice with Rutger so it seems!

LX

[DarkWonderer]

Buccaneer is neat, but I would try good old Mule :D Especialy with one of my Deadeye casters (sorry menites). JM boost and reroll make criticals easy. Adding Deadeye you make it insanely good (and it workd well in MKI even with no access to rerolls).

[ozmo]

can anyone post the stats for her and Rutger Shaw, can't open links?

[Jake the Dog]

I second ozmo.
I'm on a mobile and pictures from photobucket won't upload. Anyone that could rehost them in tinypic, elsewhere, or just post stats.

[Poet]

Ask and you shall receive:
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_fWqUMKUD7xE/S1mww2Kn7DI/AAAAAAAABS4/sfaTTyFGAX8/s800/TaryndilaRovissiFront.jpg

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_fWqUMKUD7xE/S1mwwXwwpgI/AAAAAAAABS0/a40QUQv8FBM/s800/TaryndilaRovissiBack.jpg

[ozmo]

Thanks for the post!

[Jake the Dog]

Ask and you shall receive:
*snip*

Awesome! Thanks. I like her. :D

Anyone with Rutger Shaw's?

[whitekong]

She will be a great way for merc's to get to our support models. Team her up with hearne and john and kiss big chunks of support goodbye.

[WielderOfTheTrueLaw]

combine her with the daughters of the flame and you have a boat load of automatic damage against jacks. Twelve from the daughters and 2d3 from Taryn. Once again, the Devastator will be strap so easily.

[IRSMARTLIKEROCK]

How will that work?
Anatomical Precision - When this modelʼs melee damage roll fails to exceed the ARM of the living model hit, that model suffers
1 damage point.

Bolding is mine, though I do wish it would work against non-living models. If only to wreck Cryx stuff easily.

[whitekong]

How will that work?
Anatomical Precision - When this modelʼs melee damage roll fails to exceed the ARM of the living model hit, that model suffers
1 damage point.

Bolding is mine, though I do wish it would work against non-living models. If only to wreck Cryx stuff easily.

And again here we go letting the rules ruin everyone's fun, I hope you are happy.:rolleyes:

[Lord Xalys]

How will that work?
Anatomical Precision - When this modelʼs melee damage roll fails to exceed the ARM of the living model hit, that model suffers
1 damage point.

Bolding is mine, though I do wish it would work against non-living models. If only to wreck Cryx stuff easily.

Luckily, Daughters do have a field day against warbeasts. Imagine what a few of the gals can do under eKreoss' feat... 3pts autodamage per Daughter on that Warpwolf, ignoring the bloody Forced Evolution DEF buff altogether. And Taryn will be happily solo hunting in the meantime. :)

LX

[Poet]

Played with her today, and loved very second of it... And I didn't play eyriss... and I played against hordes.

Black penny, rat 7 (9 if aiming) is just sweet to finish off those things that survived your charges.
Had a bad roll and something left with 2-3 damage? Taryn will take care of it.
She isn't as concise about taking out single troops as kell, but she has some great utility. I can't wait to try her with eyriss/against warmachine.

[Goldstep]

The part of me which is INSANE has already found the perfect Merc 75 pt army --

Ashlynn
-Mule
-Vanguard
Eiryss
Alexia
Sam and 9 Dogs
-Mule
-Mariner
Cylena and 9 Nyss
Anastasia
Lady Aiyana & Master Holt
Dirty Meg
-Nomad
-Talon
First Mate Hawk
Taryn
Dannon and BullMadelyn Corbeau