Kraken brings the pain

[zeezok]

A friend of mine went to Lock and Load and brought back some toys so I used her Kraken tonight in a 50 point game with the Coven vs Nemo3 and it did not disappoint! I ran Kraken, full Bloodwitches + Hag, 2 Necrotechs, 2 Nightwretches, 2 WWS, WSC, and Gorman. I apologize for not being really familiar with the Cygnar that I fought against but my opponent used a Stormclad, 2 lights, Black 13th, Stormstrider, the field artillary (storm spire?), a few solos (no idea), and the Stormblades I believe.

I cast and upkept Infernal Machine on the Kraken all game and he was able to put 10 points on Nemo3 at the top of turn 2 without any corpses. The Bloodwitches and Hag obliterated the Stormblades the same turn and I popped my feat, basically stopping my opponent from being able to touch me even though he feated in response. The top of 3 is where it ended with a Stygian Abyss arcnode assassination but the Kraken, even for 19 points, was a large part of the victory.

The threat that is brings with the 4" melee and Sweep power attack is a massive deterrent to any enemy engaging it. With Inf Mach it has an 11" melee threat range at Deathjack MAT which is just absurd when you consider that it gets a free shot if it kills a living model, giving it an effective 27" ranged threat at a min of pow 17 on the gun!!

I wasn't sold on the looks when they released the sculpt on the interwebz but when I saw it IRL it was just love at first sight. I was honestly worried that the unicorn horn was silly and the front of the model was boring and under-detailed but I played an unpainted model tonight and it was still pretty awesome to see on the board. The Kraken demands a response from the opponent and with a main gun that can threaten a massive area there just isn't a good way to stop it from delivering a few brutal shells to some key pieces, I absolutely love it and I plan on buying my own as soon as they're available!

[Darvanus]

You can add 3 inches to that threat range with a charge.

[Sheer_Falacy]

Note that sweep doesn't get the 4 inch reach.

But I'm glad it did well. Witch coven feat turn is pretty mean to Nemo's feat turn.

[Adurot]

And while we're at it, you can't Sweep when you Charge.

[zeezok]

Note that sweep doesn't get the 4 inch reach.

Pretty sure it does, the card reads that it gets a 4" melee during its activation so even though sweep says all models within 2" we assumed that 4" melee trumped that due to wording

[deademon]

And while we're at it, you can't Sweep when you Charge.

*ignorant*

why not? i can thrash when i charge with tartarous. isnt it a *special attack*?

[zeezok]

*ignorant*

why not? i can thrash when i charge with tartarous. isnt it a *special attack*?

No, it's a different power attack called Sweep, still costs a focus and only attacks 1 field of fire, not the whole front arc

[zeezok]

You can add 3 inches to that threat range with a charge.

truth, I wrote this whole report after drinking a fair amount of adult beverages and totally forgot to include that in my inebriated state


also, I just noticed that the forums edit out the second part of your name, LOL!!

[juckto]

No 4" on the sweep. Infernal ruling:

http://privateerpressforums.com/show...=1#post1473689

[Adurot]

Sweep is a Power Attack that specifies 2", and doesn't use your melee weapon, only base Strength. The 4" reach rule is on it's melee weapon, so sadly no 4" Sweeps, which would have been Awesome.

Power Attacks are *attacks, but you can only use a *attack on the Charge if it's attached to a melee weapon. The Sauce's Thresher is on his axe, so he's good. Phoenix's Combustion is a *attack that's on the model, not the weapon, so it would be another example of one you can't use when you Charge.

With only walking and only 2", you aint going to be alpha threshing much infantry I think. More to be used as a response when they try to jam you or fail to kill you with a bunch of troops.

Too bad we don't have a way to give The Kraken 360• vision for the full circle thresher, because that would be sweet.

[Gamingdevil]

Too bad we don't have a way to give The Kraken 360• vision for the full circle thresher, because that would be sweet.

Though they're still checking to see if that would override the arc of fire rule.