Tubbin

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Tubbin Mercenary, & Minion, Gobber Character Solo

Tubbin is a hard-working gobber who made his living as a mechanik in old Khador. He's always enjoyed weapons of war, preferring to work on loud machines capable of making big explosions. The love of a good "Boom!" runs in his family, as his cousins Gubbin and Flubbin can conform.

Basic Info

Tubbin
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Riot Quest - Although this model has rules which allow it to be played in Warmachine and Hordes, it was primarily designed for the Riot Quest boardgame. RQ is set in an alternate and/or future timeline where the Infernals won the war. Some of the RQ models are slightly more goofy than their WMH equivalents.

Mercenary - This model will work for Crucible Guard, Cygnar, and Khador.

Minion - This model will work for Circle, and Trollbloods.

Abilities

• Girded - This model and friendly models B2B with it do not suffer blast damage.
• Mechanikally Adept - This model can target non-Faction models with Repair special actions.
• Repair [d3+3] (★ Action) - RNG B2B. Target friendly Faction construct model. If the model is in range, remove d3+3 damage points from it.
• Tune Up [ Battle Engine ] (★ Action) - RNG B2B. Target friendly Battle Engine. If the model is in range, all attack and damage rolls resulting from its next basic attack this turn are boosted.

Weapons

Mechanikal Axe
		RNG				POW				P+S
		1				7				12
Damage Type: Magical
Mechanikal Shield
		RNG				POW				P+S
		0.5				5				10
Damage Type: Magical Shield

Theme Forces

• Mercenary
  • The Irregulars

• Minion
  • The Blindwater Congregation
  • Vengeance of Dhunia
  • Will Work for Food

• Other Factions
  • Infernal players can use this model in the Hearts of Darkness theme, but only if Crosse2 is leading the army.
  • Trollblood players can use this model in the Vengeance of Dhunia theme.
  • Furthermore, Minion models can be hired by other Factions. Normally those Factions' themes will have a limit on how many models they can hire. Refer to #Other Theme Forces, below.

Thoughts on Tubbin

Tubbin in a nutshell

Tubbin is an expensive mechanic with a good melee combat profile and good durability, which is rare to say for a gobber solo. But this is all secondary to what he offers Battle Engines.

Tune Up can be devastating but the factions Tubbin can play in limit it's application. Trollbloods, especially in the Vengeance of Dhunia theme get a lot out of it on the War Wagon.

He is best taken as a requisition option as he probably isn't worth 5pts of value on its own.

Combos & Synergies

• Battle Engines, naturally.
  • In particular a War Wagon under Tune Up and Gunnbjorn2's feat can perform a devastating pounder shot.
  • With Signs & Portends or Hand of Fate you can get the most out of your Tune Up attacks, that is a Siege Chariot, Assault Chariot or Gun Carriage under Vladimir1 or Vladimir2 or a Sacral Vault under Jaga-Jaga.
  • Nemo4 can camp two more focus if you tune him up, keeping him safer from retaliation
• As a Gobber, he grants you access to Malvin & Mayhem.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• As it stands, if you Tune Up a battle engine and the first attack it makes is an impact attack, you effectively lose Tune Up because impact attacks can never be boosted, but it still qualifies as "the first attack the model makes".
• Hilariously, he is not in the one merc theme where mercs would take battle engines, Hammer Strike.
• If you just want him to repair stuff he costs as much as 2 other mercenary options Dirty Meg, Colbie Sterling, Raluk & the Gobber Tinker
• He struggles to keep up with certain battle engines. Most can reposition back towards him but he really needs to get as far as he can up the board turn 1.

Tricks & Tips

• Tune Up works best as a ranged buff (charges get boosted damage anyway, and impact attacks can never be boosted). Battle Engines with quality guns thus get the most from this ability, think Nemo4, War Wagons, Railless Interceptors.
• Tune Up on a Meat Thresher's High-Impact only buffs one attack. Unlike a spray attack which generates multiple attack rolls, High-Impact generates multiple attacks.

Other

Trivia

• Released 2021.10
• Flubbin and Gubbin are sister and brother, respectively, and Tubbin is their cousin.

Rules Clarifications

Rules Clarification : Girded - None yet. (Edit)
Rules Clarification : Mechanikally Adept - None yet. (Edit)

Rules Clarification : Repair      (Edit) When repairing warjacks, you can choose which damage boxes to heal - they don't all have to be the same column. If you get a +1 bonus to a repair roll, that is one extra hitpoint healed. Not +1 to the number of pips showing on the dice.

Rules Clarification : Tune Up      (Edit) Power Attacks are not basic attacks. If the next basic attack generates multiple basic attacks (i.e. High-Impact) then only one of those generated attacks will get the Tune Up buff. (Infernal Ruling)

Rules Clarification:  : Magical Damage      (Edit) (Click Expand to read)

* The "Damage Type: Magical" is not inherited by "secondary" damage from a weapon. That is, stuff like arcs (Electro Leap) or hazards (Scather). (Infernal Ruling) All spells have "Damage Type: Magical" (refer errata). This is inherited by "immediate" secondary damage (such as Eruption of Spines). (Infernal Ruling) and might be inherited by "lingering" secondary damage (see below). If a spell leaves a template in play that does damage to models that walk around in it, then: if it is not described as a hazard it will do magical damage to models that walk around in it. (Example: Razor Wall) if it is a hazard then it will not do magical damage to models that walk around in it. Instead, it does whatever damage type is specified by the spell description. (Example: Breath of Corruption). (Infernal Ruling) If a weapon/spell includes Magic Damage and another kind of elemental damage it will still damage Incorporeal models. Incorporeal models are not affected by the rule "if an attack does multiple types of damage and a model is immune to at least one it is immune to the entire attack." The phrase "immune to non-magical damage" should be interpreted as "immune to damage that doesn't include Damage Type: Magical" (not interpreted as "has immunity to Corrosion and Electricity and Cold and etc.")

Rules Clarification : Shield and/or Buckler     (Edit) The only time you lose the Shield bonus is when the weapon is crippled, or if the attack originates in your back arc. (Infernal Ruling) In other words, you still get the Shield bonus while knocked down or stationary. You don't get the Shield bonus vs stuff originating in your back arc. This includes stuff that "leaps" off models in your back arc, such as Electro Leap. (Locked thread)