Wold Wight

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Wold Wight Circle Light Warbeast

The Wold Wight is a fiercely aggressive construct fabricated amid older rituals of the Circle Orboros; it is an entity that hungers to destroy. While its blazing lanterns are fearsome weapons, their true purpose is to set the wight ablaze. While afire, the wight closes with an enemy to devour it in a sacrificial pyre that consumes everything but the wight’s stone heart, which can be salvaged.

Basic Info

Wold Wight
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Warbeast - All warbeasts share a huge stack of special rules. The short version is they're big, furious, and beat stuff up pretty good. Click here for a newbie-friendly recap, or click here for the full rules.

Abilities

• Pathfinder
• Construct
• Fire's Fury - This model gains +5 ARM against fire damage. While suffering the Fire continuous effect this model cannot become knocked down and gains boosted attack & damage rolls.
• Shield Guard - Once per round, when a friendly model is directly hit by a non-spray ranged attack during your opponent's turn while within 3" of this model, you can choose to have this model directly hit instead. This model is automatically hit and suffers all damage and effects. This model cannot use Shield Guard while it is incorporeal, knocked down, or stationary. The Shield Guard special rule can only trigger once per attack roll.

Weapons

Lantern
		RNG				POW				P+S
		1				4				10
Continuous Fire

Animus

	COST	RNG	AOE	POW	DUR	OFF
Spontaneous Combustion	1	SELF	-	-	(★)	No
The spellcaster and models within 2" of it immediately suffer the Fire continuous effect.

Theme Forces

• Secret Masters
• The Bones of Orboros. Wold Wight heals 1 hitpoint during the Maintenance Phase in this theme.
• The Devourer's Host
• The Wild Hunt.

Recent Changes

No changes since 2021.10

Thoughts on Wold Wight

Wold Wight in a nutshell

The Wold Wight is a lesser warbeast in all but name and has three jobs: Shield Guard, setting infantry on fire, and powering up a Synergy chain. It more or less made the Ogrun Bokur obsolete in Circle.

Combos & Synergies

• Baldur the Stonecleaver and Baldur the Stonesoul - free charges are pretty great on a melee warbeast without advance deployment and with only two fury.
• Bradigus Thorle the Runecarver - a cheap construct to power up or benefit from Synergy.
• Any caster on a large base or who is otherwise likely to get shot (Bradigus and Morvahna the Dawnshadow spring to mind)
• Kromac, Champion of the Wurm - Hyper-aggressive on a shield guard is pretty fun. Of course the Wight doesn't benefit from half of Kromac's feat.
• Kaya the Wildheart - cheap warbeasts love Synergy even if the Wight doesn't benefit from Soothing Song.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Takes hits like a lesser
• Circle doesn't need help wrecking infantry.

Tricks & Tips

• Field it against Menoth and have a laugh.

Other

Trivia

• Released in the Xmas CID (2017.07)
• He has a longer fluff blurb on PP's "extras" page.
• When you type "wold wight" into Google, it auto-corrects and gives you results for a search for "wolf weight." You then have to click the "search instead for wold wight" link to get to the Hordes results. Even on that screen, it still suggests "Did you mean wolf weight?" Still no, Google. And who is weighing all of these wolves in the first place?

Other Circle models

Circle Index       (Edit)
Battlegroup & Similar
Warlocks	Baldur1 - Baldur2 - Bradigus1 - Grayle1 - Iona1 - Kaya1 - Kaya2 - Kaya3 - Kromac1 - Kromac2 - Krueger1 - Krueger2 - Mohsar1 - Morvahna1 - Morvahna2 - Tanith1 - Una2 - Wurmwood1
Lesser Warlocks	Krueger0 - Una1	Warlock Attachment	Druid Wilder - Tharn Blood Shaman
Light	Argus Moonhound - Winter Argus - Wild Argus - Gorax Rager - Razorwing Griffon - Rotterhorn Griffon - Scarsfell Griffon - Wold Wight - Woldwatcher - Woldwyrd
Heavy	Gnarlhorn Satyr - Riphorn Satyr - Shadowhorn Satyr - Feral Warpwolf - Pureblood Warpwolf - Warpwolf Stalker - Wold Guardian - Woldwarden Brennos the Elderhorn (Satyr) - Ghetorix (Warpwolf) - Loki (Warpwolf) - Megalith (Woldwarden)
Gargantuans	Storm Raptor - Woldwrath
Units, Solos, Battle Engines, & Structures
Units	Druid Mist Riders - Druids of Orboros & CA - Reeves of Orboros & CA - Sentry Stone & Mannikins - Shifting Stones & CA - Stoneward & Woldstalkers - Tharn Bloodtrackers & Character UA - Tharn Bloodweavers & CA - Tharn Blood Pack - Tharn Ravagers & CA - Tharn Wolf Riders - Warpborn Skinwalkers & CA - Wolves of Orboros & CA Brighid & Caul - Death Wolves
Solos	Blackclad Stoneshaper - Blackclad Wayfarer - Bloodweaver Night Witch - Chuck Dogwood - Druid Wilder - Gallows Grove - Kogan the Exile - Krueger0 - Lord of the Feast - Reeve Hunter - Primal Archon - Shivers - Tharn Blood Shaman - Tharn Ravager Shaman - Tharn Ravager White Mane - Tharn Wolf Rider Champion - Una1 - War Wolf - Wolf Lord Morraig
Battle Engines & Structures	Celestial Fulcrum (Engine) - Well of Orboros (Structure)
Theme Forces
Secret Masters - The Bones of Orboros - The Devourer's Host - The Wild Hunt
Minions
Refer to Who Works for Whom and/or Category: Circle Orboros Minion
This index was last updated: 2021.10

Rules Clarifications

Rules Clarification : Fire      (Edit) If you deploy in fire hazard terrain (Burning Earth), then you get set on fire before the game starts. Deploying a model in a hazard counts as being "put into play" in the hazard. Being put into play counts as "entering". When you enter a hazard, you trigger the hazard. Moving into "Shallow water" standard terrain does not cause continuous fire to expire. It's magic fire. You can always use non-standard terrain if you agree with your opponent before the game starts, however. A weapon can inflict continuous fire without itself being a fire damage weapon (for example, the Helios's fists). In this case, the attack can hurt models with Immunity:Fire it just won't apply the continuous effect. In terms of which player's clock is running down during the Maintenance Phase: The active player will roll for expiration of all the continuous effects. Then the inactive player will roll for all the damages of the continuous effects. (Judge Ruling)

Rules Clarification : Pathfinder      (Edit) Pathfinder (Edit) - Pathfinder does not apply to involuntary movement (pushes & slams). (Infernal Ruling)

Rules Clarification : Construct - None yet. (Edit)
Rules Clarification : Fire's Fury - None yet. (Edit)

Rules Clarification : Shield Guard and/or Shadow Guardian     (Edit) You can't use this ability vs spells. You shift all effects onto the new model, including stuff that triggers on "when this attack hits". When you use this ability vs an AOE attack, the template moves too. Because, with reference to Apdx A, the hit 'moves' at Step 6 and the template placement is determined at Step 7. This ability doesn't work vs Point Blank attacks. Because Point Blank attacks are melee attacks that are made using a ranged weapon. On the other hand, it will work vs Gunfighter attacks. Shield Guard only Since Shield Guard specifies "opponent's turn", it can't be used against stuff that shoots in your own turn (such as Watcher or Counterblast). The Shield Guard does not necessarily need to be in the attacker's LOS or range. The Shield Guarder is always hit even if they have an ability that makes them automatically get missed, such as Stealth. (Automatically missing is determined earlier in the timing sequence than the Shield Guard moving the hit.) (Infernal Ruling)

Rules Clarification : Spontaneous Combustion - None yet. (Edit)