Doctor Alejandro Mosby

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Doctor Alejandro Mosby Crucible Guard Character Command Attachment - (Ranking Officer)

Doctor Alejandro Mosby is an alchemist obsessed with his work, foregoing all comforts in his latest efforts to unlock new discoveries. Mosby, who supports the Guard as head of its surgical division, has become obsessed with the effect of alchemical concoctions on the body, human or otherwise. Soldiers given to his care receive treatment with wary apprehension, as the man has a reputation as a dangerous lunatic. He views the battlefield as the ideal test bed for his latest creations, exposing his troops to all manner of combat stimulants without restriction. That a significant number of his mercenaries who survive the fighting subsequently expire does not deter the doctor in the slightest.

Basic Info

Doctor Alejandro Mosby
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Attachment [ Small- or Medium-based Mercenary ] - This model can be added to a small- or medium-based Mercenary unit.

Ranking Officer - This model is a Ranking Officer. While this model is in play, models in its unit are Crucible Guard models instead of Mercenary models.

Abilities

• Officer
• Breather - This model does not suffer gas effects.
• Field Work - This model can use one of the following special rules at the start of its unit's activation. Each model in this unit gains the benefits listed while in formation.
  • Coagulum of Entropy - Affected models gain Immunity: Corrosion. When an affected model is hit by a melee attack, the attacking model suffers the the Corrosion continuous effect. Coagulum of Entropy lasts for one round.
  • Fortemorphic Elixir - Affected living models gain +2 STR and gain Overtake. Fortemorphic Elixir lasts for one round. (Overtake - When a model with Overtake destroys one or more enemy models with a basic melee attack during its Combat Action, after the attack is resolved it can immediately advance up to 1".)
  • The Good Stuff - Affected living models gain Tough and cannot become knocked down but suffer -1 to attack rolls. The Good Stuff lasts for one round.
• Heal [d3+2] (★ Action) - RNG B2B. Target friendly living Faction model. If the model is in range, remove d3+2 damage points from it.
• Revivifier [ Minifeat ] - This model can use Revivifier once per game at any time during its activation. While in this model's command range, friendly Faction warrior models gain Tough. Additionally, when a friendly Faction warrior model makes a Tough roll of 4, 5, or 6 while in this model's command range, that model can remove 1 damage point. Revivifier lasts for one round.

Weapons

• Combat Syringe - 0.5" reach, doesn't do a damage roll.
  • Anaesthesia - A living model damaged by an attack from this weapon becomes stationary for one round.
  • Needle - Instead of suffering a damage roll, a living model hit by this weapon automatically suffers 1 damage point. This weapon cannot damage non-living models.

Theme Forces

As a Merc unit attachment, he can be in the theme that allows Merc units:

• Magnum Opus

Thoughts on Doctor Alejandro Mosby

Doctor Alejandro Mosby in a nutshell

Doctor Alejandro Mosby is a ranking officer - a model who takes control of a unit of Mercenaries and makes them Crucible Guard while he's alive. He also gives that unit a little more "oomph" with his drugs.

There are three different reasons you'll include a Ranking Officer:

1. You want to get a "friendly Faction" spell/buff from your CG caster onto a Mercenary unit.
2. You want to get a "friendly Faction" spell/buff from a Mercenary unit onto your own forces.
3. You want to include a Mercenary unit anyway, and they will get better with the drugs.

Combos & Synergies

• Steelhead Halberdiers - cheap enough, Tough helps with delivery/jamming, +2 STR means they hit at POW13 while charging. Syvestro's Transmutation pushes their STR even higher and DEF to above average.
• Order of Illumination Resolutes - A great medium-base unit that gets a lot of benefits from Mosby with a laundry list of good synergies. Gearhart and Syvestro can really make them shine. They can bring up to 3 Morrowan Battle Priest attachments for some cheap, hard-hitting shield guards.
• Legion of Lost Souls - Expensive and don't benefit from all of Mosby's special rules, but truly ridiculous with Transmutation and other CG buffs. They can also bring Morrowan Battle Priest attachments, and their Blood Bound recursion ability can not only bring back Priests, but also Mosby himself. Keep in mind they cannot Shield Wall as long as he's alive.
• Horgenhold Forge Guard - Weapon Masters love STR buffs and with other CG (de)buffs they can hit extremely hard.
• Press Gangers - Advance Deployment is great, bonus STR and CG (de)buffs let them hit reasonably hard and overtake facilitates usage of Gang. Shanghai is situationally useful for RFP and recursion.
• Sea Dog Pirates - Another cheap unit that have some unusual synergies with Mosby and CG casters. Adding Lord Rockbottom pushes them into truly ridiculous territory for such a cheap unit.
• Greygore Boomhowler & Co. - Premiere jamming unit with no-KD 4+ tough.
• Herne & Jonne - Artillerist for all your AOE needs. They also of course love CG buffs and debuffs. A Scattershot buffed by Artillerist and e.g. Hot-Shot against a rusted target is going to hurt.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• With no defensive mechanism outside of Tough, Mosby is easy to kill and without him melee units lose a lot of their oomph.
• He has a relatively small CMD stat of 7 which limits the ability of the unit to spread out and requires Mosby to be close to the action where he does not want to be.
• The Mercenary unit can't take their normal CA, and some Merc units only get decent when they get that CA.
• The only order a Ranking Officer can issue is Press Forward (plus any on their own card, which Mosby has none). This means Merc units can't use specialized orders such as Shield Wall, at least not until Mosby dies.

Tricks & Tips

• His mini-feat Revivifier applies to ALL friendly faction models within 7" of Mosby, not just his unit.
• Coagulum of Entropy only applies the Corrosion continuous effect, it does not directly damage enemies, and even then only after they hit a model. As such, it gets more utility by giving the unit Immunity:Corrosion to protect them from friendly corrosion (e.g., Vulcan sprays) or enemy corrosion attacks.

Other

Trivia

"Excuse me, I...mustache you a question."

• Released with the Faction release (2018.06)
• PP originally called the model Doctor Adolpheus Morely but he was renamed in 2018.11 and given new artwork.
  Why, you ask? There was a bit of scandal about references to Hitler: his original artwork had a shadow that looked suspiciously like a Hitler mustache, his name contained "Adolph", and lastly "Dr. Morely" is similar to "Dr. Morell" (who was Hitler's personal physician).
  PP denied any intentional correlation.

Other Crucible Guard models

Crucible Guard Index       (Edit)
Battlegroup & Similar
Warcasters	Benett - Gearhart - Locke - Lukas - Mackay - Syvestro
Warcaster attachments	Aurum Legate Alyce Marc (Crucible) - Sylys Wyshnalyrr (Mercenary) - Madelyn Corbeau (Mercenary)
Other Warjack Controllers	Prospero (BGC)
Light	Liberator - Retaliator - Vanguard
Heavy	Suppresor - Toro - Vindicator
Colossal	Vulcan
Units, Solos, Battle Engines, & Structures
Units	Combat Alchemists - CG Assault Troopers - CG Infantry - CG Rocketmen - CG Storm Troopers - Dragon's Breath Rocket - Failed Experiments Ranking Officer : Doctor Alejandro Mosby
Solos	Ascendant Mentalist - CG Mechanik - Gorman1 - Gorman2 - Hutchuk, Ogrun Bounty Hunter - Prospero - Rocketman Ace - Trancer
Battle Engines	Railless Interceptor
Theme Forces
Magnum Opus - Prima Materia
Mercenaries
Refer to Who Works for Whom and/or Category: Crucible Guard Mercenary
This index was last updated: 2021.05

Rules Clarifications

Rules Clarification : Anaesthesia      (Edit) Remember Stationary only prevents what it says it does. Refer the page on Stationary for a refresher.

Rules Clarification : Needle      (Edit) Although it can't damage non-living models, the weapon can still hit them and thus let you apply on-hit effects (like Agathon's Dark Banishment).

Rules Clarification:  : Ranking Officer      (Edit) (Click Expand to read)

General If a Ranking Officer with its own subtype joins a unit then that unit doesn't become the same subtype. For example, if Murdoch, who is a Trencher model, joins a mercenary unit that will not make that merc unit a "Trencher unit". Refer the final paragraph of 'Game Terms, Model Names & Rules References'. A Ranking Officer can join a Weapon Crew unit, even though one model is on a large base, due to them having the Man-Sized rule. (Infernal Ruling) Models added to the merc unit after the game starts are also friendly Faction (ie Alexia1 adding Risen). You cannot attach more than one CA to a unit. You can't add a Ranking Officer to a unit that already acts as a Partisan for your Faction. Gaining abilities The Ranking Officer benefits from any Granted or Tactics that the 'normal' officer hands out (such as Cylena1 giving her unit Hunter). Unlike a normal Officer, a Ranking Officer cannot issue special orders that the unit has but he does not (such as the High Shield's "Shield Wall" order). This means you can't use that order at all until the Ranking Officer dies, but once he's dead it's fine to use. If you add a RO to a unit with Ambush, the RO can Ambush too. (Locked thread) Ranking Officer death The merc unit will immediately lose any friendly-Faction "auras" (such as Stryker's +5 ARM feat). The merc unit will keep any friendly-Faction spells that were cast on them specifically, until that spell naturally expires. You can pay to maintain a faction-only upkeep on the mercs, for example. If the merc unit is supplying a buff to 'friendly-Faction' models, that buff will immediately 'swap Factions' too. For instance, if Lady Aiyana casts Kiss of Lyliss it will affect models that are currently the same Faction as her, not whatever was friendly-Faction at the time she cast it. (Infernal Ruling) If the Merc unit got a Faction-specific theme benefit (such as Cygnar models getting Immmunity Electricity in Storm Division) then they keep that benefit even after the Ranking Officer dies. (Infernal Ruling) 'Jack Marshal & Ranking Officer (Edit) If a Ranking Officer joins a unit with the 'Jack Marshal ability, then they can still only take Mercenary warjacks - they don't gain access to Faction warjacks. (Infernal Ruling) They can control that mercenary warjack as normal, even though they're technically no longer the same faction as the jack. (Infernal Ruling)

Rules Clarification : Attachment      (Edit) You cannot field this model "just by itself". Adding an Attachment doesn't change the unit type for targeting purposes. For instance, if you add a Soulless Escort to a Houseguard unit, it is still a Houseguard unit and can still be targeted by stuff that only works on "Target Houseguard unit" (like the Houseguard Thane's abilities). (Infernal Ruling) If you can add an Attachment to multiple unit types (such as the Soulless Escort, Trollkin Sorcerer, or Ranking Officer) then there's a few weird interactions: The Attachment will benefit from any Granted abilities, and any Orders given. If the unit gets a benefit from a theme force, the Attachment will too. (Infernal Ruling) For example, a Trollkin Sorcerer will gain Serenity if its attached to a Dhunian Knot unit in a Power of Dhunia theme force. The Attachment can benefit from and/or trigger any "models in this unit..." style abilities that aren't actually on its card, but only if at least one model with that rule is still in play. Depending on the wording of the rule, the attachment may have restricted benefits. Example 1 "If a model in this unit is ... each model in the unit can ..." : an Attachment can benefit from a Vengeance move and attack. Or, conversely, its unit can get Vengeance if the attachment is killed. But if everyone except the Attachment is killed, the Attachment won't benefit from Vengeance. Example 2 "This model can ... to other models in its unit" : an Attachment can have damage assigned to it via Sanguine Bond, but if it takes damage it can't share it to the main unit.

Rules Clarification : Officer      (Edit) Even if they're not on the Officer's card, an Officer can give (and benefit from) any non-standard orders that are on the unit's card (such as Shield Wall). Refer main rulebook. A Ranking Officer can't do this, though. When the Officer dies, the Leader model becomes the new Unit Commander (you don't get to choose). But if your unit doesn't include a Leader model, then you do get to choose any of the remaining models to be the new Unit Commander. You don't swap the model, but it may be worth putting a token down so you can tell that grunt apart.

Rules Clarification : Breather - None yet. (Edit)

Rules Clarification : Field Work      (Edit) Restrictions on "Any Time" abilities     (Edit)         [Show/Hide] "Any Time" abilities can be used at any time during a model/unit's activation, except: Before any compulsory forfeiture of movement/action. See step 2 of the activation sequence, appendix A. After the model with the "Any Time" ability has had their activation end "prematurely". By this I mean you resolved something which includes the phrase "its activation ends". Examples include: Running, failing a charge, or failing a slam. Abilities that include "then its activation ends" (such as Reposition and Teleport). In between declaring your charge target and making your charge movement. (Infernal Ruling) In between completing your charge movement and determining whether it was a successful charge. (Infernal Ruling) When you're in the middle of moving. (Note: Impact Attacks count as being in the middle of movement). When you're in the middle of an attack. Which also includes effects that occur "after the attack is resolved". (Although the attack is "resolved" at Step 11, in terms of using an "Any Time" ability the attack is not "finished" until after Step 14. Refer to the first paragraph of Apdx A.) Your opponent interrupted your activation to trigger one of their own abilities (such as Countercharge). Warcasters/warlocks/etc can normally cast a spell or use their feat "At any time". However, there is a core rule saying they cannot do so on the same activation that they run. So, they are subject to all the same restrictions listed above, plus they can't cast/feat before running. Units: See below. In general you can use "Any Time" abilities while you're knocked down or stationary (except Spells and Feats which specify you can't). If you have a gun with a random ROF, you can use an "Any Time" ability inbetween rolling the number of shots and actually making the first attack. (Infernal Ruling) Units with "Any Time" abilities You cannot use an "Any Time" ability before issuing/receiving orders. See step 1 and 2 of the activation sequence, appendix A. A model in a unit can't use an "Any Time" ability after they run (Infernal Ruling) or fail a charge. Because that makes that specific model's activation to end even though the unit's activation is still ongoing, and you can't use abilities on models that are not active. You can use an "Any Time" ability before running, however. A model in a unit can't use an "Any Time" ability after anyone in the unit has begun a Reposition move. (Infernal Ruling)

Rules Clarification : Coagulum of Entropy      (Edit) Rules Clarification : Corrosion      (Edit) If you deploy in corrosion hazard terrain (Acid Pool), then you get corroded 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. A weapon can inflict continuous corrosion without itself being a corrosion damage weapon (for example, the Acidic Touch animus). In this case, the attack can hurt models with Immunity: Corrosion it just won't apply the continuous effect.

Rules Clarification : Fortemorphic Elixir      (Edit) Rules Clarification : Swift Hunter and/or Overtake     (Edit) The free move must be resolved before other abilities that involve attacks (such as Quick Work or Berserk). Refer Step 12 vs 14 in Appendix A. This ability does not trigger off special attacks, only basic ones. An important difference: Swift Hunter can be triggered by any attack, including out-of-activation attacks. Overtake only works on attacks during your Combat Action. Even stuff like Impact Attacks won't trigger it. If you make a free strike during your Combat Action (for instance the enemy used a special rule to move during your Combat Action) you can trigger Overtake on that free strike. It still counts as being during your Combat Action. (Infernal Ruling)

Rules Clarification : The Good Stuff      (Edit) Rules Clarification : Tough - None yet. (Edit)

Rules Clarification : Heal and/or First Aid     (Edit) This ability doesn't target, so you can use it on models behind you. When Heal is used as a magic ability, it bypasses anti-spell stuff that hinge on the word "target" (such as Spell Ward or Arcane Vortex).

Rules Clarification : Revivifier - None yet. (Edit)