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Developed in an attempt to modernize the Khadoran military, the Mortar Crews add invaluable long-range firepower to advancing Winter Guard forces. The Mortars are ideally suited to soften enemy positions before Guardsmen reach the opposing line.
Basic Info
| Winter Guard Mortar Crew |
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| COST |
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| UNIT SIZE |
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| FA |
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| Warcaster 0 |
| BASE |
Small |
| SPD |
2 |
| STR |
5 |
| MAT |
5 |
| RAT |
5 / 1(★) |
| M.A. |
N/A |
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12 |
| ARM |
13 |
| CMD |
5 |
| ESSENCE |
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| FOCUS |
N/A |
| FURY |
N/A |
| THRS |
N/A |
| HP |
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| F. Field |
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| WBP |
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| IHP |
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| FA |
2 |
| UNIT SIZE |
2 |
| COST |
3 |
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| Warcaster 1 |
| COST |
N/A |
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Understanding
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Abilities
- Gunner
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Officer
- Man-Sized - This model is treated as a small-based model and occupies the space from the bottom of its base to a height of 1.75".
- Mobile Artillery - When this model advances as part of its Normal Movement, it gains +1" movement for each Grunt in this unit within 2" of it at the start of its advance.
- Take Up - If this model is destroyed, you can choose a Grunt in this unit within 1" of it to be destroyed instead. Effects on this model expire, and it gains the effects on the chosen Grunt. Remove the Grunt from the table instead of this model. This model has the same number of unmarked damage boxes as the chosen Grunt.
- Grunt
- The Grunt has +2 SPD (SPD 4)
Weapons
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- Arcing Fire - When attacking with this weapon, this model can ignore intervening models except those within 1" of the target.
- High-Explosive - Blast damage caused by this weapon is POW 10.
- Inaccurate - This model suffers -4 to attack rolls with this weapon.
- Minimum Range [ 8" ] - Attacks made with this weapon cannot target models within 8" of this model.
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Theme Forces
Khador
Other Factions
Recent Changes
2021.10 Mega Update
Thoughts on Winter Guard Mortar Crew
Winter Guard Mortar Crew in a nutshell
The Mortar crew is an ideal artillery unit - cheap, extremely long ranged, and able to take chunks of light infantry out in a single blow. It also has the weaknesses associated with artillery - slow, unable to take close combat, and as likely to drift on your own lines as the enemies.
Combos & Synergies
- As a winter guard unit, Mortar Crews can benefit from Kovnik Jozef Grigorovich's battle speeches. That can give a much needed boost to Attack rolls
- The Winter Guard Artillery Kapitan provides a huge benefit to Mortars, allowing a boost to it's terrible RAT and allowing the player to re-roll a dangerous deviation towards their own lines back towards the enemy
- The one thing a Mortar can reliably hit are knocked-down models. Consider including a Grolar or Marauder to knock down a large model that the Mortar can then drop shells down on
- Engaged troops? Send a Demolisher or a BM Officer forward, B2B with your models, and shell the enemy with impunity. Thanks to Girded, your infantry don't give a damn about High Explosives.
Drawbacks & Downsides
- Man-sized can be a big problem. Arcing fire means that only the closest models can block Line of Sight, but terrain can prevent the Mortar from seeing it's target
- The minimum range means that a delicate balancing act needs to be maintained between being close enough for protection and support, but not so close you can't shoot at incoming models
- Inaccurate is probably the most-lamented drawback to using the Mortar crew. Even the usually easy to hit Heavy Warjacks can often dodge a Mortar round.
Tricks & Tips
- With an effective Rat of 1 on the Mortar, the dice fixing offered by Vlad's Signs & Portents can be of a huge benefit
- Man-sized means that enemy units can have their lines of sight blocked by cheap defensive units like the Winter Guard Infantry
- The attached grunt needs only to be Base to Base with the mortar when it needs to move. Once in position you can place him a couple inches in front of the mortar to do emergency blocking against potential attackers.
- Weapon Crews love Reposition. It lets the crew move a few inches after their activation ends, granting both a much needed speed boost on the first couple turns and then letting them continue to move while still gaining the aiming bonus by forfeiting their normal movement.
Other
Trivia
Released in Warmachine: Escalation (2004)
Other Khador models
Rules Clarifications
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Rules Clarification : Arcing Fire (Edit)
- Arcing Fire lets you ignore models but not terrain. You don't ignore clouds, forests or buildings.
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Rules Clarification : High-Explosive (Edit)
- Deadly Precision vs High Explosive (Edit)
- The +2 POW from Deadly Precision would not apply to high explosive POW (Infernal Ruling)
- Full Force vs High Explosive (Edit)
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Rules Clarification : Inaccurate - None yet. (Edit)
Rules Clarification : Minimum Range - None yet. (Edit)
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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.
- 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.
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Rules Clarification : Man-Sized (Edit)
- Despite being mounted on a large base, the model counts as a small-base for any and every rule. (Infernal Ruling)
- This includes Ranking Officers being able to join them. (Infernal Ruling)
- This includes being able to take them as a Requistion Option (if you have a Man-Sized solo in a theme that allows free solos). (Locked Thread)
- This includes abilities that only work vs small-based models (such as Consume, Trampling over them, etc). Those work just fine vs Man-Sized models.
- When drawing LOS it blocks LOS across the full width of its base (some players think you should swap it for a small proxy base when trying to draw LOS past the edge of its base ... don't do that).
- Since it only counts as a small-based model, it only blocks LOS to other small-based models. You can see medium and larger bases through it just fine.
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Rules Clarification : Mobile Artillery - None yet. (Edit)
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Rules Clarification : Take Up (Edit)
- If you use Take Up the attacking model cannot trigger anything that needs the attacker to "Destroy" a model (such as Alpha Hunter, Killing Spree, Berserk, etc). Although the model that was attacked reached the Destroyed step of the timing sequence, Take Up negates that entirely. (Infernal Ruling)
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