Xerxis2 and Aptimus Marketh
War Room won't let me attach Aptimus Marketh to Xerxis2. Is that a rule or bug?
Posted Sep 18, 2014, 10:52 AM UTC
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Bug, but why would you want to?
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*Edit: Maybe its a design feature that war room added to protect a player from adding marketh and making him unavailable for other lists.
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Well, I had three free points in a testing list and thought that he would be a great source for casting ignite. It'd allow me to keep the ignite target (like Cetrati) 15 inches away to protect a separate objective.
In a multiple list format, I'd attach him to someone else, of course.
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I'd also have to disagree with the Cetrati. The only thing eXerxis does for them is outpace them by a mile. There's no way that they'll ever keep up with the rest of the list given that they'll run 10", shieldwall and advance 5". I feel like the main strength of eXerxis here is the amount of speed he brings and trying to slot pXerxis' game plan in is just squandering it.
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I agree. My friend wants to run all heavies with him. 2 sentries, bronze back and 2 gladiators. Kinda not looking forward to it lol.
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Well, that was a bad random example.
Swordsmen would have been a better one due to their speed and the fact that having two attacks per model means that there's a greater chance of rolling a critical hit.
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I kind of feel like if you're banking on critical fires you're using it wrong here. I'd say field Nihilators instead. Tough is a stronger protection than that 1 point of armor and pow 14 berzerks within 11" are fairly beefy compared to pow 11 hits in 11".
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Cycle ignite and potentially a free upkeep if you can get him a soul? I think he is a really great Marketh potential caster depending on your other list.
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It's a bug.
I've been running him with Aptimus Marketh to cycle ignite during feat round to make sure I can take out some heavy targets. I feel the biggest problem with Xerxis2 is that for someone on a huge base, he lacks survivability, which makes you relay a lot on getting the alpha strike with him.. anyway, its a bug.
tl;dr: bug, cycle ignite, makes archidon ps19 with enrage on charge.