{"id":80,"date":"2015-01-17T16:48:39","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T16:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/?p=80"},"modified":"2015-01-17T17:11:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T17:11:30","slug":"sealed-warband-2-sunes-goons-unhallowed-boosters-x-2-200-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Sealed Warband 2: Sune’s Goons (Unhallowed Boosters x 2, 200 points)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"blood<\/a>Announcer<\/strong>:\u00a0 In the red corner, hailing from the orc caves of Bitefang, weighing in at 176 pounds, with a record of 0-16, Zombow!\u00a0 In the blue corner, hailing from the Snowflake Mountain, weighing in at 565 pounds, with an undefeated record of 13-0-1, please welcome Sune’s Goons!<\/p>\n

Half-Elf Bow Initiate<\/strong>:\u00a0 Prepare to face the storm of my arrows!<\/p>\n

Cleric of Sune<\/strong>:\u00a0 Oh, Legolas, wouldn’t you rather make love than war?<\/p>\n

Half-Elf Bow Iniatiate<\/strong>:\u00a0 OMG, not you too!\u00a0 I hate Legolas.\u00a0 ‘Oh, Legolas can hit a prone kobold at 2300 feet.\u00a0 Oh, Legolas can shoot an ogre in the throat while blindfolded…and handcuffed.’\u00a0 Aaargh!<\/p>\n

Pentifex Monolith<\/strong>:\u00a0 Prepare to die, knaves, I will protect my snuggle-bunny to my very last breath!<\/p>\n

Cleric of Sune<\/strong>:\u00a0 Mmmm…oh, my, look at that six-pack on that mountain orc…hey, sweetie!\u00a0 Yes, you with the halberd, get over here and show me that mighty axe!<\/p>\n

Wow.\u00a0 So let’s just say I feel a little sorry for Zombow after putting together the Unhallowed warband.\u00a0 Where the Aberrations boosters had a combined 255 points worth of minis, Unhallowed weighed in at a whopping 445 points, giving us plenty of options for how to build the band.\u00a0 While I could have tweaked the warband some to squeak out a touch more damage, I don’t think it will have any problems with Zombow.\u00a0 First, here’s what I opened:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Booster 1<\/td>\nPoints<\/td>\nRarity<\/td>\nBooster 2<\/td>\nPoints<\/td>\nRarity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Blood Golem of Hextor<\/td>\n52<\/td>\nR<\/td>\nPentifex Monolth<\/td>\n32<\/td>\nR<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Air Mephit<\/td>\n13<\/td>\nU<\/td>\nCleric of Sune<\/td>\n34<\/td>\nU<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nessian Warhound<\/td>\n62<\/td>\nU<\/td>\nFire Mephit<\/td>\n13<\/td>\nU<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Redspawn Arcaniss<\/td>\n44<\/td>\nU<\/td>\nStormrage Shamber<\/td>\n72<\/td>\nU<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bugbear Gang Leader<\/td>\n23<\/td>\nC<\/td>\nDevotee of the Silver Flame<\/td>\n7<\/td>\nC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dark Talon Champion<\/td>\n7<\/td>\nC<\/td>\nKnight of the Chalice<\/td>\n25<\/td>\nC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Strahd Zombie<\/td>\n20<\/td>\nC<\/td>\nPhalanx Solder<\/td>\n12<\/td>\nC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wild Elf Warsinger<\/td>\n9<\/td>\nC<\/td>\nStrahd Zombie<\/td>\n20<\/td>\nC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I think both rares are autopicks.\u00a0 Blood Golem of Hextor<\/strong> is an absolute beast for only 52 points.\u00a0 DR 5, AC 20, Melee Reach, a life drain effect, Spell Resistance.\u00a0 Plus, Whirlwind attack vs. Zombow could just be brutal.\u00a0\u00a0 I had a Blood Golem in live sealed play one time and he was very difficult for folks to deal with.\u00a0 Fountain of Blood<\/strong> might be a drawback, but the attack lines of Sune’s Goons are simply higher on average, and so will likely benefit more.\u00a0 Pentifex Monolith<\/strong> even with his low base damage is still formidable at 32 points.\u00a0 With his Crystal Helm Soulmeld (+3 ac) he will often have the highest AC on the table at 24.\u00a0 When fighting Chaotic creatures, his damage goes from ‘meh’ to decent, and stacked with Cleric of Sune’s commander ability he does as much as I’d hope for from a mid-pointed creature (+13 – 25 Magic against Chaos).<\/p>\n

Speaking of the vampy vixen Cleric of Sune<\/strong>, while not formidable on the combat front still brings a lot of hotness to the table.\u00a0 More than anything, she has to be in the warband for her Special Ability Amazing Beauty, <\/strong>which I think is among the grooviest abilities in DDM.\u00a0 (A humanoid that makes a melee attack against this creature must save or that attack automatically misses; DC 17)\u00a0 It’s got a pretty good DC and against creatures level 6 or under is fairly equivalent to Incorporeal<\/strong>.\u00a0 Her spell mix isn’t amazing, but Legion’s Magic Weapon<\/strong> can be important to bypass DR.\u00a0 Castigate<\/strong> and Suggestion <\/strong>on top of Amazing Beauty<\/strong> make it pretty dicey to engage her, and I’ve seen her a couple of times in standard games where she is the last creature in the warband.<\/p>\n

The warband I ended up with is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Team<\/td>\nPoints<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Blood Golem of Hextor<\/td>\n52<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cleric of Sune<\/td>\n34<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pentifex Monolith<\/td>\n32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bugbear Gang Leader<\/td>\n23<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Air Mephit<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fire Mephit<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Phalanx Solder<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wild Elf Warsinger<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Devotee of the Silver Flame<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n195<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

There are definitely some other ways to build this, much more so than with Zombow.\u00a0 Specifically, Nessian Warhound<\/strong> and Redspawn Arcaniss<\/strong> are both viable options.\u00a0 The Warhound would have to replace Hextor unless I really wanted to limit activations, but it would bring another tanky beast into the fight and provide a lot of frontline blocking for a caster.\u00a0 And the Arcaniss would outdamage the Cleric of Sune in a big way though their stat lines are similar.\"blood<\/a><\/p>\n

The two mephits, while fragile, bring a lot of mobility to the team, plus they both have (likely 1 use) breath weapons and the ability to get to places to make the most of them.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the team are just some dudes, though I love the Bugbear Gang Leader’s<\/strong> commander effect as well (Followers of level 6 or lower gain Death Strike).\u00a0 That would be more relevant in a warband built around it, but he has 5 targets for it, while Hotgirl gets 4 targets for hers.<\/p>\n

Prediction<\/strong>:\u00a0 All in all, I would be satisfied with this band at a real sealed event.\u00a0 I’ll call it 200-75 in favor of Sune’s Goons.\u00a0 I haven’t got my maps yet, but as soon as I do we’ll see if our lovely cleric can find true love in the arms of an undead ogre who just wants to hug!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Announcer:\u00a0 In the red corner, hailing from the orc caves of Bitefang, weighing in at 176 pounds, with a record of 0-16, Zombow!\u00a0 In the blue corner, hailing from the Snowflake Mountain, weighing in at 565 pounds, with an undefeated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}