Day 11: Dragons with Beefy Arms

DAY 11: CARNIVEAN

As I've mentioned before, there's a lot about Legion that I like.

But there's very little I like more than Carniveans.  A pair of P+S 16 attacks... a P+S 18 attack... high Armour... tons of blips on the Life Spiral... a spray attack that can be fired on the way into combat... yeah... these guys are pretty good.

Grr...Arg...

And, as a bonus, they come standard in the Legion WarPack.  This is huge.  Hordes can be a complex and involved game of combos and synergies and perfect timing... but the Carnivean something else of note to the table.

He's simple.

That is to say... he can be as simple or as complicated as you want him to be.  I've found him a great leg up in attempting to learn the game.  I can mess around with all sorts of fun combos in my list (Absylonia + Raek... Nyss Sorceress + a flying flanking win... etc...) and still have a fall back that can carry the game for me if things go badly.

In fact, one of my finer moments was a game against my buddy's Circle list (actually my fiance's toys... but he was using them).  I had a single Carnivean stand up to a Gorax, a Warpwolf, a unit of Trackers, and a handful of Bloodweavers.  All on a single turn.  I had thrown the Carnivean out there to absorb the first wave of Circle assault.  At the time, I figured he'd be killed and my counterattack would have to win the day for me.  Instead, when all the smoke cleared, the Carnivean was still standing with a single blip of life remaining.  Cue up my turn... pop Absylonia's Feat and BOOM!  Full strength again.  A fully jacked up Carnivean AND my counterattack put an effective end to the game on that turn.

Good times...

Really, is there anything better than a Carnivean in a Legion force?

This is better.  For me.  Not the other guy.