Sybirdmclightningflash Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 I decided to start a deathrattle army (my firs AoS army) and was wondering what mortarch would synergize the best. I'm going to try and stick with deathrattle so lots of skeletons, grave guard and black knights and fluff wise the mortarch will simply be the benefactor of my wight king. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoffeeGrunt Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 Neferata has a lot of synergy, but Mannfred is a beast. That said, when Arkhan and Mannfred go to bed at night, they were Neferata pajamas. Neferata is boss is what I'm trying to say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solaris Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 Neferata for defense, Mannfred for offense (but Settra is better), Arkhan for magic. For a Deathrattle army I would go with Neferata or Settra (so if you specifically want a Mortarch, Neferata). Arkhan becomes better the more magic you have in your army, and would work really well with a FEC or Soulblight army since Abhorrant Ghoul Kings and Vampires are wizards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeGreen Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 I've asked the same or very similiar question recently. Most people propose Neferata. But I've decided to go with Manfred. He hits harder, and is tougher to kill while Neferata has a super cool command ability,. But from my gaming experience buff is generally better than a debuff because it is more universal and less situational. You must take into consideration that I haven't played AoS yet, but played some WFB years ago. So it is probable that Neferata is a better choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerrorPenguin Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 The kit is fairly easy to magnetise (magnetise the seat, not the rider) so you can try all of them. I realise I say this everytime this comes up, tell me if it's getting old... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeGreen Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 Not only the seat unfortunatelly. The mount has 3 head variants (each for a given Mortarch). Even worse there are different plate types on its back/neck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Payce Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 Always Neferata. She just rocks my world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barimbino Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 Neferata. Always. There are no other mortarchs. Just a puppet and a betrayer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerrorPenguin Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 54 minutes ago, MikeGreen said: Not only the seat unfortunatelly. The mount has 3 head variants (each for a given Mortarch). Even worse there are different plate types on its back/neck. Yeah, if you can cope with two of them having the wrong head and breastplate as well. tbh I don't know which goes with which! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solaris Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 I would just build the head and breast plate I thought was the coolest regardless of which Mortarch I was planning to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Alec Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 Never forgive. Never forget. Never Mannfred. #MannfredTheBetrayer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deynon Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 22 hours ago, MikeGreen said: Not only the seat unfortunatelly. The mount has 3 head variants (each for a given Mortarch). Even worse there are different plate types on its back/neck. Done it, nothing problematic 21 hours ago, TerrorPenguin said: Yeah, if you can cope with two of them having the wrong head and breastplate as well. tbh I don't know which goes with which! The breastblate you don't nead to magnetize, it joints mechanically. Otherway anyway magnets are really simply to put on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malakithe Posted November 1, 2016 Share Posted November 1, 2016 I'm looking at Arkhan for more magic to support my lists Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinros Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 If you are doing a deathrattle army I recommend mannfred his command ability ROCKS with skeleton warriors and grave guard. Plus he is great in combat with decent magic. Think about it 30+ skeleton warriors that can reroll their hit rolls and wound rolls of 1. I feel mannfred and Arkhan synergize best with a deathrattle army. Mannfred with his command ability and combat prowess and Arkhan since he has good magic and if you have a necromancer Arkhan can also cast Vanhel's if he is within range. The only downside of mannfred is that he is the most expensive but I feel he is worth his points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double Misfire Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 Obligatory Drachenfels/Krell/Luthor Harkon post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malakithe Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 On 11/1/2016 at 5:55 AM, Darth Alec said: Never forgive. Never forget. Never Mannfred. #MannfredTheBetrayer Might get attacked for asking this but I'm new to this and don't know any of the new lore...so what did he do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Alec Posted November 2, 2016 Share Posted November 2, 2016 1 hour ago, Malakithe said: Might get attacked for asking this but I'm new to this and don't know any of the new lore...so what did he do? No worries! You may have heard about a little thing called the World-That-Was. It was fought over quite bitterly. At the very end, when the heroes stood poised to save the world (or what remained of it), Mannfred Von Carstein stabbed Balthasar Gelt in the back. That's the picture. This is literally a world-ending betrayal. Though nobody trusted or liked Mannfred, he chose to let Chaos win, rather than let it be defeated and have to live under Nagash' rule. So yeah, no reason to trust him! (This is all in a bit of jest, of course. He's a great model and great in-game. There's no real reason not to take him.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinros Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 1 hour ago, Darth Alec said: No worries! You may have heard about a little thing called the World-That-Was. It was fought over quite bitterly. At the very end, when the heroes stood poised to save the world (or what remained of it), Mannfred Von Carstein stabbed Balthasar Gelt in the back. That's the picture. This is literally a world-ending betrayal. Though nobody trusted or liked Mannfred, he chose to let Chaos win, rather than let it be defeated and have to live under Nagash' rule. So yeah, no reason to trust him! (This is all in a bit of jest, of course. He's a great model and great in-game. There's no real reason not to take him.) Well considering what nagash did to him I was not surprised as I said "Fear the man who has nothing left to lose" which was pretty much mannfred in the end. That event did cause nagash to value his twisted mind(I think) because he notes his schemes makes even neferata's look childish. Mannfred is a very go big or go home sort of vampire. Of course I assume nagash awarded mannfred with eternal servitude which mannfred I think feels it's worse than death. Also neferata also notes in lord of undeath that mannfred is such a person who would chase someone to the end of their days if they truly wrong him. I do feel after lisnteing to the audio drama and lord of undeath all the main death characters including nagash learned from previous mistakes. It took 1k+ years and a world blowing up but it's progress! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malakithe Posted November 3, 2016 Share Posted November 3, 2016 Ahh makes sense now thank you. I'll have to read up on him some now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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