Work is dumb, Hexeris is not.

Well hello there again Interwebs!

Work is still fisting my with its' spikey fart-knuckled hours, the benfits of this line of work is that i am able to blog :D, but i can't play D:.

Anyways, It's Time For eHEXERIS, YEAAAAHHHH WOOOO YEAAAHHH!

eHexy was my other new toy, and was my flavour of the month the months before i bought Mak3da! In MkI i adored pHexeris, MkII disillusioned me, but with the newness and shinyness of eHexeris my love has been rekindled! So same doodly-booby as before, no mathmachine, more theorymachine riddled with anecdotmachine, diddly. YAY!

First off I would like to say that i am completely unimpressed with the way that skorne fluff is painting its' characters. I saw absolutely no reason for eHex to go epic, no awesome story of him being a boss and goign through some transformation, i mean he killed Kallus, but not really and it's not like he had some revelation. He just "learned shit", and then got A2A... Bollocks! I also have gripes about Ma3da's ascention, nothing happened except she picked up a sword and two stone womenz decided to follow her... Double Bollocks. I mean Baldur died and was brought back by the devourer, that's cool!

His ascention asides, Hexeris is the most diabolical badass in the skorne, plotting and skrewing everyone over indescriminantly just to advance his own occult knowledge, and then he was like. "Hey, You know who has cool spells? MENOTH!" And so he turned into the double ended polearm weilding mortitheurge we all love, with FIRE!

Stats: Spd - normal 6
Mat- Normal Warlock 7
Rat- Who gives a rats anus
STR- Cataphract goodness 8
DEF- very respectable 15
ARM- More Respectable 16
CMD- Average 8
Fury- What we expect from hexy 7
Pretty decent, have no real complaints here... i mean his RAT could be better and all... decent defensive stats that we have come to expect from him, with strength for seasoning!

Gulgalta- Pow 6 P+S 14, good old Gulgalta, you sexy sexy stick of beating! now with added Thresher! but no beat back? nawwwww

Rules- Vampiric Harvest! well fuck my red-ringed asshole! this is Hexeris' Bread and godamned peanutbutter! healing doods for every dood you kill with ANY of your doods in this dood's control area! heebeejeebees thats sweet. DO NO forget this ability, i have, and paid for it. But also remember that Cryx thinks this ability is balls and so you get nothing from them...

Warbeast Bond- Arc node, he loses Soul Slave and gets this.... Thanks, i guess. why would i want to trade in infinite Arc Nodes, for one that can be scalpeled out? Oh well, it's still a nice little addition.

Spellz!

Arcane Reckoning- spells that miss target the targeter, this would be lovely if it came with a Def boost, but none of you doods really seem to be a good target for this spell, except warlocks which is a little more insurance for sure, makes opponents think twice before spell assassinating. Trouble justifying the upkeep cost when his other spells are better...

Ashen Veil- a Veil of Ash, not as good as Def Ward, but gets around arcane assassin, which is nice. but again Cryx thinks this spells is silly... Really nice on Praetorians/nihilators/Ferox, even good on casters/archidons. I don't see any reason why you shouldn't have this spell up on some Moderately DEF'd unit at all times. I have had immense success with it on my Nihilators, IMMENSE SUCCESS indeed.

Ashes to Ashes- Dust to Dust, hey Menoth, can i has your spell? thanks bai! nom nom nom, while not Hexeris' bread n butter, it is a very nice spell, costly but it can be very worth it, or it can turn around and say, "well now you're up shit creek!" However this can be rectified by simply applying it to the ass of one of your titans while they mosey through your enemy's infantry. potentially killing D6+1 (D6 if you target the titan) is sweeeeet, huge potential uses for this, I'm not going into them, too many!

Black Spot- On Paper this spell is what sex dreams are made of. in practice it can be a little lack lustre. This spell is very good in situations. -2 Def well ok then, thats nice, making an extra attack after killing ur initial, hot damn that's nice! clear synergies lie with praetorian swordsmen, potentially 4 attacks with insta gib and 2 side steps? Schmicko! The Mammoth can enjoy this with up to 7 attacks with its' gun(not sure if the ancillary gets the additional). nihilators enjoy the added MAT, but the extra attacks doesn't help them, they already have berserk, which is potentially better, it does however allow them to stop their onslaught from murdering their brothers. All in all a very good spell, but i very much enjoy using his Fury for other spells.

Hellfire- This is what his Feat was made for, warnouns beware, he can sling 4 hellfires at you, 2 of which are boosted, and with a Willbreaker and shaman this becomes very scary indeed. 4 POW 14's ERR MEH GEERRRRD, imagine using this with a throwaway ARC node like a Reptile Hound, possible turn 1 assassinations there! (Of course the shaman doesnt come into effect here)

Thoughts- very powerful Spell list, very powerful indeed. he has a lot of stuff he can be doing every turn. Whether removing bulk lower ARM models, chucking down some MAT buffs, making some of your guys that much harder to murder, or simply putting the Gulgalta to something Medium style!

Feat- Fury Reset, screw up your enemy's fury, take some souls, meh. It's a fury reset, and that's it. no one expects this spell assassination, can also be used defensively, but iwould advise against this. Overall a bit meh, but has won me more games than most feats, just makes me feel a bit bored.

Overall, This guy is scary, really scary. Like Scare you to poop ur pantaloons in a dark alley and then give you a colonic for you troubles, then let you on your merry way as you burn from all the FIRE THAT HE HAS LEARNED!

His obvious Synergies are at least one unit of Moderate-high DEF warriors (i prefer nihilators, but praetorians would work just as well, and arguably better) to benefit from black spot and Ashen Veil. The Mammoth or some canoneers (possibly) do well from the sheers volume of POW 15 shots that can be unloaded with him, of course then you'll be wanting a Raider and a Willbreaker (but lets be real, you want a willbreaker anyways). The willbreaker is a must, he is just sexy to give Hex that reroll on the spell assassination, throw in another for the ancillary on the mammoth and you have yourself a  party. The usual suspects are required, Krea, Beasthandlers agonizer for flavour why not take a gladiator. Heck even a Rhinodon can be of help here, benefitting from blackspot immensely! A Shaman will see good use with him for crafting talismans, or being the rush/snipe mang so Hexy can burninate the peasants with his spells. I do not see Marketh seeing much use with Hex, mostly because i run him with Mak3da, but also because getting 1 Hellfire off isn't such a massive help, the free upkeep is tasty but better on Mak3da. Hakaar would be funny, MAT 11 smashing with 4 attacks, delectable, but unneccessary. Rhadeim with Ashen Veil could be funny to watch your opponent scratch their heads at the DEF 16 steady ferox rider laugh and stab.

So i leave you with the image of Mr. Fires McStab with his friend Scared O'Troll, and hope you find this caster as fun as i have!