ToMB Episode 1.1- M’Lady

Ok so today we are looking at the mysterious Lady Ligeia. Its unsure whether Lady Ligeia is a real Lady or a Pseudo Lady in the vein of Lady Gaga, or even if she just stole her name from an Edgar Allen Poe story like Montressor seems to have done. Anyway one thing we do know for sure is that’s she’s Jack Daw’s totem and wherever he goes, she goes (unless you decide to spend 4ss on something else)

The model, provided and painted by Dawn McCormack as part of the holiday miniature exchange is half of the Alt Bette Noire sculpt (obviously the Bette part, just without the knives) and works a treat.

Lady Ligeia – Outcast – Totem (Jack Daw) – Peon – 4ss

 

Let’s have a look at the scores on the Daw’s then. DF6, WP 4 – not bad. 3 wounds is pretty poor but she is incorporeal, however to be honest that’s still not great, she’s very fragile. Walk 6 is massive, especially as she will be ignoring terrain. And she is, of course, insignificant.

 Attacks – Well there’s bash on a ML3 so let’s ignore that and she has a ranged attack (Wail) which is range 8, SH5 doing 1/2/3-1 Blast damage, it also has the Repression trigger on a tome forcing a card discard.  Nothing special there either.

Right, she better have something else in her locker then ‘cos so far she’s making Karina look like a good totem.

Well first of all there is her last attack action ‘There is no Forgiveness’ which casts on a mighty CA7 and is resisted with WP with a range of 8. It doesn’t do any damage but it gives the target the Tormented characteristic until the end of its next activation. Not to be sniffed at for sure but still doesn’t make her worthwhile for 4ss.

Well it’s a good job she has her piece de resistance….

Its an always up 3” aura called Betrayal – Enemy models within 3” aura cannot cheat fate! Now we are talking.

In 1.5 Jack had an ability where any model within 6” (as I remember) couldn’t cheat fate, and although I never used him in 1.5 I hear it was pretty nasty. Sure the range of this is reduced for Ligeia but it now only affects enemy models, this could be massive.

Link this into some of Jack’s abilities (such as his terrifying, or twist and turn) and it could become a real pain. Stick her next to Montressor and she becomes downright nasty.

So that’s what she does. As far as I can see everything else is just window dressing. She’s going to be pretty hard to hit in melee if you can keep a high card as the opponent can’t cheat fate and you can. She’s going to be very susceptible to ranged attacks, particularly ranged magic attacks but with walk 6 and incorporeal it should be possible to keep her hidden and then move her into position when needed.

 

TTFN