Wishmachining - Khador Widowmaker Marksman

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**daedalusaf**

Khador Widowmaker Marksman $9.99

Operating independently, Khador’s senior Widowmaker marksmen move unobserved across the battlefield. The expert sharpshooters are equipped with the prized Vanar Liberator rifle. The Liberator weighs a full twenty pounds, nearly twice the weight of the standard hunting rifles issued to Widowmaker units. Capable of tearing through plate armor, Liberator rounds are as accurate as they are lethal in the hands of a Widowmaker marksman. Widowmaker Marksman comes in a blister.

A player may field one Widowmaker Marksman for each warcaster in a Khador army.

My thoughts:
same stats as the Widowmakers, maybe +1 RAT

Vanar Liberator
Range 14, POW 8 Armor Piercing or POW 12 Brutal Shot (extra die on damage)

'Tearing through plate armor' makes me think of the AP shot, but it could also mean an extra die of damage.

He'll for sure keep the auto-wound ability of the Widowmakers

What do you think he'll do? and keep it reasonable...

**malfred**

I think it's going to be either/or.

Either Armor Piercing shot OR Brutal damage.

**radiohazard**

I don't like the way Khador is going. Too much shooting.

**malfred**

Would it make you feel better if they gave him an axe and thresher?

**daedalusaf**

I actually like the way Khador is going. As it is, they are too much of a beat-your-face-in army that relies on hard-hitting melee combatants. A shift of focus to the ranged aspect of the Khadoran army is fresh as:

a) there is a more natural army feel to them
b) there is a more natural army feel to them

As it is now Khador suffers from lack of ranged options

**malfred**

Well, by the fluff, Irusk has been trying to upgrade the Khadoran army for quite
some time now. I believe he's responsible for the Destroyer and Blunderbusses...

Anyway, you don't have to take options if they don't appeal to you. I'm amused that
Cygnar's "Commandos" are hand to hand knife fighters and Khador's specialists are snipers.

**studderingdave**

im gonna go with +1 RAT and the standard sniper ability with a POW 8 AP shot. i can see it for 2 points, if it gives something to widowmakers, i can see it being 3.

**daedalusaf**

Or...

since the liberator is heavy in the fluff, maybe an extra bonus when standing still? I could totally see AP and Sniper. I doubt he'd give anything to the Widowmakers, since it says he operates independantly

**Vertrucio**

Overall, units have been showing a nice progress, which is very cool for those that have been with the game since the beginning.

While Khador basically modernizes, Cygnar is going full bore into Nemo's electric based weaponry. While it's nice, this is making Cygnar a bit one sided in it's specialty, and I kind of want to see Cygnar have some more variation besides everything being "storm" based.

While Khador has its cold based stuff, their army isn't swamped with kodlun units, instead you also see Khador employing dark Orgoth based weaponry.

**daedalusaf**

Which goes to show why it is Khador that should rule Immoren, not those pansy blue southerners