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Bought many, many models so was trying different combinations. Looking to expand but would like some evaluation.

Absylonia +5
Sucubus -2

Shredder -2
Shredder -2
Shredder -2

Proteus -11

Typhon -12

Blighted Shepherd -1

3 Warmongers -5
Ogrun Warchief -3

EVERYTHING (almost) can either restore health or in some way restore health.
Biggest setback:
No enchanted weapons.
Susceptible to ranged attacks.
No assassination run potential, just brutality.

Thinking about adding:
Naga, for blessed and enchanted weapons.
Nephilim Soldier, massacre and Abby's reach mutation is never a bad thing.
Raek, parry is great to start making assassination runs, not likely.
Gatorman Witch Doctor, for the lolz.

Ideas, critisisms, so on?

It is widely viewed that if you are going to take Absylonia, use her tier list.

Take this for example:

31/35 pts
Absylonia, Terror of Everblight (*5pts)
* Harrier (2pts)
* Naga Nightlurker (5pts)
* Shredder (2pts)
* Shredder (2pts)
* Proteus (10pts)
* Typhon (11pts)
The Forsaken (2pts)
The Forsaken (2pts)


This is a tier 4 (and still 4 points for you to play with)
And of course with tier 4:
Lesser warbeast get advanced deploy, cheaper heavy warbeasts, heavy warbeasts gets advanced move (for each forsaken solo). It's a very fun and fast list.

But I wonder if your selection of heavies are sufficient, the lack of range worries me aswell, I wonder if you should take the proteus and use a Ravagore. It's range and aoe with continuos fire and cloudeffect is very helpful and pretty devestating, (I use a similar list to this when playing Abby). Plus the naga's animus can buff Typhons sprays and weapons, and the Ravagore's if you meet Menoth (which is actually one of the armies I autoinclude the naga vs). The Forsaken are of course very helpfull with their nuke against infantry and helping with furymangement, it IS very fun to roll 7 dice of dmg on a Earthborn troll. And don't get me started on doing that on Warcasters and Warlocks (doesn't happen often, but it's fun when it does!)

Proteus isn't that great. He's 11 pts for a mediocre animus and he's pillow fisted.

Her tier is good times, but don't be afraid to think outside her box (giggity).

Things that are amazing with her:

Shredders (Tenacity, DUH)
Angelius (Forced EVO + Tenacity = DEF 17 heavy!)
Typhon (Playing God = Reach, great secondary target for FE+TEN)
Scythean (Carnivore makes him hit reliably, MAT 8 vs. Living)

Her blight field will help a ton vs. Warnouns and Gargossals.

Her tier is a lot of fun to play, and is very effective at lower point levels, but I'd argue that at 50pts it starts to hurt since its progressively more difficult to get enough range into your lists. She appears to want to be a melee centric force, but in today's meta, going all in on melee generally isn't a great plan. Try adding in Striders+UA, Deathstalkers, or even Raptors.

Test her out and have fun!

Can the Abby tier take the spawning vessel? If so it might be a use for those points (if it's four or less)

The pot needs bodies to feed it. Unless you're taking a unit of some kind with her it will not perform well. I'd recommend other options first.

There is however nothing wrong with units with Abby. Try it out and see what you think.

The biggest drawback of her tier, is tha you can't take the Gatorman Posse with a Witch Doctor. And, this would get you some actual zombies for your zombie list.

Honestly, a warspear unit plus UA is looking good, plus a death stalker and/or Annyssa, to add ranged.
The witch doctor is the most appealing to bring as tough plus undead plus snacking/regen is always fun.

Mechnomancer wrote:The biggest drawback of her tier, is tha you can't take the Gatorman Posse with a Witch Doctor. And, this would get you some actual zombies for your zombie list.

The big issue with her tier is that you can't take any infantry units at all. One of Legion's issues as a faction is that it doesn't tend to have a lot of bodies on the ground (i.e. fodder to stand in front of/tie up weapon masters so that your heavies don't get instagibbed), and while you get a lot of benefits from Abby's tier the inability to take units only exacerbates the issue.

Goose Jones wrote:Honestly, a warspear unit plus UA is looking good, plus a death stalker and/or Annyssa, to add ranged.
The witch doctor is the most appealing to bring as tough plus undead plus snacking/regen is always fun.

I know you're going for a theme, but I wouldn't get too focused on trying to have awesome snacking Ogrun: they don't have uber tank stats (12/16 on 8 wounds is not overly durable, although Set Defense on the warspears helps), and d3 a turn isn't fast enough healing in a lot of circumstances. For Warspears in particular you'll want to take advantage of the Warchief's veteran leader ability, which gives you a ludicrous MAT 11/RAT 9 against their prey target if you take the UA.

How are the Warspears healing? Carnivore heals the Warlock not the unit/model you put it on.