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Elara, Death's Shadow



Elara2 is not one of my more favorite casters.  I don't run a lot of melee dude swarm armies, but if you want to run that style of list she is an excellent choice.  Marked for Death does give her some options to run more ranged presence but her overall package is likely going to reward more melee.  She makes several of our options extremely fast with boundless charge and her feat.

I'm going to start out by listing two very similar defenders builds.  The battle groups could really be just about anything you wanted.  I opted for no arc node mostly because neither list has a ton of need to throw out marked targets.  The third unit of halbs versus a unit of Ryssovas is largely personal preference. I do not own or really want to own a third unit of halbs so I would probably lean towards the Ryssovas as the third unit.  They are also pretty nifty on their own a make a solid follow up to a wave of halbs coming in.

1

Retribution Army - 75 / 75 points
[Theme] Defenders of Ios

(Elara 2) Elara, Death's Shadow [+28]
 - Manticore [14]
 - Manticore [14]
Arcanist Mechanik [2]
Arcanist Mechanik [2]
Fane Knight Skeryth Issyen [0(8)]
Houseguard Thane [0(4)]
Houseguard Thane [0(4)]
Houseguard Halberdiers (max) [13]
 - Houseguard Halberdier Officer & Standard [4]
 - Soulless Escort (1) [1]
Houseguard Halberdiers (max) [13]
 - Houseguard Halberdier Officer & Standard [4]
 - Soulless Escort (1) [1]
Houseguard Halberdiers (max) [13]
 - Houseguard Halberdier Officer & Standard [4]
 - Soulless Escort (1) [1]
Arcantrik Force Generator [17]

2

Retribution Army - 74 / 75 points
[Theme] Defenders of Ios

(Elara 2) Elara, Death's Shadow [+28]
 - Manticore [14]
 - Manticore [14]
Arcanist Mechanik [2]
Arcanist Mechanik [2]
Fane Knight Skeryth Issyen [0(8)]
Houseguard Thane [0(4)]
Houseguard Thane [0(4)]
Houseguard Halberdiers (max) [13]
 - Houseguard Halberdier Officer & Standard [4]
 - Soulless Escort (1) [1]
Houseguard Halberdiers (max) [13]
 - Houseguard Halberdier Officer & Standard [4]
 - Soulless Escort (1) [1]
Ryssovass Defenders (max) [16]
 - Soulless Escort (1) [1]
Arcantrik Force Generator [17]

3

Retribution Army - 74 / 75 points
[Theme] Legions of Dawn

(Elara 2) Elara, Death's Shadow [+28]
 - Helios [34]
Arcanist Mechanik [2]
Arcanist Mechanik [2]
Arcanist Mechanik [2]
Dawnguard Sentinel Scyir [0(4)]
 - Siren [8]
Dawnguard Sentinel Scyir [0(4)]
 - Siren [8]
Dawnguard Sentinels (max) [18]
 - Dawnguard Sentinel Officer & Standard [4]
 - Soulless Escort (1) [1]
Dawnguard Sentinels (max) [18]
 - Dawnguard Sentinel Officer & Standard [4]

 - Soulless Escort (1) [1]

This was one of the first Legions lists I came up with after seeing the new lights and the flank theme bonus.  On paper a Siren in this list can one round most colossals which is pretty humorous.  It looks like a solid list but is not one I've actually tested.

4


Retribution Army - 75 / 75 points
[Theme] Forges of War

(Elara 2) Elara, Death's Shadow [+28]
 - Griffon [8]
 - Griffon [8]
 - Helios [34]
 - Manticore [14]
 - Manticore [14]
Arcanist Mechanik [0(2)]
Arcanist Mechanik [0(2)]
Arcanist Mechanik [2]
House Shyeel Artificer [0(5)]
 - Hydra [15]
House Shyeel Arcanists [7]
 - Soulless Escort (1) [1]

I wanted to post something a little bit different for this list so...forges.  I'm not overly fond of forges as a theme.  I think it is too restrictive for not enough benefit.  This list is built with the idea of being able to control the table some with helios and the manticores' covering fires while still having some longish melee threats with the griffons.  Crush hydras are also pretty much always solid.  The arcanist unit could probably just be another griffon or maybe a chimera but since I had the points there to actually put them in the list I did.


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