AoS - 3rd Anvil of Apotheosis: Mortisan Executioner

[Grave Tacticus]

The short description of creating your own characters in Age of Sigmar is that they're overcosted for what you get and should only be played in noncompetitive battles. However, if you're like me, and roleplaying or storytelling is a priority for your AoS experience, you'll want to dive in anyway.

Since I'm a fan of Mir Kainan and the Mortisan Executioner concept in general, I decided to pursue that for my first Anvil character. I used Mir Kainan as the framework and build the character to mirror his inspiration.

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Mortisan Executioner - 18 points
Mage - Curse of Damnation

Ossiarch Bonereaper - 5 points
M 5", W 5, B 10, S 5+

Greatsword - 2 points
R 1", A 3, H 3+, W 3+, R -1, D 2

Superior Vitality - 1 point
W +1

Extra Armor - 2 points
Armor +1

Sharpened Edge - 2 points
-1 Rend

Ferocity - 2 points
+1 A

Decapitating Strike - 4 points
Roll of 6 to wound adds MW.

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For 10 points less than Mir Kainan, you lose the unit of 5 and gain a spell that causes MW. At least the Anvil character can get any Legion trait I decide to run with and can be my Path to Glory Warlord, though I'll likely just use a Liege-Kavalos and run Mir Kainan. We'll see.

 

[The Sun King]

That actually sounds like a decent deal!

 

[Grave Tacticus]

If you run the Executioner in Mortis Praetorians or Null Myriad as the General, you could bump down his points to 160 by removing Sharpened Edge, since the Legion artifacts take care of rend for you, or improve the armor an additional time.

 

[Grave Tacticus]

So we throw our Mortisan Executioner into Petrifex Elite and make him our Narrative Play general. With that Necropolis Stalkers are battleline, and they've got a Movement of 6", so I think I'm going to increase our hero's move to 6" as well so he can keep up and take advantage of Unflinching Coordination (raising his point cost to 200). 365 points so far. I think a Soul Mason would be useful to keep the meat grinder at high efficiency, and we're at 480. And then I think it's Kavalos Deathriders or Mortek Guard and an Endless Spell.

 

[Grave Tacticus]

I created the above character with the Thondian AoA, which doesn't give the Mortisan keyword. Thanks GW. So I get to do it again with the Anvil of Death.

 

[Grave Tacticus]

Help! I can't decide which spell to pick!

 

[Grave Tacticus]

Anvil of Death set-up:

18 DP Mortisan Executioner
6 DP Mortisan
3 DP Soulcleaver Greatblade
2 DP +1 Movement
1 DP +1 Wound
2 DP +1 Attack
4 DP Decapitating Strike

It's faster Mir Kainan with a cool spell and a different instant kill on 6 ability. I'm... pretty happy about it. Funny how a small tweak can make you go from cold to warm on something.

 

[The Sun King]

I really like Ravenous Hunger and Raise Dead. :)