Editing Anacharis Scoria (section)

==On the Tabletop==
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*Machinator Array
** '''+1T'''
** ''Night Vision''
** '''1 Flamer''' and '''1 Inferno Pistol'''
***May shoot both of these, or one and another ranged weapon.
** Make 2 additional '''S+1 AP2''' ''Melee'', ''Unwieldy'', ''Shred'', ''Armourbane'' attacks.
** +2 to Repair rolls.
*'''2 Archaeotech Pistols'''
** 12" S6 AP3 Pistol, Master-crafted
*'''Vodian Sceptre'''
** ''Two-Handed'' '''AP2''' ''Melee'' weapon.
** FAQ'ed to S+2, AP2, Armourbane. Any model suffering an unsaved wound/losing a hull point to the Vodian Sceptre suffers D3 more automatic wounds/loses one more hull point for each unsaved wound/lost hull point. Extra wounds do not carry over.
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{{!}} Xanathite Abeyant {{!}}{{!}} align=right {{!}} 40 pts
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*'''+1 W'''
*'''+1 A'''
*''It Will Not Die''
*''Hardened Armour''
**Re-roll armour saves against blasts and templates.
*''Move Through Cover''
*''Very Bulky''
*'''Photon Thruster'''
**48" S6 AP2 Heavy 2, Gets Hot!, Blind, Lance
**May be fired in addition to other normal shooting attacks.
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<nowiki>*</nowiki>Includes the +1T from his Machinator Array.

[[File:ScoriaMiniSide.JPG|300px|thumb|right|His model. Fun fact, his base is larger than the blast template.]]

Anacharis has slightly improved stats over a regular kitted out Archmagos Dominus, picking up Weapon Skill and Initiative 5, but that's not anywhere near all. He has all the regular Archmagos Dominus special rules, along with '''Eternal Warrior''', Relentless, Feel No Pain, and Adamantium Will. He has his own Cybertheurgy power, which requires a test on LD8 to use, affects an entire unit of battle automata and grants them +1I as well as re-rolling To Hit and failed charges. However when it wears off, each bot rolls a D6, and loses a wound on a 1. Armed with two Archaeotech Pistols, as well as a flamer and Inferno pistol mounted on his Machinator he's fairly shooty, especially with his special wargear below. He can (and should) be mounted on his scorpion body, the Xanathite Abeyant, which grants him +1 Wound and Attack, It Will Not Die, Hardened Armour (Reroll armour saves vs blasts and templates) and Move Through Cover, but makes him Very Bulky. Also gives him a Photon Thruster which he can fire in addition to his normal shooting attacks (a total of 5 guns, 3 of which he can shoot at a time and most of which are AP3/2. For only 40 pts, always take it.

He also unlocks a nice package deal, The Homonculex - his own customized [[Warhammer_40,000/Tactics/Mechanicum:_Taghmata_(30k)#Fast_Attack|Arlatax Battle-automata]] which basically gets Paragon of Metal for free, but if Anacharis dies it is removed from play alongside him (and since Scoria can be a T6 5W 2+/3++ FnP(5+) IWND Eternal Warrior - if you managed to get this guy killed things have gone tits up anyway).

Unfortunately the main reason he's taken no longer exists. Before the FAQ his personal close combat weapon, the Vodian Sceptre, was the most overpowered melee weapon in the entire game. It had no Strength value, instead each hit inflicts D3 AP2 automatic Wounds (that don't allow FnP or IWND) to the unit he's attacking (or D3 penetrating hits). This could spill over to other models, so he could wade into combat and just erase everything that wasn't a super-heavy stepping on him. As a bonus, he could and did kill [[Primarchs]] with this weapon while costing much less. Anacharis had the distinction of being the '''most dangerous man in the entire game''' because even the few Primarchs who could take him on dealt less overall damage to everyone else (in close combat). Those two were Magnus and Russ, Magnus due to insane levels of psychic fuckery, Russ due to his bullshit wargear (though we can't really complain about bullshit wargear a paragraph after talking about the cheese that is the Vodian Sceptre). The other Primarchs were dealt with in three or four rounds of combat, and even Horus went down to this monster. The Custodes Tribune could also beat his head in, but that's because he was equally as bullshit as Scoria (trading ridiculous damage output for ridiculous durability).

Sadly the Vodian Sceptre was FAQ'd to just be S+2, AP2 and causing D3 automatic wounds whenever it inflicts an unsaved wound, but only to the model which suffered the first wound. In the case of vehicles, they only lose an additional hull point, and only if his attack causes them to lose a hull point in the first place (though it has Armourbane now so that shouldn't be an issue). His days of deleting entire units are over and so he can also now be tar-pitted (keep him the fuck away from thralls).

Aside from large units he does have some other weaknesses. The most obvious one is that he is NOT fearless, so he can be swept after a bad round (though he is stubborn to help mitigate that). Join him to some battle-automata who are, and make sure to cast Rite of the Beast. He is slow as all hell, only a basic infantry model, and will have difficulty closing with the targets he actually wants to fight. This is really annoying, since the Mechanicum has no assault transport, but you can join him to some Vorax and Outflank him into the enemy backfield if it's that important. Also this is one of the main factors that stops him being OP as all hell, so suck it up. Watch out for Strength D weaponry and Stomp attacks, too. Both can one-shot him on a lucky 6, so the bane of his existence is Imperial Knights. He stands a chance against the ones with no D-chopper, but even then better use something else, since the explosion can still easily kill your 315 pt HQ and his Arlatax pet along with him.