Editing Amanar (section)

==On The Tabletop==
Amanar never got stats in the game, but Merwyrms did and they got a model from [[Forgeworld]] as well. As a creature from the [[Storm of Magic]] campaign, it doesn't really need to be said that they sucked and very few people ever used them. This is because creatures were easy to dispel and remove from the game by literally any wizard, or else rendered useless (its arguable how effective that actually was, since it diverted spellcasting from anything but getting rid of your monster making it viable as a [[Distraction Carnifex]] for magic, and you could also wage war back by dispelling their attempt and even if successful it only had a 50% chance to do anything bad, only a 16% chance to actually get rid of it, but it was complicated and expensive enough nobody did it).

The model didn't even come out with the campaign either, coming out in 2013.

It got regular stats from [[Warhammer Forge#Monstrous Arcanum|Monstrous Arcanum]] for 8th edition, but not being usable in competitive setting and needing the other player's permission to use it (cue [[That Guy]] to say no to your lovingly painted, strategy-centric $100+ model because he's a fucking That Guy) meant nobody wanted to use it then either. For the record however, Merwyrms were fairly good to bring to the tabletop, albeit for some armies it was ridiculously game-breaking because of how powerful it was, in others it was inferior to other options (read: if your army has Sphinxes or Dragons).
It came in three varieties, representing the three listed above in the Merwyrm section.

In ''Age of Sigmar'' it's actually much better, if you can keep the damn thing healed somehow to prevent that small amount of damage that gets through its hide from building up then its basically indestructible. Most importantly however (or rather to say, the only important thing) is you don't have to physically purchase the damn book that has its stats since you can download it for free, and nobody has any right to tell you that you can't use it because its part of an official expansion to the standard game. Too bad [[GW]] didn't figure out that was the trick back in 8th edition.