Spriggan

Khador Heavy Warjack

Behind its plates of steel, the Devastator is all but unassailable, yet it can open its armored shell to unleash a rain of deadly shrapnel from its grenade launchers. The Devastator’s success has led to the development of other ’jacks based on this chassis. The Demolisher features armor equal to that of the Devastator, but when its plated arms open they reveal cannons that can deliver powerful ordnance even in the thick of combat. The Spriggan trades the armored arms of its predecessor for a heavy shield, a massive lance, and more versatile and longer-range grenade launchers that can fire either explosive projectiles or flares that illuminate hidden enemies.

Basic Info

Spriggan
	SPD	4
	STR	12
	MAT	6
	RAT	4
	DEF	10
	ARM	19 / 21 (★)
	HP	34
	Cost	19
(★) 21 when you include the shield bonus
See also How to Read the statblock

Weapons and Attacks

• Grenade Launcher (x2) - 10" range, AOE 3", POW 10 guns.
  • Arcing Fire - When attacking with this weapon, this model can ignore intervening models except those within 1" of the target.
  • Targeting Flare - Instead of attacking, this model may place a 3" AOE anywhere completely within 10" and in LOS. Models in the AOE lose Stealth, and other models can ignore clouds when drawing LOS to them. The AOE lasts for one turn.
• Shield - 1" reach, P+S 14 melee weapon.
  • Shield - This 'weapon' is a shield that provides a cumulative +2 ARM bonus. The bonus doesn't apply if the weapon is crippled or if the damage originates in your back arc.
• War Lance - 2" reach, P+S 18 melee weapon.
  • Powerful Charge - This models gains +2 to hit on charge attacks with this weapon.

Special Abilities

• Warjack - All warjacks share the same set of special rules. Most notably being big and stompy.
• Construct - This model is a construct and is not a living model.
• Bulldoze - When this model is B2B with an enemy model during its Normal Movement, it can push that model up to 2" directly away from it. A model can be pushed by Bulldoze only once per activation. Bulldoze has no effect when this model makes a trample power attack.
• Steady - This model can't be knocked down.

Thoughts on Spriggan

Spriggan in a nutshell

The Spriggan is the third, most expensive, and most distinct, element of the "clamjack" chassis. It fulfills a completely different role than the Demolisher or the Devastator. It sports a weaker grenade launcher with nice utility against stealthy targets, and a shield to put its ARM above the average Khador level. Its war lance is also the second most powerful warjack weapon in the faction (excluding Colossals).

Combos & Synergies

If you are expecting stealthy targets in any form, you will definitely want this jack. As it is no slouch in melee either, extra mobility and accuracy are most welcome.

• Casters with Superiority - Irusk1 or Strakhov.
• Butcher 1 - Under Fury and his feat, this baby delivers a MAT 8 P+S 21 hit, with 4D6 on the damage roll.
• "Jack Casters" - Karchev and Harkevich, both offer quite a lot for melee capable, tough jacks, especially SPD buff.
• Sorscha1 - her feat will make sure that your charge attack connects
• Sorscha2 - how about some Pathfinder from Boundless Charge? And what about one-rounding a heavy under her feat with the War Lance?

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Lower MAT than the Juggernaut chassis (partially offset by Powerful Charge)
• Your most expensive non-character warjack, It's price tag is even higher than some character choices, like Ruin.
• If you're not going to use its targeting Flare, there are way cheaper alternatives.
• Torch can do 99% of its job, and is a point cheaper.

Tricks & Tips

• Targeting Flare does not require an attack roll, you just simply place the templates - meaning that not even the most elusive targets will escape.
• Enemies just have to be within, not completely within the flare's AOE; feel free to spread it to multiple models, if possible.

Other

Trivia

• The plastic Spriggan is sold in one box together with options for the Demolisher and the Devastator.
• Originally released in Warmachine: Superiority (2006)

Theme Forces

Themes for generic warjacks (Edit)

• Winter Guard Kommand - (Article) (Category)
• Jaws of the Wolf - (Article) (Category)
• Legion of Steel - (Article) (Category)

Other faction models

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	Battlegroups
	Warcasters	Butcher1 - Butcher2 - Butcher3 - Harkevich - Irusk1 - Irusk2 - Karchev - Kozlov - Malakov2 - Old Witch1 - Old Witch2 - Sorscha1 - Sorscha2 - Strakhov1 - Strakhov2 - Vlad1 - Vlad2 - Vlad3 - Zerkova1 - Zerkova2
K H A D O R
	Warcaster attachments	War Dog (Khador) - Madelyn Corbeau (Mercenary) - Reinholdt (Mercenary) - Wyshnalyrr (Mercenary)
	Other Controllers	Malakov1 (BGC) - Man-o-War Kovnik (Marshal) - Greylord Forge Seer (Marshal)
	Heavy warjacks	Berserker - Decimator - Demolisher - Destroyer - Devastator - Grolar - Juggernaut - Kodiak - Mad Dog - Marauder - Rager - Spriggan Beast-09 - Behemoth - Black Ivan - Drago - Ruin - Torch
	Colossal	Conquest - Victor
	Units, Solos, & Battle Engines
	Units	Assault Kommandos - Battle Mechaniks - Black Dragons - Doom Reaver Swordsmen - Greylord Outriders - Greylord Ternion - Iron Fang Pikemen - Iron Fang Uhlans - Kayazy Assassins - Kayazy Eliminators - Kossite Woodsmen - MOW Bombardiers - MOW Demolition Corps - MOW Shocktroopers - Widowmaker Scouts - WG Field Gun - WG Infantry - WG Mortar Crew - WG Rifle Corps Great Bears of the Gallowswood Ranking Officer CA : Koldun Kapitan Valachev
	Solos	Greylord Forge Seer - Iron Fang Kovnik - Koldun Lord - MOW Drakhun - MOW Kovnik - Manhunter - War Dog - Widowmaker Marksman - WG Artillery Kapitan Fenris - Jozef - Malakov1 - Markov - Yuri
	Battle Engines	Gun Carriage
	Theme Forces
	Winter Guard Kommand - Legion of Steel - Jaws of the Wolf

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		Mercenary Battlegroups
		Warcasters	Bartolo - Damiano - MacBain - Durgen - Fiona - Ossrum - Gorten - Magnus1 - Magnus2 Requires a 2+ caster game
K H A D O R	M E R C E N A R I E S
		Other Controllers	Mini-casters	Brun Cragback & Lug - Rorsh & Brine
			Marshals	Colbie Sterling - Dirty Meg - Raluk Moorclaw - Rutger Shaw - Thor Steinhammer
		Warjacks & Warbeasts	The mercenary battlegroup members you can include in a Khador army depends entirely on which mercenary is commanding them. There are too many permutations to list here, please refer to one of the model entries above for full details of what it can take.
		Mercenary Units, Solos, & Battle Engines
		Units	High Shields - Press Gangers - Sea Dog Deck Gun - Sea Dog Pirates - Steelhead Halberdiers - Steelhead Cavalry - Steelhead Riflemen - Tactical Arcanist Corps Alexia1 - Croe's Cutthroats - Nyss Hunters - Blythe & Bull - Boomhowlers - Herne & Jonne - Aiyana & Holt - Lynus & Edrea
		Solos	Gobber Tinker - Ogrun Bokur Alexia2 - Alten Ashley - Bradigan - Grogspar - Brun Cragback & Lug - Colbie Sterling - Dirty Meg - Doc Killingsworth - Eiryss1 - Eiryss2 - Hawk - Gorman - Gudran - Harlan - Hutchuk - Bailoch - Rockbottom - Dougal - Orin - Ragman - Raluk - Rorsh & Brine - Rutger - Saxon - Sergeant Nicolas - Stannis - Thor
		Battle Engines	Hammerfall Siege Crawler
		Warcaster attachments	Madelyn Corbeau - Reinholdt - Wyshnalyrr

Rules Clarifications

Rules Clarification : Arcing Fire      (Edit) Arcing Fire lets you ignore models but not terrain. You don't ignore clouds, forests or buildings.

Rules Clarification : Targeting Flare      (Edit) You can use Targeting Flare during an Assault or Broadside attack. (Infernal Ruling)

Rules Clarification : Shield and/or Buckler     (Edit) The only time you lose the Shield bonus is when the weapon is crippled, or if the attack originates in your back arc. (Infernal Ruling) In other words, you still get the Shield bonus while knocked down or stationary.

Rules Clarification : Powerful Charge      (Edit) If you declare a charge but move less than 3", then the attack doesn't count as a "Charge Attack" and you won't get the bonus.

Rules Clarification : Warjack      (Edit) Please refer to the Warjack page for a recap of the warjack rules, and the very few associated Infernal Rulings.

Rules Clarification : Construct - None yet. (Edit)

Rules Clarification : Bulldoze      (Edit) Refer to the Bulldoze page for the clarifications - it was too long a list to repeat here.

Rules Clarification : Steady      (Edit) Steady models are still susceptible to other effects of knock-down attacks (if there are any). For example, a steady model hit with a Head butt won't be knocked down but will take damage. A knocked down model that gains Steady will remain knocked down, because the "cannot be knocked down" is not retroactively applied.