Hobby Update: Mhorgoth the Faceless

The Undead ranks continue to swell! Up now is the legendary necromancer Mhorgoth the Faceless! 

The BBEG himself!

Fluff-wise, Mhorgoth is a bad bad evil guy for the setting, appearing on lots of older Mantic art. He's a big-time necromancer and one of the main legendary characters for the Undead that has persisted through the editions so far. 

I got some of the fog effect to stick to him.. but it probably won't last.

The model is Mantic's. It's an older metal model of theirs. Neat, but not too flashy. He is "faceless" due to alleged disfigurement and now sporting a closed helm, but all in all, he's actually a pretty bland mini. I do like that his pose largely matches the game art, but there is not much to him, and nothing really special on the paint job I gave him.

In the game, the Undead Liches recently lost Fly and Regeneration when the spellcasters were reworked, but Mhorgoth retains both, and comes with Very Inspiring to protect your units, Dread to debuff enemy Nerve, and the very wordy Unholy Levitating Arch-Liche special rule, letting him move at the double and still be able to cast spells, as well as letting him cast two spells a turn. And he comes with a wide variety of spells: Bane Chant, Drain Life, Mind Fog and Surge! The range on most of those spells isn't too far, so it seems likely that he will be supporting your units and utilizing fly to just keep the legendary character safe from reprisals. 

Mhorgoth seems neat! We actually got to see the character in action across the table pretty recently in Battle 049, where we saw him powering through some hexes to sling his spells and my opponent deemed him to be Mhorgoth the Must-Have. I have quite the list of things to test for the Undead already, so we'll add Mhorgoth to the pile, and hopefully we can explore that moniker and test him out for ourselves soon!