Unit of the Week: Mortarion

[Wolf Lord Loki]

The father of the legion, the lord of us all.

 

How do you guys use him effectively? What combination of warlord traits do you use? What psykic powers?

 

How do you structure your army to account for a huge expenditure of points?

[Marshal Mittens]

Very cool and powerful model. I would get one, but he's very expensive and intimidating to paint. Previously very tanks, but less so in the super killy 9e.

[Special Officer Doofy]

True that alot of stuff has got stronger, but Mortarion did go to T8, got -1D and now reduces AP by one, so he's not doing too bad. Just got to watch out for railguns haha.

[Tipper]

Love the model and would love to own one. Even if I did save up the money to buy it tho, I’d be way to intimidated to try to paint it. So, I’d get it done professionally. Another huge expense. Then, the gorgeous model with the super nice and expensive paint job would NEVER leave a display case. So, I’ll never have him for my army. But a Nurgling can dream. Edited May 20, 2022 by Tipper

[Xenith]

Just got pasted by Mortarion in a tournament game - that was the Semi final and the DG player is now in the final and likely to win I think. 

 

I was playing 8th ed codex nids, and didnt really have an answer to him. Even hive guard, that possible best unit in the game for a while, couldn't touch him - the -1D against dD3 weapons is good. The phosphem bomb against hordes is amazing, and then, something I didn't realise, is that he has a sweep. 21 attacks is also powerful. 

 

This was at 1500, so morty probably had a greater impact on the game that he would at 2k, but he really shines with quartered DZ, enough terrain, and the overall smaller tables of 9th. 

[Derpa Derpa 777]

So after the new meta update Mortarion still hasn’t dropped in points. That isn’t stopping me from taking him. However I’m new to the game(well 9th edition anyway) and I’m wondering what units to watch out for and how to hide him using cover…? 

[Karhedron]

Watch out for units with the ability to auto-wound as that negates his high toughness (e.g. Infiltrators, Votann Judgement tokens etc). Also Mortal Wounds are bad for his health as they bypass armour, save, Invulnerable saves and his -1 Damage ability. The most common source of MWs are psychic powers so he has some defence but some weapons also inflict MWs and can be fielded in reasonable numbers (sniper weapons, Tau Rail weapons, Aeldari Wraithcannons etc).

[Derpa Derpa 777]

What about cover? Can’t he just jump from cover to cover and get into cc?

[tychobi]

So Morty in 10th? He's nice n cheap but hits like a wet noodle. Cover is cool but holy moly did they pull the teeth of my favorite primarch. At speed 10 I want to like him. .   . But no. In the end as disappointing as the rest of the index.