4.5/5 stars, rounded down to 4/5 stars. Jago returns to second edition in a better shape than First.
Background.
All legions have their champions and their Legends whose names are known widely outside their own. For the Night Lords, it is Sevatar. A lethal warrior, a dirty fighter, a repressed psyker, a murderer, and able to command every element of the legion with skill and where necessary malice.
Strengths.
The stat line alone is very good with WS=7 base and I=6 combined with 4 attacks and artificer armour. His special rules combine what you might expect of praetors and Night Lords with Fear, precision strikes at 4+ and an additional set of unique rules.
His latent psyker ability allows him to glance the future for WS and A+1, but he uses Ld=7 for this. He also gains instant death thanks to Dirty Fighter when his challenge enemy has WS>=5.
The weapons possess AP2 which is incredibly valuable here and combines it together with further rules like duellist's edge, and murderous strike. Finally the warlord trait is handy enough granting deep strike to his terminators and preferred enemy on the turn they land. This is super powerful for an alpha strike tactic where possible - nice for the pinning interaction as well. The extra movement reaction is just icing on the proverbial cake by this stage.
Weaknesses.
A great character with no real draw backs. He's not at Abaddon levels, but he is very powerful.
Overall.
I like the idea of using Sevatar for an alpha strike terminator assault tactic, and combine potentially with Terror Assault for an interesting game.
Difference to First Edition.
Improved! He is strictly better in Second Edition in every department. Even if I dislike the Night Lords (I candidly never like fighting against them!), I really love Jago Sevatar. Not only is his fluff excellent, his rules are great too.
Personally I think that in close combat Sevatar is way more powerful than Abaddon. If you try pitching them one against the other Sevatar is attacking first, possibly with higher WS due to the psychic power and with instant death on all of his attacks. I think that the only weak point he has is the fact that he cannot deep strike with his warlord trait. To me he his on the second spot as most powerful combat praetor on par with Corswain (and just under Sigismund)
ReplyDeleteI always think of Sevatar as being in the second power grouping of named character fluff-wise (where the top group is Sigismund, Abaddon, and Corswain pretty much). Just a personal opinion though!
ReplyDeleteFluff-wise talking I absolutely agree!!! Concerning rules... I'd say that fluff and tabletop power are not always on the same level
DeleteI've been using night lords for a long time, and sevatar is almost always on the list, I've fought challenges against abaddon and I've always slaughtered him... he has no hope, especially if psionic power enters.
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