Hello Again Ladies and Gents!
Today we see the home stretch for me looking at the Maynarkh Dynasty and trying to see if anything needs amending for using the Force in 7th Ed, and the current codex. And to finish out this little exercise for now we will look at the MacDaddy of the Maynarkh Dynasty, Kutlakh the World Killer!
But before we get into the meat of Kutlakh's rules I think it would be good to have a wee look at this mechanical bad-ass.
Kutlakh to start is, not the leader of his Dynasty, he is the highest ranking general of their armies, and in his own right, as powerful as some phaeron's of lesser dynasties. The leader of the Maynarkh Dynasty has only ever been referred to as the Mother of Oblivion, and has been hinted to have been either romantically or physically connected with the Silent King.
Kutlakh has never been focused on the political trappings of the Dynasty structure, preferring to put his efforts into his martial might. At the close of the war in heaven, the Silent King ordered the most powerful of weapons to be turned on the C'tan after he realised their insipid betrayal. The Maynarkh Dynasty was at the front of unleashing these cosmically destructive weapons on the Star Vampires, with many being shattered into the shards they are in the 41st Millennium. Of all the C'tan attacked and defeated by the Necrons, none was so utterly obliterated as Llandu'gor the flayer, personally falling to Kutlakhs hand. With this act all of the Necron race was doomed to the possibility of the flayer curse. None more so than the Maynarkh themselves. But of Kutlakh, devolution to a flayer has yet to happen, he still maintains the majority of his sanity... For now...
Ooooooohhh Drama!!! 😝
I hope that all got you tingling, as now we move on to look at this bad-ass on the tabletop!
Statline wise the S, T, and WS all rock in at a Melta bomb with, W3 standard Necron initiative, and A of a melta bomb -1. He comes equipped with a staff of light and the Obsidax. Special rules include, Independent Character, Adamantium Will, Re-An, Splinter of Madness, Phaeron, and Ever-living; these last two in the vien of the articles so far will just be straight dropped. Kutlakh comes with the Death Incarnate Warlord trait as standard, so refer to my thoughts on this from the first article in the series. He also is rocking a 2+sv.
The staff of light does not have the specialist weapon rule, which conflicts with the obsidax, which does. I can't remember if the previous iteration of the staff had this rule, but currently it doesn't, so we'll stick to the current profile.
The Obsidax is a beefed up Hyperphase blade. It's S user, Ap2, Melee, Instant Death, and as previously shown a specialist weapon. Pretty tasty.
Coming back to the Splinter of Madness Rule, this confers, Fear and Fearless to Kutlakh and any unit he is attached to.
It also gives a little interesting aside as well...
First off Kutlakh must always fight in a challenge if possible both declaring and accepting. Next at the start of the sub fight stage both Kutlakh and his opponent roll a d6 and add it to their ld value. If Kutlakhs total is greater, the opponent has their WS reduced by the difference for that assault phase 😱! Such it Imhotekh and your hand removal fetish! 😝
Kutlakh is nothing short of a beast in combat. He wants to chase your chapter masters, your chaos Lords, your big hitters and mess up their day. I think he is a good character, and is reasonably priced at 44 melta bombs. High shooting and blob squads may cause him lots of issues though. Protecting him with the Charnal Lychguard is key.
What do you all think? Is Kutlakh worth it? Is he too OP? Would you change anything about him, let me know in the comments!
Hopefully I will hear soon on whether I can run this list, and I will follow up soon, if not I'll be feverishly looking at something else soon...
Until next time
Jonathan
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