Feral Manticore (Dark Elves)

Feral Manticore
Overview
ID	wh2_dlc10_def_mon_feral_manticore_0
Race	Dark Elves
Category	Monster
Unit size	1
Recruitment
Tier unit Cost (MP): 800 (800) Turns: 1 Upkeep: 200 Weight: Heavy Size: Large entity
Statistics
Health: 5103 (5103 per model) Leadership: 56 Speed: 85 Melee Attack: 40 Melee Defence: 34 Charge Bonus: 50
Melee Weapons
Weapon Strength: 445 Base Damage: 290 Armour-Piercing Damage: 155 Melee Interval: 3.6 s Melee Reach: 6
Protection
Armor: 45 (33.75% reduction)
Unit Attributes
Causes Fear: This unit frightens all enemy units, reducing their leadership when nearby. It is also immune to fear. Fear penalties do not stack. Causes Terror: This unit can cause terror, making its melee target rout for a short time. Units that cause terror are immune to terror and fear themselves. Can Fly: This unit can fly.
Resistances
Missile Resistance: 15%. Damage of missile attacks is reduced by this amount.
Additional Stats
Siege Attacker: This unit can attack gates or walls, allowing you to instantly launch a siege battle without having to wait for siege towers or battering rams to be built. Resilience: This unit is immune to the following types of attrition: Snow, Horde infighting.

For the unit as part of other races, see Feral Manticore.

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These incarnations of Khaine strike fear in to all those who stand before them.

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Feral Manticore is a Dark Elves monster unit introduced in Total War: Warhammer II.

Recruitment

• Dark Elves
  • Unlocked with: Beastmaster's Stables or Monster Holds
• The Thousand Maws
  • Unlocked with: Beastmaster's Stables or Monster Holds
  • Recruited with: Monster Pens

Summon

• Transformation of Kadon

Description

Dark Elves hold no creature in higher esteem than the Manticore, for they believe it to be one of the thousand incarnations of Khaine; daring Beastmasters venture as far north as the Chaos Wastes in search of young Manticores to sell at auction. Manticores can be tamed enough to take a rider, though they remain feral. Even if a steed occasionally ignores its rider's commands and pitches them into unfavourable fights, a Dark Elf considers this a minor risk compared to the fear and respect brought about by bringing a fearsome mount to the fray.

Attributes

• Flying Monster
• ▲ Causes Terror: This unit can cause terror, making its melee target rout for a short time. Units that cause terror are immune to terror and fear themselves.
• ▼ Rampage: When this unit gets hurt and enemies are nearby it might go on a rampage, attacking the closest enemy and ignoring any orders given.

Unit Abilities

Passive Abilities

• Feral Rage I
• Feral Rage II
• Wounds

Strategy

The Manticore is fairly unique in that it is a winged, Terror-causing SEM which is also cheap and easy to recruit. To counterweigh this, they are pretty weak all round - most anti-large SEMs will make short work of them - and have the awful Rampage! passive which will remove them from your control if they take too much damage. Nonetheless, just having them on the field will cause problems for the enemy, whether it's terror-routing infantry and ranged units, taking out artillery or simply drawing attention away from your more fragile troops. For this reason they're a good pick to simply fill out an army in a pinch, providing great distractions if nothing else. Again, unlike most other units in this category, their cheap and quick recruitment means it's no great loss if they die.

For Rakarth, they can make for a devastating stack option with his Apex predator perk.