Tiamat, a Therian Menace
Tiamat is one of the oldest Therians still alive and one of their best Commanders. Like the lowly Hekat she is built for close range melee combat but she can dish out a whole lot more damage. Armed with 4 light grim scythes she can cut through armour like butter striking fear into AFV pilots and infantry alike.
Tiamat is right at home charging towards the enemy, summoning hekats as she goes. Her opponents have a difficult decision to make. Do they take out the hekats she summons or do they focus their fire on her? If they focus on her and she is destroyed she can simply reappear, replacing one of her other units afresh ready to press the assault some more. For this reason many armies with tiamat will take a small unit for her to transfer into when she does get destroyed. If they don’t manage to destroy her, she and her 2-3 summoned friends will shred all the units in their path.
It is often more beneficial to target the summoned Hekats while Tiamat is still moving to engage. If you let the Therian commander swarm you with melee AFVs you are in big trouble. She can swarm very quickly too, by dashing she covers 50cm a turn, more than enough to engage most enemies turn 2. If you haven’t been focusing on the summons she’ll have 2 hekats in tow when she reaches you. Not a pleasant thought.
In addition to being a monster on the battlefield she also provides the largest number of LP when she is commanding the therian army. This gives them more than enough points to spend on Hekats, rerolling damage, and lowly combat drills.
Tiamat is a great company commander choice for a therian strategy that rushes towards the enemy and she is perfectly complemented by Grim Golems. If sitting back and shooting is more your style you should check out Babylon Zero.
I’m really enjoying this series. It’s a fun way to peek at those other armies and good for IDing which units must die.
Sorry, I’m kinda new and not familiar with the armies, how does Tiamat cover 50cm with Dash? I thought Dash let Therian units travel ‘up to 30cm.’ Does that mean that dashing Therians get +30cm to regular movement?
rabidaskal, you wanted to know: The maneuver you are thinking of is the infantry rush that Therians have, allowing them to move a total of 30cm. The AFV version of that: Dash, allows vehicles to move 50cm.
Thanks for answering this one busby. I must have missed this one last week. As busby has said there are 2 versions of dash, one for infantry that lets them cover 30cm as a rush movement and one for AFVs which lets them cover 50cm as a rush. In both cases the routine costs 2 LP.