Waldo's Weekly - Slashing Through the Bayou

[Hobby Wyrd]

Hey Wyrdos!

This week, we came in to see Waldo had set up a movie night. Specifically, “Waldo’s Super-Extra-Scary Movie Night”, which he wrote across the office. While we wash the Amityville Horror-style words off the walls, let’s delve into an upcoming character who seems to know a little bit about slasher films too:

 

 

Ezekiel Gautreaux, patriarch of the Gautreaux family, is a recent student of necromancy. Though bokors practice magic, they’ve never deeply harnessed the Grave Spirit. Ezekiel’s changed all that. Something’s been whispering the secrets of necromancy into his head, encouraging him to raise the many Gremlin dead. The Bayou’s smallest and creepiest family is growing, slowly but surely…

 

Ezekiel

 

 

Ezekiel is a very interesting new model who brings a healthy dose of the Bayou silliness to the Resurrectionists Faction. He’s a must-hire for anyone who enjoys bogging an enemy down with Mindless Zombies as he has both a suited Zombie Apocalypse Action and the Resurrect Trigger on Fresh Meat.

Aside from Summoning, Ezekiel provides a lot to a Resurrectionist player. Ezekiel brings a solid Heal in Healing Energy, a way to add Shielded to friendly models with Protective Spirits, and a way to move an Undead-focused Crew with Fresh Meat. To round out the package, Intuition allows these Actions to go off much more reliably.

There are also a few funny Bayou notes on Ezekiel. Debt of Gratitude is an amazing Trigger, but its placement on a Heal means that if you want to remove enemy Markers, you have to Heal your enemies in the process. Botched Ritual is also pretty useful to Pulse out some damage on enemies and is worth forcing a fail on Protective Spirits.

 

 

Mindless Zombie

Along with Ezekiel, the Abra-cadaver box comes with 5 gremlin-themed Mindless Zombie models. These Mindless Zombies can be used by any Resurrectionists player who would like a bit more Bayou flavor on the board.

 

 

Using Ezekiel and the Mindless Zombies

Ezekiel meshes well with many different Crews. Adding him to a Dr. McMourning, Insanitary Crew is a great way to generate a few extra Corpse Markers to add Too Many Legs Upgrades or to help Summon Flesh Constructs with Twisted Genius. He works well with Reva Cortinas, Luminary giving more options for Enkindle the Cult. He’s even useful in a Yan Lo Crew to feed Corpse Markers to Toshiro for Unending Fealty.

Outside of Master pairings, Ezekiel partners very well with Asura Roten. While they both play the Mindless Zombie Summoning game, Asura boosts the Summoned Mindless Zombies’ board presence with Rottenburg Residents and Re-Animate. The additional expendable bodies on the board means that she will be very hard to remove with Hard to Kill combined with Heal pings from The Final Veil. Finally, with more friendly Undead around enemy targets, Asura Roten’s Desiccation Trigger becomes very powerful.

Since he’s a gremlin, it would be a shame not to offer a silly list option for Ezekiel. Here’s a list created by one of our testers.

Toss Me a Body

Size: 50 - Pool: 6

  Asura Roten + The Whisper

  Carrion Effigy + Effigy of Fate

  Mortimer

  Ezekiel

  Grave Golem

  Archie

  Gravedigger

References:

  Mindless Zombie

With 3 models Summoning Mindless Zombies and two models ready to throw them across the board, we won’t say it’ll win you games, but it’ll be magnificent. Another upcoming Versatile model for the Resurrectionists Faction will slot very well into this playstyle so stay tuned for more information on that model!

That’s all for this week, Wyrdos! What do you think about this little “Jigsaw” puzzle of a model?

Will you “Meyer” your foes in Mindless Zombies, or use them to start “Jason” after Scheme runners?

Do you think Ezekiel will “Carrie” your games?

Feel Ezekiel could fit into “Freddy” Resurrectionist keyword?

Also, Happy (“My Bloody”) Valentine’s Day!

 

[Chou]

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