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Hey all, my plans changed so here I am reviewing the Leviathan. Please feel free to add your insight and have a happy Halloween!
Leviathan Sith Cost: 60 Recommended Mini: Young Krayt Dragon
HP: 200
Defense: 17
Attack: 10
Damage: 30
Special Abilities:
Savage (This character must end its move next to an enemy if it can and does not benefit from commander effects)
Speed 10 (Can move up to 10 squares and attack, or 20 squares without attacking)
Melee Attack (Can attack only adjacent enemies)
Melee Reach 3 (When attacking, this character treats enemies up to 3 squares away as adjacent)
Absorb Life Energy (When a living enemy is defeated by this character, remove 10 damage and this character gets +1 Attack and +1 Defense. These bonuses are cumulative.)
Charging Assault +10 (Replaces turn: Can move up to double speed, then make an attack at +10 Damage against an adjacent enemy)
Indiscriminate (When this character attacks an adjacent enemy, it ignores enemy abilities and commander effects that prevent targeting and attacking. These attacks cannot be redirected.)
Overwhelming Power (Damage from this character's attacks cannot be prevented or redirected)
Virulent Poison +20 (+20 Damage to living enemy; save 16)
In terms of stats, HP is amazing, defense and attack are a little to low but Ill get to that, and damage is good. Savage is ironically one of this beast's best attributes, allowing to benefit from Celeste Morne and Exar Kun. Melee Attack is expected, and Melee Reach 3 is good as well. Charging Assault is good, letting you attack anyone you're forced adjacent to by savage, and Speed 10 gives him an effective range of 23 squares.. Absorb Life Energy is the reason for his low attack and defense. This ability is the reason why the Leviathan is great when there are cheap characters like uggies around. This thing DECIMATES swarm squads. Indiscriminate and Overwhelming power are counters to people like GOWK who could otherwise shrug off big blows from this guy, and Virulent poison leads to even more hate against living characters. The most effective way to use this guy would probably have to be in a higher costing point squad. If you combine him with Celeste and exar you have a character who can move 20, then hit for a possible 22 for 90! Even though it's one attack, the damage is unavoidable. The biggest counter to the leviathan is droid squads. Against them, he would lose his poison and absorb life energy. Therefore you might want some varactyl wranglers In there just in case.
To conclude, the leviathan is an epic savage character that can be boosted a ton in higher point formats. I rate him a 9/10
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I agree the Leviathan is a BEAST!! I love him!
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This is just an awesome Savage piece; great for Sith Savage squads (obviously). I'll definitely have to try him out sometime (haven't quite gotten around to it). 10 from me Great review as well! 10 for that too 
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I've seen the Leviathan on the table a few times, and just don't think it's very good. I've seen less experienced players thinking it looks amazing, put it on the table, then get disappointed when it goes down hard - I've played a couple of games where it hasn't even got to make an attack. I thought it looked really good when I first saw the stats, but when you see it on the table, it's not that great. Normally it gets one attack (which at +10, might not even hit), then just goes down hard. You can bring in support to get that attack up, but that's a big chunk of your squad at 200. And huge without flight always makes it tough.
Absorb Life Energy sounds good on paper, but I don't think it's very strong - if your 60 point piece is spending a turn killing an Ugnaught, it means that my big attackers are getting attacks on it without reprisal. I think it's hard to claim that it "decimates swarm squads" when it can only kill one piece per turn. A few juiced up Snowtroopers or Naboo wouldn't have much trouble getting through the 200 hit points.
Totally a fun piece, but I don't think you can make it work even at Tier 2 or 3 at 200 points. I think its best chance is to stick it behind Zannah and do some damage with melee reach 3 while she absorbs lots of damage.
It would have been interesting to give it Splash 10 - that would have totally helped it get the Absorb Life Energy bonus.
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TheHutts wrote:
Totally a fun piece, but I don't think you can make it work even at Tier 2 or 3 at 200 points. I think its best chance is to stick it behind Zannah and do some damage with melee reach 3 while she absorbs lots of damage.
Thats what i do :D lol
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Good review. I vote for General Grievous scourge of the Jedi next! I always use GGDAC over GGSOTJ. Am I wrong?
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@ Harry couldn't agree more your review = 10/10 from me, I also vote for General Grievous Scourge of the Jedi for the next review
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Hey, harryg, I have a suggestion for the next miniature review: That darn Elite Commando Droid!
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