Mule has a pretty average Miner statline. They’re quite tough, with those defensive stats, and the 4”/6” MOV is about average for a Miner, again with Secret Tunnel pushing them up to around a 8”/10” MOV, effectively. Secret Tunnel gets better the bigger base the model has, so Mule is actually really quite fast!

The playbook is where it starts getting really interesting. A momentous KD on column 1 is pretty sweet, meaning their 1” melee isn’t such a big deal. They have a GB trigger on column 2 that’s also going to be really important when we get to their character plays in a sec. Of all the Miners, they have the highest Tackle result, reflecting the clumsiness of the big galoot in actually snaffling the ball from opposing players. The Mule is the first model in the Guild that we’ve seen that has momentous damage, with a nice 2/double push on column 3, and 3/double push on column 5. Mule isn’t setting the world on fire with this damage, but it’s a useful option.

So, since the real meat of this model is in the character plays, lets take a look at them. Lockdown is pretty brutal. It can only be triggered from the playbook, and it inflicts -4”/-4” MOV and -1 TAC on the target enemy model. This is obviously pretty brutal, especially in conjunction with Mule’s 3+/2 defensive profile, making it a very tough model to bring down once it’s locked an opposing model down.

The second unique play Mule has is Throw. This allows you to place an enemy model within 2” of it’s current location. This is fantastic, the obvious combo here is putting Lockdown on an enemy model and then lobbing it 2” away from the rest of your team! Or, well, just fling half the enemy team around, putting models that haven’t activated behind models that have, block lanes, and generally make yourself a nuisance. While the enemy model will still likely be able to attack Mule, Mule is the toughest model on the Miner’s team by some margin, and so you really want them to be forced to make lower value attacks on Mule rather than attack your squishier models like Fuse and Spade.

MF-813 Mule

[Editor’s Note: nice obscure reference, well done!]