So looking at the front of this big boy’s card, we can see his stats are a curious mix, some really good, some less so. His Jog is low, but he once he gets going he can go at a fair clip, with an 8” Sprint. A KICK of 3/6” is good for a non-football based model, but the real thing you’re looking at and going ‘oh wow, that sucks’ is the DEF 2+/ARM 0. We know. But we’ll come back to that one, it’s nowhere near as bad as it looks.

Looking at his playbook, much like their Major Guild, the Butchers, the Cooks only have momentous damage results. In Roast’s case, he gets a push attached to each damage result, allowing him to bully enemy models around the pitch as well as put the hurt on them. His playbook also scales very well with his TAC 6. Non momentously, he has a low KD result, good for stopping counter attacks, as well as a low GB and a moderate double push. His Tackle is very high on his playbook, however. As you’ve guessed, he’s not the most football based model the game has ever seen!

Getting into his character plays, both are unique to him and they’re both very cool. Get It While It’s Hot makes a friendly model the centre of a 2” aura of –1 Influence charges. Exceptional for basically any model’s efficiency, Roast can really let his team get out there and punch things a lot easier! The aura is centred on the target friendly model, meaning if the model moves, so does the benefit. This can be handy if you can control your activations properly, since it lets you get the buff on multiple models.

Roast’s next character play allows him to inflict the burning condition on all enemy models within 3” of him, which gets the enemy team nice and toasty. The burning condition is a subtheme of the Cook’s Guild, which makes sense since they’re all about kitchens and cooking. Roast is one of the models who can apply it most easily to enemy models.

Finally, Roast has 18 HP, which doesn’t look like a lot with that poor defensive statline, but again, let’s wait and see the back of his card before judging that.

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