Ya....
As you can tell from my super dooper outburst of cheer that this unit is lacking... ok it just is plain sad lacking. I don't like them and today we will give them a look under the hood. As always lets look at the stat line.
Stats:
SPD: 8 (Charge threat range is 8 + 3 + 2 reach = 13")
STR: 7
MAT: 6 (couldn't hit the broad side of a kador jack sadly)
RAT: 4
DEF: 14 (Decent DEF so only things that can boost or have high rats/mats should be hitting them)
ARM: 15 (look they wont die to most blast damage!)
SCYTHE
P/S 13
Reach
SICKLE
P/S 11
Life drink - heals soulhunter for d3 if they kill something with THIS weapon
MOUNT
Pow 10
Undead (Cool no fear always nice perk for being dead)
Body Count - Gets 1 soul token (max 3) if it destroys a living model with a attack you can only use them to boost attack / damage rolls sadly so no more minni threshing :(
The Good :-)
At a glance and due to the rules this unit looks like a great front end infantry killing machine. You get three attacks + one being reach. You can boost the attack / damage rolls. Whats not to like here? With being a large base lots of targets will be in range when you do the attacks and on top of it you can't trample right past them so they HAVE to deal with your guys. The units fast for a speed 8 and you get to make impact attacks giving you the horse also. If you get up to three souls you can start taking on heavy infantry but I would not go anyhing larget then a 8 would ARM 18 target with out some debuffs / buffs on my side.
Pop and drop trick with tall in the saddle with are Dragoon is awesome. The ability to go incorporeal on the fly and rush some one behind a line of guys and going incomplete is a great way to throw a kink in some ones line plan. I love doing this and seeing my competition go "What just happened to my support / important models safe in the back?!"
The Bad :-[
This unit want to be awesome hell it even LOOKS AWESOME! That is why I purchased a min unit before even reading there rules or play testing <Bad choice if your strap for cash>
1) There squishy meaning most armys will gun them down before they even get into the prime position you need them into.
2) There light calvary... and light calvary suck sense the errata. Basickly they all get to move 5" after they all finished there activation o you also can't do this on a turn they RAN. So I can run 16" or advance 13"... Which one do you think I will pick? Ok its not all bad what if you want to hit a point and then get out of the way for other guys? Sure this is the ONLY viable way I can see using them personaly because I promise if you did not KILL that target or put your self in the right spot some ware ells your going to get free striked and die by something sense there fragil as sin.
3) Expensive. Enough said there supposed to be for high mobility but if I wanted that I would just of brought me some Satix Raiders and more survival... There def sucks / there hp is low / there arm is low / soooo why am I paying this much for this unit?
Who works well with them?
Well there a high mobile and with are dragoon scary heavy hitter guys with souls of course. The only trick is to getting ware you want to hit hard like a caster or some vary important UA / Solos. If you can't kill there caster cripple them so bad they wish you did kill there caster I always say.
They need help hitting to work well or getting in the right spot so the following casters I find work well with them:
- pDenny because she makes every one great with debuffs
- Coven has some great movement shenanigans that you can get ware ever you want any time you want
- pSkar solves there need to hit problem so you can use all the souls on just hitting hardware
- pGaspy can make it so they will always hit hard just use the soul to make sure you hit
That's all I got to say on this topic though so you all have a great night/day!
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