Dawnguard Sentinels are a unit for the Retribution of Scyrah faction in Warmachine MkII.

Background and Description

Noble heirs of House Nyarr often choose to dedicate themselves as a part of the Dawnguard Sentinels, guardians of the doctrines and ideals of the Dawnguard itself .^[1]

Special Abilities and Weapons

• 'Jack Marshal
• Defensive Line
• Weapons
  • Great Sword (melee)
    • Reach
    • Weapon Master

Attachments and Options

• Unit Size: 6 or 10
• Officer and Standard Unit Attachment
• Escort Weapon Attachment

Theme Armies

• Legions of the Dawn:
  • Each unit increases the number of Scyirs allowed in the army.
  • At Tier 2, a free Officer and Standard Unit Attachment is given to a second Sentinels Unit regardless of the Field Allowance.

Strengths

• Reliable Melee Damage: Having Weapon Masters with Reach gives a Retribution commander a powerful line of high Melee Attack fighters.
• Well armored: Put them in their Defensive Line and Sentinels can be tricky even for a warjack to break. Reach will also deter the Warjacks from attempting to trample through the lines, and Weaopn masters are not a place that a warjack or warbeast wants to get stuck in.

Weaknesses

• Slow, for an Elf: Dawnguard units are the slowest models in the Retribution army, slower even than their heavy myrmidons.
• 'Jack Marshal?: Sentinels get very little out of 'Jack Marshalling warjacks, unless you take the UA.

Synergies

• Dawnlord Vyros: Make it difficult to pick off individual Sentinels with their ARM 17 Defensive Line Ability: Defensive Line by enhancing it to ARM 19 with Inviolable Resolve.
• Adeptis Rahn: Polarity Field on the Sentinels will give the opponent difficulty with dealing with the high ARM models that are in Shield Wall or Defensive Line
• Kaelyssa: Kaelyssa and her battlegroup can safely shoot through them with Phantom Hunter cast on herself while receiving protection from the Dawnguard's ARM 17 Defensive Line . With these defenses active, enemies will be hard pressed to generate enough high POW attacks to kill models while The Vanishing is up when these models simply cannot be charged.
• Ravyn, Eternal Light: The slow moving unit benefits greatly by the cover and advantages granted by Ravyn's Veil of Mists. In addition, Sentinels that can benefit from Ravyn's Vortex of Destruction roll damage rolls at P+S 12 with 4 Dice on the advance, 5 Dice on the Charge. With Reach it should be entirely possible to get several swings in on highly armored targets.
• House Shyeel Battle Mages: Ranged dilemma. Shoot the mages that are hard to hit or shoot the Sentinels that are tough to kill?
• Houseguard Halberdiers: Sentinels can hide behind the Shield Wall and attack over them thanks to Ranked Attacks and Reach.
• Houseguard Riflemen with Houseguard Rifleman Officer and Standard Bearer: Tie up the enemy with melee troops and fire at them in melee with the War Tempered ability that allows the ranged unit to use Combined Fire into melee]].
• Dawnguard Scyir: A Scyir and his Marshaled Myrmidons can emerge through the Sentinels' Defensive Line with its Coordinated Strike Ability.

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Notes

1. ¹ Forces of Warmachine: Retribution of Scyrah. 2009