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If you are going KDK you got to go full KDK so Berzerkers are a must and I mean a TOTAL must. Also, they are meant as horde killers basicly anything with a +4 armor save will not survive more than 1 round of combat with them with +3 armor save units surviving +2 turns. Also, when these units get rolling they get killing their ability to unit jump amazing so yes I would recommend them. Also, the key to earning your points back with zerkers is splitting the enemy up. If you were thinking of bringing one big 16 man zerker squad don't do it! Bring two 8 man squads put em in 2 rhinos or 2 landradiers (if you don't have something better such as terminators that actually need this desperately) and cut the +4 armor save enemies into ribbons.

 koooaei wrote:


And yep, you're right. There ain't too much spare HQ slots in all the formations. Seems that one HQ goes to lord with an artifact or two - probably a matryoshka axe and a rune to help out vs psychers - and another to either a cheaper herald / second lord or S: D thirster.

Unfortunately- nobody in this codex can take more than one artifact. If you look at the wording on the artifact list it says that a character may replace a weapon with one of the artifact weapons OR may take one of the non-weapon artifacts. I was supremely bummed when I saw this. I had visions of a juggerlord wearing the skull helm, blood forged armor and wielding the blade of relentless bloodshed. Sadly, you can't do that. You have to spread the artifacts out amongst your HQs. A double CAD formation is able to field quite a few killy HQs with artifacts though.

Well, that's a pity as runes and a helm are both awesome artifacts but not nearly as good as a matryoshka axe, BT blade and a stacking axe.