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So am I wrong in thinking that every dwarf army could use three grudge throwers now? Rune + Engineer = reroll BOTH scatter and artillery dice, and no guessing on range. In addition, LOS not needed. Sounds like I need to go drop some $$$ on grudge throwers.

olympia wrote:So am I wrong in thinking that every dwarf army could use three grudge throwers now? Rune + Engineer = reroll BOTH scatter and artillery dice, and no guessing on range. In addition, LOS not needed. Sounds like I need to go drop some $$$ on grudge throwers.

Wait till after the erratas are out ... no knowing what will be buffed and nerfed

Also, I believe you can throw a +1 S rune to get the S4 hits on the 'Thrower.

You can take more, but you get armor saves against stone throwers now, and since they are only S3 you get full armor.

Granted the will be amazing vs low/no armor stuff, they are going to mostly bounce off heavyer infantry.

But... in a 3000pt game you can take 3 grudge throwers, 3 cannons and 3 (maybe 6) bolt throwers, and still have room for some Ironbreakers. So you'll be able to deal with armor. Throw in some Flame cannons and Organ guns and you are THE WIN.

Flame cannons have gone from completely useless to super viable, especially with hordes of infantry.

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:Flame cannons have gone from completely useless to super viable, especially with hordes of infantry.

It depends on if the errata makes the flame cannon follow the rules for flame-thrower type weapons in the BRB. The this is the case the max. range of the flame cannon is 18" (10" artillery+ 8" template).

As for the grudge throwing, I'm thinking of taking three all with rune of penetrating (+1S) and rune of fire, plus one other rune. S4 or S5 grudge throwers that reroll scatter and artillery still should do a job on things.

Well in 8th pretty much all stone throwers will be a lot better, so they may become much more common in Dwarf armies.

As for the rune specifics, I think that they won't be nerfed in the Errata, but you never really know.

As far as purchasing, one may do you for now, but I wouldn't go out and buy 3 with the hopes of basing my army around it to find out that they are not are good. One on the other hand, will always find a fit.