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Yeah, i think this goes on tactics.... however, I have yet to field the spawns, I bought a few which are waiting to get assembled and painted to join my jugger lord. I have mixed feelings regarding them, they are a cheap unit that will only provide extra wounds until your lord arrives to combat which is pretty good, however you need to get really careful on S10 weapons out there (unless you are nurgle). Their direct competitors would be bike which are just as resilient in paper.

I personally have loved taking my bikes instead of spawns, they work great, provide me with a champ to challenge so that my lord can destroy any unit he gets into contact with. However again due to getting enough bikes it eats a good chunk of my list points, switching to spawns will make it pack less punch but spare some points to get more powerful troops

 Eiluj The Farseer wrote:
True, but I think Spawn serve a different purpose, one in which they help deliver an awesome and maneuverable lord. I used to run the lord in termie armour, but he was so slow things could just stay away from him and the Land Raider is just so expensive I really never use it. I do really love the helldrakes though

Yup, for what they do their direct competition are bikes which are also a great unit, as I said before statistically they should have very similar in survivable attirbutes due to multi-wounds vs save/jink. So it's pretty much up to you. Both are great units imho.