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I was reading over the new daemon codex, and Skarbrand in particular stood out. He appears to be amazingly brutal in CC but too weak to survive concentrated shooting.
What does dakka think?

Thats fairly consistent for all GD's, although he is t6 so it will take on average 9 railgun shots that wound to kill him, or 162 bolters shots (just numbers in my head so I might be wrong on that one)

He seems pretty nice. Basically mitigating the need to put heralds with your bloodletter packs from what I understand.

Or nastier yet, daemonettes with hatred...all those attacks...
It seems like there's a lot of cool stuff you can do with this guy.

If you want to make him tougher, getting endurance from the biomancy table on another daemon would help. Maybe a HoT or GUO as your sorcerer. That's pretty much would make any GD nasty though, not just skarbrand.