Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Title says it all, what are your thoughts on the Hellforged Warpack? How would/do you run it? Personally I want to run it with 3 maulerfiends.

Since I have no Dinobots and only dreadnoughts available, I could only run it with those. However, since the murder pack is much better I doubt that I'll use it, even though a dread character with 4++ is really tempting .

The weak point is a warpsmith.

It's cute. The Warpsmith tax is annoying though unlike the other formations, you don't need to keep your stuff in a bubble to use it. It most likely will be added to armies (read: Daemon armies) as a way for you to run multiple Maulerfiends. The Dreads don't get any real bonus other than the leader, Defilers are still overpriced and while giving Forgefiends multiple copies of Daemonforge is cute, people wanting weight of dakka for their Chaos armies are probably going to bring a double-Gatling Renegade instead (strictly speaking in terms of points and not money of course ). If you want solo dreads, you would run a Mayhem Pack instead.

Practically speaking, having a Maulerfiend able to challenge Meltabomb sergeants is rather nice. If GW further updates the Chaos rules allowing Helbrute squadrons, Look Out Sir shenanigans would be an option.

With Forgeworld, you could make the case for giving an Alpha Brute Death of Kasr Lutien, as the 4+ invulnerable will both help it keep its hull points available for the rest of your guys to cast with, and protect it some should they fail anyway.

I like it a lot. People can complain about the Warpsmith tax, but he could camp on a fortification gun whilst you rush up the character for them to be killed, giving your other 4 Maulerfiends Rage.

 koooaei wrote:
The weak point is a warpsmith.

Yeah, as others have said, it's not that big a deal since there is no range limit on the unlimited daemonforges so he can just hide at the back somewhere.