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A doctrine of combined arms lies at the heart of the Steelhead Company’s training manual and their riflemen are one of the most important elements of these combined forces. Working in concert with other Steelheads, or the regular forces of a client army, the riflemen are skilled shooters capable of decimating enemy lines or providing covering fire to ensure that their allies reach the enemy in one piece. Every rifleman is a solid marksman, but when ordered to concentrate their fire at a single target they become truly deadly.

http://privateerpress.com/warmachine/gallery/mercenaries/units/steelhead-riflemen

About time they got a ranged unit - look like the usual 3-pose metal.

Merc Long Gunners, without rapid-fire, mebbe? Flavour text implies CRA and Covering Fire, at least.

Looks pretty cool, and sounds like they will have CRA.

Excellently steampunky.
Really like these. I also love the Stannis Brocker miniature, and the Steelhead cav. I may end up getting these fellas as an army some day.

Goggles are to PP infantry what screaming is to GW infantry.

Dysartes wrote:About time they got a ranged unit - look like the usual 3-pose metal.

Merc Long Gunners, without rapid-fire, mebbe? Flavour text implies CRA and Covering Fire, at least.

5 poses counting the leader.

Probably just CRA. Steelheads are cheap, that's their thing. Too many bells and cost goes up

They'll probably offer a more stripped down option to Magnus' Traitor Longgunners for when you're just a few points short.

Also, come on Steelhead 'Caster!

What is a "Riglemen"?

This is WIN. Finally Stannis' special rules won't seem so out of place.

Howlingmoon wrote:What is a "Riglemen"?

Men of Rigle. it's an archaic term for catching a fish by grabbing it in two hands while it is still alive, such as from a line or net, related to 'wriggling'. The lack of fish on these models is quite disturbing.

lol, thanks for that Balance.

I have to say this unit really interests me with Fiona's Affliction spell.

Death By Monkeys wrote:Goggles are to PP infantry what screaming is to GW infantry.

At least you can safely assume they have use in a world with gunpowder...

And PP models scream, too

malfred wrote:

Death By Monkeys wrote:Goggles are to PP infantry what screaming is to GW infantry.

At least you can safely assume they have use in a world with gunpowder...

And PP models scream, too

Epic Stryker screams.

AND has bad anime hair.

OH MAN! AND GOGGLES!

He's like a trifecta of WTFness!

I really like these steelheads. the steelhead halberdiers are IMHO but ugly. that is why I am looking for alternative models for them.

these I have no problem with (except the limited poses...)

Death By Monkeys wrote:Goggles are to PP infantry what screaming is to GW infantry.

Not that goggles are a major steampunk motif or anything.

How close are these gunners in size to imperial guard infantry?

I see what you're thinking there, GD.

The bases are 30mm, so a bit bigger than GW's bases. So they are around the same size as IG infantry.