October 19, 2012 by beerogre
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The Bombadiers are the third flavour of Man-O-War after the Shocktroopers and Demolition Corps... but will it be a flavour to tempt the guys away from the tried and trusted combinations in Warmachine?
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Man-O-Wars are typically wasted in an anti-infantry role as they put out high single-target damage. Bombardiers have an aoe which comes at a pow 7 under the blast which will shred most infantry. The arcing fire allows them to worry less about intervening models and they can mix it up in melee in a pinch with their chainsaws. Yes, they are a bit more generalized, but they’re still tough as nails, and with the arm bonuses that Khador has access to they can get to frustrating levels of armour. Even at arm 16 you can’t really send regular infantry after… Read more »
Just wondering, which Khador arm bonuses are you talking about?
I think he might be thinking of Iron Flesh, which is actually a DEF buff. That or he may be thinking of how many Khador units have shield wall available to them? I’m not finding very many ARM buffs though in my Khador army book. We do have a lot of units that have high armor or can self-buff their armor really high with shield wall (+4 which is better than a lot of non-khador units whose shield wall is only +3). But most of the caster defensive bonuses add to DEF rather than ARM. With Iron Flesh these guys… Read more »
I’d rather use pIrusk with IFP. ManoWar tend to be with pButcher or eIrusk for me. Once I got my Bombardiers painted, I’ll try out a full MoW Phalanx with eIrusk.
Also whose Shieldwall is only +3? You might confuse it with Defensive line, which gives +2 Arm.
Harkevich give an ARM bonus.
Only to jacks and himself via his feat. Or only to himself via Escort.
Defenders ward.
it depends on the force you bring to the table really…a harkevich list could definately benefit from some bombardiers for some extra firepower, and with harkevich’s fortune spell, they re-roll failed RAT rolls wich makes them more accurate. but the other man-o-wars fit in just about any khador list, where these guys do not. so bottom line here is if you’re building a shooty army, i’d say go for the bombardiers, otherwise, stick with the tried and tested shocktroopers and demo corps. i have a harkevich list with black ivan and a bunch of man-o-wars and it does quite well,… Read more »
Tried these guys out for the first time last week in a pVlad shooty list and they did really well. Laying down so many blasts against Cryx infantry spam is just awesome. Then after killing a load of troops, they charged in and chainsawed a heavy warjack to death. Well worth their points cost in the right list.
I hear ya I have felt the wrath of those with both my cryx and my trollblood fenblades and champions…
They suck, I have to be rolling well above average in both cases or lead in with heavy jacks or beasts
I find Khador AOEs to be really useful against Cygnar gun mages and just about any non-jack unit that can disrupt. When your army plods along as slowly as Khador does an opponent who can disrupt more than one jack per turn is a real nuisance. Taking that nuisance out with a few well placed bombards can be the difference between victory or defeat.
“If you’re Russians these are your Ukrainians” <– Can I just point out that although I know the spirit this was meant in was one of jest that as someone with Ukrainian family I do find this mildly offensive. I've been watching BoW stuff for long enough to know your tone is jokey and this wasn't meant to offend but I just felt I needed to point this out.
Yeah… sorry for that @mrchom
Our Darrell does get a bit close to the knuckle when he talks about these things. As a country with a checkered history, we tend to have a more black sense of humour than most.
We’ll try to be more sensitive in future.
Well I thought it was funny and in good spirit… I just think it is not very fair at all cause you never pick on me no matter how much of an ass I make of myself. Some guys get all the luck 🙂 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0R3OjMcOqg&feature=related Next time jump on me or I will be ofended if you don’t life is too short, if you can’t laugh at yourself… I don’t know if this was the case, it would seem that whatever laughter you do find in life would be hollow and have like zero value. Last thing I want to… Read more »
Thanks for that. Like I said, I can appreciate the context and it’s minor…..but on the hand if I didn’t say anything I’d have felt bad about that instead :p
Lovely models ! I’m a fan…
I can say these are excellent Infantry Killers. The rest are more for Anti-Jacks.
PP should have made these guys a little more niche like their brothers in arms… Shocktroopers – Defence/caster cover Demo Corp – Melee beat sticks/hard hitting Bombardiers – should have been given a little more shooty to cement them in a covering fire role Don’t get me wrong they do well already, but as was mentioned in the vid, if they dropped a little Melee prowess and where buffed in the shooty, maybe increase to hit, they would be a perfect fit to an already great line up. I run a MoW army, purely because I love the models, so… Read more »