Deliverer Skyhammers

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Deliverer Skyhammers Protectorate Unit

Brave citizen-soldiers of the Protectorate, deliverers fire their deadly Skyhammer rockets in coordinated volleys. The shrapnel-filled explosions that ensue indiscriminately shred troop formations, punishing non-believers with the hand of judgment.

Basic Info

Deliverer Skyhammers
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Abilities

• Combined Ranged Attack
• Arcing Fire - When attacking with this weapon, this model can ignore intervening models except those within 1" of the target.
• Rocket Volley - If three or more models participate in a CRA, the size of the AOE is 4". If five or more models participate, the size of the AOE is 5".

Weapons

Skyhammer
		RNG			ROF			AOE			POW
		16			1			3			10
Inaccurate - This model suffers -4 to attack rolls with this weapon.
Sword
		RNG				POW				P+S
		0.5								7

Theme Forces

• Protectorate
  • The Faithful Masses

• Other Factions
  • Infernal players can use them in the Hearts of Darkness theme, but only if Feora is leading the army.
  • Mercenary players can use them in the Llaelese Resistance theme. They become Llaelese and gain Pathfinder in this theme.

Recent Changes

2021.10 Mega Update

• -1/-2 points cost

Thoughts on Deliverer Skyhammers

Deliverer Skyhammers in a nutshell

Deliverers are cheap conscripts carrying long range but inaccurate rockets to carpet bomb the enemy.

They can also deliver a hell of a CRA punch with one of the longest ranges in the game.

Effective stats
	AOE size	RAT	POW (direct hit)	POW (blast damage)
1-man	3	1	10	5
2-man	3	3	12	7
3-man	4	4	13	8
4-man	4	5	14	9
5-man	5	6	15	10
6-man	5	7	16	11
7-man	5	8	17	12
8-man	5	9	18	13
9-man	5	10	19	14
10-man	5	11	20	15

Combos & Synergies

• Deliverer Arms Master at least makes them slightly less inaccurate.
• Their god-awful accuracy is usually not a factor against knocked-down targets. Kreoss 1's feat can help them, as well as power attacks from jacks, that cause knockdown on targets. Fire onto targets up-close your warjacks, the blast damage is so low that it will bounce right off your jacks.
• Severius1 is a universal turd-polisher. With Eye of Menoth, and the Arms Master's help, the aiming Deliverers effectively negate the Inaccurate bonus. The Arms Master can also give them Combat Coordination, which is a quasi Combined Arms with the added bonus of occasionally re-rolling damage rolls.
• Vindictus protect them from charges and non-magical ranged weapons with his feat for a key turn and can speed them up, giving them a massive 23-inch threat range.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• They are very sensitive to casualties as they need to be making CRAs and triggering Rocket Volley to be useful.
  • their armour and defence is quite poor, but given their range they will probably still get 1 round of shooting in before any return fire.

• Precision isn't their thing
• Rolling deviations can use up a lot of your clock.

Tricks & Tips

• The rule of thumb for most CRA units is "Use 2-man CRAs when in doubt". The logic being that a +2/+2 bonus is worth losing a single attack, but a +3/+3 bonus is not normally worth losing two attacks for.

However, for Delivers, if in doubt you should use 3-man CRAs (for the AOE size bonus).

• Remember, you apply the CRA bonus after halving for blast damage.
  • A three-man CRA is a 4" AOE that does POW 8 blast damage
  • A five-man CRA is a 5" AoE that does POW 10 blast damage (and might even hit).
  • A ten-man CRA is a 5" AoE that does POW 15 blast damage (and will probably hit).

• Arcing fire allows you to target the squishy models in backlines. If a caster is hiding behind a larger base, use a ten-man CRA to target the larger base and hit the caster with POW 15 blast damage.

• Have them use mass CRAs turn after turn to soften up heavies and decimate units.

• If you have a full unit still alive, ARM 17 is a tipping point. ARM 16 and below, use 2 five-man CRA. ARM 17 and above, use a single ten-man CRA.

Other

Trivia

• Released in Warmachine: Prime (2003) as "Deliverers"

Rules Clarifications

Rules Clarification : Inaccurate - None yet. (Edit)

Rules Clarification : Combined Ranged Attack      (Edit) CRA cannot target models in melee ... unless the target is a huge-based model or the attacker has War-Tempered. If you give the attack-leader a buff to their attack (such as Guidance) then that buff applies to the combined attack (even though the other participants don't have the buff). (Locked thread) Assault & CRA (Edit) You cannot mix Combined Range Attacks with Assault shots, as CRA works during your combat action and Assault shots occur before it. (Infernal Ruling)

Rules Clarification : Arcing Fire      (Edit) Arcing Fire lets you ignore models but not terrain. You don't ignore clouds, forests or buildings.

Rules Clarification : Rocket Volley - None yet. (Edit)