Deliverer Sunburst Crew

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Deliverer Sunburst Crew Protectorate Weapon Crew Unit

Designed to shower hidden enemies with its deadly payload, the Sunburst ballista shears through the flesh of men or erupts explosively against the iron hull of a warjack and spreads secondary blasts over a wide area. The Sunburst is a painful reminder that there is no place to hide from the Lawgiver's swift hand.

Basic Info

Deliverer Sunburst Crew
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Abilities

• Gunner
  • Officer
  • Man-Sized - This model is treated as a small-based model and occupies the space from the bottom of its base to a height of 1.75".
  • Mobile Artillery - When this model advances as part of its Normal Movement, it gains +1" movement for each Grunt in this unit within 2" of it at the start of its advance.
  • Take Up - If this model is destroyed, you can choose a Grunt in this unit within 1" of it to be destroyed instead. Effects on this model expire, and it gains the effects on the chosen Grunt. Remove the Grunt from the table instead of this model. This model has the same number of unmarked damage boxes as the chosen Grunt.

• Grunts
  • No special abilities

Weapons

Gunner	Sunburst  RNG   ROF   AOE   POW  16 1 4 15 Continuous Fire Damage Type: Fire Sword  RNG   POW   P+S  0.5 3 7
Grunts	Sword  RNG   POW   P+S  0.5 3 7

Theme Forces

• Protectorate
  • The Faithful Masses

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

Recent Changes

2021.10 Mega Update

• -1 points cost

Thoughts on Deliverer Sunburst Crew

Deliverer Sunburst Crew in a nutshell

The Deliverer Sunburst Crew drops medium AoEs of fire on the enemy. And is good at that. No fuss, just fire. Let it burn!

Combos & Synergies

• Deliverer Arms Master can provide several buffs, High Angle Fire or Artillerist chief among them.
• Malekus loves fire damage, he has a whole feat that boosts it, in fact!
• Kreoss1 - Pop his feat and the Crew has lots of knocked down targets to shoot at
• Menite Archon for Fuel for the Flames, making them POW 17s. in Faithful Masses you can even have two!

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Incoming fire has right of way and the Sunburst is an easy target.

Tricks & Tips

• Don't worry about setting your own fire immune troops on fire.

Other

Trivia

Released in Warmachine: Escalation (2004)

Rules Clarifications

Rules Clarification : Fire      (Edit) If you deploy in fire hazard terrain (Burning Earth), then you get set on fire before the game starts. Deploying a model in a hazard counts as being "put into play" in the hazard. Being put into play counts as "entering". When you enter a hazard, you trigger the hazard. Moving into "Shallow water" standard terrain does not cause continuous fire to expire. It's magic fire. You can always use non-standard terrain if you agree with your opponent before the game starts, however. A weapon can inflict continuous fire without itself being a fire damage weapon (for example, the Helios's fists). In this case, the attack can hurt models with Immunity:Fire it just won't apply the continuous effect. In terms of which player's clock is running down during the Maintenance Phase: The active player will roll for expiration of all the continuous effects. Then the inactive player will roll for all the damages of the continuous effects. (Judge Ruling)

Rules Clarification : Officer      (Edit) Even if they're not on the Officer's card, an Officer can give (and benefit from) any non-standard orders that are on the unit's card (such as Shield Wall). Refer main rulebook. A Ranking Officer can't do this, though. When the Officer dies, the Leader model becomes the new Unit Commander (you don't get to choose). But if your unit doesn't include a Leader model, then you do get to choose any of the remaining models to be the new Unit Commander. You don't swap the model, but it may be worth putting a token down so you can tell that grunt apart.

Rules Clarification : Man-Sized      (Edit) Despite being mounted on a large base, the model counts as a small-base for any and every rule. (Infernal Ruling) This includes Ranking Officers being able to join them. (Infernal Ruling) This includes being able to take them as a Requistion Option (if you have a Man-Sized solo in a theme that allows free solos). (Locked Thread) This includes abilities that only work vs small-based models (such as Consume, Trampling over them, etc). Those work just fine vs Man-Sized models. When drawing LOS it blocks LOS across the full width of its base (some players think you should swap it for a small proxy base when trying to draw LOS past the edge of its base ... don't do that). Since it only counts as a small-based model, it only blocks LOS to other small-based models. You can see medium and larger bases through it just fine.

Rules Clarification : Mobile Artillery - None yet. (Edit)

Rules Clarification : Take Up      (Edit) If you use Take Up the attacking model cannot trigger anything that needs the attacker to "Destroy" a model (such as Alpha Hunter, Killing Spree, Berserk, etc). Although the model that was attacked reached the Destroyed step of the timing sequence, Take Up negates that entirely. (Infernal Ruling)