Crucible Guard Storm Troopers

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Crucible Guard Storm Troopers Crucible Guard Unit

Storm trooper squadrons provide the Crucible Guard with a hard counterpunch. Equipped with pneumatic concussion cannons, storm troopers can engage concentrations of light infantry. Their ammunition is highly explosive, combining a number of catalytic agents to magnify the blasting power of the charge to produce deadly concussion waves on impact. The storm troopers are ideal for clearing fortified positions like bunkers and trenches, where the shockwave of their munitions is amplified by close quarters and enemies are likely to be tightly packed.

Basic Info

Crucible Guard Storm Troopers
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Abilities

• Combined Ranged Attack
• Immunity: Corrosion
• Immunity: Fire
• Breather - This model does not suffer gas effects.
• Carapace - This model gains +4 ARM against ranged attack damage rolls.

Weapons

Pneumatic Concussion Cannon
		RNG			ROF			AOE			POW
		12			1			3			14
Arcing Fire - When attacking with this weapon, this model can ignore intervening models except those within 1" of the target. High-Explosive - Blast damage caused by this weapon is POW 10. Steam Pressure - If this model uses its Normal Movement to aim, it gains +4 RNG that activation.
Pick Axe
		RNG				POW				P+S
		1				6				12

Theme Forces

• Crucible Guard
  • Magnum Opus
  • Prima Materia

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

Recent Changes

NO changes since 2021.04

Thoughts on Crucible Guard Storm Troopers

Crucible Guard Storm Troopers in a nutshell

Storm Troopers are the fire support of infantry based Crucible Guard armies. Their armored suits grant them resilience against ranged attacks, Corrosion and Fire damage, and are equipped with breathers. Their Pneumatic Concussion Cannons are NOT equipped with different ammunition types which makes them fairly unique in faction.

Medium based multi wound infantry have had a checkered history in warmachine and hordes, they have either been too powerful or not had the defensive profile for their extra boxes to matter. The Storm Troopers are somewhere in the middle of this assessment. They have good guns and are very hard to kill at range but let down a bit by being a lot weaker in melee (offensively and defensively).

They work best when they can find a key point on the battlefield in range of the enemy and remain there all game, using steam pressure to either pepper infantry with AoEs or using CRA to dent harder targets.

Combos & Synergies

• Marshal General Baldwin Gearhart & Mr. Clogg loves Storm Troopers. Everything in his kit works well with them.
• Aurum Legatum Lukas di Morray can screen them with a cloud wall and they can complement his assassination run with some powerful arcing fire shots. It is also slightly easier to utilise steam pressure under the effects of mirage.
• Aurum Adeptus Syvestro can heal them with his Feat and multi wound units are great revive targets if you can heal them afterwards.
• Assault Troopers and Storm Troopers together make an army very resilient to shooting with both melee and range potential. Add some debuffs and run them under casters like Syvestro or even Baldwin to play your diving suit firemen team!

Drawbacks and Downsides

• Almost any melee or combined arms infantry destroys them on the charge. ARM 16 and 5 wounds stands a 50% chance of being taken down by boosted P+S 10 and DEF 11 is hard to miss.
• They aren't really cheap and AOE3s aren't that good against spaced infantry, while clumped infantry often is the kind that doesn´t care about POW10 blasts.
• The amount of shots is limited.

Tricks and Tips

• When push comes to shove they do more damage when charging in melee than at range. This is a last resort but is worth remembering.

Other

Trivia

• Released with the Faction release (2018.06)
• For backstory on Crucible Guard Storm Troopers, see Lore - Crucible Technology.

Other Crucible Guard models

Crucible Guard Index       (Edit)
Battlegroup & Similar
Warcasters	Benett - Gearhart - Locke - Lukas - Mackay - Syvestro
Warcaster attachments	Aurum Legate Alyce Marc (Crucible) - Sylys Wyshnalyrr (Mercenary) - Madelyn Corbeau (Mercenary)
Other Warjack Controllers	Prospero (BGC)
Light	Liberator - Retaliator - Vanguard
Heavy	Suppresor - Toro - Vindicator
Colossal	Vulcan
Units, Solos, Battle Engines, & Structures
Units	Combat Alchemists - CG Assault Troopers - CG Infantry - CG Rocketmen - CG Storm Troopers - Dragon's Breath Rocket - Failed Experiments Ranking Officer : Doctor Alejandro Mosby
Solos	Ascendant Mentalist - CG Mechanik - Gorman1 - Gorman2 - Hutchuk, Ogrun Bounty Hunter - Prospero - Rocketman Ace - Trancer
Battle Engines	Railless Interceptor
Theme Forces
Magnum Opus - Prima Materia
Mercenaries
Refer to Who Works for Whom and/or Category: Crucible Guard Mercenary
This index was last updated: 2021.05

Rules Clarifications

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 : Breather - None yet. (Edit)

Rules Clarification : Corrosion      (Edit) If you deploy in corrosion hazard terrain (Acid Pool), then you get corroded 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. A weapon can inflict continuous corrosion without itself being a corrosion damage weapon (for example, the Acidic Touch animus). In this case, the attack can hurt models with Immunity: Corrosion it just won't apply the continuous effect.

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 : Carapace - None yet. (Edit)

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

Rules Clarification : High-Explosive      (Edit) Deadly Precision vs High Explosive (Edit) The +2 POW from Deadly Precision would not apply to high explosive POW (Infernal Ruling) Full Force vs High Explosive (Edit) If a weapon has both Full Force and High Explosive, then follow the rules for Full Force (ie full POW). (Infernal Ruling).

Rules Clarification : Steam Pressure - None yet. (Edit)