Another bird, how does this one stack up against the World Eaters Heldrake?
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Hello everyone! Zak Ludick here from Cape Town, South Africa and this is a Warhammer 40k - The Great Unit Review Wheel! post!
Now known as the Unit Review Library!
What is it all about? It is not there to just give a stat. It is there to give MY review of the unit!
A New Season of Reviews - A Challenge accepted!
The nefarious trio of World Eaters, Death Guard and Thousand Sons are set to get their new Codexes next. Actually, the great FOUR are each getting their favourite Legion's new Codexes but Emperor's Children did not have an actual Index before.
Anyway. I was speaking to my friend @nicolaasmuller about how my Review posts might not make a lot of money for me, but that cumulatively and on average some of them do good and overall there is an average that at least means that there is good movement of income into the Hobby Fund and that it would grow from there.
We were throwing around some numbers and looking at the average of my last 10 Review Posts, 20 Review posts and 30 Review Posts and we could come up with a range of how much I should theoretically be making across a large sample size of completing the remainder of the reviews for the nefarious trio mentioned above.
So Nicolaas says to me something along the lines of: That would be pretty cool if you could do it in like, a month. Maybe do like 2 a day.
So I explained it would be a little bit more than that but sure... it would be cool... is that a challenge? And yeah... here I am... Challenge accepted. 😎
It is now Day 24 of the Challenge.
Totals so far: 39/70 Datasheets done, 3/3 Army Rules done, 0/6 Detachment Rules done. Total 42/79.
Time elapsed: 80%
Progress completed: 53.16%
Hobby Fund - Working myself into the clear
With my hobby posts, I generate a hobby fund. 50% of the income goes into the fund. At the moment I put all my HBD earned from Warhammer posts into my alt account @zakl.hobbyfund.
I am collecting funds in the following ways:
- Blogging about Warhammer to earn HBD
- Accepting donations - Can be sent directly to @zakl.hobbyfund in HBD
- Selling some of the collection to friends.
At the current count I am paying off some hobby debts. I still have $288 to pay off!
Every bit counts!
Back to the review.
The whole project has become quite the Challenge! With so many units to review in the game the consensus in the hobby community is that I will not have enough time to review all of the Datasheets before the new edition of Warhammer 40,000 came out.
I should have started when 10th edition launched!
647 days since the start of 10th Edition.
This is Review #293, I am 354 reviews behind! (Lowest I have been is 314 behind)
Thousand Sons, Thousand Sons Heldrake
10th Edition Index
Another Aircraft Daemon Engine. This one is in the Thousand Sons army. As we have seen with all the different Helbrutes, these models have usually the same stats and weapons with sometimes slight differences and usually the unit haas a different Ability.
This model is 195pts and costs $84.
Let's check its stats!
Stats
Movement 20"+
Toughness 9
Save 3+/5++(armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 12
Ld 6+
OC 0
Weapons
Standard wargear is: Hades Autocannons and Heldrake Claws
Options:
This model's Hades Autocannon can be replaced with a Baleflamer
Ranged Weapons
Hades Autocannon
36" Range, 6 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S8, AP-1 and 2 Damage each.
Baleflamer
12" Range, D6+3 Shots, Hitting on Auto, S6, AP-1 and 2 Damage each.
Torren Weapon (Auto Hits, just roll for number of shots)
Ignores Cover (No benefit of cover against this attack)
Melee Weapons
Heldrake Claws
5 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S7, AP-1 and 2 Damage each.
Anti-fly 2+ (Critically Wounds units with the Fly Keyword on a 2+ regardless of toughness)
Devastating Wounds (Devastating Wounds, usually on a 6, causes Mortal Wounds)
Abilities
Deadly Demise D3 - When this model is destroyed, roll a dice, on a 6 it blows up dealing D3 Mortal Wounds to each unit within 6"
Hover - At the start of the game, this aircraft can go into Hover mode for the duration of battle. This means it loses the aircraft keyword and associated rules. It becomes movement 20" and deploys like any other unit.
Flame-wreathed
Select one enemy unit this model moved over, that unit cannot claim Benefit of Cover against attacks!
Thoughts
So this Heldrake does not have that ability to cause Mortal Wounds like the World Eaters one, but it does set up one unit to be unable to take cover.
This will enable some other sorcerous unit to nail that unit. Not really my style. I like direct damage.
That makes 17 Thousand Sons Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 60.71% Completed. The total Completed is 31.98% Complete! Can I review them all?!
Thank you for reading!
Warhammer Review Library
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I shall leave Army and Detachment rules here as well as World Eaters, Death Guard and Thousand Sons!
Army Rule and Detachment Rule Reviews
| Faction | Detachment | Review Number |
|---|---|---|
| Agents of the Imperium | Army Rule #2 | |
| Aeldari | Army Rule #4 | |
| Astra Militarum | Army Rule #1 | |
| Astra Militarum | Combined Regiment | Detachment Rule #1 |
| Astra Militarum | Bridgehead Strike | Detachment Rule #2 |
| Death Guard | Army Rule Review #6 | |
| Space Marines | Army Rule #3 | |
| Thousand Sons | Army Rule #7 | |
| World Eaters | Army Rule #5 |
Datasheet Review list (Alphabetical)
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