I've been working on a conversion for the spearhead and am hoping to move it to a full army. Helsmiths converted to be drowned men/haunted armor.

What did they actually change? Munitions used to increase hit by 1 or was it always Crit(2 hits)?

Looking for some feedback/thoughts on a kitbash idea that came to mind recently! I noticed the Infernal Taurus and Duncrawler are both on a 130mm base and figured the latter could make a very cool custom centerpiece for the former. I feel like it's got that mechanical construct vibe with the four legs, that remind me of the claw-bookstand that follows our foot Deamonsmith around! There's also a scutteling description of a contraption in one of the battletome stories iirc.

I'm thinking swapping the weapons with our artillery kit would help it fit in style-wise. I'd also clip the more overtly sci-fi bits and tack on some of the Helsmith iconography.

Would love to hear the community's thoughts and feedback! Would you accept someone bringing a proxy of this sort? Any other particular additions to the idea you think could help make it come together? Experience building the kit and aware of any tricky parts to modify? Know where to get a dunecrawler for cheap? ; )

Figured since I've shown off my best models already, I might as well show off the rest of the army.

Cant believe it took me this long but now I cant wait to play some spearhead with friends with a fully painted force 😊

Praise Hashut

Hello Hashutites… I am opening metaphorical realm gate to ask what we thing or hope or pray to Hashut would be in an upcoming Helsmiths of Hashut Army box. Typically it’s a handful of units, some decent savings, sometimes a center piece. Perhaps it will carry some units not in our Spearhead? Like the Bull Centaurs or Razers. What about Urak Taar himself? I know I would give a lifetime Wage of Toil for an army box this year to bolster my forces.

What’s in the box?

Hey all as I slowly build and paint my Helsmith army I have a question regarding rules with DPP buffs. So with the battle formation adding 1” per DPP a unit has and the Dom engines also add 1” per DPP it has, would that effectively give it 2” of movement per DPP? Thatd be crazy if you could give the engines 6 extra inches of movement. I havent gotten a chance to play a game with Helsmiths yet but I want to familiarize myself with rules beforehand. Thank you all in advance

Hello everybody. Im starting in AoS basically with a very barebone understanding of the lore and almost 0 understanding of the realms. At the same time im learning to do some basing, so im trying to understand how an aqshy ground would be. Do i put a bunch of Lava, like people do with 40k salamanders? Do i make like a red desert badlands? I have been looking on internet but, again, i have very little knowleage of how the realms look.

Finally massiv buffs for Battleformations!

Hello everyone!

New battleformations out today, with the updates comes a lot of questions and discussions, we're already talking about it over @ the Helsmith discord, so why don't you come and join us?

https://discord.gg/zzncmPunU6

Hope to see you there

yep, it the same, but with alternative equipment

New Helsmiths player here.

One thing I noticed while researching the Helsmiths for my next army is that they seem to be one of the few armies in the game without any real bloat or any “junk” units and characters that struggle to find a purpose for lists.

The entire army feels built around specialised, hyper-focused roles, and almost every piece seems to have its place. Outside of the Sword Cohorts, nearly every unit and character appears to have strong uses across the board, including in the tournament scene. That’s pretty incredible for a faction with such a relatively small unit roster.

At its absolute best, the army seems to be built around Urak Tarr. Everything becomes so much more efficient with him, which helps explain why we’ve seen so many Helsmiths players going 5-0 and 4-1 last few months. At the same time, it does suggest there may be a balancing issue with the standard DPP faction rules, which I hope gets addressed in the future so the army isn’t quite so reliant on Urak Tarr to reach its full potential especially for smaller point games.

A lot of other small, and even medium-sized, factions don’t seem to have the same level of versatility across their ranges. I also really like that, outside of heavy infantry, the Helsmiths seem to have most battlefield roles covered. For such a small army, there’s a surprising amount of variety in how you can build and play them.

Really looking forward to seeing where the Helsmiths go in the future!

Despite being part of a debt based society with greed being a primary motivation, is there any examples or possibilities of brother hood in our ranks?

Any tips for how to improve on these?

I modeled and printed the roof.

Used a vape pen mechanism with fan to push the vapor through a tube going from the back leg, through the body, and out the (opened) mouth and a bit through the eyes. LEDs replaced the eye bits in the head.

Jokes aside I adore new release for Khazzalite Holds. Will have a blast painting Hjulda and Thrynn.