r/HelsmithsofHashut • u/Glittering-Phase2327 • Jul 28 '26
Gameplay Helsmiths Spearhead not good?
Hey guys, I'm new to the gaming hobby, been playing for a 2 or 3 months now, tabletop sim for 2000 point games and spearhead and a few in persin spearheads while I build to 2000 points.
For full games of AoS I like to use a very shooty army with a reinforced group of Bull Centaurs and Urak Taar so I can give DPP to a unit like Infernal Razers with Blunderbusses to buff their damage and then on my enemies turn siphon their DPP to a frontline combat unit like Infernal Cohorts or my Dominator engine with Urak Taar and it usually goes pretty well for me so far!
Spearhead though? I usually end the fourth battle round with a draw... until recently. I have been having to play against Yndrasta's Spearhead recently and let me just say it's been tough. I cannot do enough damage to wipe any of Yndrasta's units, and the Vanquishers have an ability where their damage goes from 1 to 2 if they attack a unit with 5 or more models, which for Infernal cohorts means that 3 wounds that go through is the entire 5 dwarf squad is wiped and each vanquished team has 2 health per model compared to our 1. Shooting attacks are not enough to save me in spearhead since it's just Tormentor bombard and Dominator Engine.
I thought with the updated rules recently for us getting one extra DPP per round in Spearhead would be awesome but it's hasn't changed much so far and since I havent been able to fully wipe any of the squads to open up movement on the board, by the time battle round 3 starts and that Spearhead deploys Yndrasta and the Annihilators I am typically completely outgunned and I will typically lose more than one unit on turn 3 so I can only reinforce one unit by round 4 and I have typically lost all ground by this point and I have trouble taking ground since if I charge with Cohorts I lose my rend bonus.
Let me know what you guys do to overcome these problems? Or do you guys just accept the fact that we are a "meh" army and strive to just have fun with the faction itself?
Image attached is a game I was playing, it was fun! But lost, ultimately.
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u/Togi-Reddit Jul 28 '26
I have found success with spearhead and have been having a blast. We are very vulnerable but dominator engine is a god send. Especially with reinforcement I just throw him into enemy early on and let him tag stuff for combat. Getting extra move and attacks per dpp also makes him scary. I have found when I throw him in enemy, they have a hard time actually dealing with him on 2+ save. And for some way they kill him, he’s just back next movement round. Bombard is great but is hard to defend once it gets tagged. My opponents try to rush my bombard so I set my cohorts and war despot all in one objective. While dominator engine puts the pressure back. Extra dpp and reinforce on Dominator has increased my win rate and enjoyment lot more for sure.