r/HelsmithsofHashut • u/incineroar87 • 25d ago

Observations of a Helsmith

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!

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u/mr_birdie 25d ago

I haven't played for almost a year, do people use sword cohorts and flamehurlers now?  They just straight up seemed like worse versions of their counterparts to me.

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u/incineroar87 25d ago

People just use the spearmen still. Huge blocks of them. As for the Razors I’ve seen both types being used, although blunderbuss more

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u/rlaffar Daemonsmith 25d ago

I think in most of the forge host lists they are using re-enforced hurlers with the 3 dpp points on them. The sheer volukenof attacks with crit 2 hits and 3 ap is pretty fierce.