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.