Deliverer Skyhammers

Template:Protbox This model is playable only in an Unlimited format.

Brave citizen-soldiers of the Protectorate, deliverers fire their deadly Skyhammer rockets in coordinated volleys. The shrapnel-filled explosions that ensue indiscriminately shred troop formations, punishing non-believers with the hand of judgment.

Basic Info

Abilities

• Template:CRA
• Template:Arcing Fire
• Template:Rocket Volley

Weapons

Skyhammer
File:Gun icon.jpg		RNG			ROF			AOE			POW
		16			1			3			10
Template:Inaccurate
Sword
File:Sword icon.jpg		RNG				POW				P+S
		0.5								7

Theme Forces

• Protectorate
  • Template:The Faithful Masses

• Other Factions
  • Infernal players can use them in the Template:Hearts of Darkness theme, but only if Feora is leading the army.
  • Mercenary players can use them in the Template:Llaelese Resistance theme. They become Llaelese and gain Pathfinder in this theme.

Thoughts on Deliverer Skyhammers

Deliverer Skyhammers in a nutshell

Deliverers are cheap conscripts carrying long range but inaccurate rockets to carpet bomb the enemy.

They can also deliver a hell of a CRA punch with one of the longest ranges in the game.

Effective stats
	AOE size	RAT	POW (direct hit)	POW (blast damage)
1-man	3	1	10	5
2-man	3	3	12	7
3-man	4	4	13	8
4-man	4	5	14	9
5-man	5	6	15	10
6-man	5	7	16	11
7-man	5	8	17	12
8-man	5	9	18	13
9-man	5	10	19	14
10-man	5	11	20	15

Combos & Synergies

• Deliverer Arms Master at least makes them slightly less inaccurate.
• Their god-awful accuracy is usually not a factor against knocked-down targets. Kreoss 1's feat can help them, as well as power attacks from jacks, that cause knockdown on targets. Fire onto targets up-close your warjacks, the blast damage is so low that it will bounce right off your jacks.
• Severius1 is a universal turd-polisher. With Eye of Menoth, and the Arms Master's help, the aiming Deliverers effectively negate the Inaccurate bonus. The Arms Master can also give them Combat Coordination, which is a quasi Combined Arms with the added bonus of occasionally re-rolling damage rolls.
• Vindictus protect them from charges and non-magical ranged weapons with his feat for a key turn and can speed them up, giving them a massive 23-inch threat range.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• They are very sensitive to casualties as they need to be making CRAs and triggering Rocket Volley to be useful.
  • their armour and defence is quite poor, but given their range they will probably still get 1 round of shooting in before any return fire.

• Precision isn't their thing
• Rolling deviations can use up a lot of your clock.

Tricks & Tips

• The rule of thumb for most CRA units is "Use 2-man CRAs when in doubt". The logic being that a +2/+2 bonus is worth losing a single attack, but a +3/+3 bonus is not normally worth losing two attacks for.

However, for Delivers, if in doubt you should use 3-man CRAs (for the AOE size bonus).

• Remember, you apply the CRA bonus after halving for blast damage.
  • A three-man CRA is a 4" AOE that does POW 8 blast damage
  • A five-man CRA is a 5" AoE that does POW 10 blast damage (and might even hit).
  • A ten-man CRA is a 5" AoE that does POW 15 blast damage (and will probably hit).

• Arcing fire allows you to target the squishy models in backlines. If a caster is hiding behind a larger base, use a ten-man CRA to target the larger base and hit the caster with POW 15 blast damage.

• Have them use mass CRAs turn after turn to soften up heavies and decimate units.

• If you have a full unit still alive, ARM 17 is a tipping point. ARM 16 and below, use 2 five-man CRA. ARM 17 and above, use a single ten-man CRA.

Other

Trivia

• Released in Warmachine: Prime (2003) as "Deliverers"