Trollkin Gunnery Sergeant

Many worshippers of Dhunia have united under the leadership of Brigadier General Gunnbjorn to fight back the infernal invasion ravaging their lands. Gunnbjorn was sure to organize those who aided his cause into a proper military, which required a disciplined chain of command. This included training gunnery sergeants to coordinate the mass artillery fire the Dhunian army is capable of unleashing upon their foes.

Basic Info

Abilities

• Template:Tough
• Template:Ancillary Attack
• Template:Artillerist
• Template:Spyglass
• Template:Veteran Leader

Weapons

Artillery Strike
File:Gun icon.jpg		RNG			ROF			AOE			POW
		20			1			Template:-			14
Template:Cumbersome Template:Ground Pounder Template:Inaccurate Template:Limited Scope
Scattergun
File:Gun icon.jpg		RNG			ROF			AOE			POW
		SP 8			1			Template:-			12
Axe
File:Sword icon.jpg		RNG				POW				P+S
		0.5				4				10

Theme Forces

• Trollbloods
  • Template:Kriel Company. This model gains Mark Target in this theme.
  • Template:Vengeance of Dhunia

• Other Factions
  • Minion players can also use this unit in the Vengeance of Dhunia theme.

Thoughts on Trollkin Gunnery Sergeant

Trollkin Gunnery Sergeantin a nutshell

The Gunnery Sergeant provides loads of value to ranged heavy lists, but especially to weapon crews. Capable of stripping Stealth from a single model, providing Artillerist, or even dropping a RNG 20 (!) ground pounder from across the board, this solo has tons of utility. That said, his most common use, we've found, is in his Ancillary Attack for weapon crews.

He oddly has slightly higher defence that your standard Troll and his armour is respectable under the Krielstone so he can take a bit of effort to remove. Although he struggles to hit anything with his long gun he can always do something and make his presence known as it has such a long range and can be used even if your weapon crews are out of range/dead. For 3 points you could do a lot worse than the Gunnery Sergeant.

Combos & Synergies

• Weapon Crews obviously, for Ancillary Attack and Veteran Leader. Artillerist can be used on anything with an AOE attack though.
  • Stacking Artillerist with Veteran Leader on a Thumper Crew, Pummeler Crew or Farrow Razorback Crew (in VoD) makes for a very accurate gun platform.
• Gunnbjorn2 - Gunny loves himself some weapon crews, the Farrow Razorback Crew especially. Together they can make a crew shoot trice.
• General Thunderstone Brug combine the above interaction with Deadly Precision.
• Splatter Boar or Dozer & Smigg - Artillerist and Luck Shot are two differently named abilities, so you can stack them even if they do functionally the same thing. + 4 RAT and two rerolls on deviation can be really nifty, if clock intensive.
• Grissel2 or Thumper Crews can knock down targets at range for him to reliably Ground Pound.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Squishy.
• The Artillery Strike has serious problems hitting, between the -4 to hit and the inability to aim it. It also can't scatter and hope for blast damage. So unless your target is knocked down or you have to-hit buffs through the wazoo, all you'll achieve by firing it is burning your own clock.
• The Veteran Leader is FF only, so it won't affect Minion weapon crews (except in the Vengeance of Dhunia theme).

Tricks & Tips

• Spyglass has no range restriction, you just need LOS.
• Placing the Ground Pounder template:
  • The LOS requirements for placing the template are a bit counterintuitive, and the explanation is longwinded. See the Rules Clarifications section for details.
  • One of the useful tricks of this counterintuitive-ness is how you can "shoot around corners" because only part of the template needs to be in LOS, not the whole thing. (In fact it's impossible to have it entirely in LOS, because as soon as it overlaps a model the overlapped area is out of LOS.)
  • A second useful trick is "shooting the back of a cloud/forest" where you place the near edge of the AOE as deep in the cloud/forest as possible, and the far edge overlapping models behind the cloud/forest.

  This is particularly useful vs models that like to create cloud walls then Reposition out of them, such as Trencher Infantry.

Other

Trivia

• Released 2021.01