Legends of Halaak

Once respected members of the warrior caste, the Praetorians now known as the Legends of Halaak spent the early years of their careers clashing with one another in house feuds. It was not until their houses were destroyed that Valgesh, Cidaar, and J’Deth would join forces and earn greater acclaim. When Supreme Archdomina Makeda overthrew Vinter, this trio of renowned warriors went west to offer their services to House Balaash.

Basic Info

Abilities

• Entire unit
  • Template:Defensive Line
  • Template:Relentless Charge
  • Template:Side Step

• Valgesh only
  • Template:Officer

• Cidaar only
  • Template:Defensive Strike

Weapons

• Valgesh
  • Sword (x2) - 1" reach, P+S 10 melee weapons
    • Template:Combo Strike
    • Template:Weapon Master

• Cidaar
  • Naginata - 2" reach, P+S 12 melee weapon
    • Weapon Master - As above

• J'Deth
  • Mace (x2) - 0.5" reach, P+S 11 melee weapons
    • Template:Combo Smite P+S 15 with the Combo
    • Weapon Master - As above

Theme Forces

• Template:Masters of War. They gain "Optional Take Down" in this theme.

Thoughts on Legends of Halaak

Legends of Halaak in a nutshell

The Legends of Halaak are small based weapon masters - and they hit extremely hard. Valgesh (the leader) is the most expendable, offering little that skorne doesn’t already do, Cidaar (the female) has the job of standing between the 2 guys and protecting them with defensive strike and J'Deth's (hooded one) can combo strike in a way that can set up an assassination and be utterly game winning.

All in all they are fast moving and hard hitting pathfinders, doing almost everything. At less than 3 point per model, and multiple wounds and multiple attacks each with an absurd MAT. What's not to love?

Combos & Synergies

• Tyrant Xerxis - DEF 18 in melee? Yes, please.
• Basilisk Krea - extra DEF and ARM versus ranged attacks
• Praetorian Karax - protection against blast damage
• Archdomina Makeda and Supreme Archdomina Makeda - the enemy will try to shoot these guys or otherwise kill them; you can keep them alive.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Low model count. Which has several downsides
  • Smaller footprint on the battlefield - so less blocking of charge lanes (especially as you need to stay grouped)
  • Models that collect souls will be sad.
  • rarely worth dedicating an upkeep spell to.

Tricks & Tips

• Sometimes you want to use defensive line, sometimes you want to spread out. Often you need to spread out and hide them during the advance, to avoid AOE's on the approach.
• Valgesh wants to combo strike against anything ARM 16+ (with wounds) even when charging.
• Lining up J'deth's combo smite to knock one model into another can have amazing rewards.

Other

Trivia

• Released in Hordes: Devastation (2015)

Other Skorne models

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