Stormfall Archers

Stormfall archers are walking artillery batteries who can unleash a firestorm of destruction from an arsenal of alchemical ammunition. Requiring only their great compound bows to send their firepower across the battlefield, these archers are quite unlike the slow-moving cannon crews of the human kingdoms.

Basic Info

Abilities

• None - Attack Types are all the abilities they need!

Weapons

Great Bow
File:Gun icon.jpg		RNG			ROF			AOE			POW
		12			1			3			12
Template:Attack Type Template:Brutal Shot Template:Snipe Attack Template:Star Strike
Sword
File:Sword icon.jpg		RNG				POW				P+S
		0.5				3				7

Weapon Attachment

Stormfall Archers may have up to 3 Soulless Escorts added to them. The escort's info has been omitted from this article for brevity.

Theme Forces

• Template:Defenders of Ios. Stormfall Archers gain Reposition [3] in this theme.

Thoughts on Stormfall Archers

Stormfall Archers in a nutshell

The roundears have cannon crews and gun crews and sunburst crews. You've got archers with bombs strapped to them.

Legolas and company have/are an offensive toolbox. Their RAT is kinda low, so it's more common than not to stand still to get the Aim bonus.

Combos & Synergies

The Archers' main drawback is their poor RAT. Anything that can fix it tags along nicely with them.

• Lord Arcanist Ossyan - his gun is a built-in solution for RAT fixing, and his feat gives Brutal Shot a new meaning
• Ravyn, Eternal_Light - so far your only caster with Snipe, and a feat which allows you to deliver very accurate, and potentially long range, Brutal Damage shots.
• Rahn - Force Hammer can knock targets down, while Telekinesis increases the threat range by up to 2" and maybe effective RAT +2.
• Issyria - her feat helps control your attack/damage dice, and solves issues with Stealth.
• Banshee and Arcantrik Force Generator- good sources for knockdown on your target.
• House Shyeel Magister - Combo Smite or Force Bolt can both knockdown as well (or even Whipsnap to reposition one of them if you can pull it off).
• The Defenders of Ios theme gives them Reposition - excellent tool to move in once your targets is dead, or fall back if you failed to cause damage.
• Houseguard Thane - Use his Firing Solution when you want to engage stealthy models.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• For a bunch of elite elven archers, their RAT is pretty low. Find ways to knock the enemy down or fix their RAT one way or the other.
• Brutal Damage and Star Strike need a direct hit, and the latter also needs the fire effect to work. In the armor-heavy world of MK3 it's less useful.

Tricks & Tips

• Got trouble with stealth infantry and no Thane around to help you out? Use the Snipe attack type and blind-fire AOEs into their general direction. Even if they miss, with some lucky scatter a few blast usually land among the unit and kill or wound several. Don't forget that there is always a reasonable chance of their 3" AOE hitting a small based model (scatter distance 1-2 always hits... because maths!).

Other

Trivia

Released in Forces of Warmachine: Retribution of Scyrah (Novermber 2009)