Widowmaker Scouts

Widowmakers are the elite scout-sniper corps of the Khadoran army. With deadly ease they can take apart incoming warjacks piece by piece or kill a man as easily as drawing a breath. Only the best marksmen and markswomen from the Winter Guard Rifle Corps are sent to train to become windowmaker scouts. They travel in packs of four with their trusty hunting rifle.

Basic Info

Abilities

• Template:Advance Deployment
• Template:Pathfinder
• Template:Marksman
• Template:Sniper

Weapons

Hunting Rifle
File:Gun icon.jpg		RNG			ROF			AOE			POW
		14			1			Template:-			10
Sword
File:Sword icon.jpg		RNG				POW				P+S
		0.5				3				8

Theme Forces

• Khador
  • Template:Jaws of the Wolf
  • Template:Winter Guard Kommand

• Other Factions
  • Infernal players can use them in the Template:Hearts of Darkness theme, but only if Malakov2 is leading the army.

Thoughts on Widowmaker Scouts

Widowmaker Scouts in a nutshell

Widowmakers are long range snipers, great for thinning out the enemy ranks and/or support solos. They're especially good vs high-ARM single-wound infantry, as their Sniper rule will completely negate the high ARM. They will usually use Advance Deployment and a turn 1 run to get in a good position, then try to stay in place for the aiming bonus the rest of the game.

They operate fairly caster-independently, and in fact you usually don't want to cast buffs on them (as you probably have a better target for that spell). However casters that can buff them without targeting them (such as Sorscha1's Fog of War spell) will profit even more from their inclusion in the list.

Combos & Synergies

• Widowmaker Marksman grants them Swift Hunter, allowing them to move 2" after killing an enemy.
• Irusk1 can give them Repo [3] via his Battle Plan.
• Kell Bailoch also has Marksman. Between him, this unit, and the Marksman you can take 6 damage off one column of a warjack. If you start with a column that is already damaged, you've got good odds of crippling something.
• Spriggan or Torch can help you with stealthy models (who are usually off-limits to the Widowmakers).
• If Ruin is near enemy infantry, he'll be able to hoover up the souls of anyone they kill.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Low ARM makes them susceptible to sprays and blasts.
• They're mopey in melee.
• They can't see Stealth models, and they can't see through clouds.
• Low POW makes them useless vs multi-wound high-ARM enemies, such as enemy warjacks. (Although they can try and cripple aspects as mentioned above.)

Tips & Tricks

• Sniper damage is instead of the normal damage roll. If you chose to roll for damage, and don't beat the ARM of the target, you won't get the 1 damage from Sniper.
• Whether or not you roll damage, you always ignore Tough.

Other

Trivia

Released way back in Warmachine: Prime (2003)