Hello my fellow Kin! Join me this week as we discuss the smartest little lads: The Borkhyr Ironmaster Discord: / discord #warhammer40k #warhammer #competitive40k #leaguesofvotann #rockandstone #gamesworkshop #tactics
He is in almost all my Lists because his modell and his little helpers are soo good looking and the brôkhyrs in general are by far my favorite unit type ^^
I think that if the land fort had its troop capacity increased to 14, we would see a lot more ironmasters. A 3-man thunderkyn plus an ironmanster would make a lot of sense in a landfort.
Started running him in a double Hekaton list and its been pretty good! I have him lead a brick of Hearthkyn to keep him safe and slightly buff the squad. Healing a Hekaton for 3 got me a few groans xD Tried him with Thunderkyns but I don't really like them right now. Feels like you bring them in from reserves, kill one thing and spend the rest of the game trying to get to the action with their 5".
I love this unit so much. His model and his little buddies are so good! Although admittedly his battlefield performance isn't as amazing as his model. He's fine, he just makes the thunderkyn unit pretty pricey for what they can do. I still like that combo and run it a lot, but his big brick of thunderkyn and helpers is like a B for performance, but the models are an easy A+. And has been pointed out by others you can run him with hearthkyn but like... why? I mean, it's cute and fun in casual games but never something you'd be looking to do in anything more competitive than a beer and pretzels match. I do hope he gets a little polish in the codex and maybe some more things he can lead but even if he doesn't I think he's still a fine unit.
Thanks for the vid! I have a question about allocating wounds to the E-COGs and Ironkin: assuming the Iron Master is attached to a 6-Kin Thunderkyn squad, does your opponent is determine the wound roll on the toughness of the Thunderkyn or the ECOG models? This came up in a game I played last week and we were stumped lol
My understanding is that at the time of the wound roll, your opponent is declaring an attack on the thunderkyn which means using their toughness. Once the wounds go through, you determine which models in the unit are rolling saves first (allocating to the ecogs) They effectively act as a blank
