When I started on my Guard army one of the first things I got was 6 Bombasts - they look superb! Perfect for dioramas. Only change I've done to mine is clipping off the gunners seating position and adding a third standing crew member, it looks more like a field artillery piece like that. At some point I'll see about running all three squads alongside a Wyvern and Basilisk.

Great review, this is now one of our best artillery units. One small thing though, this unit actually benefits more from take aim than the Scout sentinel. Take aim gives a 100% increase in hits and the sentinel "only" 75%. Given both it's even better but there you hit the nail with the Commissar, if the sentinel is there, the +1 BS doesn't matter (unless smoke etc) but the ability does. So the commissar's orders or maybe a take cover to heighten durability could be given. I'm currently running one of these units, a basilisk and one or two mortars in infantry squads / command squads. That gives me enough indirect to mess with my opponents smaller units and points enough for the sentinel for rerolls, the hellhound for no cover and the exterminator if needed for more AP 😁

~good vibes~ I love that you're going to try pairing it with the Defense Line. I'm going to build a Guard army but currently play Daemons, so I have my eye on that invuln save. I can imagine making a castle of Bombast and mortar teams.

"behoove", "Sgt's time" oh yeah dude im in good hands.

So, one thing I'd like to bring up is that artillery is really no longer a reliable damage dealing unit that can replace a Russ or something in terms of damage output on the enemy army. Its primary goal, now, is to counter sneaky tricksy units. Artillery is best used to make it so your opponent can't just sit a token unit on their home objective for fear your artillery can take them out easily. You can also use it to soften up a target staging behind some ruins, and maybe refuse their numbers enough that they can't accomplish the objective they wanted to, ie... a unit of 10 Blood Angels jump intercessors setting up to change your Russ next turn, and using your artillery to drop 3-4 of them might drop their damage output enough that your Russ survives. Stuff like that. In short, artillery has a unique ability, so don't try and use it to do the job another unit could do. Use it to create a unique capability that your army can do, that it couldn't do if you didn't have artillery.

16:22 nice!... 16:30 OH! HELL YEAH! it will be fun to see those battle reports/units analysis

Another great video! I love the FOB model as well and I’m glad they are a little more useful now.

I love the idea of 3 units of these then creed with a command squad with mortar and an infantry squad with mortar. Mortars fire and do FOF them all 3 FOBs unload into the target, say a 10 man scary space marine squad. Maybe have an exterminator up the line to also apply its buff.

I ended up running a no artillery list recently against Black Templars, because of the indirect changes, and with these videos I'm regretting not bringing at least a Basilisk and field ordnance to the table!

They’re such awesome models. Just love them.

As you know I love these. They have performed well for me in 9th and 10th. my best lists include 3.

I’ve been running these as rocket batteries, but the only guy I play against has an ork army so never considered any other load out.

I love the fobs, they can make short work of marine squads

If they have LoS, they can hit on 2s and 3s btw. The rule for unmodified rolls of 1-3 miss for Indirect Fire is only when they don’t have LoS

This has been very helpful! Much appreciated for the great content. Time to buy a third FOB

I’m looking forward to the rest of the artillery series, but I’m also wondering what you’ll cover afterwards. There’s a lot of new roles for a lot of our units after the update so there’ll be no shortage of topics!

My friends fear them on the table top.

I love the model but ive always thought it was underwhelming, I guess I'll test mine out when my conversions are done.

Great video! A couple of ideas for the next videos :) 1) Sentinels. In my battles they always die in first turn and then my artillery as well as other units become significantly less powerfull. Are there any tricks how to use them without dieing too early? 2) How to deal against another guard player with artillery? If he goes first he can just kill your command squad together with Ursula and Leontus at the first turn :D

Heavy is a +1 to the attack hit roll not a +1 to bs

Finally!

Great video and those models look awesome. Did you use black pigment for the burn mark on the end of the barrel?

That's slick! I didn't even consider using a commissar. It just says affected by an order. Doesn't say what order.

YESSS!!

Still not convinced. My longer ranged guns dont need orders to be good.

Could be just my local meta, but i found they didn't do well against Nid Monster Mash or Necron Cryptic Court.

Still think the Heavy Lascannons are the best options for this unit

Thoughts on Bombabst field guns vs Wyvern?

Why would you not get lethal hits when shooting indirect on other than vehicles or monsters? I can’t seem to find this in the rules.

Hey I have some questions. I'm french so certain terms may not translate to english. Question: I have my rules right there and nowhere is it said that indirect fire fail on a 1.2.3. If it's corect, could I theorically get a BS on a 3+ with a scout sentinel (removing indirect fire) + not moving (+1 on BS roll) and the order "take aim" (BS improvement of 1)? Do I have the wrong rules? Am I blind? Wrong translation? or am I dumb? (probably the last)

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Dude I rate your unit reviews ay. 👌 Well present and well informed. Would be cool if you where able to present the main weapons stats on the screen. Not needed but makes it a little easier too follow. I can also understand a bit why you don't. Might clash with the brilliant presentation and clog up the screen a bit. Anyway! Excellent work Cadian Sargent Steel 🫡