Games Workshop has teased a new datasheet for the 8th Edition Forge World Imperial Armor Index: Chaos. Come take a look at the Hellforged Predator.
Games Workshop just posted a new article on Warhammer Community with the datasheet for the Hellforged Predator from the Imperial Armor Index: Chaos. Let’s take a look at what they had to say.
Hellforged vehicles are the Chaos equivalent of the Relic vehicles found in the armouries of the Adeptus Astartes, but where Relic vehicles are treated with care and veneration, Hellforged vehicles are twisted by centuries of warfare and the corruption of the warp. Dating back to the Horus Heresy, the Hellforged Predator combines weaponry from the Age of Darkness with a malevolent machine sentience, making for an unusual unit on the tabletop that canny generals will find very rewarding to use.
The Hellforged Predator has access to any of the weapons usable by the standard Chaos Predator, with the addition of the plasma destroyer, magna-melta cannon, infernal flamestorm cannon and C-beam cannon. Infernal Predators can also take heavy flamers as sponson weapons. These options allow for a diverse range of builds capable of dealing with a wide range of targets, from a close-assault vehicle armed to the teeth with flamer weaponry, to a potent long ranged support unit with the C-beam cannon. Since you can now fire different weapons at different targets, you could even equip the Predator as a generalist, patching up holes in your list with a variety of weapons.
Where the Hellforged Predator really stands out is in the Assault phase. You read that right! As you can see above, as Hellforged vehicles take damage, they get angrier, losing Movement and Ballistic Skill in return for greatly increased Weapon Skill. This works fantastically with the Hellforged Predator’s other abilities: Machina Malifica and Hate-fuelled Rampage. In a pinch, these rules combined can allow a damaged Hellforged Predator to charge a squad of infantry and consume them with its Infernal Hunger, then regenerate its lost wounds through Machina Malifica.
It’s worth considering that the <Legion> Keyword allows your Hellforged Predator to benefit from your nearby Heretic Astartes – a Dark Apostle to provide much-needed re-rolls on attacks in the combat phase, for instance. Imperial Armour – Index: Forces of Chaos also features a new character, the Hellwright, who can further increase the combat abilities of your Hellforged vehicles. While there’s not currently a model out for the Hellwright, we’d recommend Forge World’s Archmagos Draykavac, a member of the Dark Mechanicus who comes equipped with the same loadout as the Hellwright, including the option for an Abeyant.
One of the most interesting parts of this article was where they talked about the Hellwright…
“Imperial Armour – Index: Forces of Chaos also features a new character, the Hellwright, who can further increase the combat abilities of your Hellforged vehicles. While there’s not currently a model out for the Hellwright”
Not currently tells us that there may be something in the works for a new Hellwright model, they did put it in the index after all.
The new Hellforged Predator is really seeming like a well rounded vehicle to add to your arsenal of devastating weapons. Whether you want to use this vehicle as close quarters combat, or simple long range support, the weapon options are definitely there. It comes equipped with a plasma destroyer and an infernal hunger. The plasma destroyer has a 36″ range, Heavy 2D3, Strength 7, AP -3, and does 2 damage.
The infernal hunger on the other hand is going to be for your close quarters, doing melee attacks, AP -3, and only 1 damage, kind of a last resort weapon. Anything else you want to put on this model is going to come with a point cost which can quickly start adding up. Hate-fueled Rampage is giving you the option of making D3 additional attacks if you successfully charged the same turn. The survivability of this vehicle comes into play with the Machina Malifica ability. At the end of a turn in which a unit with this ability slayed a model, other than Overwatch attacks, you can roll a number of D6 equal to the number of models it had slain. For every 5+ rolled you heal one wound. If you choose to use this ability you cannot heal wounds by any other means this turn.
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