Black Knights huntmaster loadout

[BigGumbo]

I'm building a squadron of Black Knights, to be fielded as a 5 man unit in the first instance due to points availability, and I'm wondering whether or not to give the Huntmaster a power weapon in place of the standard Hammer. The obvious benefit is to get AP values on all hits rather than only Rending hits; the downside being the loss of Rending and (depending on which PW I take) possibly losing the pip of Strength that the Hammers give.

 

I mostly play against Eldar, Tau and IG, so 3+ saves are not my biggest issue and striking at Initiative would generally be useful.

 

I'm leaning towards going for the PW, and taking a Maul rather than a Sword, but I'd like to know how others are running the BKs.

[Master Avoghai]

Mine has a power sword as I often play against Meq...

 

However in your case the power maul seems more useful... But not the baseball bate provided in the BK box set ... Take the one from the DA vets sprue.

[Upstartes]

I'm planning to go power sword so that the model can do double duty as either a BK Huntmaster or a RW Champion in a command squad.

[Kobrakei]

Against the armies you've mentioned, having AP3 would be less useful as their saves are usually poor. Being able to cause wounds on a 2+ with rending will generally be better, and will save you 15 pts. However, if you are going to go for a power weapon, then a power maul would be the obvious choice. I only use the corvus hammers, normally against marines, and find the amount of wounds they cause usually force at least one failed save.

[elphilo]

I personally wouldn't screw with it. The hammers are already a really good weapon IMO. While they wouldn't have the AP3 the sword does, you have the chance to get it with AP2. It might not be as reliable, but I like my chances of getting it

[happybounce]

No I've got it: power lance!  I mean talk about your Knightly orders.  I ran a lance on my Khorne bike champion for a while, and it wasn't the worst thing ever.

[Brother Immolator]

Well, I have been saying this for a while and I am trully keen on repeating it

The power maul is the weapon of choice for me on the huntmaster due to its versatality and synergy with the rad and stasis grenades.

Given the fact that 90% of the games models are in the range of I 3-5, T3-5 and armor of 3-5 the maul makes perfect sense.

After a pestiside plash (rad/stasis nades) you stand a pretty hefty chance on the charge to kill a large number of enemies.Also the huntsmaster can effectively challenge H.Qs with realistic chances of instaclubbing them.

At best you instaclub at worst you have a weapon that can wound pretty easy.

[hardimanm]

I second the power lance.  Combined with the hit and rule ability this weapon will help a ton

[Jehoel]

Unfortunately, the power lance is not an option. The FAQ restricted the options to Power Maul or Power Sword for the Huntsmaster.

[Tiger9gamer]

but they are KNIGHTS!! D: 

[hardimanm]

Really?  Ok.  I thought that a power sword could be a power lance.  Opps...sorry

[DarkGuard]

but they are KNIGHTS!! D: 

 

Knights who come from a tradition of using small picks due to there being too many trees to use lances.

 

.... you can tell I've just finished reading the Corvus Hammer entry. :P

[Tiger9gamer]

.....well, when you put it like that... :P

[IndigoJack]

You can however, give your RW sarge's the lance. With H&R you're actually poised to take advantage of it.

[Rizara]

the tree's weren't the only issue, hard to use a lance in close quarters against a chaos spawned mutated wild beast that has you in their sights lol