Ogryn bodyguard potential

[bigmic66]

Hi guys,

 

About to paint a unit off bullgryns with mauls and come across bodyguard unit. Essentially they cost +25 pts for extra attack and extra 3 wounds.

 

Was wondering if its worth taking 3 bodyguards to abuse the wound allocation to share wounds around + combine with death mask relic for a 2+ invo and d3 wound heal once per game.

 

Potential? They'd be mounted in a chimera or taurox to protect and move.

[Halfpint100]

It has been FAQed that the bodyguards cannot take wounds from another bodyguard. Plus the character ruling may change soon

[CoffeeGrunt]

Just a heads-up: if your plan is to literally abuse a rule, don't do that plan. Not only because it isn't sporting, but because it might rely on an incorrect reading or be nerfed after you've spent £26 on plastic to do it.

[bigmic66]

Yeah got the box already so no harm done, also FAQ dongs that anyway lol

[mertbl]

For the cost of 3 bodyguards you can almost buy a unit of 5.

[bigmic66]

Yep. You can't fit 5 in transport though.

[bigmic66]

12 attacks vs 16 attacks

18 wounds vs 15 wounds

Transport vs no transport

Ability to take deathmask, fit a support character in transport and split up after drop.

 

Psychic buffs/strategems aren't as useful though targeting restrictions against characters would help

[Finkmilkana]

I feel one with deathmask is great, without deathmask they are not worth is over normal bulgryns as a combat unit.

 

Using them for taking wounds could be great if AM had expensive characters, but with what we have it is usually a better idea to just take another commander or psyker instead.

[CoffeeGrunt]

Bodyguards are more vulnerable to high damage weapons though, it's not as simple as raw number of Wounds. Edited December 20, 2017 by CoffeeGrunt

[Malakithe]

I have a bodyguard in my list for my CC. Its job is to attempt to soak up wounds one way or another. If it fights and kills something then thats a bonus. You dont take a bodyguard cuz of their combat potential. You take them to protect your warlord from sniper fire or whatever else targets them.

[Colonel Cross]

The bodyguards are pretty good when Mortarion hits your lines and starts doing mortal wounds to all of your officers.