Unit of the week Unit of the week: Lord Discordant on Helstalker

[Cpt.Danjou]

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Lord Discordant on Helstalker

This thread is only for tactics for Lord Discordant on Helstalker, not for pictures, there are other places for that.

How to best use Lord Discordant on Helstalker?

• Warlord trait?
• Relics?
• Legion?
• Marks?
• Which stratagems are worth throwing out?
• Any solid unit combos?

[Cpt.Danjou]

If i am getting anything more for my Iron Warriors, he is the next on my list. He is one of our best beat sticks, and I assume that people are using the flamer as standard.

 

Cpt.Danjou

[tychobi]

flamer and melta mouth gun. Flames of Spite for mortal madness.  Fantastic beater but he can get pulled down fairly easy

[dice4thedicegod]

Agreed on the flamer, I do like the techno virus injector though… means when I hit a redemptor or grandmaster dreadknight, it goes down 

[Khornestar]

Was never disappointed with his performance. Baleflamer/injector.

[Freakshow668]

I've used mine in 3 games so far and every time my opponent has thrown everything at him until he's dead. I assume he's really, really good, because everyone is terrified of him, but in all 3 games he's been dead by the end of turn 2. Takes the focus away from everything else though, which has allowed me to win all 3 games.

[Verbal Underbelly]

Can't ask for more than that Freakshow.

[Toldavf]

His damage is nuts, really adore him. 

[TrawlingCleaner]

I've been running mine as others have:

Baleflamer, Injector, WLT: Flames of Spite, Daemon weapon: Ul'ooca the Black

 

After realising I've been using Flames of Spite Rerolls to wound on the Flamer (does ignorance still count as cheating? ), I've been thinking about the Discordant. It does a good amount of damage without Ul'ooca but tended to die pretty quickly without support which is easy to do when it's so fast and always wants to be moving. So I think I'm going to try out the Gorget of Eternal Hate. It gives him a 4+ invlun (doesn't have to rely on the MoP), essentially a 0+ armour save vs anything with AP and also explodes to add a cherry on top.

As Iron Warriors, we have ways of reducing wounding rolls by 1 which often times means he's only really going to be wounded on 4s at most as Discordants never really want to be anywhere near anything that's S12 anyways. I don't find I need the Magna Cutter as against vehicles, he's 3 DMG with mortals on 6s plus able to Corrupt them too.

 

Definitely more combos for me to try out!

[Prot]

13 hours ago, TrawlingCleaner said:

I've been running mine as others have:

Baleflamer, Injector, WLT: Flames of Spite, Daemon weapon: Ul'ooca the Black

 

After realising I've been using Flames of Spite Rerolls to wound on the Flamer (does ignorance still count as cheating? ), I've been thinking about the Discordant. It does a good amount of damage without Ul'ooca but tended to die pretty quickly without support which is easy to do when it's so fast and always wants to be moving. So I think I'm going to try out the Gorget of Eternal Hate. It gives him a 4+ invlun (doesn't have to rely on the MoP), essentially a 0+ armour save vs anything with AP and also explodes to add a cherry on top.

As Iron Warriors, we have ways of reducing wounding rolls by 1 which often times means he's only really going to be wounded on 4s at most as Discordants never really want to be anywhere near anything that's S12 anyways. I don't find I need the Magna Cutter as against vehicles, he's 3 DMG with mortals on 6s plus able to Corrupt them too.

 

Definitely more combos for me to try out!

I will say I for survival purposes I often give mine the MoS and give him the FnP plus fight first is really decent with him.