Sword Brethren Weapon Loadout?

[Rustican]

I'm thinking of building a 10 man squad of Sword Brethren, and then combat squading them in a squad with the lightning claws and another with the thunder hammers to specialize against light and heavy targets.   What weapons should the remaining 8 SB have?  Swords and Mauls?

[Marshal Reinhard]

If you use both hammers and sets of claws, that leaves 6. 4 if u take both Mauds too

[BLACK BLΠFLY]

I’d go with power swords for the better rend.

[Urkh]

Mauls are pretty bad. They give +3 str, which puts us at S7. The only thing that gives a bonus to is fighting against T6 (wound on 3+) or T7 (wound on 4+) units. Those kinds of units will generally have an armor save where the AP-1 does virtually nothing. Even most T3 units won't really care about AP-1.

 

An axe will get you to S6 (still wounding t3 on 2+), and the AP-2 will actually be effective against many kinds of models, some of them, stripping away their armor save entirely, while still wounding T5 on 3+.

 

However, as BBF said, swords are probably still best. Our lists generally run Helbrecht, and his +1 str aura puts the swords at S6, which is a good threshold, as we saw with the axes. Yah, he does that to axes and mauls, but as we saw with mauls, S7 on axes isn't much, and with mauls AP-1 isn't going to do anything against any T8 unit, or even the T4's you'd be wounding on 2's. However, a sword wielder at S6 AP-3 (with Helbrecht around) can shred many units. Even at S5, they're still pretty great.

[Tokugawa]

S5/S6/S7 really don't make huge difference against their usual target. AP-3 would be better on default.

Edited March 16, 2023 by Tokugawa

[Medjugorje]

if 5 men squad then 1x TH 4x PS and 5x Plasma 

[Khornestar]

Plasma pistols are only 1/5 or 2/10, sadly. Would be interesting and even useful if more could.

[Medjugorje]

ohhh... my mistake.

[Rustican]

On 3/17/2023 at 12:34 PM, Medjugorje said:

if 5 men squad then 1x TH 4x PS and 5x Plasma 

Is the +1 S on the power sword better than the reroll to wound on the lightning claws?

[BLACK BLΠFLY]

You can only take one pair of claws per five models, so the power sword is a better choice than the chainsword.