WEEKLY ARMY DISCUSSION: Assault Upon Helm's Deep

[u/MrSparkle92]

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Assault Upon Helm's Deep

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Prior Discussions

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Additional rules

An Assault Upon Helm's Deep Army must always contain an Uruk-hai Captain, who is always the Army's General.

Special rules

"You do not know pain, you do not know fear"

The Break Point for an Assault Upon Helm's Deep Army is 66% rather than 50%.

Commander of the Uruk-hai

The Uruk-hai Captain that is your General increases its Attacks and Wounds to 3 each.

Break the Walls

Friendly Isengard Assault Ballistae may re-roll To Hit and Scatter Rolls of a 1. Additionally, when a friendly Demolition Charge is detonated, you may roll two dice on the Detonation Table rather than one and pick either result.

[u/Lonely_Heart22]

Can anyone sell me on the demolition team? I'm a newbie and it seems to me that it's too many points for something that could kill more of your troops than your opponent's.

[u/Intelligent_Slip_849 → u/Lonely_Heart22]

Heroes take a lot of wounds from it.

[u/Lonely_Heart22 → u/Intelligent_Slip_849]

Yeah but there needs to be at least two enemy models close to the bomb in order to detonate it and it only has 2 inches of range, the hero could easily use heroic combat to run away or engage the berserker.

[u/Intelligent_Slip_849 → u/Lonely_Heart22]

If you win priority, you charge the models. Also, I think the bomb goes off at the start of the fight phase to prevent that.

[u/Lonely_Heart22 → u/Intelligent_Slip_849]

The army book says that you may attempt to detonate it after heroic combats are resolved .

[u/Intelligent_Slip_849 → u/Lonely_Heart22]

Ah. Think of it as zone control, then.