Hordes: Aradus Sentinel
The Aradus Sentinel is the shootier half of the new warbeast kit for the Skorne horde.
Guest Article by Johnnev
It has an impressive stat line except for speed, relatively low point cost and an incredible ranged threat.This beast helps Skorne tremendously. The extra armor provided by Carapace with the addition of a Krea bubble make the sentinel nigh impossible to kill via range granting it superiority in a shooting contest.
Animus
Swarm: Grants concealment and a negative penalty to hitting for living models. This animus increase the sentinels already substantial survivability, it is also a great “self” animus for your warlock granting effectively +2 DEF in melee an shooting.
Abilities
Advanced Deploy: Considering this is the slowest warbeast ever if it didn’t have advanced deployment I do not believe it would be playable, but it does so the speed 3 doesn’t have much effect.
Carapace: Grants a significant ARM increase against shooting and free strikes.
Steady: Always being on your feet is never a bad thing.
Venom Blaster (Weapon): Poison and arcing fire, combined with Skorne’s range support this beast can deliver a devastating attack to any living model almost anywhere on the board.
Overall: Possibly the best ranged warbeast in existence. Pair him with Epic Xerxis and get a four-dice-drop-one to hit and five-dice-drop-one to wound any warnoun. This can be game changing. Since most things in Warmachine/Hordes are living his poison arching gun gives plenty of solos, and warnouns nightmares.
~Do you think the Aradus Sentinel is the big game-changer for Skorne?
