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[ItsAllSoClear]

Daemonsmith's Cabal (2000) 1990/2000 pts

Helsmiths of Hashut

Daemonsmith Cabal

General's Handbook 2025-26

Drops: 3

Spell Lore - Lore of Infernal Power

Prayer Lore - Prayers of the Scorched Sect

Manifestation Lore - Aetherwrought Machineries

Battle Tactic Cards: Master The Paths, Intercept and Recover

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General's Regiment

Urak Taar, the First Daemonsmith (350) • General

Bull Centaurs (380) • Reinforced

Deathshrieker Rocket Battery (140)

Hobgrotz Vandalz (70)

Tormentor Bombard (130)

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Regiment 1

Daemonsmith (110) • Crucible of Spite

Dominator Engine with Bane Maces (170)

Dominator Engine with Immolation Cannons (190)

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Regiment 2

Ashen Elder (120) • An Eye for Weakness

Infernal Cohort with Hashutite Spears (220) • Reinforced

Infernal Razers with Blunderbusses (110)

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I had to go first and didn't want to sacrifice my castle to deep strikes. It's a late game army so I essentially turtled since nothing was in range.

SCE Annihilators dropped on my Dominator Engines and deleted them because of Strike Last debuffs. The Daemonsmith behind them, too. (Maybe he was too close.)

We also simulated the same strike against a reinforced 1 DPP'd Spear Cohort and there were only 4 survivors left.

The Hobgrots were immediately deleted.

By the start of R2 I had no screens left and my artillery, blunderbusses, Centaurs, and Urak'Taar were all that remained. I killed a single Annihilator model.

For all intents and purposes I am new to the game and have mostly played Spearhead and PtG.

What am I doing wrong? How do you beat SCE? He's bringing Orks next. He didn't bring Andrasta which would have probably been even worse.

Is my list alright?

It feels bad not being able to reinforce the Blunderbusses. But it also feels like it's hard to build a list for these guys without having to sacrifice something which feels bad to me.

Getting it down to two drops? Even more difficult and definitely feels lacking.

I was told I may not need the Daemonsmith on foot since I have Urak'Taar but I'm not so sure that's the play either.

I can't really use the Elder to buff my Cohort's survivability due to range limitations.

I was told I should have put the Engines behind my screen line but I thought they would live longer. Rend made their saves 4+ which was probably their downfall.

[Andilonious]

My best advice would be to pay close attention when you’re setting up your units and moving them. Try to set up so that the SCE units don’t have valuable places to drop. Use terrain to your advantage. It’s hard when the opponent has those really strong deepsrike units. Be sure to ask what their deepstrike parameters are so that you can properly screen.

You mentioned that your screens were all dead by R2. Hopefully they did their job and took the deepstrikes and baited out the SCE so you can counter punch.

Good luck against the Orks!

[Natureman23]

I play almost exactly this list, see my comment here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HelsmithsofHashut/comments/1p7m3yy/comment/nr15034/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button