Saturday, February 25, 2012

Price War: Broodlord vs Son's Sorcerer

This started with me trying to think of a good way to make a Space Wolf Wulfen model and I remembered the cool pose on the Tyranid Broodlord with his arms spread wide and nasty claws.  Unfortunately those arms are segmented and have only 4 fingers, so to use them in a rabid wulfen model would require some greenstuff and forgiveness of detail, but still a viable option.  Then, as I am easily distracted and drawn into new armies, I as thinking again how it'd be cool to have a big horde of Nids as well and how much i like the broodlord and all the monstrous creatures.  So then I glanced at the points values and...  Well, we all know the newer codexes give a lot more umph for a lot less points.  As chaos marines is one of my primary armies I am very familiar with how expensive the Thousand Son's Sorcerer is -- 60 pts before even giving him a spell, and I like to give him Gift of Chaos (have spawned quite a few enemy models into joining my cause, even Feugan himself! hahahahahaha-ha!).
Okay, where was I?
Oh yeah, price war.  So here we are.  "In this corner..."


Thousand Son's Sorcerer, without whom the Sons kinda go to crap.  He comes standard with a force weapon, which is nice (power weapon, potential for instant death) and a bolt pistol with Inferno Bolts (so one shot with AP3, which is nice but maybe you want to use a psychic shooting attack).  He is also fearless and has a 4+ invuln save (very nice).  But you still have to pay for his spell.  Stats:


WS
  BS
   S
   T
  W
    I
   A
  Ld
  Sv
  Pts
   4
   4
   4
   4
   1
   4
   2
   10
 3+/4+
  60



"And in this corner..."


(He already looks tougher.)
Genestealer Broodlord, which is an upgrade you can add to your already deadly outflanking close-combat death unit.  In addition to his far superior stats (including three wounds rather than just one), he comes standard with two psychic powers (no additional cost), rending, fleet, infiltrate, and move through cover (along with his unit).  You can also upgrade him with some pretty inexpensive bioweapons.  His stats: 


WS
  BS
   S
   T
  W
    I
   A
  Ld
  Sv
  Pts
   7
   0
   5
   5
   3
   7
   4
  10
  4+
  60


So what do you think?  Both cost a base of 60 points.  The sorcerer is going to end up costing 70 to 90, has a ranged attack, a more potent psychic power, ignores armor in close combat, and an invuln save.  The broodlord has no ranged attack but kills in close combat and rends there, has 2 lesser powers, and takes three wounds.  Really it's a close call on the value, but i'm thinking the three wounds tips the scale quite a bit.  I say the Broodlord wins this Price War!

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