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Fund Raiser - Helping a friend with funding for a Wedding!

This post is part of the current Fund Raiser where a friend has given me an offer to buy a collection of Warhammer models, the money will go to putting down deposits for his wedding arrangements.

After that I have two other hobby debts to sort out.

I am collecting funds in the following ways:

• Blogging about Warhammer to earn HBD
• Accepting donations - Can be sent directly to @zakl.hobbyfund in HBD
• Selling some of the collection to friends.

The total needed is $575 (R10,000 ZAR).
Every bit counts!

Back to the review.

Hello everyone! Zak Ludick here from Cape Town, South Africa and this is a Warhammer 40k - The Great Unit Review Wheel! post!

Now known as the Unit Review Library!

What is it all about? It is not there to just give a stat. It is there to give MY review of the unit!

Also this has become quite the Challenge! With so many units to review in the game the consensus in the hobby community is that I will not have enough time to review all of the Datasheets before the new edition of Warhammer 40,000 came out.

I should have started when 10th edition launched!
584 days since the start of 10th Edition.
This is Review #212, I am 372 reviews behind! (Lowest I have been is 314 behind)

January 2025 we are expecting Astra Militarum and Aeldari codexes as explained Here, so time to focus on THOSE Datasheets!

Astra Militarum, Hellhound

10th Edition Index

The Hellhound is a basically a flamer tank used by the Astra Militarum to burn enemies out of bunkers or dense terrain.

The Hellhound also has variants. In 10th Edition they rolled the three vehicles into one and gave us one datasheet with three main gun options and three hull mounted weapon options.

The Inferno Cannon pairs with the name "Hellhound".
A "Devil Dog" pairs with the Melta Cannon.
And the Chem Cannon pairs with the name "Bane Wolf".

Any of these variants are 125pts to field and cost $65 to buy.

Let's check its stats!

Stats

Movement 10"
Toughness 10
Save 2+ (armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 11
Ld 7+
OC 3

Weapons

Guns:
Turret Mount options:

• Inferno Cannon
• Melta Cannon
• Chem Cannon

Hull Mounted options:

• Heavy Flamer

• Heavy Bolter

• Multi-laser

• Can also be mounted with a Hunter-Killer Missile.

Ranged Weapons

Inferno Cannon

18" Range, 2D6 Shots, Hitting on Auto, S6, AP-2 and 1 Damage each.
Torrent (This weapon auto hits, just roll for the amount of shots)
Ignores Cover (Enemies do not get Benefit of Cover against this attack)

Melta Cannon

18" Range, D3 Shots, Hitting on 4+, S9, AP-4 and D6 Damage each.
Blast (This weapons gets an additional attack for every 5 models in the enemy unit)
Melta 4 (When shooting at half range of 9", add 4 to the Damage of this weapon.)

Chem Cannon

12" Range, D6+1 Shots, Hitting on Auto, S2, AP-2 and 2 Damage each.
Torrent (This weapon auto hits, just roll for the amount of shots)
Anti-Infantry 2+ (This weapon critically Wounds Infantry on a 2+ regardless of toughness)

Heavy Flamer

12" Range, D6 Shots, Hitting on Auto, S5, AP-1 and 1 Damage each.
Torrent (This weapon auto hits, just roll for the amount of shots)
Ignores Cover (Enemies do not get Benefit of Cover against this attack)

Heavy Bolter

36" Range, 3 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S5, AP-1 and 2 Damage each.
Sustained Hits 1 (Hit rolls of 1 generate extra attacks)

Multi-melta

18" Range, 2 Shots, Hitting on 4+, S9, AP-4 and D6 Damage each.
Melta 4 (When shooting at half range of 9", add 4 to the Damage of this weapon.)

Hunter-killer Missile

48" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 4+, S14, AP-3 and D6 Damage each.
One Shot (This weapon can only be fired once per battle)

Melee Weapons

Armoured Tracks

3 Attacks, Hitting on 4+, S6, AP0 and 1 Damage each.

Abilities

Deadly Demise D6 (This tank can explode!)

Flush them out

Once this model has shot you pick one enemy unit that was hit by its attacks. Until the end of the phase (Your shooting phase), that enemy unit cannot have Benefit of Cover. (Wow... this is exactly the same rule as the Aeldari Vyper!)

Thoughts

Right. I did not even reword the Speacial rule for this vehicle to the Vyper I did yesterday. Its pretty crazy co-incidence that they followed one after the other.

The Hellhound is slower than the Vyper, but has higher Toughness and Wounds and more guns.

I think the main item for consideration is what main gun you want. Much like other multi-tool units, you have the option of three distinct weapons and it really depends on what sort of balance your army has and what sort of enemy you face.

Inferno Cannon is anti-infantry, the Chem-Cannon is anti-Heavy Infantry and the Melta Cannon is of course anti-tank.

None of them have a good range and I suspect that I have not seen one of these on the battlefield because Guard players would rather invest the points into the big tanks and lay down damage from further away.

That makes 37 Astra Militarum Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 41.57% Completed. The total Completed is 21.83% Complete! Can I review them all?!

Thank you for reading!

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