Marauders With Flails?

[TGCMactar]

I don't understand why you would take flails over hand weapons if you don't get the importance of the shield and that it doesn't have extra range , damage or rend. Thanks

[bomba776]

Another question. Do flail marauder get shield bonus if i glue a shield to its back or left arm?

[Lousy Beatnik]

One is 4+ 4+, the other is 5+ 3+, where's the confusion?

Shields have nothing to do with having axe or flail.

 

[Guest]

The marauder models pre-date AoS, and alternative weapon options were the norm back then. When AoS launched these older kits had to be given rules for every weapon option available, even though alternative weapon options are a little less common now. I think some of these transitional kits ended up with rules for their alternative weapon options that were intended more as a way to make sure player's armies weren't invalidated than as a genuine tactical choice.

I'm not saying this has definitely happened in the case of marauders because I don't know their warscroll or Slaves to Darkness well enough, but it's plausible that flails are just hands-down the worst option for this reason.

[Captain Marius]

Flails (5+ 3+) are 0.03 less likely to cause a wounding hit than axes (4+ 4+). Either can take shields. 

I think gw dropped the ball a bit on these guys, flails at 5+ 4+ -1 would have been a more interesting option, rather than something statistically worse!

Still, theyre cheap chaff which is always handy!

[Killax]

Well you can clown around with a Damned Icon for them technically to favour the odds a little. In that same vein the other Banner works out well for objective purposes. With the new General power for Slaves to Darkness the Icons are less relevant though so yeah usually you'll not pick flails.