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Question but how effective do you think a Flagellant suicide bomb would be in a Hallowheart list? Get a big block of 40, cast Warding Brand on them (and potentially Ignite Weapons if you feel like it) and just throw them at the scariest thing your opponent has (potentially using the Soulseeker Endless spell to get them there). Everytime they kill one of the - Save Flagellants they take a Mortal Wound on a 4+, and everytime one runs its the exact same thing, so if you manage to touch something with the big block of 40 thats on average 20 Mortal Wounds if they all die/run, ON TOP of any damage the Flagellants do themselves. Am I missing something or would this actually work?

The Battalion is just too big to be used effectively in anything below 2500 points. To use it at anything below you'd have to run MSU (Multiple Small Squads), which is not how Free Peoples want to be run, with how our allegiance abilities and unit bonuses work. On an unrelated note, I'm surprised I don't see more people run the Knight Azyros in their lists. A cheap, durable, fast moving hero that now not only buffs your shooting, but melee as well (re-roll 1s). There's nothing quite like your opponent's face when you roll 30 Handgunners on 2s re-rolling 1s. The once per game mortal wound bomb is just icing on the black-powder cake.

I'm not sure if anyone's noticed, but if I'm not mistaken the Azyros Lantern got buffed to work on all attacks, not just shooting. I don't even play Stormcast, but if that's true the Azyros is going to get himself an honorary induction into the Freeguilds.

I think the problem with Demigryph knights, and in fact most Heavy Cavalry in the game, is that they are more reliant on dealing damage over time, using their better save and wound pool to out-attrition the enemy. This is doubly so for the Demigryphs, where you'd want to put Hold The Line! on them ASAP to not only boost their attacks, but let the Talons trigger on a 5+ rather than a 6+. So I'd say Halberds. However I've personally never used knights so this is all theory for me.