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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!

A New Season of Reviews - A Challenge accepted!

The nefarious trio of World Eaters, Death Guard and Thousand Sons are set to get their new Codexes next. Actually, the great FOUR are each getting their favourite Legion's new Codexes but Emperor's Children did not have an actual Index before.

Anyway. I was speaking to my friend @nicolaasmuller about how my Review posts might not make a lot of money for me, but that cumulatively and on average some of them do good and overall there is an average that at least means that there is good movement of income into the Hobby Fund and that it would grow from there.

We were throwing around some numbers and looking at the average of my last 10 Review Posts, 20 Review posts and 30 Review Posts and we could come up with a range of how much I should theoretically be making across a large sample size of completing the remainder of the reviews for the nefarious trio mentioned above.

So Nicolaas says to me something along the lines of: That would be pretty cool if you could do it in like, a month. Maybe do like 2 a day.

So I explained it would be a little bit more than that but sure... it would be cool... is that a challenge? And yeah... here I am... Challenge accepted. 😎

It is now Day 14 of the Challenge.

Totals so far: 20/70 Datasheets done, 3/3 Army Rules done, 0/6 Detachment Rules done. Total 23/79.

Time elapsed: 46.66%
Progress completed: 29.11%

Hobby Fund - Working myself into the clear

With my hobby posts, I generate a hobby fund. 50% of the income goes into the fund. At the moment I put all my HBD earned from Warhammer posts into my alt account @zakl.hobbyfund.

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.

At the current count I am paying off some hobby debts. I still have $291 to pay off!

Every bit counts!

Back to the review.

The whole project 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!
637 days since the start of 10th Edition.
This is Review #274, I am 363 reviews behind! (Lowest I have been is 314 behind)

Death Guard, Death Guard Hellbrute

10th Edition Index

Hellbrutes are the twisted versions of Space Marine Dreadnoughts. They are almost always constantly in pain and totally insane!

The Death Guard version on this unit has a great ability that syncs well with a ranged build for this unit.

It is 130pts to run this unit and they cost $62.50 to purchase.

Let's check its stats!

Stats

Movement 6"
Toughness 9
Save 2+ (armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 8
Ld 6+
OC 3

Weapons

Standard Weapons include: Multi-melta, Missile Launcher and Close Combat Weapon.

The Multi-melta can be replaced with any of the following:

• Helbrute Plasma Cannon
• Twin Autocannon
• Twin Lascannon
• Twin Plague Heavy Bolter
• Helbrute Fist

The Missile Launcher can be replaced by one of the following:

• Helbrute Fist
• Helbrute Hammer
• Power Scourge

Each Helbrute fist can be equipped with either a Plague Storm Bolter or a Heavy Flamer.

Ranged Weapons

Multi-melta

18" Range, 2 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S9, AP-4 and D6 Damage each.
Melta 2 (If firing at a target within the half range of this weapon, 9" then add 2 to the Damage)

Helbrute Plasma Cannon

36" Range, D3 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S8, AP-3 and 3 Damage each.
Blast (Add +1 Attack for every 5 models in target unit, rounding up)
Hazardous (After firing this weapon, roll a dice, on a 1, take 3 Mortal Wounds)

Twin Autocannon

48" Range, 2 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S9, AP-1 and 3 Damage each.
Twin-linked (This weapon can re-roll to Wound)

Twin Lascannon

48" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 3+, S12, AP-3 and D6+1 Damage each.
Twin-linked (This weapon can re-roll to Wound)

Twin Plague Heavy Bolter

36" Range, 3 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S5, AP-1 and 2 Damage each.
Twin-linked (This weapon can re-roll to Wound)
Sustained Hits 1 (Rolls of a 6 to Hit cause an additional hit)
Lethal Hits (Rolls of a 6 to Hit cause an automatic Wound)

Missile Launcher - Frag firing option

48" Range, D6 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S4, AP0 and 1 Damage each.
Blast (Add +1 Attack for every 5 models in target unit, rounding up)

Missile Launcher - Krak firing option

48" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 3+, S9, AP-2 and D6 Damage each.

Heavy Flamer

12" Range, D6 Shots, Hitting on Auto, S5, AP-1 and 1 Damage each.
Torrent (This weapon hits automatically. Just roll for the Qty hits)

Plague Combi-Bolter

24" Range, 2 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S4, AP0 and 1 Damage each.
Rapid Fire 2 (When firing at half ranges, gain +2 attacks)
Lethal Hits (Rolls of a 6 to Hit cause an automatic Wound)

Melee Weapons

Close Combat Weapon

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

Helbrute Fist

5 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S12, AP-2 and 3 Damage each.
(If this model has 2x Helbrute fists then it uses the above profile plus Twin-linked for re-roll to Wound)

Helbrute Hammer

5 Attacks, Hitting on 4+, S14, AP-3 and D6+1 Damage each.

Power Scourge

8 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S7, AP-1 and 2 Damage each.

Abilities

Deadly Demise 1 (When this model is destroyed, roll a dice. On a 6 it blows up! This deals 1 Mortal Wounds to every unit within 6")

Infused with the Blessings of Nurgle

Each time this model is chosen to shoot or fight, select one enemy unit that was hit by one or more of the Helbrute's attacks. That unit is now considered to be within the Army's Contagion Range.

Enraged Impact

When this model makes a Charge move, roll a dice, on a 2+ the enemy unit suffers D3 Mortal Wounds.

Thoughts

Like I said, Synergies.

Shooting at 36-48" range and putting a unit at -1T . Then you follow up with other weapons that can deal damage to one of those targets. It makes it important to have so you can kill enemy units more easily!

All in all, I feel this is great value for money,

That makes 13 Death Guard Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 40.62% Completed. The total Completed is 29.91% Complete! Can I review them all?!

Thank you for reading!

Warhammer Review Library

You can find all my previous links on this post: Warhammer 40k Links Container Post! 13/02/2025

I shall leave Army and Detachment rules here as well as World Eaters, Death Guard and Thousand Sons!

Army Rule and Detachment Rule Reviews

Faction	Detachment	Review Number
Agents of the Imperium		Army Rule #2
Aeldari		Army Rule #4
Astra Militarum		Army Rule #1
Astra Militarum	Combined Regiment	Detachment Rule #1
Astra Militarum	Bridgehead Strike	Detachment Rule #2
Death Guard		Army Rule Review #6
Space Marines		Army Rule #3
Thousand Sons		Army Rule #7
World Eaters		Army Rule #5

Datasheet Review list (Alphabetical)

Faction	Unit	Review Number
Death Guard	Biologus Putrifier	#5
Death Guard	Blightlord Terminators	#10
Death Guard	Chaos Lord	#36
Death Guard	Death Guard Chaos Lord in Terminator Armor	#256
Death Guard	Death Guard Chaos Spawn	#259
Death Guard	Death Guard Daemon Prince	#265
Death Guard	Death Guard Daemon Prince with Wings	#268
Death Guard	Death Guard Defiler	#271
Death Guard	Lord of Contagion	#52
Death Guard	Tallyman	#39
Death Guard	Malignant Plaguecaster	#71
Thousand Sons	Ahriman	#108
Thousand Sons	Ahriman on Disc of Tzeentch	#109
Thousand Sons	Exalted Sorcerer	#59
Thousand Sons	Infernal Master	#260
Thousand Sons	Magnus the Red	#49
Thousand Sons	Mutalith Vortex Beast	#263
Thousand Sons	Rubric Marines	#266
Thousand Sons	Scarab Occult Terminators	#269
Thousand Sons	Thousand Sons Chaos Spawn	#272
World Eaters	Angron	#255
World Eaters	Eightbound	#258
World Eaters	Exalted Eightbound	#261
World Eaters	Jakhals	#264
World Eaters	Kharn the Betrayer	#267
World Eaters	Khorne Berzerkers	#270
World Eaters	Khorne Lord of Skulls	#273
World Eaters	Lord Invocatus	#100
World Eaters	World Eaters Chaos Spawn	#18
World Eaters	World Eaters Daemon Prince	#85

Thank you for reading!

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