Continuing on with the Firefight army painting I've finally received and painted up the long awaited Jotunn Weapons Platforms. In the box you get three models with two being the quad hailstorm cannon versions and one being the plasma cannon. The plasma cannon is a resin upgrade to the basic hailstorm cannon variant.
These are directly comparable to the Veer-myn Rumbler's I painted up a while back in both points cost and size, both being around 80-100 points and both being on 60mm bases. Unlike the Rumbler the Forge Father version does not have a Deadzone profile so cannot be used in that game as well. As you may expect the quad hailstorm version is good against infantry units with it's 6 attack dice and the ability to Pin a unit, it's also another AA option for the Forge Fathers. The Magma cannon version mounts the same gun as the Sturmhammer MBT but at 50 points less, of course you lose the heavy armour of the tank with the points saving.
For the same cost the Veer-myn Rumbler has a shorter range and lower shoot stat but it is dual purpose so can be used effectively against both air and ground targets.
I'm not sure you'd ever want to use three of these platforms unless you are playing a large points game, but they are pretty cheap (for Forge Father units) so you could probably build them into an army if you wanted to go that route.
Looking from the front shows how good a view the gunner gets, I imagine they just pull the trigger and hope for the best!
I've currently got one more unit type of Forge Fathers on the painting table and then it will be on to something slightly different.
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