Forge your own heroes with the Helsmiths of Hashut’s Anvil of Apotheosis rules for Age of Sigmar!
If you’re looking to really spice up your Path to Glory army for the Helsmiths of Hashut then starting off with your own Hero is the best way to get going! The Anvil of Apotheosis isn’t a new concept for Path to Glory, but each army takes it slightly differently. Today, we’re getting a look at few examples for the Helsmiths direct from Games Workshop.
“You start by choosing whether your hero is a Warlord, Infernal Sorcerer, or Scorched Acolyte. The first two get an enhanced Hashutite Blade with Crit (Mortal) and two extra attacks, with the Sorcerer gaining Wizard (1). The Scorched Acolyte, on the other hand, gets Priest (1) and the ability to earn a ritual point while contesting a Place of Power or terrain feature with a friendly desolation. “
Note: The Anvil of Apotheosis uses DP or Destiny Points as a “point buy” system for these traits. DP could be confused as the Daemonic Power Points (DPP) used by the army.
Anvil of Apotheosis – Helsmiths of Hashut
Now, WarCom opted for creating a Wizard. So we’re going to follow along and view the options they selected. After you choose the type of character, you then need to choose the Origins and Flaws. They opted for the Power Through Dark Pacts origin:
As you can see, this one is kind of spicy. Not only does in cost 2 DP to include but you MUST use it in each of your hero phases. It’s brutal if you don’t roll that 4+. This ability one shot your character on a bad roll or just straight up slay 1 model in a friendly unit. Ouch. However, if you do manage to roll that 4+, you get one of those rather nice bonuses. Are you feeling lucky?
“There’s also Purveyor of Dark Mechanisms, which lets us heal a war machine in each of our hero phases, and Ruthless Industrialist, which helps a hero ascend their chosen path by hitting milestones of desolation tokens created across games.”
Moving on to the Flaws, WarCom opted for another one that’s also kind of brutal. Creeping Petrification seems like a notable flaw as it can (and probably will) eventually lead to you removing this character from the roster permanently.
On the plus side it’s +4 DP so you can afford more “upgrades” and you’re going to get at least 3 games in with the character!
“Another fun choice is Rigid and Unmoving, which denies your army the use of the Redeploy command while your hero is on the field – Zharrdron should only march forward!”
Yeah, I can see why they opted for Creeping Petrification. Good luck if you choose to opt out of Redeploys for the army. Another way to spend those Destiny Points is by purchasing a mount. There’s an Inferal Tarus for 14 DP or a Venerable Tarus for 18 DP.
“A choice of five different mount upgrades lets you improve upon sculpted perfection – we’re torn between giving our Taurus a gnarly Flesh-melting Aura, because of how cool it sounds, and a Body of Hardened Obsidian, which makes it even tougher by causing Daemonic Resilience to act as if it always has one more daemonic power point allocated to it than it does.”
Yeah, I can see this being a worth mount to ride around on. Now, there’s only so many points to spend and quite a few more upgrades. At this point, WarCom says they only have nine more points to use for final set of upgrades.
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“Hitting on a 3+ is fine, but we’d like to wound on a 3+ as well, so that will cost us three points for Malignant Brawn. If we weren’t building a spellcaster we could go all in with Foe-seeking Hexes and Rigorously Trained to get to 2+ hit and a fairly nasty 7 attacks for three and five destiny points respectively. Instead, we’re going to enlist an enthusiastic Hobgrot Advisor to accompany our sorcerer. “
At the end of this exercise, we’re left with the following character:
Honestly, this one seems pretty solid. If you’re into Path of Glory games. I think they are a fun way to do campaigns with dedicated players and a different way to build out an army. So have some fun with the new rules for the Helsmiths of Hashut. Their battletome officially drops for pre-order this weekend!
He’s a hairy wizard, that one!
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