Unit profiles: Widowmakers

Widowmakers are a unit that many players dread seeing upon the field. A four man (well 3 men and a woman leading them) unit with the potential to wreak havoc upon most units and solos and one of the first things I'd advise any new Khador player to buy straight away.

Widowmakers are the best shots in the Khadoran army (Baring one model who is an improved Widowmaker) they have a high RAT for a unit and they use it incredibly well, often standing still to make their RAT equal to Butcher's MAT, they have several abilities to make them more deadly and more irriatating to fact. The first ability that we come to is Sniper, roll to hit a model and if you choose to don't roll for damage, just deal one point of damage. This is a brilliant ability against single wound shield walling models such as Iron Fangs or Assault Kommandos as whilst they may have the ARM of an average Heavy Warjack, they are a single wound model meaning 1 point of damage and you've killed the model. Add to this that this also applies to Warjacks and Warbeasts, except in the case of you hitting (which given their RAT almost always happens) you can choose a column or branch and apply the point of damage to that branch or column. This is an excellent way of just finishing off those near crippled systems or aspects, although they are better suited to taking out infantry.


To aid their shooting abilities Widowmakers have Advance Deployment meaning they get an extra few inches forward in front of your army and in conjuction with Pathfinder, aren't going to be slowed down, though you'll want to be standing still where possible to get the very best shots off. Then comes the thing that makes Widowmakers so great, when in cover or concealment they gain an extra defence bonus meaning that you opponent will be forced to use AoEs or send in melee troops just to deal with them, it is worth noting anything that ignores cover and concealment bonuses will also ignore camouflage (such as spray templates).

Beyond that there really isn't much to say about Widowmakers, other than if you find yourself using their swords, then something has gone terribly, terribly wrong. Also this wont come up often but if you play eSeverious, keep them out of his control area, this action will take control of them and the last thing you want is the best snipers in the game turning and shooting your own army to pieces.