Herne & Jonne

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Herne & Jonne Mercenary Rhulic Character Unit

This unique pair of Dwarf and Ogrun bring massive firepower to your army. Hire Herne Stoneground, the dwarven weapon inventor and his companion, Arquebus Jonne with his triple barrelled barrage arquebus and watch them lay waste to the enemy - at a very safe distance.

Basic Info

Herne & Jonne
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Mercenary - This unit will work for Crucible Guard, Cygnar, Khador, or Protectorate.

Abilities

• Herne
  • Officer
  • Artillerist (★ Action) - RNG CMD. Target friendly Faction model gains +2 RAT when making its next AOE ranged attack this turn. If the attack does not directly hit, you can reroll the direction and/or distance of its deviation. Each roll can be rerolled only once as a reasult of Artillerist.

• Jonne
  • Tough

Weapons

• Herne
  • Pistol - 8" range, POW 10 ranged attack.
  • Axe - 0.5" reach, P+S 9 melee attack.

• Jonne
  • Barage Arquebus - 12" range, 3" AOE, POW 14 ranged attack.
    • Scattershot (★ Attack) - To make a Scattershot special attack, this model must be B2B with Herne. Make a basic attack with this weapon. After determining the point of impact for that attack, roll deviation for two additional 3" AOEs centered on that point. Models in the AOE are hit and suffer a POW 7 blast damage roll.
  • Great Axe - 1" reach, P+S 13 melee attack.

Theme Forces

• Mercenaries
  • Hammer Strike. Herne gains Tough in this theme.
  • Operating Theater (Only if a Cephalyx Dominator is attached)
  • Soldiers of Fortune
  • The Irregulars

• Other Factions
  • Infernal players can use this model in the Hearts of Darkness theme, but only if Crosse2 is leading the army.
  • Furthermore, Mercenary models can be hired by other Factions. Normally those Factions' themes will have a limit on how many models they can hire. Refer to #Other Theme Forces, below.

Thoughts on Herne & Jonne

Herne & Jonne in a Nutshell

Herne and Jonne are an anti-infantry unit with a bit of suppport tossed in in the form of Artillerist. In the right matchups, they are great, though such matchups are not common.

Combos & Synergies

• Durgen Madhammer for lots of blast fun
• Remember that Herne's Artillerist ability doesn't have to be used on Jonne - Herne works well with other sources of AoEs.
• Before the Siege Crawler and Horgenhold Artillery became prominent, General Ossrum often cast Fire For Effect on them.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• Blasts don't kill much other than light infantry
• Because light infantry are so vulnerable to blasts, most people build lists with ways to allow their infantry to shrug them off either through Dig In, Iron Flesh, Recursion or Unhallowed.

Tricks & Tips

• Herne doesn't have to use Artillerist on Jonne.
• Firing at very short ranges can sometimes pay off. A POW 7 blast is unlikely to hurt either of them, but often will softer targets like Satyxis, Eyriss, or other stealthy models that might be lurking.
• Speculative shots can be well worth it as long as you have no light infantry likely to be hit; with the initial scatter and the extra blasts you have a good chance of something interesting happening.
• If there's a big target in the centre of the enemy lines you can aim for it and hope for useful scatters.
• The extra AOEs are part of the original attack (not additional attacks) therefore Jonne is a great target for something that buffs your "first" or "next" attack. ie Fire for Effect from Ossrum.

Other

Trivia

Released way back in Warmachine: Prime (2003)

Other Theme Forces

{Protectorate of Menoth (Edit)

• Exemplar Interdiction
• Guardians of the Temple
• The Creator's Might
• The Faithful Masses

Cygnar (Edit)

• Gravediggers
• Heavy Metal
• Sons of the Tempest
• Storm Division

Khador (Edit)

• Armored Korps
• Jaws of the Wolf
• Legion of Steel
• Winter Guard Kommand

| Crucible Guard (Edit)

• Magnum Opus

Rules Clarifications

Rules Clarification : Officer      (Edit) Even if they're not on the Officer's card, an Officer can give (and benefit from) any non-standard orders that are on the unit's card (such as Shield Wall). Refer main rulebook. A Ranking Officer can't do this, though. When the Officer dies, the Leader model becomes the new Unit Commander (you don't get to choose). But if your unit doesn't include a Leader model, then you do get to choose any of the remaining models to be the new Unit Commander. You don't swap the model, but it may be worth putting a token down so you can tell that grunt apart.

Rules Clarification : Tough - None yet. (Edit)

Rules Clarification : Artillerist and/or Lucky Shot and/or Spotter     (Edit) This ability doesn't work on weapons with AOE (★) weapons (such as Old Witch2). (Infernal Ruling) Roll both direction and distance before choosing which you want to reroll (if any), then reroll those. This means that if you choose to re-roll only one die, and after re-rolling that one die you now want to re-roll the other die ... too bad. (Mk2 2010 Infernal Ruling) which Dark Legacy confirmed in 2021 via Facebook (which I won't link to) If you have two rerolls, you repeat the above process twice. Roll, choose which to re-roll (if any). If you still don't like the result, choose which ones to re-roll a second time. You can even change which one you re-roll. Again, confirmed via Facebook (which I won't link to)

Rules Clarification : Scattershot      (Edit) Additional AOE (Edit) The special rule states what the blast damage POW is - you don't need to halve it a second time. If the deviation distance is short and the AOEs end up overlapping a model, that model will take a damage roll for each AOE it's in. The distance of the second deviation is a d6 roll, unless the rule on the card specifies otherwise (Infernal Ruling). If you have an ability to reroll deviation (such as Artillerist) then you can reroll each additional AOE independent of the others. If the deviation direction of the additional AOEs is limited (such as Bounce) then the direction of the reroll is limited too. (Infernal Ruling) The additional AOEs are treated as if they "came from the weapon" exactly the same as the first AOE. If the weapon has Damage Type: Magical, then the additional AOEs will do magical damage too. (Infernal Ruling) If the weapon has a bonus to damage rolls (such as Bring It Down or Fire for Effect) then the additional AOEs will too. (Infernal Ruling) If the weapon has something which modifies its blast damage (such as Full Force or High-Explosive), then that modifier will apply to the additional AOE blast damage too. (Infernal Ruling)