Iron Demons - What are these good for?

[Hexagoros]

Maybe I'm just dumb - or maybe the Chaos Dwarfs just aren't my playstyle - but what on earth are these Iron Demons good for?

They kind of suck at melee, they get SHREDDED by archers, and their ranged attack is just "OKAY" at best.

Why would I ever take one of these over a Magma Cannon or Rocket Launcher? What are these things supposed to be good for?

[matlajs]

Originally posted by Hexagoros:

Maybe I'm just dumb - or maybe the Chaos Dwarfs just aren't my playstyle - but what on earth are these Iron Demons good for?

They kind of suck at melee, they get SHREDDED by archers, and their ranged attack is just "OKAY" at best.

Why would I ever take one of these over a Magma Cannon or Rocket Launcher? What are these things supposed to be good for?

Talking about basic iron demon

they are questionably bugged. they should be firring on move which they currently don't, or very rarely on unspeciific situation. I also really tried to like them, but micromanagim them takes more efort without proper reward. They can hit very well from a flank into blob or charge into normal size infantry with reasonable damage( they certainly did some job to improving chariot unit), but they seems to be not worth of an army slot given you can have some other, better damage dealer/ defender.

Also for a basic 60 speed, without their active ability on, i think they are just too clumsy, easily destroyed by much cheaper units.

[killtastic201]

they're pretty good, but it's a bit complicated. they can shoot *through* infantry blobs, and their full steam ahead ability gives them some genuine speed, and a decent charge. Generally they aren't terrible in melee, so unlike magma that basically do nothing once out of ammo, you can still use iron demons to charge into things an rack up kills. the truth is though that magma's are probably a little bit over tuned atm and will probably catch a nerf in 2 or so months once CA is happy with the DLC sales. The ability to utterly trash any infantry unit in the game in literally just 1 or 2 super accurate shots with a SEM model is just totally unhinged. Dwarf flame cannons can't even do that and their a crewed artillery piece with tons more weaknesses to spells, SEMS, other artillery, and more.

[Hexagoros]

Originally posted by matlajs:

Originally posted by Hexagoros:

Maybe I'm just dumb - or maybe the Chaos Dwarfs just aren't my playstyle - but what on earth are these Iron Demons good for?

They kind of suck at melee, they get SHREDDED by archers, and their ranged attack is just "OKAY" at best.

Why would I ever take one of these over a Magma Cannon or Rocket Launcher? What are these things supposed to be good for?

Talking about basic iron demon

they are questionably bugged. they should be firring on move which they currently don't, or very rarely on unspeciific situation. I also really tried to like them, but micromanagim them takes more efort without proper reward. They can hit very well from a flank into blob or charge into normal size infantry with reasonable damage( they certainly did some job to improving chariot unit), but they seems to be not worth of an army slot given you can have some other, better damage dealer/ defender.

Also for a basic 60 speed, without their active ability on, i think they are just too clumsy, easily destroyed by much cheaper units.

Hmm, all right, so it's not just me then.

This really sums up how I feel about them.