trollhammer torpedos and flame cannons?

[00yiggdrasill00]

is there a known good use of these two units? ive noticed they both do HUGE damage but the trollhammers just take an age to reload and the flame cannon is too short on range for its price in my views. i can imagine a use for the flame cannon given its high arch of fire (though its basically trading out a long range cannon) but the trollhammers have me stumped.

[OrangeGills]

The flamecannon destroys infantry that lacks huge amounts of armor. The dwarf's primary enemies - the greenskins, skaven, and vampire counts, are certainly not lacking in numerous infantry with little or only medium armor. It will wreak havok on groups of infantry, especially against blobs.

Trollhammers are great for low model count units. Trolls, vargheists, vargulfs, rat ogres, giants, hellpit abominations, cavalry, etc. They are especially good against large models, as they can sit behind the lines and fire upon the enemies who tower over your own infantry.

[00yiggdrasill00]

Originally posted by OrangeGills:

The flamecannon destroys infantry that lacks huge amounts of armor. The dwarf's primary enemies - the greenskins, skaven, and vampire counts, are certainly not lacking in numerous infantry with little or only medium armor. It will wreak havok on groups of infantry, especially against blobs.

Trollhammers are great for low model count units. Trolls, vargheists, vargulfs, rat ogres, giants, hellpit abominations, cavalry, etc. They are especially good against large models, as they can sit behind the lines and fire upon the enemies who tower over your own infantry.

got you. ive noticed the flame cannon can even ruin chosen actually because the projectile itself does high damage so it really is an all round good weapon, its just the range that throws me off. thanks for the info on trollhammers, i was trying to use them as an extra anti cav unit and it just waqsnt working but i can see some real potential against giants, shaggoths and dragons.

[Mactalon]

Originally posted by 00yiggdrasill00:

Originally posted by OrangeGills:

The flamecannon destroys infantry that lacks huge amounts of armor. The dwarf's primary enemies - the greenskins, skaven, and vampire counts, are certainly not lacking in numerous infantry with little or only medium armor. It will wreak havok on groups of infantry, especially against blobs.

Trollhammers are great for low model count units. Trolls, vargheists, vargulfs, rat ogres, giants, hellpit abominations, cavalry, etc. They are especially good against large models, as they can sit behind the lines and fire upon the enemies who tower over your own infantry.

got you. ive noticed the flame cannon can even ruin chosen actually because the projectile itself does high damage so it really is an all round good weapon, its just the range that throws me off. thanks for the info on trollhammers, i was trying to use them as an extra anti cav unit and it just waqsnt working but i can see some real potential against giants, shaggoths and dragons.

I usually only ever take 1 Fire Cannon in a Dwarf army and use the other artillery for longer range. It's worth being able to instantly dust infantry units even with the short range too. If you ever invade Ulthuan or Naggarond as the Dwarfs you'll appreciate having something that can wipe out friggen Darkshards and Archer units that they'll always have.

Taking an Engineer helps boost them too of course.

[Hand_Of_Glory]

I rarely manage to field either of those units until very late game. Its rather sad I find I couldn't honestly say from actual experience what works best with those two units.
That is with Dwarfs being my favoured faction.
I am going to make a serious effort to acquire Flame Cannons in my current campaign and Trollhammers to.