Boom, boom, boom!

So I'm ready to expand my army with my first mercenary unit - The Boomhowlers & Co

It's a pretty basic unit stat wise, but enough STR, MAT and ARM to get around. They have pretty low RAT with their POW 12 Blundebusses, but it'll be enough for shooting at heavys. Their axes also have nice POW but without reach I won't be using that many CRM attacks with them. And as always the trolls have tough.

But what makes this unit really shine is their leader, Greygore Boomhowler himself. During his activation, and this is possible to do even if they're running, he can make a "Fell Howl" with one of these effects;

Rage Howler - They force a command check on a enemy unit, or give a Warbeast/Warjack -2 to melee attack rolls. This also effects friendly Warjacks.
Call to Action - The entire unit gets to stand up. Perfect if you made a lot of tough checks.
Call of Defiamce - The bread and butter of this unit. Grant the unit to tough check on 4-5-6. 50% of the time this unit will survive just about anything the enemy throws at them.

This will be the perfect tar-pit unit for me as I only have Stormblades and ATGM at the moment and no way to really tie up units in melee. Another thing that I love about this unit is the synergy they get with my ranking officer - Jonas Murdoch. Not only is he tough and can give cover to the whole unit, he also brings the Assult Order.