Units for the Battle Priest

They are only usable with Precursor Knights for some reasons;

*Trooper without damage box but requires to be B2B with his peer - but in Precursors he can also benefit from Shield Wall, provides survivability and also helps to maintain Shield Wall while B2B with them.
*Lacks a ranged weapon, and two attacks actually do less for the second attack is never be a charge attack - but Precursor Knight Officer gives him Morrow's Name, and models with multiple attacks are able to exploit raw damage buff.


Well, Rise is very useful on Trenchers, so if you go vanilla take one Priest and keep him far behind of the line seems handy(you know, Gravedigger already gives it to Trenchers). Other than that, Precursor Knights is our only eligible unit that work with them.

And, Warcaster units are not able to attach Command Attachment and Weapon Attachment.

The latest version in the cards documents show that they have shield guard, which is amazing for 2 points. It doesn't really matter who you attach them too.

Precursors like them as droopz has indicated due to morrow's name, but I can see adding one of these guys to most lists just for the shield guard. The dispel isn't likely to dispel anything, but since they swing twice it is likely to deal damage to the caster. Rise is a nice bonus too. Overall a STEAL for Cygnar at 2 points.

They don't have to Dispel, they have Spell Breaker. So unless the enemy caster is very hurt or they can get a large volume of attacks in, it going to be a minor inconvenience.

Honestly PRecursos are still the best imo. The Battle Priests gain minifeat, shieldwall and practices maneuvers and are able to contribute to the delivery of the knights.

Other than that, any unit that relies on models in it being BtB. In terms of units that hang back... Longgunners? Heck, you can even add them to Field Mechaniks, which is hilarious.

I know, sorry if I implied they have Dispel, it's just that it overlaps in function.


If you're charging something with Precursors, then the opponent probably has no reason not to just let the defensive upkeep drop (depends on the spell obviously) and so their SpellBreaker is completely useless. Charge a bunch of Sword Knights at a jack with Arcane Shield from Junior and he either lets the spell drop (allowing you to do far more damage to the warjack) or you almost certainly kill the Junior (at which point the spells drops anyway), so at that point it's very useful. Charge something with a defensive upkeep from your opponent's caster and the priests can potentially do 6D3 damage - that's 12 damage on average and up to 18 at worst. Yes, that's probably not going to kill a warcaster in one round, especially if they are camping focus, but it's not nothing. Especially if you other ways of putting damage into the caster (such as boostable guns). If you have any way of pressuring the caster, or enough Priests to put in two or three rounds of Spell Breaker damage, then the opponent will probably just allow the spell to drop rather than take damage.


How do they contribute to the delivery of the knights? By dying instead of the knights? Isn't that just less cost effective: losing a 2 point model with two P+S 11 Weapon Master Blessed Magical Spell Breaker attacks seems worse than losing a 1.4 point model with only one P+S 12 Weapon Master Blessed Magical attack.


Could you explain this?


I'm thinking an advantage of adding them to Longgunners or ATGM could be that with two attacks each they can help unjam the unit if they get engaged.

Although there is no official ruling, but my argument for this is you can't use the special action that is not on your card unless you are granted the ability by the other source.

You can check it on Card Database of PP website.