Editing Vulkan He'stan (section)

== Tabletop ==

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! || Pts || M || WS || BS || S || T || W || A || Ld || Sv
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| '''Vulkan He'stan:''' || 135 || 6 || 2 || 2 || 4 || 4 || 5 || 4 || 9 || 2+/3++
|}

In addition to having the statline of a [[Brother-Captain]] (with a 2+/3++ instead of a 3+ armor save) and all his tricked-out wargear, Vulkan He'stan confers a great advantage on the army that he leads: all melta and flame weapons in a unit he focuses on that meets some criteria loosely fitting "any non-centurion infantry, any bike, or any dreadnought" re-roll to both hit ''and'' wound. For this reason (not to mention being one of the [[Salamanders]], and therefore one of the few genuinely good guys in the [[Warhammer 40,000]] universe), he is a popular choice to lead [[Space Marine]] armies.

A common strategy is to field a list full of multi-meltas and heavy flamers packed into drop pods when using him. This is because using a melta becomes a lot more reliable when using Vulkan He'Stan, meaning you can count on the meltas to at least hit (and we all know [[Rape|what happens when a meltagun hits]]). Also of note is that he makes stock Dreadnoughts incredibly efficient when used in a drop pod. If you upgrade the dreadnought to ''Venerable'', you literally have a ''2.78% chance of missing the target''. Great for when you absolutely have to kill that pesky [[Land Raider]].

Another thing of note is that despite his army-buffing prowess (the biggest reason most people take him), he's got great prowess of his own. While having "only" the stat-line of a Captain, he's actually a steal in terms of points. A Salamanders captain somehow allowed to buy all of his gear at once with costs scaled to the captain's equipment would be 85 base + about 7 for the force axe, based on his costs of 5 for a power axe, which is worse, and 10 for a relic blade, which is much better + about 10 for the flamer, since it's on par with a combiflamer + about 7 for the combat shield presumably granting him a 2+ = 109 points, and he'd still be stuck at a 4++; you'd need to upgrade him to a full-on chapter master to ''also'' include something like his buffing, which would spike you to ''149''.