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It can probably work, but I'd probably prefer to just have him on a demigryph.
No Fly and lower M, but +1 save and 3 extra S5 AP2 attacks.

Combat Detachments seem like a terrible idea, when you can achieve a lot of the same thing by other means (such as screening units to take the charge on their turn, so you can charge in your own, using greatswords with FBIGO, etc.)

The idea of combat detachments (at least in my head) is that they are deployed back from the parent unit to make them difficult to charge.   They then become a force multiplier if the parent unit is charged because they can counter charge.   It is a more defensive style.   In this maybe spearmen would be better than halberdiers for the extra attacks.

Quote from: commandant on April 17, 2024, 08:43:31 AM

I think that the state troops regiments are slightly small.   I would cut that second unit of halberdiers into two detachments of 10 each and cut out 2 of the missile detachments to add bulk to the remaining halberdiers.

If I cut the second regiment in half then I loose all four detachments of crossbows and all pretence at shooting.

Wouldn't dropping to one unit of infantry be a nonsense? At that point they're open to being overwhelmed and destroyed in short order.

Maybe but infantry in TOW is hard to destroy when it is large.   Big infantry blocks properly supported don't often run and with combat detachments can be expected to win combat reasonably often.

1 infantry block with 2 combat detachments is somewhere between 18 and 24 inches wide depending on how the are deployed.   If you deploy 24 infantry in a 7X4 (ish.  It'll be three full ranks of 7 with the extra 3 models in the fourth rank) with the combat detachments deployed 7 wide then that formation takes up 21 inches of table space in just models and a further 2-6 inches in distance between the blocks.

You have a lot of Demigriffon knights to protect their flanks as well.   I would not be that worried about being overwhelmed.   In fact I'd be more concerned that your 20 strong infantry blocks will be overwhelmed.

Plus, the demi contributes First Charge if you can pull it off, making a first turn they charge absolutely devastating!

Does half the unit not need to have first charge to get it?

Quote from: commandant on April 18, 2024, 01:15:39 PM

I am composing a post about different stats and value but I don't think the mounts have those rules. Horses do not have the rule counter charge. Riders have the rule counter charge and so on. If horses had the countercharge rule then everything on a horse would get it.

If you look at the rulebook, you will see that Barded Warhorses do indeed have the countercharge rule, see page 55.

Bretonnian warhorses also have the countercharge rule. See page 89.

This is weird.   I distinctly remember reading something which said that the countercharge rule was based on the rider and not on the horse and not all riders were skilled enough to do it. 

Its in the FAQ

Q: Some mounted models have the Counter Charge special
rule but others do not, even though they have the same type of
mount. Is this intentional?
A: Yes. Counter Charge is a rule that represents the skill and
ferocity of the rider, not their mount. In other words, not every
rider is willing or able to perform a counter charge, regardless of
their mount

Maybe all riders who are able to ride a barded warhorse or a Bretonnian warhorse also have this rule so they moved it to the horse.   I donno.

I am composing a post about different stats and value but I don't think the mounts have those rules. Horses do not have the rule counter charge. Riders have the rule counter charge and so on. If horses had the countercharge rule then everything on a horse would get it.

If you look at the rulebook, you will see that Barded Warhorses do indeed have the countercharge rule, see page 55.

Bretonnian warhorses also have the countercharge rule. See page 89.

I am composing a post about different stats and value but I don't think the mounts have those rules. Horses do not have the rule counter charge. Riders have the rule counter charge and so on. If horses had the countercharge rule then everything on a horse would get it.