I’d imagine using the sniper rule is to give an additional benefit for a high roll – it’s just the name that makes it sound daft …

Writhing worldscape is 35 pts.

Think the goodies will be in the fast attack section me thinks.

It seems like the rules are inversely proportionate to how good the model is, the more awesome it looks the more mediocre it plays, the flayed ones are fairly nasty, but the models are both horrible and over priced.

I don’t think Warscythe’s ever had a shooting attack, I think you might be thinking of the Staff of Light, which had an Assault 3 S5 AP3 12″ shooter what was also a power weapon, but that is now just the shooting weapon bit, there is no Power Weapon janx involved with the new Staff of Light. Also, Lychguard are essentially the new Pariahs. :0 Also, also, I don’t think the Triarch Stalker is suppose to be more of an infiltrator, shooter thing. I can see them being used as marching to cover, remember they have Move Through Cover, so… Read more »

Maybe its because i play guard, so im used to my walkers being shooting platforms, but the Triarch Stalker is amazing! A 2 shot multimelta is great, and then it has the option of a heavy flamer, meaning it has no weakness in shooting. It has the quantum shielding, which makes it pretty tough, and anything it hits gets markerlighted. If you want to take out a vehicle with it, multi melta will make quick work of it and if for some reason it doesnt, you can now fire your other anti tank weaponry at it twin linked. If you… Read more »

Flayed Ones are currently kinda bad while Deathmarks, Lychguard and Preatorians are rather nice. C’tan Shards are rather sick.

Can the deathmarks deep strike in their transports on the enemy turn with their special rule? Would it be more useful to do so?

also if you have flayed ones and imotehk the storm lord,
you can deep strike yopu flayed ones withen 6″ of a target enemy unit without scattering.
that makes flayed ones sooo much better not having to walk across the board.

if you run stalkers or canoptek scarabs run canoptek wraiths with whip coils with them.
in the assault phase you move the wraiths to base a dreadnaught, the dreadnaught is then innitiative 1 then your stalker or scarabs get to go first.
and the scarabs will shred a drednaught to nothing but quick.

Check out the rules for dedicated transports, because the night scythe would either have to deploy with it’s dedicated squad embarked or nothing embarked and then pick up a unit in it’s travels.

My problem with the Lychguard is that if you give them shields, in order to take advantage of the shield rule you have to drop your 3+ save to a 4+ invul. If its an AP-3 or better weapon, well, its a no brainer. But if it was bolters or pistols etc, then I don’t know about you but the special rule isn’t enough to make me want to have more guys die.

Orikan and a C’Tan shard with Writhing Worldscape… place your Doomsday Arks within range. Either they don’t move on their turn and their weapons get blasted by your Arks with automatic hits (twice if you happen to go first), or they take the dangerous terrain tests getting to your Arks and run off the board. What a lark!

Deathmarks are being undervalued here. So you can deep strike them on your enemies turn in order to get their full movement and shooting in your turn. If you don’t like that you can wait until your immediate turn after his in order to avoid having them shot at. They also wound on a 4+ against everything, and a 2+ against specific targets, so Carnifexes beware. Another thing to point out, and I’m still not sure if this is a douche move or not, but under the rules for Deep Strike they state that “In that turn’s shooting phase, these… Read more »

Deepstirkes are always risky if you have to roll 2 d6 scatter.

The only benifit the deepstriking in on your opponents movement phase with your death marks is that on your go, they can move, shoot and assault, where if they deepstriked as normal on your go, they could just shoot. You just deep strike them behind cover/out of line of site (if possible, and the dice god’s being kind on the scatter dice), then on your go, come out guns blazing.

For me, the Triarch Stalkers are the winner of the elite section. Lychguards look awesome, but in the end, what will they do with their Initiative of 2? And you have no reliable transport for them. Deathmarks are “gimmicky”. Not great, not bad. Flayed Ones… I don’t know. Maybe deep strike a big unit behind enemy lines? Or maybe put them in a Nightscythe? But then you need a Monolith in your army, because if the Nightscythe goes down you don’t want your Flayed Ones to enter the table on your side and have to march across the battlefield. Triarch… Read more »

deep strike your wraiths into difficult terrain near an enemy snipe post. seeing as to how they ignore it for movement.
then assault for the fun next turn.
i love the whip coils. but the transdimensional beamer is nice.
question.
how do you randomly select a target.
say you opponents has a mob of boyz, how do you “randomly” select the nob?

I can’t wrap my head around the Orikan the Diviner and the C’tan combo for a Dawn of War type game or any game for that matter so maybe a discussion on the topic would help. First, Orikan can only use this ability in the first game turn. C’tans, at best, have a 50% chance on the second turn to come into play. Is there a rule I am missing allowing C’tans on the table in the 1st turn in Dawn of War? Second, I have sucessfully argued at my local game store that temporal snares cannot be combined with… Read more »