Immolators

[Mosk]

Immolators, they sorta have three basic builds, TL flamers, TL Heavy Bolters, and TL Multi Meltas.

How would you match up the following armies (I am really generalizing here) with the following immolators, (you can use multiple types of immolators builds for each army)

 

 

Immolator builds:

a.) flamers

b.) heavy bolters

c.) Multi Meltas

 

Armies:

1.) Chaos Daemons

2.) Chaos Space Marines

3.) Daemon Hunters w/ not just Grey Knights (like ISTs as main troop choice)

4.) Grey Knight only force

5.) Dark Eldar

6.) Eldar w/ harloquins

7.) Eldar Saim Hann style (jet bikes, lots of jet bikes)

8.) Standard Eldar type of army

9.) Imperial Gaurd infantry heavy

10.) Imperial Gaurd Tank Heavy

11.) Necron Monolith Spam army

12.) Not so cheezy Necron army

13.) Ork foot slogging army

14.) Ork army where almost every boy is in a trukk

15.) Double ork boss on warbike army

16.) Space Marine Army

17.) Tau Empire

18.) Kroot Merc army (no tau)

19.) Nidzilla armies

20.) Gaunt Heavy Tyranid

21.) Somewhat ballanced Tyranid

22.) Witch Hunters

23.) Sisters of Battle Foot sloggers

24.) Sisters of Battle Mechanized

[Cath]

TL heavy flamers for 1-24.

[ObsidianIchor]

Speaking as a Marine player who regularly plays against Witch Hunters, I agree with Cath.

[Melissia]

It really is the best one. The heavy bolter and multimelta upgrades are ovepriced for the job. A heavy bolter immolator with blessed ammo can be nice though.

[Kettu]

My tank hunting Dominions have twin-linked multi-meltas with tank or MC heavy armies and my Retubution squad often uses holy ammo heavy bolters but otherwise, always the flamers.

[Adoremus]

Flamers! I have used the TL multimeltas occasionally but with the Immolator being so weakly armored, I rarely get into 12" of any heavy tank I want to attack and you can't go 12" and fire as with the flamers.

[jeffersonian000]

I agree that the TL Heavy Flamer is the best choice, due the ability the move 12" and still shoot. I also like the TL Heavy Bolter with Blessed ammo, as it gives you a 36" range that ignores cover. I haven't found a build I like for the TL Multi-Melta; it costs the same as the HB+BA, yet has a shorter range and the same move 12" or shoot problem the non-flamer versions have.

 

In a City game, I'd take the HB+BA version as a HB Celestian transport for a fire support base, or I'd drop the BA and use it with a HB Retributer squad to add a 5th HB the group.

 

I can see the MM version as a light/fast tank destroyer, but its only really good for a single ambush, and really only useful against the ignorant.

 

Personally, I think the short range of the flamer template is a handicap, yet I will still spam the hell out of it if I’m going to field it at all.

 

SJ

[General_Drazz]

I have found one really good use for an Immolator with TL MM.....Space Marines. Every SM player I have played has used a Dread deployed in a drop pod (Sometimes 2) to get at my Exorcists. By keeping an Immolator back there positioned properly, it makes the player have to choose how he wishes to sacrifice his Dread (and even more so, 2 KP in an Annihalation mission).

[Marvin D Martian]

Mosk, I kinda like your standard setup by unit type questions. Thanks