River Black Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 In the last few months the number of Blood Angels players at my local club has exploded. At any given tournament I can expect see at least three to four BA players often playing Mephiston. In addition to I also normally see Chaos, Nids and Eldar. With all of these armies having a strong psychic presence I am now considering taking the often over looked bolter stake crossbow in place of my typical combi flamers. Has anyone else felt the need to change over to this piece of wargear? Am I just wasting my points? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/222397-bolter-stake-crossbow-and-other-gear/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 As with any specialist weapon it depends on how often you need it's special talents. So basically their usefulness comes down to how many psykers you must fight and from the looks of it you will benefit from using some. If nothing else once you spring them on your opponents they might think twice about their psykers! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/222397-bolter-stake-crossbow-and-other-gear/#findComment-2658327 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azezel Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 You'll be well set if you get a sudden crop of flavour-of-the-month GK armies too. Also, if you play apoc, I'm reliably informed that it's hilarious to gib a tyranid biotitan on a 2+... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/222397-bolter-stake-crossbow-and-other-gear/#findComment-2658419 Share on other sites More sharing options...
River Black Posted March 22, 2011 Author Share Posted March 22, 2011 Well its been over a month now and I have used the Bolter Stake Cross bows in numerous games with surprising success. Just the other day I punked Mephiston for his last two wounds with it and now that there are at least three new GK armies in my club the Crossbow is causing havoc there as well. What I am wondering now is if I should up the anti psychic defense even more. I have considered taking a regular Inquisitor with a hood and attaching him to my retributors but im not sure about the LD 8. Would it be worth it to take Hammer the Witches? Also now that the GK have psychic vehicles I was also considering taking a Psy Tracker on him to get an extra reroll with the exorcist. However this does seem expensive considering its only one shot per turn that’s rerolled.. Anyway lets expand this discussing past the Bolter Stake and see what other toys in our army just got revitalized with the new GK book. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/222397-bolter-stake-crossbow-and-other-gear/#findComment-2697930 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredegar Kadere Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 An 8 LD Psychic Hood will not be effective enough to rely upon. Most units that can use psychic abilities are 9 LD or 10 LD and the Hood will nullify if the Inquisitor scores better. You would be better off taking the Inquisitor Lord if you wanted to field a Hood. Purgatus or a Culexus Assassin combined with Hammer of the Witches could prove devastating. Purgatus for Pysker IC's or the Culexus for general anti-psykerness. Leadership 6 or 7 is significantly harder to pass when hit by the Hammer of the Witches. As to an Inquisitor Lord, the Bolter-Stake or Power Stake, are both worthwhile investments. If the Lord is geared as a backfield fire base then the Bolter-Stake. If the Lord is geared as an assault/counter-assault unit then the Power Stake. Wounding on 2+ and ignoring armor saves is pretty nice against models that rely on an armor save to survive. If a Lord is geared more in the assault role then consider Hexagrammic Wards to force a -1 LD to opposing psykers. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/222397-bolter-stake-crossbow-and-other-gear/#findComment-2697975 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 I agree that an Inquisitor Lord with a Hood is extremely useful for stopping psykers running circles around you, but a Culexus is a bit OTT. The Hood and Adepta Sororitas rule is more than enough to ruin a psyker's day - the Bolter-Stake is the icing on the cake. A Callidus would be the more useful assassin as the Culexus is best for hunting psykers which you'd have enough to combat. That said, if you're really worried about psykers (or just hate them that much!) Fredegar's ideas are pretty good. A Hood is enough for me as I don't think pyskers can change the game that much - certainly not enough that the Hood's attempt to stop every power isn't enough but I've yet to face the new GK so that may well change in time :P Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/222397-bolter-stake-crossbow-and-other-gear/#findComment-2698577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Captain Ed Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 I'm guessing that with the GKs hitting the tables, the anti-psyker gear will go up in value. The bolter-stake crossbow seems really good and, honestly, I'm a little disappointed that it's a combi-weapon (I want moar stakes!). GKs spring to mind, but they're good for Mephiston and for several varities of Tyranid MC as well. Also, the owner of my local store told me yesterday that several items from the Eldar and Chaos lines were moved to direct this week. This is not a 100% accurate barometer, but most of the time that means new models and new models mean new codices. Assuming we will see a resurgence of these armies (big assumption, but still), I'd say that it's reasonable to assume anti-psyker gear will get lots of mileage against the game's super-psykers and the traitors who live in the warp. Just saying... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/222397-bolter-stake-crossbow-and-other-gear/#findComment-2698995 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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