Hellios Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Hate to break it to you, but we don't have machine spirit in our land raiders... ;) Not in the 4th edition dex... cough cough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellios Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Hate to break it to you, but we don't have machine spirit in our land raiders... ;) Not in the 4th edition dex... cough cough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Furyou Miko Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Wound allocation is a killer. Played my DG against footdar. Fortuned Eldrad sitting at the front of a Shrouded + Stealth unit of Harlequins was unkillable. Re-rollable invuls on everyone (3+ or 5+) and +3 to cover saves (so 2+ rerollable when standing in ANY cover). When I hit them with a heavy flamer, if Eldrad is at the front, he absorbs all the wounds and no harleuins die. When I managed to get a HF around the back, 5++ rereollable meant I only killed 1 from 9 hits anyway. Again, 10 hits on the unit from Sunburst (Pyro Psychic power) and no casualties because of 2+ rerollable cover save. I took Typhus and 7 Nurgle marked terminators. My 'rock' unit disappeared to a round of fire from a couple of pathfinder units (T5 means nothing, 5+ to hit ignores armour, 6 to wound also ignores armour), whereas harlequins who are supposed to be like paper can endure an insane amount of firepower. I can't blame my opponent. If I had an uber hard to kill character I could put at the front of a unit to absorb 95% of the firepower aimed at them I would too. The thing is, currently, not all armies can do it. And even if they could, I'm not sure I want to play 4 years of abusing and being abused by that rule loophole. My first impressions are really quite negative. >> Yeah, if you're up against Eldrad, use force weapons and combi-meltas. He is still the most broken character in the game (even over the GKs, for all the fuss people make), albeit for different reasons. You might want to play a bit Tzeentchian and convince his player that "surely he wants to try out the new powers he can take this time?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlando_Furioso Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Had a quick 500pt Astartes vs Astartes against my good lady, which she narrowly won (killed my rampaging dreadnought with 2 hits in the back from a hurricane bolter) the system feels intuitive, fun and easy to play, the only bugbear was not remembering i can throw grenades now :)) great moment when my captain bulls-eyed her unhelmeted tactical sergeant with a precision shot in turn 3... onwards and upwards!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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