Barnie25 Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 I was looking through the Forgeworld units and came a cross a flyer that we had access to, the Fire Raptor Gunship. Seems quite decent and is with 220 points around the same as the Storm Raven but has some nasty guns on it: - Avenger Bolt Cannon '36 S6 AP3 Heavy 7 - 2 Quad Heavy Bolters '36 S5 AP4 Heavy 6 Twin-Linked - 4 Hellstrike Missles The bolters can be upgraded to a Reaper Battery which is '36 S7 AP4 Heavy 4 Twin-Linked This might be what we were looking for as far as a the need for flyers goes. Does anyone have experience with this model as it is rather new or thoughts on the playability of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L30n1d4s Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 As you point out, this might fill the DA niches pretty well: 1 - Anti-flyer -- With Reaper Battery, that is a lot of highly accurate S6/7/8 shots that can attacks enemy flyers with no penalites... might even bring down a Heldrake or enemy Stormraven if your are lucky. 2 - Close Air Support -- Lots of Dakka against ground targets, either infantry or medium-light vehicles. I think it might be an especially good supplement to either pure DW or pure RW armies, who could really benefit from this kind of firepower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother_Angelus Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Experimental rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interrogator Stobz Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 But as the guns are sculpted and produced they won't change those, maybe a points adjust or a tweak on the other rules (availability etc) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CovertToaster Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 It needs better guns. The reaper battery is only for 30K legion armies or CSM. The DA option is for twin-linked autocannons which is 48" S7 Heavy 2 I think. The bolt cannon is nice at Heavy 7 but you still need to roll 6's to glance AV 12 and it competes for close air support duties with the heavy bolters. The hellstrike missles are the best weapon it has but they are one use only, S8, there are 4, and you will probably fire the maximum of two per turn to try to kill something fast. It does have four hull points though but I think that a storm raven being able to take multi-meltas and lascannons will wipe you out reasonably easily which is a pity because I like the model, it just needs something more to push it over the edge into OP territory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interrogator Stobz Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Exactly...not OP, just quite a cool option if you are into using different things for fun :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
march10k Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 I'll just take the steagle with two godhammers and a TLMM, thanks! Sure, it's 300 points, but it doubles as a flying land raider (i.e. an assault ramp and it can take ten termies) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interrogator Stobz Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Yup, there are better options than this plane, that one is deffo betterer. It is still a cool option though for less than must win games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaplain Lucifer Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 There's already a thread going about the fire raptor: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/281964-adopting-the-fire-raptor/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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