Shield Drones possible use

[Brother Captain Sirus]

As we know shield drones dont have much ability with saviour protocols since the faq, however i have been thinking of trying them as a counter charge unit, they have a decent toughness stat and with a 4+ inv tney may be able to tie up a unit for a round or two as they wont suffer from the AP of enemy melee weapons.

[Kilofix]

I do use them as a counter charge unit.

 

Charge the enemy, have enough drone invulnerables to weather 1 round of cc. Next round fall back, shoot with rest of Tau.

 

Or alternatively, screen your gun line, take the opposing charge, over watch, then weather 1 round of cc. Next round fall back, shoot with rest of Tau.

 

I find just 4 drones usually ok to take a charge from a 10 man.

[Panzer]

It's still only a unit with T4 and a 4+ save. Gun Drones wouldn't do the job much worse while having a sick amount of S5 shots on top of that for the same amount of points. Just forget about Shield Drones with the current rules and point costs. ^^

[Panzer]

Shield Drones just got a 5+ FnP with the updated FAQ. We're back, baby!

[Brother Captain Sirus]

Yeah just saw that and was about to post it, but you've already done it here and in a new thread, good job on spreading the greater good quickly.

 

So as a road block unit shield drones are good now.

[Panzer]

They are good as bodyguard unit again as well. A Lascannon shot getting turned into a single wound that gets saved on a 5+? Sign me in!

[The Yncarne]

But savior protocols hasn't changed, right? 

 

One step forward I guess.

[Remus Ventanus.]

So basically the invulnerable save is 5+ now?

[Panzer]

So basically the invulnerable save is 5+ now?

No, they get it on top of their 4++. ;)

Tho one could argue that for the sake of Saviour Protocols the actual save became a 5+ from the original 4+.