Master Toddius Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 Hi All, going through the new Dark Angel Codex and figuring out point costs. Are landraiders really now ending up at 350+ points? And if so -- they really worth taking anymore? Massive point sink, especially if you're required to take 3 heavy support choices in a battle forged army. My poor pure deathwing army... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shabbadoo Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 Vehicles are lot tougher now in 8E, so the points went up on pretty much every vehicle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaplain Lucifer Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 There's not much difference from the Index and like shabbadoo pointed out, vehicles are much tougher now. Before it was difficult to take 3 land raiders in anything less than 1850 points and now will be even more so. Big toys, big games I think... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angel of Solitude Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 Massive point sink, especially if you're required to take 3 heavy support choices in a battle forged army. My poor pure deathwing army... The only detachments that requires a minimum of 3 heavy support choices are the Brigade and Spearhead. For all other detachments, there's no minimum requirement. Regarding the LR, the thing that really adds the cost are the two twin lascannons. However, this does give you 4 S9 shots with D6 wounds, making it quite a potent anti-vehicle platform. You can also transport 5 DW termies too, but I've yet to work out the relative benefits of transport vs deepstrike, especially given the DWA stratagem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowCore67 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 The only reason I've seen to have DW in land raiders is so you can have more units on the ground for the "only half of your army can be in reserves" rule Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion El Jason Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 They are hugely overcosted. They also die like they were made of paper. Their offensive output basically doubled though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loar Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 they all need to have a ++5 invuln and the venerable rule imo (or have it as a purchasable upgrade), the Custodes variant has that and I've seen it be surprisingly more effective without being overpowered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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