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Could someone give me a good Deff Dread build. One for killing LOTS of Nids and MC. Thank You!!

Generally speaking deff dreads with the armor, riggers and two skorchas are most effective in general, but more so against nids. You shouldn't really toss your dreads against MC though since odds are you will lose it and only do a 1-2 wounds. Toss a boyz mob with a PK inside at the MC instead and tarpit it.

Yes. two skorchas are perfect for taking out little bugs, while the DCCWs take out the big bugs.

juraigamer wrote:Generally speaking deff dreads with the armor, riggers and two skorchas are most effective in general, but more so against nids. You shouldn't really toss your dreads against MC though since odds are you will lose it and only do a 1-2 wounds. Toss a boyz mob with a PK inside at the MC instead and tarpit it.

This one hits the nail on the head. As far as MC goes, I do 1 of 2 things. Ill either mass rokkit them into a pile of steaming nid goo, or assault with a big blob of boyz. Though my last game, I had success sending a mega boss/+4 mega nobz at a few MC.

Additionally, what would be the best set up for a Deff Dread in a Killa Kanz wall?

Run them either with scorcha + dccw or 2x scorcha.

What do you guys think of running a Big Mek and then 4 Deff Deads in a sort of Kan Wall?

tko75 wrote:What do you guys think of running a Big Mek and then 4 Deff Deads in a sort of Kan Wall?

Seems to be impossible, as Kanz and Deff Dreads count as HS.
Dreads can be taken only as single models not in a squadron and one per Big Mek can be taken as troop choice.

wuestenfux wrote:

tko75 wrote:What do you guys think of running a Big Mek and then 4 Deff Deads in a sort of Kan Wall?

Seems to be impossible, as Kanz and Deff Dreads count as HS.
Dreads can be taken only as single models not in a squadron and one per Big Mek can be taken as troop choice.

He means 1 as troops and 3x as heavy with no kans.

to the OP.

It would be a pretty bad idea. The appeal of Kans is that they are cheap, AND you can grab 9 of them. 4 dreads is just not as survivable even with KFFs and +1 armor.

tko75 wrote:What do you guys think of running a Big Mek and then 4 Deff Deads in a sort of Kan Wall?

Uhm, it could work, I mean the av is actually decent on dreds. If you were going that route, Id say get 2 BigMeks and 5 dreds. I mean if things went well for you, youd have 5 dreds (dred bash) Ive seen a few people go 9 kans +2 dreds (troops) and seen that done well enough. Its a bit costly, which means your going to be a bit low on boyz, and thats not normally how you want to do things

Killa kans work well with grotzookas and, well anything else but big shootas really. It just depends what you want them to do. I use three squads of three with rokkits, grootzookas and skorchas.