Should Flying Monstrous Creatures Have their Armor Capped At 4+?

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**Lance845**

Backspacehacker wrote:
Well ok ok hold on let's entertain OPs idea just for a moment and see where he is coming from.

Now hear me out hold on.

What about this, I agree that a single flak Amal should not be able to blast a flyer clean outta the sky, that's just silly, but what about a dev squad full of them?

How about this, if you take a dev squad full of flakk ML, meaning 4, and they all target the same flying creature, MC or vehicle, they get some sort of bonus? Maybe like something like "Flakk barrage" where the target of they jink need to reroll successful jinks, the idea being that they are littering the sky with shrapnel. That or change it so, the flakk is stronger then it currently is, AP stays the same, but, you can ONLY, get glancing hit, even if we made it str 6 and you roll a 6 for wound and the armor is only 10, it's always going to be a glance to represent the fact it's not a warhead with a payload but an air burst missile.

Huh huh? Yay nay? Build on the idea?

Well... the general idea of rolling more dice is that you have more chances for favorable results. So, by shooting 4 you already gain that bonus inherently.

1 shot on 1 die hitting on a 4+ is a 50% chance of success.

The likely hood that 1 die in 4 would be able to hit at that chance is a near guarantee (always a chance they all miss but the probability is SIGNIFICANTLY lower)

So why give an additional bonus to represent the thing that firing multiple shots already does?

**Backspacehacker**

pumaman1 wrote:
Or SM can just do what most other factions have to do, bring a dedicated AA weapon if you are that worried about it. Hunter's are pretty solid weapon platforms with reasonable range. Heck, their misses might even hit still. Who else can take AA on the troop choice as a standard upgrade?

Oh I agree that's the best way to deal with it.

**Amishprn86**

pumaman1 wrote:
Or SM can just do what most other factions have to do, bring a dedicated AA weapon if you are that worried about it. Hunter's are pretty solid weapon platforms with reasonable range. Heck, their misses might even hit still. Who else can take AA on the troop choice as a standard upgrade?

Right there isnt anything wrong, he just wants a light vehicle killer to hit really hard. There are many options to pick from in the SM, more so than most armies.

**Wolfblade**

But that would involve him changing his army, forcing him to buy NEW models to update his 5th edition rhino rush style.

**JohnHwangDD**

Rhino Rush evolved into Gladius. You just need to play it for ObSec, rather than rush...