speedo wrote:Hi mercer,

While venerable dreadnoughts are tougher to bring down than regular ones, the benefits of BS5 are negligible when taking twin-linked weapons. It's a totally valid preference, but you'd have a lot of points to work with by taking regular dreadnoughts

Also, IMO you're overestimating the effectiveness of using a single 5 man interceptor squad to capture or contest objectives. I think you'll find that strategy very unforgiving when things go wrong

And, personally, I would suggest adding a little flavor to break up the monotony of your list. It kinda seems like your list built itself once you picked Crowe. I'd add one of the more unused assassins or something like that

Cheers

blackjack wrote:twin linked BS 5 = 97.4%, Twin linked BS 4 = 87.8%
Basically a 10% increase in firepower.

Increase in durability is harder to sort. Certianly much harder to wreck.destroy, certianly GK dreads are harder to meaningfully shake or stun. But weapon destroy and imobilised resluts are harder to avoid when the odds are the results will be as bad or worse if you reroll. So pure math says it is 3x as hard to wreck or explode a ven dread it is not 3x as hard to weapon destroy, imobilize and basically dismantle a ven dread. Lastly the abilty to ignore shaken/stunned assumes no enemy hood or warding stones. All this for a 44% increase in base price...

3 Ven dreads = 585
3 normals + 1 ven = 600pts

so for basically the same points you get +23% fire power vs a hard to define reduction in net durability (normals less durable than vens but you have 50% more of them).

I personally find it hard a hard swallow the pure ven build..