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On Purifiers - you guys combat squad them and run them around in Rhinos as light tanks?

Damn, that's obnoxious. One of the guys I play takes Coteaz (that guy will flip anyone a set of keys) plus some cheap henchmen with Rhinos, then deploys two or three full squads of Purifiers in half-squads (half with their own Rhinos). Kicks two or three of the gomers out of their buggies, hops in with the Purifier half squads, instant light tank. Not even so light, actually.

Doesn't move them much. If you CC them, they just bail and keep shooting, then charge themselves if they want.

God I hate those guys.

Purifier or Purgation?

He uses Purifiers. I suppose Purgation squads would work as well for the shooty part, but he's full up in HS usually and they're actually his CC base.

Edit: looked 'em up - yeah, Purgation dudes are overkill, they can fire more Pyscannon's but there's a two-shooter limit in the Rhino anyway, and the whole theory is to protect them against CC - so it's nice if they can also counterattack in CC.

liquidjoshi wrote:Well, they can be useful, and if applied correctly can, as you said, shut down powerful CC units. But the Librarian can be used offensively, defensively, to improve movement, cover, and deny assaults. I would put him as my tp HQ of all time, out of any I've used. Alongside useless Crowe, he balances it out.

This.

To me, 40k is all just a big game of paper-rock-scissors with a few random elements. Shoot the assaulty ones, charge the shooty ones, dakka vs infantry, melta vs tanks, etc. and you're halfway there.

Everything has a strength but, more often than not, several weaknesses to balance it out.

Librarians, on the other hand, have a great deal of strengths and very few weaknesses. They are kind of like pizza; when they are good, they're great and when they're bad, they're still pretty good. Not only are they, as liquidjoshi said, the swiss army knife in your battle of paper-rock-scissors, but they also act as a force multiplier, improving the effectiveness of any friendly unit they interact with. The only real downside is that you pay a reasonable amount for the utility.

DoW