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 Scipio Africanus wrote:
can anyone imagine how horrible a time it would be if orks had access to tau Pathfinders?

Laser Pointer: Allows the Flashgit to take a single markerlight attached to his Snazzgun. Markerlights from different Flash Gitz may be used to up the BS of the entire unit.

Sounds horrifying. Truly.

Yeah, because BS2 marker lights are totally awesome

 Dakkamite wrote:
The thing is, certain units offer things that boys do not. Lootas have long range and can hurt tanks. Bikers are fast. Nobs can take 2+ power klaws.

What do Flash Gits give us? Some very unreliable anti Terminator shooting. Shooting that arguably, even when you roll AP 2, is less powerful than the same points of boys

I did the math a couple of times (search my posts if you are interested in that), and both shoota boyz and lootaz are better at killing terminators (per points spent) than flash gits. Flash gits are about 20% better than slugga boyz when it comes to killing terminators with shooting. Even if you ignore "Get's hot!", buying the additional -1 to AP actually makes them less efficient at killing terminators, as you pay 5 points on top of a 35 point model (15% price increase) for a 7% increase in killing power.