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 Reecius wrote:
Love the math! Nice one.

Problem with the analysis on the Crimson Hunter though, is that it gets smoked the turn it comes in by pretty much any interceptor fire.

Thankfully there are a few possible solutions, not the least of which being the serpent shield provided you have holo fields and won't be expecting too many pens but if you can, then whoever is manning the gun will possibly need a replacement provided you get good enough shots, use a scatter laser to twin-link it for good measure. Or Warp Spiders, if your list has them, they can root out a unit on the quad gun, they're versatile enough, hell, they could just shoot the weapon itself/the source of the interceptor fire lol

I question weather an exarch can use fast shot with an aegis gun. If you read the wording for fast shot it says it applies to one of HIS weapons and then go into examples of weapons that an exarch is allowed to take. Now look at the rules for the aegis guns and it says a model may fire the quad gun/iccarus instead of their own weapon suggesting that it is not HIS gun.

 Reecius wrote:
Love the math! Nice one.

Problem with the analysis on the Crimson Hunter though, is that it gets smoked the turn it comes in by pretty much any interceptor fire.

Except for the fact that the small flier can hide behind buildings either out of LoS or with a decent cover save.

I just ran 2 against 2 EWO Riptides and didn't lose a HP.

The Hunter is surprisingly resistant to Interceptor. Lots of 48" AA can be taken out by Serpents, and Vector Dancer makes it much more capable than other flyers of staying away from 36" AA (or of securing a cover save against it, as ductvader says). You can even shoot EWO Broadsides without taking fire first if there are drones in the unit.

Vector dancer, effectively mean you can move about 5" the first turn and will be out of range

I'd be interested in the numbers of a crimson hunter exarch with star cannons and a nightwing interceptor

What I would like to see are some of the more common non-eldar options as a comparison and baseline. These numbers are great but without perspective its hard to say what is relatively good or bad.

Things like vendettas, anni-barges and tau skyfire options.

Are the enemies covering the entire battlefield with Interceptor ranged AA?

Surely there's some place you can fly to out of the range, meaning no interceptor?