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**anonymou5**

Although I think you could still use Gate while pinned, and could still do some damage snapfiring. But still...

**kinratha**

anonymou5 wrote:
I'm not assuming the bomb is going to drop right in front of an Army to die. I've been using the GOI Farsun bomb a lot lately, because I've been helping a friend design his. It's brutally powerful. However, it does have counters. And in my opinion the Wave Serpent and/or Warlock/Shadowseer are BIG ones, because of how common they are. There are other common counters (with varying degrees of soft or hard). Slaneesh lists, Triple Dragon, 4 Rune Priest lists, the Imperial Guard Colossus (and arty in general, but especially that one)

Those that think they are going to just kill it in assault are very wrong. I can only think of a few units that could either kill or cripple the bomb in one assault. A Slaneesh Army could do it. Either with creativity (taking away initiative, forcing challenges) or with numbers (enough rends will wipe anything). Enough Wraiths, if they somehow survived in time could do it (again, lowering initiative). More importantly, a character beast, like a Mace Prince could do it with precision strikes (take away the chip suit and the Librarian). However, there are ways to mitigate those ideas, which a good Tau general can use. So no, assault usually isn't the answer. (barring specific situations)

My DKoK laugh at the Farsun Bomb,

You +2 cover save is not match of my artillery, or my recycling platoons.