Catyrpelius wrote:Where are you planning on sticking Meph?
I like verything except your heavy support choices and your fast attack choices. Vindicators need to be taken in atleast pairs, and Whirlwinds are a lackluster choice, they look great on paper but rarely ever do anything aproaching their point cost. As far as the Devistators go, my personal preferance is that they never belong in a BA army, they are to imobile.
Veterans, in my mind atleast are always over priced, they have never made up their point cost for me, and they still die like basic Space Marines, to volumes of fire or attacks.
Heh, mileage varies for everybody.
Strangely enough the whirlwind has very rarely in a game where it hasn't made it's points back, and commonly several times over, plus it can pin. I used to include it in all my lists, then took it out because everybody said it was out of place (on forums anyways). Since then I've simply been in too many games since where it would have been amazing, so I'm looking to add it back in. It's honestly been the most cost efficient unit I've ever used in 5th ed.
The veterans are very expensive, but it all comes down to timing and placing them right. They've won my last 2 games single handed, and haven't underperformed yet (was extremely lucky on the deep strike last game where it depended on a hit on the scatter
LoL, but I would have lost the game otherwise). They're a new unit I've been trying out for the past month and so far I'm VERY pleased with them. It's almost a guaranteed way to take out whatever scares me, and then a couple more things before they go down. They require a lot of planning, but they're simply a blast to play with.
Meph doesn't have a set placement or plan. I tend to just wing it with that monster and adjust after I see what I'm playing against. Honestly though, most of the time i just run him down the middle, gunning for some juicy target, which attracts a lot of fire power, letting my vindi get off pretty easy.
I am on the fence about the devastators however. I like the play style of a
BA list with fire power though, and I took them to fill the roll of more guns on the table that don't get blown up by a lucky las-cannon hit. They've done more good at blasting deep strikers who try to get my vindi and whirly than they've taken out armor, but that might just come down to the gamers here.
What would you do with the devastators?
Anything to say about power weapons on priests? I've always kept them bare boned.
