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Is it worth it in any way? Can it be competitive? Your experiences?

it's good for lols. That and if you're a person who likes to take big gambles.

They're sort of like hitting double stars in roulette. They're only rarely as good as advertised, but when they are...

Is it worth it? Hells yes! I think it would make a fine little piece of flavour. I bought one a little while ago to put together as a terrain peice (yeah im slightly mad). I'm going to set it up looking all dusty and abandoned in the middle of this defensive position, with a skeletal crew still at the back of the deathstrike...


...at the glowing panel for the launching mechanism...



...its has a chart to see what happens when you press da button


Asides from that, no its not really competitive, unless you mean in your local meta when you use it as an irresistable target that your opponent is so obsessed with destroying it he/she makes nothing but bad moves. Asides from that, it falls into the "for fun" section, really

most guard players dont like it.

try bringing it just to feth with the other guy's head. each week the missile on the tank should get just a little bit bigger......

I ran 3 a while back, Good no, hilarious yes

xactly

AbaddonFidelis wrote:most guard players dont like it.

try bringing it just to feth with the other guy's head. each week the missile on the tank should get just a little bit bigger......

If i had the money, I would totally do that. My god. like an extra 1/4" every week. Thats evil!

They seem very fun, but so unreliable that one can't call them competitive. I'm tempted to buy them. I would use them against newbies for the lulz. Against experienced players that don't need a handicap they would make great terrain pieces and objectives in a capture and control mission.

In an Apoc game they would be great for a side game on a 2nd table with the takes being whoever controls them can lob the deathstrike onto the main table.

Jihallah wrote:

AbaddonFidelis wrote:most guard players dont like it.

try bringing it just to feth with the other guy's head. each week the missile on the tank should get just a little bit bigger......

If i had the money, I would totally do that. My god. like an extra 1/4" every week. Thats evil!

lol

Makes for a good diversionary target if you could spare the heavy slot, which is pretty contested for already with other better choices like manticore or artilleries like basilisks.

I say bring it!

I'd love to see what kind of lulz it'll bring when against Joe

I think it can be slightly competitive for those who won't think of ignoring it and all that other psyche-affecting business it can do.

The biggest problem, to me, is everyone is usually trying to get to you. Rhinos, Drop pods, DSing, Scouting, whatever.
i would think that most of the targets you want to shoot will be too close to you by the time you fire. now that's my
"serious" game response. in a fun game, or "friendly" game, hell yeah! i can think of several players that would freak if i
ever played one.

I believe that there is an Apocalypse stratagem that allows it to fire as a vortex missile. Every hate a biker nobs squad and all of it's saves? This puppy is for you.

It's undoubtedly bad, put what the heck, it's cool.

Nothing quite says serious as a big missile with an attitude , Now when you upgrade that to the vortex, it's just plain mean, hehehe.