Q: Are you afraid of Seer Councils in 6th?

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**tedurur**

sourclams wrote:
Ailaros wrote:
sourclams wrote:Show me your 'non-perfect-circumstances uber Rommel commander' deployment where your power blob protects itself from templates while also getting a bunch of attacks.

Done.

In the above, the power blob ultimately lost, but it lost to twice its points in eldar while the eldar player's luck was extremely good (40 power weapon attacks (12 of which rerolled to hit) along with 10 power fist attacks, and he fails TWO invul saves?), and STILL managed to tar-pit the seer squad until it was too late to be useful.

If this is what power blobs to to a jetbike council when they have BAD luck...

So if the Eldar player sucks and doesn't outmaneuver the powerblob, or shoot the powerblob, or lets itself get charged by the powerblob, and if you sacrifice tank squadrons to set up the "trap" for the powerblob....

Yeah, then the power blob definitely comes into its own against Jetseers.

you forgot that part about having a poor council build aswell

**tedurur**

DAaddict wrote:The SM codex and Null Zone is when playing councils became garbage.

Eldar have been dealing with hoods and the like for a while and with Embolden and Runes of Witnessing, the prospect of a hood is not totally scary. When Null Zone can get rid of JB councils rerolls, suddenly the prospect of loosing 1 in 3 instead of 1 in 9 against wounding shots makes 40+ point models not that appealing.

SW do a better job of countering the Fortune than standard SM so they are pretty good too.

Overall they can still dominate a game but when you approach 30% of your total points you want a guarantee not a maybe that it will be a game-changing add to your list.

How does RoWit and embolden make the hood any less scary? Null Zone is indeed devastating but casting it will more often than not result in the libby taking a PotW hit. With that said it is not a bad idea at all to run dual Farseers in a council.