Ham doctor wrote:imo the last comment ^ is more biased because the skaven are less known for their shooty since their new update. spamming HPA and Plague furnaces is the new fun cheap annoying crap you can pull.
If you mean cheap as in "annoying and not fun for your opponent", sure, multiple HPAs are the way to go. If you mean points wise, then my 4 WLCs are less than 1 HPA and 1 Plague Furnace.
Warp Lightning Cannons are arguably one of the best units in the game. 48" range, Avg. S6,
d6 wounds, no armor saves, line + template giant sniper cannons. Sure, once in awhile they misfire, but I have yet to have a game where the WLCs aren't my MVP hands down.
And not shooty? Plague Mortars are a move and fire, armor ignoring, 5+/4+ to wound regardless of toughness weapon team at a paltry 65 points.
Doom rocket Engineer. 45 points of large template in your face. 1 shot, sure, but 45 points!
And those are the commonly taken options that aren't poisoned gutter runner slings!
Seriously, the HPA and the Furnace are nice, don't get me wrong. But I've had neither do for me what the WLC does on a regular basis: kill the crap out of entire units turn after turn after turn.