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Today my WLC/PCC came in the mail, and soon it's time for me to assemble it. Beforehand I was definitely going to make it a WLC, but looking over my Army Book again, it just hit me that the Plagueclaw has a large blast, even though it's only strength two. Fortunately enough the plague spells have Wither, which can bring opponents down one toughness (notably my mates elves, toughness two). Since it will wound on fours or fives but is large blast AND ignores all armor saves, is this viable? What does Dakka think about this?

You can make both with the kit with a lil conversion

WLC wins you games if it hits. It ignores armor saves and a 6/8/10 str it wipes out almost every unit it hits. Even a small blast hits 18 20mm models and like 12 25mm models

Yeah a large blast hitting a unit is HUGE amount of hits but vs T4 thats 1/6 wounds.. So you get 10 wounds per 60 hits which is lackluster to say the least. IF you can get wither off then its great, or you could just fire the cannon and kill everything much easier.. It also does D6 wounds

dpends what you regularly play aginst, if you play hordes then you can only kill at most 3 a turn with the WLC while if you play monsters its incredible as it can smoke them in one turn but the PCC can destroy whole chunks of hordes but leave monsters unscathed

Why are you looking at it as one or the other?
Take 2 of both.

-Matt

Tiarna Fuilteach wrote:dpends what you regularly play aginst, if you play hordes then you can only kill at most 3 a turn with the WLC while if you play monsters its incredible as it can smoke them in one turn but the PCC can destroy whole chunks of hordes but leave monsters unscathed

Uh, careful aiming of a WLC will have a small template explode in the midst of the enemy's ranks. I'd say killing 3 a turn is definitely low-balling it.

I can already tell you guys that High Elves, Empire, and Dwarves will be my most common opponents right off the bat. All of us are starting at 1,000 points, then slowly building up from there. Based on what I will be fighting, which is more effective? I should've mentioned that earlier, but it was around 2 AM, so I was zombified then.

WLC is more effective for the reasons I already stated.. You'll do comparable hits, at a much higher strength and each hit does D6 wounds. That means it can kill units and monsters which the plagueclaw cannot do. I dont think ive even used my plagueclaws since the WLC boxset came out

The main role of the PCC (if you have one) is to shoot at the gribblies so that the WLC can concentrate on killing the big nasties. And if you don't have an A-bomb, you can easily afford 2 WLC and a PCC in your rare points even at fairly low point armies.

The PCC is shines in a Plague list where spells like Wither weakens a unit first and then the big pie-plate can finish them off.

What is an A-bomb?

A-bomb = hellpit abomination