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Hi all. I'm still building my eldar army so am theorising/reading up/math-hammering in the meantime and I've come up with an interesting scenario so I figured I'd put it to the peoples of dakka.

If after I move my fire dragons I estimate that they are more than 6 inches away from their target vehicle, should I stand my ground and shoot without getting the melta bonus, or should I run to get into assault range then meltabomb it and possibly either not get close enough in the first place or possibly eat any resulting explosion?

How would you play it? I'm leaning towards the meltabombing because if I can get into range I'll probably be more successful, and any explosion casualties are acceaptable as they're just as likely to get shot to pieces standing around anyways.

Yes, no, depends?

Ah of course. Because then even glances can kill (without having to rely on weapon destroyed and immob spam).