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Anyone having issues fighting one of these?

Everytime I encounter one of these, it's Armor Piercing ability really hurts my Heavy Warjack's and it is very difficult for me to get in there for a first strike. Its affinity rule with Asphyxious gives it a FA at the end of activation which makes it very hard to catch.

Eg. Canker Bonejack allocated with 3 focus makes a charge (1 focus) with threat of 9.5 inches.

1. Makes a hit check and scores, then makes boosted damage roll (1 focus) , due to Armor Piercing my armor is now 10 he scores eg. 11 + 6 + 5 +3 + 3 = 10 - 28 = 18 damage
2. He now makes second attack with his tail he scores eg. 11 + 3 + 4 = 10 - 18 = 8 damage
3. Finally he makes a extra attack (1 focus) scoring a eg. 13 + 4 +2 = 10 - 19 = 9 damage

I believe that's a dead heavy Warjack! Never had the chance to get close enough to do any damage with a threat range of 7.5 inches.

Loon

Sorry about that! I should of added the extra die for the charge so in effect it was 4 dices, Let me edit it back up!

Thank you all for clearing it all up! I'll keep in mind that charges cannot be boosted.

I have to say the Canker Bonejack is fairly cost efficient for 5 points and has some great utilities. I might have to throw in some Exemplar Errants and might make a Warcaster switch to Epic Kreoss!

Out of curiosity has anyone every reached 5 dices for damage rolls?

For example.

A unit with Weapon Master charges while Epic Kreoss uses his feat = 3 dice on damage roll due to charge + 1 dice for weapon master + 1dice for feat = 5 dice on damage roll?

/would someone be kind enough to clarify this for me.

Cheers Loon

Thank you

I rechecked his feat and must of misread, his feat is auto hit + extra melee attak, my bad.

Cheers

I'm still trying to max out Reznik's dice rolls

1. Reznik or SoH weapons have purgation = +1 die on to hit and +1 die on dmg rolls against units with upkeep spells,

2. So eg. I cast engine of destruction (for more damage) I make a charge (12" Threat) = to hit would be 2 dice + 1 die from purgation + 1 die if boosted = 4 dice (sure hit!)

3. To damage would be = 2 dice + purgation 1 die + 1 more die due to charge = 4 dice (insane damage for one round)

This could potentially do a maximum of 42 dmg in 1 round (P&S 18 + 4 dice max at 24) = dead Canker worm!

Don't think I can push 5 dice x_x