doom of malantai

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**admiral9**

How to kill a 700 points nid army with doom of malantai. This are the units i usually use.

2 battlesuits
3 stealthsuits with marker
1 commander suit with 2 shield drones
12 fire warriors split in 2 squads of 6
1 devilfish can proxy as hammerhead

**TheAvengingKnee**

Think you posted this in the wrong forum, YMDC is for rules discussions, this should probably be in tactics.

**admiral9**

Oh sorry thanks for the redirection

**Chowderhead**

You can outgun it by a large amount. Shoot it to death before it gets to powerful. Put your troops in transports, DoM can't hit inside transports.

Remember: It's a points sink at 700. Shoot it to death first, and the rest of the army should come easily.

**admiral9**

I was in this game and i succesfully killed his swarmlord his warriors and his gaunts only 3 left. Then doom deepstriked next to my 6 fire warriors succesfully killed em all leached another wound from a suit and had around 10 wounds. And then we got our beautifully strength 10 ap 1 pieplate on the tank and then i got gakked.

**TheAvengingKnee**

The more instant death weapons you can bring to use on it the better, Preferably long range STR 8 or above, railguns work nicely in most cases. If the high STR weapons arent the way you want to go long range massive amounts of shots can work. just remember when its leach ability hurts one of your units it gains wounds(up to 10) and strength(up to 10).

**admiral9**

I know thats the hurt i got luckily i get to buy something up to 40 euro so i will buy either a hammerhead or a broadside. I think i'll just get the hammerhead for the pieplate but if its good enough i wonder.

**Billinator**

Stealthsuits Melta-stuff shooould be able to deal with it... That is, if they don't get sucked fry first. But usually, you're dependent on any str8+ to deal with it. If it gets into CC with one of your groups (especially as Tau), that group is deadmeat. All you can do is moving away from it, so that it's spirit leech cannot harm your other units, and wait for a chance to instant death it.

**Litanyoffury1**

keep firing strength 8 plus weaponry at it until it dies. it is the only way

**rigeld2**

Swarm lord + Doom in a pod is over 400 points for those 2(3) models... Lots of eggs in very few baskets.

**admiral9**

rigeld2 wrote:Swarm lord + Doom in a pod is over 400 points for those 2(3) models... Lots of eggs in very few baskets.

I understand what you mean. But the weird thing was i killed the swarm lord in 1 turn all his 6 or 7 wounds just blasted em of in 1 turn. after that the warriors and then his synapse was cut off. I was killing the 3 remaining gaunts and then doom deepstriked and destroyed 100 to 200 points of my army in one turn it was gonna be my first win