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These 3 wound, armor eating bugs always seem to tie me up.

They are either destroying my tanks and dreads, or contesting objectives and taking almost 5 turns of cc for a Tac squad to successfully take them out.

Ive had luck letting a squad of TH/SS terminators wipe them out in a turn or 2, but I would rather their attention be spent elsewhere.

I also find it hard to justify using all of my ranged attacks to take them out as they scurry across the field when I can pop a few tanks instead.

Any decent tactics on how to take these buggers out?
Playing C:SM

Would be neat to see how other armies deal with them as well.

S6 weapons to ID the bases or Blasts/Templates to inflict double wounds. If you can take a S6+ Blast you'll be killing 2 whole bases for every wound inflicted.

 Valkyrie wrote:
S6 weapons to ID the bases or Blasts/Templates to inflict double wounds. If you can take a S6+ Blast you'll be killing 2 whole bases for every wound inflicted.

Oh thats right, scarabs are swarms. Looks like I may have to ivest in a thunderfire cannon. Only s6 blast in the codex

BoniFactor wrote:

 Valkyrie wrote:
S6 weapons to ID the bases or Blasts/Templates to inflict double wounds. If you can take a S6+ Blast you'll be killing 2 whole bases for every wound inflicted.

Oh thats right, scarabs are swarms. Looks like I may have to ivest in a thunderfire cannon. Only s6 blast in the codex

It will kill 2 bases per wound, double wounds to blasts combined with instant death = 2 dead bases per wound. One shot from a thunderfire will evaporate them instantly 9 times out of 10

BoniFactor wrote:

 Valkyrie wrote:
S6 weapons to ID the bases or Blasts/Templates to inflict double wounds. If you can take a S6+ Blast you'll be killing 2 whole bases for every wound inflicted.

Oh thats right, scarabs are swarms. Looks like I may have to ivest in a thunderfire cannon. Only s6 blast in the codex

Plasma Cannons
Redeemer Flamestorms
Demolishers
Conversion Beamer

You have a pretty large array of weapons to choose from for that role.

 Valkyrie wrote:

BoniFactor wrote:

 Valkyrie wrote:
S6 weapons to ID the bases or Blasts/Templates to inflict double wounds. If you can take a S6+ Blast you'll be killing 2 whole bases for every wound inflicted.

Oh thats right, scarabs are swarms. Looks like I may have to ivest in a thunderfire cannon. Only s6 blast in the codex

Plasma Cannons
Redeemer Flamestorms
Demolishers
Conversion Beamer

You have a pretty large array of weapons to choose from for that role.

whoops, glanced over the weapon summary a little too quickly.

A fun note on allies. Rad grenades GK or DA drop their toughness to 2, then s4 cc or boltguns ID them.