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I'm guessing Flamers in Kill Team are a precious and valuable commodity due to:

d3 Hits when someone charges that model gives them a huge overwatch advantage.
The ability to hit more than one opponent at a time is better than most firearms can manage.

Two questions. Do people agree? And what is the largest number of template weapons one can take. Four in a vet squad (one heavy and a heavy on the Chimera)...?

You can only overwatch once though.

And the ability to hurt more then one model is seriusly deminished in killteam where people spread out. you will get 2-3 hits MAX (and against some lists more then one is a miracle), and at that point you are not doing any better then just brining normal guns-who started shooting two-three turns ago.

Flamers in killteam are not very good.


If you DO want to spam flamers, you can take farsight enclaves for troop crisis suits and bring 6 suits of 2 flamers each. that will take 198 points, filling your funny yet ineffective killteam.

But doesn't each model get to overwatch since they re all individual units? So d3 hits per model being charged?

And I'm presuming that you only get one target per model with normal shooting. And no Look Out Sir...

And I don't think you'd need to be farsight as you can take elite/troops/fast attack in Kill Team, no? Guess if you were going crisis suits you'd go different load outs and less models - so one flamer each and something else with a little more punch...