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Has anyone had success with outflanking Darkstrider with a Firewarrior team and using them with any effect.

I was curious if it would be worth the +200 pts to mow through a T3 hero/HQ and use as a scoring unit.

Alternatively it seems in excess to use for a pathfinder special weapons team of 3 rail/ion rifles.

Any other worthwhile tactics would be appreciated.

I like doing just that with pathfinder with RR. With Darkstrider and RR you are IDing MEQ and TEQ, and then they are AP1.

Since they are rapid fire you can fire them after moving, and disembarking. Out flank in the P-fish, disembark, shoot, the flat out the P-fish to block the enemy from getting back at your Pathfinders.

maceria wrote:
Since they are rapid fire you can fire them after moving, and disembarking. Out flank in the P-fish, disembark, shoot, the flat out the P-fish to block the enemy from getting back at your Pathfinders.

You should not be able to flat out the fish the turn it outflanks and disembarks troops. A transport cannot move again if it moves and then disembarks passengers in the same turn.

Whilst nowhere near optimal I have a fun list with darkstrider written in. There 4-5 parts to it:
Darkstrider
Fireblade w/ 2 gun drones
10 pathfinders with the +range and - charge drone
Aegis line with Icarus lascannon
Fieewarrior squad (optional)

The list relies on midfield dominance, you place the aegis line 6" outside of your deployment zone, then join darkstrider to the firewarriors and the fireblade to the pathfinders. Use each of their scout moves to get onto the aegis line. Detach darkstrider turn 1 and join him to the pathfinders, that's 39 S5 shots at 24" and either 1 splitfire markerlight or splitfire Icarus lascannon that can ID anything T5 or lower.

Darkstrider can be much more fun than that.

Darkstrider
12 Fire Warriors
Allied Space Marines Chapter Master

ID anything T6 or less.

(Battle Brothers are Broken)

And an inquistor to TL everything.... you dont want that large blast to miss

An Inq can't cast psyker powers on a Tau squad. But you could throw a buff commander in there if you really want to waste points.