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Has anyone had luck with using these consistently?

I figure a squad of 5 gives you: 5 markerlights, 30 twinlinked s5 shots, and 10 seekers. I was thinking of using other marker light sources to launch their seeker missiles after the drones have moved behind ranks and jinked for a 2+ save.

But is it worth the points and the FW price?

I think a squad of 3 is enough. 5 would be 450p!
Having Deep Strike is very useful for an aircraft, because it can appear behind other aircraft/vehicle/hidden important unit. Any unit with Homing Beacons (Tetra comes to mind) helps this immensely

Remoras are fun and all, and given that they have NETWORKED markerlights it means that each additional tetra in the team make the team as a whole better-makes large groups appealing.

However, remoras are NOT very efficient.
A single one is criminally so, a pair is pointless, a trio is getting into casual levels only.

Once you hit the 4-5 members in the wing, you got yourself a decent team. but its a bit too big for your average game as its a massive point sink.


In the end-fun unit, but not great.

 Vector Strike wrote:
I think a squad of 3 is enough. 5 would be 450p!
Having Deep Strike is very useful for an aircraft, because it can appear behind other aircraft/vehicle/hidden important unit. Any unit with Homing Beacons (Tetra comes to mind) helps this immensely

Does deepstriking them put them in hover mode when they enter or can they still be considered to be zooming.

 MechaBeast wrote:

 Vector Strike wrote:
I think a squad of 3 is enough. 5 would be 450p!
Having Deep Strike is very useful for an aircraft, because it can appear behind other aircraft/vehicle/hidden important unit. Any unit with Homing Beacons (Tetra comes to mind) helps this immensely

Does deepstriking them put them in hover mode when they enter or can they still be considered to be zooming.

AFAIK, it can come as zooming. DS vehicles count as moving Combat Speed. No other info is given regarding this topic.
I believe there isn't any other DS Flyer in the normal codexes anymore; only some FW stuff retained it.

They are a bit overpiced for what they do. If looking into FW models for Tau the Barracuda is nice.