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My army has a squad of wraith blades and a squad of wraithgurd (d scythes). I also have 2 wave serpents to transport them in. I call upon the experience of an eldar player to advise me on weapon loadouts for said wave serpents.
They need need to get to where they need to be and take down things on the way. My idea was to have one anti armour WS and one anti infantry WS. Which weapons should I take on them please?

No. Lol.

Take a scatter laser, thats all you need. And holofields.

Scatter lasers are so good... so many high str shots AND they can twinlink your other weapons?


Just don't play against me please

Thanks, And for the Hull weapon?

Well, my loadout is tl scatterlaser and underslug shuricannon. It served me well in the 6th ed.
Serpents are more durable in the 7th ed and less shooty than in the 6th. But I think this is fine.

I would take SLs most of the time, unless you need to spare points (then just keep the SCs), and upgrade the TL shuriken catapult to a SC.

Thanks al for the help

Why are they more durable in 7th? Because of the new jink rule?

I'd argue there less durable because of this, especially as it now nerfs your firing in the following turn and so most often allows them to shoot at you again in their following turn.

Have I missed something.

The new jink save is 4+. it used to be 5+. Also vehicles now only explode on a damage roll of 7+ instead of 6+. These changes have made all vehicles, including Wave Serpents, more durable. The downside is that wave serpents will have to snap shot after jinking, but this has no effect on their durability, only shooting. To counter this, many players posit keeping your wave serpents in cover as they advance so that jinking is not needed. Ghostwalk Matrix would work well with this tactic.

Firing snap shots is a downside.

However, if you use tl scatterlasers and are able to hit, then the other weapons are tl too. This should guarantee some hits from the shield and the underslung shuricannon.

Bojazz wrote:
The new jink save is 4+. it used to be 5+. Also vehicles now only explode on a damage roll of 7+ instead of 6+. These changes have made all vehicles, including Wave Serpents, more durable. The downside is that wave serpents will have to snap shot after jinking, but this has no effect on their durability, only shooting. To counter this, many players posit keeping your wave serpents in cover as they advance so that jinking is not needed. Ghostwalk Matrix would work well with this tactic.

Forgot about the new only 7+ explodes rule. Fair point