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My first army is Dark Angels, starting on Space Wolves. A very different feel to it. Will have to field my Guard this weekend to confuse myself and my opponents even more. Wish I could field my Guard as allies still.

Yeah, good old days when we could use the 25% "Heavy" allotment for allied units. That's actually how I got started as an IG player, using them as allies to my Space Marines. Slowly switched over until IG is almost all I play anymore.

How effective is the Executioner against MCs? Figure you're wounding on 2/3 with no armor save and they are big enough that its likely to get mostly partial hits.

i've only run one in 2 games. the first game it did very well against the Nurgle demon army i was playing against. the second game it was toasted before i got a chance to go! that's why i'm so leery of spending all the points to run it again. it seems that basic russes aren't invisible, but almost non-threatening to people. well, until you start shooting anyway...

minigun762 wrote:How effective is the Executioner against MCs? Figure you're wounding on 2/3 with no armor save and they are big enough that its likely to get mostly partial hits.

It's the second to last thing I want to shoot at with this tank, the last being an AV 13 piece of armor.

Assuming PC sponsons and standing still, which is about 50%+ of the time for me, personally.

Yeah, you will most likely score two wounds on most large targets, the strength of the tank is shooting units. With so many shots you usually end up with one or two hits, then your scatter usually grab a few more bodies. It's not unheard of scoring 8 hits on 25mm bases on average. If you break open a transport with another unit I've scored 16 hits on a unit of marines. Needless to say the unit went away.

In the end you should have different guns that are better at dealing lone MCs, like plasma vets and vendettas.