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Why no FnP?

 Imateria wrote:

Martel732 wrote:
OMG. Wyches die to HAND FLAMERS, then.

Regularly, and with ease. Flamers in general are pure death to Dark Eldar thanks to the No Escape rule, drop pod in and use it on our open topped transports turn 1 and we don't even have FnP to protect ourselves.

In red; only coven units have FnP turn 1.

I jumped on the GSC band wagon but I quickly got bored of them. Between being extremely expensive £ to pts ratio unless you wanna be really creative with conversions or spam 'Stealers and being extremely first turn dependent I felt that they were too first turn centric. Games were usually decided by turn 2 or 3. I did like how they totally changed how the game was played though, and when I get the money together to get 5 Lictors and more Acolytes I'll go back to the army. It's fun to dictate the game, changing it from an objective based game to almost a wave-based horde mode, but If I rolled badly or too well turn one it was all too often over for one person or the other.

Aha. I get it.

I played our GSC players first game here with my Deathwatch and I sized that game and it was all down hill from there for him as his dice apparently went on holiday. Later we played a proper game with my Death Guard and my take aways were this. Having the extra toughness and FNP helps against the Rending as he was fishing for 6s rather then drowning me in dice and having given up kill points easy I was able to win by a narrow margin. To me the trick is just getting through deployment without getting overwhelmed.