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I'm interested in how to use servo skulls effectively. Do they even worth it? 3pts a piece isn't much, they can protect from infiltrate, and help scatter shots amd DS a lot.

I want to use Inquisition as allies to my Imperial Guard army, so the main use would be to reduce scatter to one dice for blast weapons - LRBT would benefit a lot from 1D6 only scatter. My problem is, if I want to use them, they need to be within 12" of the enemy, and they are removed when an enemy moves into 6" range of it, so that's a single move from first use, and fast units like flyers, fast vehicles etc. can remove them without I can use them at all.

Still, if for 3 pts I can land a Battle cannon shot from 3" to -2" from where I wanted, it's really worth it. But since the enemy knows this too, it's more likely it's a single 1D6 shot for all the servo skulls (18pts, still not that much), and not where it really counts.

They are one of the most broken things for points in the game.

Deploy 3 servo skulls in a line exactly 6" apart from each other. Deploy a second line exactly 6" behind each of your others.

Now unless the opponent has enough fast units to get rid of all 6 at once, if the opponent moves a unit forward to delete one, the unit is still within 6" of a servo skull (unless they are eldar or have jetpacks).

Poly Ranger wrote:
They are one of the most broken things for points in the game.

Deploy 3 servo skulls in a line exactly 6" apart from each other. Deploy a second line exactly 6" behind each of your others.

Now unless the opponent has enough fast units to get rid of all 6 at once, if the opponent moves a unit forward to delete one, the unit is still within 6" of a servo skull (unless they are eldar or have jetpacks).

A unit could also move forward and then run forward or back.

That would also work, but then you have just denied them a shooting turn for a mere 3 pts, unlike jetpacks and battle focus.

Poly Ranger wrote:
That would also work, but then you have just denied them a shooting turn for a mere 3 pts, unlike jetpacks and battle focus.

What's jetpack/battlefocus?

Servo skulls are great. Use them for denying the opponent their scout move, making your blast weapons more accurate, and to deepstrike more reliably. The 34 point investment for 3 of these is really nothing.

Rules that allow you to move, then shoot, then move again (so theoretically allowing you to move into range/line of sight, fire, then hide again to stop the enemy shooting back).

A second use for them:

You cannot scout within sensor range of them. Therefore, a 'skirmish line' of servo-skulls across the board in front of an enemy's deployment zone can essentially deny them use of the scout rule for not many points, especially on end-to-end boards. This is really, really annoying for things like white scar or ravenwing bike armies, who expect to be in rapid fire range turn one.