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Are these guys worth using, they looking Epic but i dont know if its worth replacing my spiders for them?
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Depends on what fits best with your army. Spiders for infantry and MCs. Spectres for ranged anti-tank.

The phoenix lord is really good. The spectres unit is significantly overcosted for what they bring. The models look amazing though.

IMO there are two uses that are decent.
1) minimum unit of 3, exarch w/ prism blaster. They will usually get a Str10 AP2 lance hit a turn. Not terrible for 115 pts.
2) unit of 4, exarch w/ haywire. Bit more expensive but it can glance vehicles down better.

One of the better abilities the unit can have is shadow of death which when in combo to psychic shriek and/or DE Ld modifiers can brutalize non fearless units.


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BTW they are actually NOT very good at ranged anti tank. They have an 18" range, Str6 is nearly worthless against most vehicles, if they combine shots they can only ever do a single shot and getting that shot to AP1 and Str10 (which is almost equivalent to a single melta shot) takes 6 hits. Not easy or cheap for a unit that is going to take some serious casualties as it is within 18+2d6" of what it shot.

I want them to be good so badly, but they're not. Their phoenix lord is probably the most competitive, just run him with some warp spiders and pretend he's the warp spider phoenix lord.