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Has any one found a good use for 8th ed DE shredders yet?

Using them to try and kill teenage mutant ninja turtles?

Jokes aside, it seems like a weapon you might throw into kabalites in venoms or 4 of them in a scourge squad. The main problem I find with them is that they're fairly redundant in an army with mass poison spam.

If you cut the fins off they make great blasters.

Great joke. I thought about the blaster convertion but realised I have a ton of spare blasters too.

I didn't realize there was such a thing as spare blasters, I would love to have more haha

All things considered, I think shredders are decent on scourges, been wanting to try running a unit of 5 with 4 shredders. Comes out to 84 pts and puts out on average 14 s6 ap-1 shots a turn

ok maybe i should have said blasters i haven't finished painting and gluing on yet:

I've used a unit of trueborns in a venom with 4 shredders, they usually do really good as long as my opponent has some infantry

 Alexonian wrote:
I've used a unit of trueborns in a venom with 4 shredders, they usually do really good as long as my opponent has some infantry

To bad trueborn aren't a thing anymore. Unless i am missing some obscure interpretation of if its still in the index its valid rue?

Mali wrote:

 Alexonian wrote:
I've used a unit of trueborns in a venom with 4 shredders, they usually do really good as long as my opponent has some infantry

To bad trueborn aren't a thing anymore. Unless i am missing some obscure interpretation of if its still in the index its valid rue?

exactly, you can use them from the index.

Note that you pay the index points for the dudes and codex points for the shredders.

Mwhaha ooh thank you. that warms my blackened sucubi soul.

They seem like they’d be pretty solid in Obsidian Rose. 18” shredders seem much better. Also syncs up pretty nicely with the increased rapid fire range of 15” for your splinter rifles.

4 on my scourges.
But I mostly use DE as allies for my Harlies, who lack decent anti-infantry.

 Asmodas wrote:
They seem like they’d be pretty solid in Obsidian Rose. 18” shredders seem much better. Also syncs up pretty nicely with the increased rapid fire range of 15” for your splinter rifles.

If I was using Obsidian Rose, I'd rather have 24" Blasters.

 TheFleshIsWeak wrote:

 Asmodas wrote:
They seem like they’d be pretty solid in Obsidian Rose. 18” shredders seem much better. Also syncs up pretty nicely with the increased rapid fire range of 15” for your splinter rifles.

If I was using Obsidian Rose, I'd rather have 24" Blasters.

Why not both? I use a few of each in my list, but I’m new to DE so don’t take my word for it.

In all seriousness, it seems to me that shredders need the extra range more than blasters. 12” is punishingly short range for an anti infantry weapon, putting you well within charge range of anything you’re shooting at. 18” is much safer a even fast infantry are going to need a 9 or so to make it in.

Shredders are pretty good in 8th. I use them pretty frequently on venom squads of warriors because I want the whole unit to be anti-infantry instead of splitting their role up.