Destroying a reaver titan

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**crudcakes**

and none of those are ork I see

**luggnuts**

true

**crudcakes**

in an apoc battle who would the player with the reaver would have the advantage already because your focusing on destroying it instead of taking the objectives.

**ChrisWWII**

a) Capitalization and punctuation go a long way to making your posts easy to read.

b) In my experience, superheavies don't last long on the apoc battlefield. They get targeted with every gun, every special ability, and everything that has the slightest chance of hurting them, blown to bits, and probably take a small chunk of your army with them.

In Spearhead, of course, you could probably have bigger problems, but my biggest bet would be standard....Lascannons and Autocannons (and their Ork equivalents) to take down the void shields, followed up by any S10 or SD weapons to deal with the armor.

**AbaddonFidelis**

ooooooh grammar nazi

**ChrisWWII**

It's not being a grammar nazi to want BASIC punctuation and capitalization in someones posts. Seriously, I've been having a hard time understanding them.

**luggnuts**

how can you have a hard time understanding it its still english

**AbaddonFidelis**

ChrisWWII wrote:It's not being a grammar nazi to want BASIC punctuation and capitalization in someones posts. Seriously, I've been having a hard time understanding them.

you understood my last post without a period or capitalization
you'll understand this one too
dont be a nazi

**Grey Templar**

luggnuts wrote:how can you have a hard time understanding it its still english

English is tough enough without punctuation and grammatical errors to sift through.

@Abbadon: Capital letters arn't a huge mistake. you also had 1 sentance. if there had been multiple sentances it would have been tough.

**AbaddonFidelis**

I guess thats true.

**ChrisWWII**

luggnuts wrote:how can you have a hard time understanding it its still english

As the saying goes, punctuation is the difference between:
i helped my uncle jack off a horse
and
I helped my Uncle Jack, off a horse.

If I had only typed the first one, what was I saying? Was I saying that I assisted my uncle in getting off a horse, or was I saying that I assisted him in

ing a horse's

. Who knows? That's why your language is hard to understand even if it is still English.

Another story just to drive it in further, cause it's abundantly clear you don't understand why grammar is such a basic necessity.

A panda walks into a bar, and orders a sandwich. The staff, serve him his sandwich and he happily finishes it. He then pulls out a gun, and fires a round into the ceiling before heading to the door. The staff, very confused and frightened, demand to know what's going on. The panda turns to them, throws them a nature guide and says, "I'm a a panda. Look it up." Still confused, the staff do what he said. Under panda, they find the description. "Giant Panda. Native to China. Eats, shoots, and leaves."

**AbaddonFidelis**

groan. you're gonna get this thread locked.

**ChrisWWII**

AbaddonFidelis wrote:groan. you're gonna get this thread locked.

Even if I do, this kind of lesson is important for a user. They need to understand that grammar is quite important, especially in a text based medium.

**kaiservonhugal**

Tomorrow - I will have a chance to play against a Warhound and maybe a Baneblade along with other IG elements. We are going to go to 2500 points with a relaxed Force Org for me as I do not have any APOC Heavies.

For my Orc army - these are all I can bring:

Ghaz
KFF Mek
14 Burnas
15 Lootas
12 Lootas
1 Mek Junka with a KFF, Deff Rolla, and TL Rokkits
4 Grot Tanks with Rokkits
20 Boyz with a PK
20 Boys with a PK
10 Gretchin
10 Nobs with Pain Boy and 3 PK's
2 Battle Wagons with Deff Rollas
9 Buggies with TL Rokkits
3 Killa Kans with Rokkits

How can I use these elements to drop the Warhound Titan?

I expect at least 3 Leman Russes as well.

**AbaddonFidelis**

lootas are the guys with d3 str 7 ap 4 shots right? they look like your only hope of dropping the void shields. put them in cover and hope for the best? as for actually killing the thing...... respectfully, you appear to be fethed. if you cant bring any other tools, try to find a solution in the strategic assets/formations section of the apoc book. other than that I dont know what to tell you.

**kaiservonhugal**

I agree - itll be a tough go for sure. I was looking for confirmation on this. Uggg.

I have the S10 attacks from the Deff Rollas, Ghaz, and the Kans. I might be able to scratch the paint with Nob PK's as well.

I could create a unit of Kommandos lead by Snikrot and have Ghaz go with them (please I dont want to re-hash this one, in APOC games Im fine with this tactic).

**ChrisWWII**

The Nobz and Ghaz are your best shot for bringing down either of the two superheavies. Try and get them close, or maybe just outflank them with some strategic asset. Then rush the big scary thing, and hope for the best.

**HawaiiMatt**

Farseer and ~3 warlocks, all on jet bike. All with spears. Fortune on the farseer, destuctor on the warlocks.

Take as many of those as you can.

You should be able to both clear a path to the reaver, and be able to deal with it.

It's only a matter of converting the 4 or 5 farseers and the 12 to 15 warlocks.

-Matt

**ChrisWWII**

Solves the problem of the Titan, but for Eldar. Both the OP, and kaiser want to know how to do it with Orks.

**Grey Templar**

Warhounds and Baneblades are pretty fragile in the grand scheme of all things Appoc.

just treat the Baneblade like a tank with wounds.

the warhound will be tougher, but they are still pretty fragile. they are about the same cost in points as a fully diversified Nob squad(with Warbikes)

**crudcakes**

But a reaver would be invaluable.

(see I put capitols and full stops on)

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Good banks of void shields and nice sp's. Good enough to take on nearly anything on the battle field.

**Cambak**

Will this work?

**ChrisWWII**

Yep, that should work just fine for killing Titans.

And not everyone can just put down a Reaver, crudcakes. Yes, a bigger gun is always a good solution, but you can't just rely on that 100%.

**Space_Potato**

Fafnir wrote:What part of "giant armoured ork suppository" do you not understand?

Sigged

S_P

**kaiservonhugal**

The guy Im going to play against is going to let me use his BaneBlade - I want to use it as a proxy for a Skull Hammer

Can anyone tell me about the Skull Hammer? I have the info from army builder but was wondering if there were any tactic or additional information....

**crudcakes**

Skull hammer, good for transport whilst maintaining a medum rate of fire. With a strength 9 or 10 skullhammer cannon its a good troop and tank killer. But your not piloting a baneblade so try and keep away from other superheavies.

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ChrisWWII wrote:Yep, that should work just fine for killing Titans.
And not everyone can just put down a Reaver, crudcakes. Yes, a bigger gun is always a good solution, but you can't just rely on that 100%.

Luggnuts wants to know how to put down a reaver. Im just babbling on about how cool they are!

**Grey Templar**

it's actually a very good way of getting some Str10 to the titan as its fast(12" a turn)

you can stick some Deffdreds inside and have it drop them off at the titan(Walkers take up 10 slots in superheavy vehicles as per the Superheavy transport rules)

it is more durable then other transports, but you don't want it around when it goes nuclear

**crudcakes**

True i did not think of that but it can only transport 2 deff dreads hence the transport capacity of only 20.

**kaiservonhugal**

Hmm - I have 3 Killa Kans - I could put all 3 of them inside it.

**crudcakes**

There you go a perfect way to use a transport.