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 kitch102 wrote:

Drager wrote:
If you have Reavers and Wracks I'd suggest giving them a try.

Just 3 reavers and 5 wracks atm. Future addition will be grotesques though they're way off yet.

Will 3 reavers do anything alone? Or if I run them alongside venoms blade vaning and chain snaring everything at high speed?

3 reavers, I'd say, are rather useless, could be used as a distraction/harassment unit against some opponents at most, with some careful positioning, they could become quite annoying to ignore, and will at least draw away one unit's fire from your more useful units. Really, I don't think they can do anything significant, if it just so happens that you have just that much spare points left, and nowhere else better to spend those points, then by all means, go for it. I would probably go for the cluster caltrops upgrade if I'm running 3 reavers as harassment, that single BS4 blaster/heat lance missing would just be meeeeh, at least with bladvaning, you'd have a good chance at doing a wound or two.

EDIT: Also, in the 1/6 chance you get scouring, you could have your reavers sit far out of range then turbo boost to score/deny an objective at endgame turn!

With 5 wracks, you could probably try running them in unit of 3, plain to buy another venom, or get an aco with hexrifle to do some hex-sniping.

Visiting family today and I've just been given £20 as a random gift, so I'm off to get another box of reavers shortly

I'm envisioning 2 squads of 3 making flank attacks from opposite sides of the board, dropping caltrops to pin as much as possible. They'll br followed by a venom and raider each. The raiders will unload rerollable SR shots, with the venoms dropping either wyches or incubi and my archon to mop up what's down. Alternatively small squads of TB with carbines for 27 poisoned shots per boat.

It'll be a small but elite, fast and hard hitting force. As long as the dice do what I want them to that is!

See any flaws to this theoretical tactic?

 kitch102 wrote:
Visiting family today and I've just been given £20 as a random gift, so I'm off to get another box of reavers shortly

I'm envisioning 2 squads of 3 making flank attacks from opposite sides of the board, dropping caltrops to pin as much as possible. They'll br followed by a venom and raider each. The raiders will unload rerollable SR shots, with the venoms dropping either wyches or incubi and my archon to mop up what's down. Alternatively small squads of TB with carbines for 27 poisoned shots per boat.

It'll be a small but elite, fast and hard hitting force. As long as the dice do what I want them to that is!

See any flaws to this theoretical tactic?

What are you using for anti-armour? If your opponent has all his troops in transports you might find it tough.

Yet to fully write my list up, which I'm hoping to do tomorrow night, though the majority of the AT role will be taken uo by my bros tau force. He'll pop the battlewagons and I'll mop up the foot sloggers.

I likely will take a single squad of blaster born in a venom, though I'm considering 2 DL TB standing a top a bastion instead. I'll also have my jetfighter though probably have DC's on that, so they won't be any use vs the battle wagons, though the extra shots coukd come in handy against other flyers.

Ok boys, eldar are out and now the question is what not to add to are lists? It seems like even anti horde and anti MC shooting is done better with the craftwolders and the new bordering broken bladestorm!

Thoughts?

Had a great game against blood angels. Probably one of the best games I have had in 6th. The ability to snipe models with reavers now thanks to using the final position of the reavers when allocating wounds when bladevaning is amazing. The link to the report is bellow with pictures as usual.

BR27: The Black Buzzards VS Blood Angels Mech - 1500pts

 Mushkilla wrote:
Had a great game against blood angels. Probably one of the best games I have had in 6th. The ability to snipe models with reavers now thanks to using the final position of the reavers when allocating wounds when bladevaning is amazing. The link to the report is bellow with pictures as usual.

BR27: The Black Buzzards VS Blood Angels Mech - 1500pts

Wow great strategy with the reaver sniping, I'll have to remember that one!

Thanks Red Corsair!

The usual war-gaming trash-talk at my local club lead to an interesting experiment. I exchanged armies with one of my Tau opponents, I made a Tau list, he made a DE list and we fought it out. It was a load of fun and really made me appreciate how mobile Tau can be (not having played them since some time in 3rd-4th)!

Here's the report if any one is interested (with pictures):

BR28: Kabal of the Bitter Envy VS Tau Mobile - 1000pts

Swapping armies is SUCH a good way to learn to appreciate other armies...and to learn their tolerances and traps. On paper, you might say "Meh" about a unit.

But then, we dont play on paper, now do we? =)