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Am I right in assuming that on turn 2 a unit of Warp Spiders can deep strike in, shoot then run D6" and then Thrust two D6" in the assault phase?

yes

Ok, thanks. I thought this seemed a bit too good. So wasn't sure. This makes them very versatile!

The only downside to spiders is that I can only have 30 of them.

 Sothas wrote:
The only downside to spiders is that I can only have 30 of them.

...until you get to 2000pts...

 Elric Greywolf wrote:

 Sothas wrote:
The only downside to spiders is that I can only have 30 of them.

...until you get to 2000pts...

Yeah, but who does 2k tournies? they're almost always 1999+1.

 Sothas wrote:

 Elric Greywolf wrote:

 Sothas wrote:
The only downside to spiders is that I can only have 30 of them.

...until you get to 2000pts...

Yeah, but who does 2k tournies? they're almost always 1999+1.

There is a tourney happening in my area soon that does double force org....if only I had enough spiders and money!

Spiders have been made truly awesome in the newest codex. I would get more than 14 that I already have if it wasn't for the fact that I want to field Crimson Hunters and Swooping Hawks in my Fast slots as well.

They even managed to make the Spinneret rifle an attractive choice!

To bad they made dual deathspinners twinlinked though... :(

I bought 10 yesterday for a 2500 pt tourny this weekend. I cant wait to test them out. I have never fielded them before this codex.

 Sothas wrote:
The only downside to spiders is that I can only have 30 of them.

well not if you take 2 Spiderman Autarchs! I plan to do that regularly since they are slightly overkill but allow more melee options, (when you have 3 squads you can counter the only soild counter to warp spiders - CHARGE!) and they protect the Autarch from doubles in the warp. Due to model count issues I also played with the idea of having 3 squads in low point games (7,8,7) with the two "seven" squads having an autarch (+powersword, plus deathspinner = 5 power attacks on charge + 2 shots b4) and exarch (fastshot +twinlinked+powerblades = 4 attacks on charge plus 3 shots) each - they are easy model wise because of the tonnes of exarchs they make you buy and very effective plus autarch gives the squad grenades. nice. not saying it's gonna please everyone but with 32 warp spiders bouncing about you even have a lot of anti hoard and tolerable hit and run melee (their only weakness)

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