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Hi everyone,

I just need to know the following: what do you think of the Forge World Sisters of Battle Repressor in comparison with other SoB vehicles?
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Downloads/Product/PDF/r/RepressorFAQversion1P.pdf

From my meagre experience with 40K, I can tell the following:
Pros:
- Front Armour 13
- Tank Transport instead of regular Transport
- Same capacity as rhino
- Same amount of fire points as rhino
- Free dozer blades
- I can use this model instead of expensive GW tanks: http://shop.ramshacklegames.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=6&products_id=474

Cons:
- May not transport Repentia
- Flamer isn't twin-linked
- May not take a laud hailer
- Almost twice as expensive as a regular rhino
- Aside from extra Front Armour, stats are the same as both other transports

Does anyone have experience with using these, so that I can get an idea when to use the repressor instead of immolators or rhinos?

PS: no need to start the 'is using Forge World rules acceptable'-debate here; I've already solved that problem.

If you're going transport-heavy, it's excellent. As you'll be driving into the guns of the enemy, having an AV of 13 is amazing, making damage very hard for lower S anti-tank weapons.

I purchased three of Rheboks for Repressors. Before that, I ran an AV13 spam list that did really well with SOB. It's a great tank and only gets better when you have promethium relays on the board.

What do promethium relays do exactly? I don't own any of the expansion books...

My main reason for choosing this tank though is because I'm often playing against tau with their cursed rapid-firing S5 weapons

They give flamer weapons torrent when within 6" of the fort.

Spam it or leave it. that's the deal.

However, notice that unlike the immolator, it is not heavily armed, making it less viable for MSU spam, and more for "midpoint" mech forces (not quite horde, not quite MSU), relying on the 13 to get you to the frost lines where your sisters can do their thing of blasting people to hell.


Also, what with the whole Rheboks madness form sister players? that model looks more like an ork tank then a SoB one, its a pile of junk strapped on top of each other, and looks bad at it.

Brother Michael wrote:
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Downloads/Product/PDF/r/RepressorFAQversion1P.pdf

Those are old rules. Current ones are in Imperial Armour Volume Two – Second Edition.

 pretre wrote:
They give flamer weapons torrent when within 6" of the fort.

It doesn't work for vechiles.

Oh darn. Nevermind then. You can still park a F/HF unit in the repressor behind the Relay and use it that way.

beast_gts wrote:

Brother Michael wrote:
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Downloads/Product/PDF/r/RepressorFAQversion1P.pdf

Those are old rules. Current ones are in Imperial Armour Volume Two – Second Edition.

Did they change it much - I have not looked at rebuying all Forge World books again - bit expensive

 Mr Morden wrote:
Did they change it much - I have not looked at rebuying all Forge World books again - bit expensive

More fire points (3 on each side I think - don't have book in front of me) and FW said on Facebook they're going to FAQ the upgrades (but I cannot find that post now).

beast_gts wrote:

 Mr Morden wrote:
Did they change it much - I have not looked at rebuying all Forge World books again - bit expensive

More fire points (3 on each side I think - don't have book in front of me) and FW said on Facebook they're going to FAQ the upgrades (but I cannot find that post now).

Wow thats pretty cool - damn I really did not want to have to buy them

beast_gts wrote:

Brother Michael wrote:
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Downloads/Product/PDF/r/RepressorFAQversion1P.pdf

Those are old rules. Current ones are in Imperial Armour Volume Two – Second Edition.

Oh well, it are just friendly games anyway. I don't suppose there are many people at my gaming club that don't having a problem with me using forge world rules but do so with me using slightly outdated (and, by the sound of it, also worse) rules that were also written for 6th edition