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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Or playing Guard, and just swarming them. Seriously, I never met an assault unit I didn't like playing my Guard.

Oh no! A full unit of Scorpions is eating up one of my Guard squads. Let's see how they like 30 more bodies thrown at them...

Oh. My. God. Finally someone else gets it. There was this one guy in my town who completely trounced everyone by doing exactly that. I mean everyone. He had like a 40-0 win streak. That's why I just facepalm when bad gunline players complain about sweeping advance and such.

Ah,now sentinal bombs, those I remember.

See, I love sentinels, even still, but I did love running them up at things and having them blow up on people. Not so useful against MEQs, but many a gaunt, ork or eldar died to my suicidal sentinels.

I tried to get my local group to give 4th a go; most people didn't play it, but are extremely frustrated with 7th, both in terms of shoddy balance and extremely fluff-unfriendly rules. Forge the narrative my ass.

However, the problem I've found with gamers of all stripes is they're remarkably apathetic, and convincing them to do something out of the proscribed norm is obscenely difficult. Hell, our FLGS has all the codexes, the BRB and most of the white dwarfs from that era just on a shelf by the game tables for open use. But everyone just goes "meh" and continues their arms race through 7th's awful rules.

 MajorStoffer wrote:
Ah,now sentinal bombs, those I remember.

There was a tale in our group of the "Overenthusiastic Warlock", who, along with his squad of brave Guardians, charged a Sentinel. The Warlock easily destroyed the Sentinel with his cheating Eldar weapon, and the Sentinel proceeded to explode, killing all the Guardians.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

 MajorStoffer wrote:
Ah,now sentinal bombs, those I remember.

There was a tale in our group of the "Overenthusiastic Warlock", who, along with his squad of brave Guardians, charged a Sentinel. The Warlock easily destroyed the Sentinel with his cheating Eldar weapon, and the Sentinel proceeded to explode, killing all the Guardians.

My personal favourite experience was charging a just-deepstriked 10 man Stormtrooper squad in 5th, exploding, and killing 7 of them.

2nd most cost-effective sentinel ever.

My first was one-shotting Eldrad with a Multilaser; hit once, wound once, fail all the saves, victim of Toughness Elf. Glorious.

Ah, Sentinels, if they weren't stupid expensive to buy, I'd run 9 of them.

 MajorStoffer wrote:


My first was one-shotting Eldrad with a Multilaser; hit once, wound once, fail all the saves, victim of Toughness Elf. Glorious.

Wasn't he T4 at the time ? I haven't opened my v4 codex in a while.