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So who has fallen for a distraction carnifex ?

I sent a whole squad of wraith blades and dakka at a carnifex instead of killing a tervigon not relaising it has like 4 attacks and 6 shots or something..… Which basically lost me the game

I remember going.. Huh,, distraction carnifex is real. Me and my opponent had a good laugh.

 John Prins wrote:
Nurglings. For some reason people feel compelled to charge them, and then get stuck fighting them for 2+ battle rounds (or more) when they could just run away and shoot other, far more meaningful stuff.

TBF, Nurglings have a really bad habit of winning AoS games from what I've seen. Plus, it's easy to misjudge how much it'll take to remove them.

 Argive wrote:
So who has fallen for a distraction carnifex ?

I sent a whole squad of wraith blades and dakka at a carnifex instead of killing a tervigon not relaising it has like 4 attacks and 6 shots or something..… Which basically lost me the game

I remember going.. Huh,, distraction carnifex is real. Me and my opponent had a good laugh.

when my buddy plays his 1k sons I HAVE to kill Magnus(more on principle than anything else). unfortunately I've ignored Ahriman and the frickin rubrics one too many times to my detriment. but when I do kill him, it is soooo damn satisfying.
but to be fair my Salamanders relic contemptor is his #1 target(his SOB, BT, & Saim Han)since we've dealt a ton of damage and stuck around many times so....

 Argive wrote:
So who has fallen for a distraction carnifex ?

I'm sure I've fallen for it from time to time.
Sometimes I even knowingly do it to myself! See, if I don't like a model? Then regardless of how dangerous it actually is I'll try & remove it from the board asap - so I don't have to keep looking at it. (made it really hard to play against the original DE stuff - sooo many targets!) If my regular opponents ever thought about it for a moment they'd realize that there's an easy way to negate some of my firepower for a round or two....

A Manticore missile launcher.

If it survives to round 4, it had won, period. And losing one isn't too much of a big deal anyway, 2D6 on 4+BS is rather unreliable anyway.

My best distraction carnifex?

Literally a brood of x3 carnifex, spore cysts, X2 Scything Talons.

Dirt cheap, reasonably killy and never fails to get their points back in either kills or space created.

Failing that, Trygon.

ccs wrote:

 Argive wrote:
So who has fallen for a distraction carnifex ?

I'm sure I've fallen for it from time to time.
Sometimes I even knowingly do it to myself! See, if I don't like a model? Then regardless of how dangerous it actually is I'll try & remove it from the board asap - so I don't have to keep looking at it.

Ah yes, the old "dump all shots into Tauroxes" tactic

Leviathan. Big scary and eats up tons of damage.

Once my opponents have tasted the void bomb at least once, they usually devote a lot of resources to shooting down my Voidraven. And I can use Lightning-Fast Reactions to make the job even harder. They know the effectiveness of the bomb is not affected by damage tiers, so they'll sometimes overkill the Voidraven, e.g. if it's down to 1 wound and their last yet-to-be-fired weapon is a very powerful one that they were saving for something else.

Wish I had more Voidravens, for redundancy purposes; it's not only a good distraction but also great at killing things.

Gadzilla666 wrote:
Leviathan. Big scary and eats up tons of damage.

Leviathans are not distraction Carnifexes. esp. if you give them twin Storm/Butcher cannons.

 Grimtuff wrote:

Gadzilla666 wrote:
Leviathan. Big scary and eats up tons of damage.

Leviathans are not distraction Carnifexes. esp. if you give them twin Storm/Butcher cannons.

That's what makes it scary.

And mine only has one butcher cannon.

Leviathan Dreadnought. T8, 4++ and hitting at 4+ at the worst. Put all your shots into him whole ignoring my Intercessors and Devs

An Ironstrider Ballistarii.

Sadly, my recent armies (GK, BA) didn't contain any real distraction carnifex.

Sword/flamer Wraithlord in 4e. About a hundred points, if you don't do something about it while it's meandering its way towards you it'll carve a big hole in something, and if you do do something about it the number of lascannons you need to deal with a T8 MC aren't pointing at the Falcons/Wave Serpents where the expensive people are hanging out.

If you want a more recent story my Acheron tends to attract an unwarranted amount of firepower given that it tends to kill more things by exploding than with its attacks, but it's hard to call a 500pt model a distraction.

Mutalith vortex beast. Without question.

Warptime and advance it. Do tons of mortal wounds in 9 inch aura. Then you have a d6 mortal explosion. If you place it right it's for them to engage you and avoid the explosion. You still got 14 wounds with a 5++ which can really put a thorn in their asses if you make good 5++ and your spells get increased range if they leave you at low wounds. HAHA. All of that for the low cost of I think 130 points. Bargain. It is a shame I only have 1 and can't get more.

 Xenomancers wrote:
Mutalith vortex beast. Without question.

Warptime and advance it. Do tons of mortal wounds in 9 inch aura. Then you have a d6 mortal explosion. If you place it right it's for them to engage you and avoid the explosion. You still got 14 wounds with a 5++ which can really put a thorn in their asses if you make good 5++ and your spells get increased range if they leave you at low wounds. HAHA. All of that for the low cost of I think 130 points. Bargain. It is a shame I only have 1 and can't get more.

Mutalith is 130 points???? :O
Its an awesome kit, dont think ive seen one on tne table top

7th Edition Celestine. Even after 8th toned her down, my group still fears her potential and compete amongst themselves to tally the most double-kills.

A big unit of Reavers. They aren't tough (well they are by elf standards) they aren't that killy. But they move fast as hell and there are a lot of them.

Move them from my side of the table all the way into theur deployment zone t1 and on their turn they tend to focus everything on them.

20 necron warriors blob with cryptek and lord wielding an orb of ressurection. They need to be killed for objective denial purpose, can tear most light infantry to shred and even rip vehicules open, and are almost impossible to get rid of with anything short of artillery or 2/3 of your army. (in my group, I mean).

I don't really recall having ever had a good distraction carnifex as guard, but once, my lone recon sentinel (I had only one as I started to play) soaked up the attacks of half my adversarie's units in his first shooting phase. God knows how... but if anything but the few guardsmen it saved me that day would grant me a win!

With guard I usually find either am in squad of ratlings or loan Sentinels are good distraction carnifex's. If for no other reason then literally anything you shoot at them is wasted points. It works well in eternal war games. but man you can get completely screwed if they draw overwhelming firepower in the other type.

With admech I usually find the dragoon's are great for that. And after they get a reputation the shooty robots can attract an enormous amount of fire so I just bunker them down as much as possible.

Definately my stompa. With CA2019 point drop it is so cheap for what it does!

 Yarium wrote:
Mortarion. He's pretty much the ultimate distraction Carnifex.

This. Mortarion might as well not have any rules but "your opponent skips his first shooting phase. Afterwards, remove Mortarion from the battlefield".

 Argive wrote:

 Xenomancers wrote:
Mutalith vortex beast. Without question.

Warptime and advance it. Do tons of mortal wounds in 9 inch aura. Then you have a d6 mortal explosion. If you place it right it's for them to engage you and avoid the explosion. You still got 14 wounds with a 5++ which can really put a thorn in their asses if you make good 5++ and your spells get increased range if they leave you at low wounds. HAHA. All of that for the low cost of I think 130 points. Bargain. It is a shame I only have 1 and can't get more.

Mutalith is 130 points???? :O
Its an awesome kit, dont think ive seen one on tne table top

It's 125 I just looked it up. IMO it might be the best use of 125 points in the game. I think between this guy and the haruspex - you have the 2 ugliest (scary) models in the game too.

Wulfen Dreadnought with Axe and shield is going to be 112 points according to CA19 leaks.