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I won't even bother writing the list as the unit is that good but I'll quickly run through it and if you like, tell me what you think!

The mega star consists of;

Farsight for precision deep striking
Loth for iron arm + 2++ invuln + gate
Aun va for deny wounds on AP value
Plasma/ fusion / gun drones

The fact that you can have loth at the front( iron arm to avoid instant death) to tank wounds on 2+/2++ and then have aun-va deny the wound on a roll of the AP or higher is insane- not to mention any auto look out sir rolls for mass fire.

I feel that this has the potential to be better than the shadowsight bomb but I've not played either!

The rest of the army consists of kroot, fire warriors, 2 drop pods and a fire raptor.

What do you think!

How are you getting Irom arm and gate on Loth? No buffmander is a problem too. Honestly the normal Loth + Farsight bomb is the way to go and has been done ad infinitum for a reason.

There is a buff suite in the unit as normal, I just didn't feel like it was necessary to write as everyone knows what's in the farsight bomb now.


Loth *selects* his powers instead of rolls for them and is ML3.

Turns out aun va isn't an IC though so this idea is void. Probably for the best, it was looking to be far too good!

Buffsuit is not a buffmander there suit doesn't get LoS so gets barrage sniped. Loth only gets to select powers from one Discipline so can't have Ironarm and gate. Even if he could join it still wouldn't be a good thing.

yeah my bad on missing only picking from the one disciplines.

in regards to your opinion on the taking the commander over the suit, they both do the exact same thing and if I where to run a Farsight bomb id rather save what points I can-
after all their aren't that many barrage weapons out there too worry about other than OB.

TFCs and more importantly the new guard have Wyverns which are amazing and precision shots will be everywhere.

thunderfire cannons? strength 5 thunder fire cannons?

yeah they're cool at taking out weak troops but suits should hold up pretty well.

TFCs kill buffsuits. Even with Shadowsun in the unit where they have to use S5 but in your unit they can use the S6 You're bouncing around and trying to avoid fombat this means you're likely to be bunched with the buffsuit near thr middle (and most congested area) for protection from other units. So each template should generate 3-4 hits. Lets round down to 3 thats 12 hits 10 wounds and your buffsuit dead plus a wound or two on the next nearest model. Therr is a reason that people have moved away from shadowsun in the bomb and that reason has been massively compounded by the new Guard codex.

fair enough man, i get your point - in the right situation , it could be in trouble. but when facing off things like that, you learn your target priority for the rest of your army.

anyway like i said, i don't run with these lists! I just thought it would be ridiculously awful if you could have aun-va and loth in a Farsight bomb but thankfully not!

cheers for your input.