mrdabba wrote:Drop pods can't fire the turn they drop down. So just move away from them when they drop. Shoot the ones you don't want to move away from.

your an ork player?yes?

Centurian99 wrote:

mrdabba wrote:Drop pods can't fire the turn they drop down. So just move away from them when they drop. Shoot the ones you don't want to move away from.

You should read the rules on Deathwind Drop Pods before you make comments that show you haven't read the rules. Deathwind Drop Pods can shoot on the turn they arrive. In fact, they're required to. It's also the only shots they can take...they only shoot on the turn they arrive, then they become weaponless, immobile bunkers (but ones that can still contest objectives).

Best way to deal with them is either to keep your guys in cover, be able to absorb 4, 8, or 12 S6 AP4 rending shots, or start with everything off the board.

Also, take note that the Deathwinds attack everything, friend and foe. So the other way to deal with them (if they're coming in as reserves because there's enough pods for the SM player to drop 3 others in the first turn) is to get stuck in ASAP.

Boss Ardnutz wrote:The Deathstorms have the 'Drop Pod Assault' rules. The game was a 3 vs 3 with 750pts each. The remainder of his army was a couple of tac squads and a commander, all mounted in drop pods, so he could elect to drop all the deathstorms in on turn 1, or leave them in reserve and drop the other two pods in turn 1 instead. Prior to the game, the guy with the deathstorm pods boasted that his pods had recently destroyed an entire 1500pt army without the rest of his force needing to fire a shot....

We had to deploy first and (presumably because most of our armies were on the board) he brought the deathstorms in on his turn 1. The first pod to fire destroyed a killa kan, two trukks, a space wolf Rhino, and a Venerable Dreadnought. The second pod to fire knocked out half the meganobz from the first trukk, a couple of ardboyz from the second, both remaining killa kanz, the space wolf razorback on our team, and most of the survivors from the Rhino. The third pod knocked out the last killa kan, two DE Talos, and the Space Wolves disembarked from the destroyed razorback. At this point we had three meganobz, half a dozen ardboyz, about 2 space wolves, a Talos and 2 DE Raiders in reserve. The opposing army hadn't lost a thing and with 2 x Belial Deathwing armies still inbound, we conceded.

TheBloodGod wrote:
Way to deal with them.

Don't.

My opponents have to use actual legal stuff from the current edition codexes.

Ancient forgeworld and IA stuff is out of bounds.

mrdabba wrote:
Wow. sounds like a whole lotta luck there.


I also find it hard to beleave you all deployed on top of each other were you playing on a 4x4. the range is only 12'inches first turn on the Deathstorm pods. to be even physcially possible for 1 pod to destroy a killa kan, two trukks, a space wolf Rhino, and a Venerable Dreadnought I would think they would have to be in a circle and the pod landed directly in the middle. Also sounds like there was even room after all this for the 3 pods to land next to each other since all 3 had a hand in killing the units mentioned above. Did they even scatter at all?

I think you all deployed badly and there was a ton of luck on his side.

Boss Ardnutz wrote:Are you sure we've got the same rules (I linked to them in my first post)?

As I understand it, each pod fires D3 Assault Cannon attacks at each target. A single Assault Cannon attack is 4 shots, so D3 attacks will be 4, 8 or 12 shots.

If three pods can engage a Trukk, they will in total fire a minimum of 12 and a maximum of 36 shots at it, at BS4. If we take the averages, we are looking at 16 hits and the Trukk will suffer around 3 glancing and 6 penetrating hits. Even with 4+ cover we would expect this to destroy the vehicle.

It's also worth noting that if the vehicle gets popped by one of the first two pods to fire, the subsequent pods may well be in range to shoot up the disembarked infantry.