Fallen Angel wrote:I probably wouldn't use anything like that many FWs either, they don't really give you anything outside the transport that you don't really have already. You can spam S5 with SMS and burst cannons on your tanks and slap two sub shots down as well to deal with infantry.

Aftersong wrote:

Fallen Angel wrote:I probably wouldn't use anything like that many FWs either, they don't really give you anything outside the transport that you don't really have already. You can spam S5 with SMS and burst cannons on your tanks and slap two sub shots down as well to deal with infantry.

I cringe everytime I see a tau player downplay Firewarriors, they are the backbone of any good force whether it be a gunline list or popping out of a DF for a fish of fury Firewarriors always make good on what is expected of them. Saying you can get all your s5 from sms and bc on devilfish is just ignorant, a DF can be dropped in one shot but it's going to take some sustained firepower to exterminate a FW squad in some good cover. As for templates from a HH covering your anti-infantry needs, who is dropping the enemy tanks if the hammerheads are lobbing pie plates? Another thing rarely mentioned is the psychological edge from fielding big groups of FW's, with a few squads out there on the table you know right where your enemies assault troops are going, it happens everytime. Your opponent wants the satisfaction of crushing so many models at once and guns straight for them right into your specially prepared kill corridor.

Math hammer is all well and good but when the plastic meets the table you need to know how people will act just as much as you need to know how your dice will act.