Velvet_Thunder wrote:
So would I just keep the officers around the squads I wanted to give orders to?

 necrontyrOG wrote:
Don't forget the "fire on my position" stratagem. That's always a fun surprise for a vox equipped squad to pull.

 necrontyrOG wrote:
They're ok on a mechanized platoon. I like to run a Platoon Commander and a Company Commander in a Chimera with 3 guard squads, two in Tauroxes. You can leave the Company commander inside the Chimera and use the Command Vehicle stratagem to order two squads at 18" range from the tank. With the PC that give an order to each squad for only 15 pts.

 Galas wrote:
I think vox-casters will become much more usefull with the 0-3 limitation in tournaments.

Velvet_Thunder wrote:

 necrontyrOG wrote:
They're ok on a mechanized platoon. I like to run a Platoon Commander and a Company Commander in a Chimera with 3 guard squads, two in Tauroxes. You can leave the Company commander inside the Chimera and use the Command Vehicle stratagem to order two squads at 18" range from the tank. With the PC that give an order to each squad for only 15 pts.

Well my army is gonna be based around a mechanized framework so that was my more or less my mindset for using Voxes

 MrMoustaffa wrote:
For reference, 4 vox casters buys you a platoon commander, 6 buys you a company commander. Usually you're better off just buying more officers. There are exceptions however.

The first would be you have a very limited pool of officers due to slot constraints, like some odd ball tournaments that limit your slots or leagues just starting up. In this case you only have a couple of officers and so to deal with the fact they can't be everywhere at once, Voxes let them order wherever it is needed or hide out of the line of fire should your opponent have snipers. This way if your two squads who need orders are on opposite sides of the board, you can still give them orders. This also works for vets that are outflankers or riding up the field in transports although again, normally you'd just bring another officer.

The second, and more specific example, is Cadians. Cadians have a few different ways to spam a stupid amount of orders. Without Voxes, they require you to bunch your army up into a little murder ball that assault units just love to get mixed up in. Voxes let you use "Superior tactical Training" to order units outside of 6" and let your "free" orders affect units within 6", letting officers like Creed or a Master of Command Commander to order a whole platoon around without them having to be bunched up.

Outside of these specific examples, Voxes are kind of situational and usually only brought to look cool or because you have the models. It's nice if you have very tall buildings or terrain to order guys 6" up a building but normally if they're going to need orders you just put an officer up there with them. Perhaps you need to fall back from combat and the officer nearby died in the assault, so now another officer down the line can order them to get back in the fight. The one big use they'd have is if you need a unit to absolutely book it across the table and the officer cannot follow them. They can advance with their first move out of the officers range and then be given "move move move" to move again. Voxes are fine for casual games and a lot of fun to use, but as you can see normally have fairly niche uses and are hardly necessary.

 alextroy wrote:
Should probably be 2 points each.

ThePorcupine wrote:

 alextroy wrote:
Should probably be 2 points each.

Or give unlimited order range. It's a friggin' radio. You trying to tell me a RADIO SIGNAL travels a shorter distance than a grenade launcher can shoot? It wouldn't be broken to just remove the distance limit. Hell, I don't think I'd take them even then.