zyggy
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Post by zyggy on Mar 20, 2018 10:22:47 GMT -6
For a walker with 14" movement, an assault D3 melta and ion shields? 240 Sounds just fine to me.
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Post by Nick P on Mar 20, 2018 10:26:18 GMT -6
My hesitation on this is exactly what Winters went through in that video - the Onager Dune Crawler is exactly as tough and has better shooting and costs 100 points less. So they're basically charging 100 points for the movement - which, I suppose, is handy in an all-knight detachment to go grab objectives if they make it to the late game or just in general to advance up field faster turn 1 and 2, but I don't know if I'd value that ability at 100 points.
I guess admech players if you could give your onager 14" movement for 100 points would you? My gut says no.
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Post by Eric formerly Eric on Mar 20, 2018 11:16:42 GMT -6
Does the onager have any close combat? I definitely agree though that the stats and lack of special rules make it pretty underwhelming for 240 points. I agree that the mobility is unmatched for imperium but it can be tarpitted really easily (it needed some sort of "leave combat and shoot/charge" rule) I'll probably hold off nabbing one for now.
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Post by Nick P on Mar 20, 2018 11:52:45 GMT -6
Yeah good point on the onager not having combat. I think it'll be fun for friendly games and for all knight armies to not just have to show up with 3 of the same model, now they can do 2 of the same model and 3 or so of the smaller guys lol
I did pick up forgebane (er...pre ordered it. Had a 15% off coupon for ebay, so managed to get it for $115 total with free shipping). So I'll have 2 of them to mess around with as allies to my space marines or whatever, to test out.
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doubleback
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Post by doubleback on Mar 20, 2018 11:56:45 GMT -6
Still picking up the box, I can make this work for SOMETHING in the Orc army
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Post by Eric formerly Eric on Mar 20, 2018 11:58:41 GMT -6
Still picking up the box, I can make this work for SOMETHING in the Orc army Well then the rules really don't matter for you
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doubleback
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Post by doubleback on Mar 20, 2018 12:04:32 GMT -6
I mean I could maybe use them for DG...there are dark admech, right?
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