Second Sphere

It's has changed my firepower a bit. Two missilepods, plasma rifle. Lone suits with two fusion blasters and flamer. They work out to be relatively affordable now that the multitracker and target array expenses are no longer needed. It's scary to think that you can get a lot of missiles for under 1000pts. 

Yep, you can turn them on to meet your needs. Means they are halfway decent against anything they shoot at, T 1- T 10, and can make up their points fast if they rend.

Assume if the signature item is a weapon that it takes up a weapon slot. They don't make that distinction for items, such as the command and control node, or the gauntlet. Nothing save the 1 per army and PT cost limits it really.

Although do note: the crisis battle team is just like before. Each has one of each weapon, and there should be 6 gun drones. Meaning that your going to likely have to get the commander box to get any of the special bits (pretty steep imo). My first box was missing three gun drones, but GW fixed that right away.

Quote from: pepsi on April 18, 2013, 10:15:09 AM

I just realized this. Our crisis suits are relentless, and they can take up to 3-4 weapons (4 for commander). That is a lot of dakka. Can you imagine an AFP, a cyclic ion blaster, and a burst cannon? 3 shots at str 7, 4 shots at st 5, and a large blast template at BS 5?     

On top of this you can take a self-destruct and get another large blast once the crisis suit dies.

As far as I can see you cannot do that. You can take 4 weapons but can only fire 2 per turn. Two sets of twin linked Plasma might work or a Plasma with twin linked Plasma.

Reread relentless and I think Ill retract my statement. Makes more sense to twin link something and give them a support system.

Unless that character is a war lord of course scale.

That is the thing about Kroot: they are never effective in combat until the unit is weakened by shooting. The biggest change is losing str and attacks, but you now have rifles that will still remove ork and imperial guard saves, including gaunts. In addition, you have rifles that can switch between rifle and sniper modes if you pay extra. You wound everything on a 4+ at one shot a piece (assuming sniper rifle) or you can close up and rapid fire, which means you have a lot of tactical diversity. You can choose to add cheap hounds to try to wound creatures that are supposed to strike before you (anything I 4) or throw on a Krootox for str 6 attacks. And if you want them to be anywhere on the board you have a good chance to do it. The downsides are minimal: they still get killed fast, they are not the strongest attackers, and they are not great because they lack frag grenades (always had that issue). The decision to attack is based off of the shots. Maximize their shots at 24 inches and your cheap units will do their job. I personally am thinking about 2 squads, 15 kroot 10 kroot hounds.

Allied with imperial guard I can make up for the lack of pulse fire, or I can beef up my missile pod counts between drones and crisis suits. I want to thank the author personally. However, I hate the lack of target arrays... and there is no combat armor option for the ethereals.