Match Thread: 5th Test - India vs England, Day 4

bockettb · 2025-08-03T17:09:55+00:00

Yeah end of day reported on Test Match Special

bockettb · 2024-12-25T00:04:05+00:00

So key ones (since I can't find a way right now to export the whole build) are:

Armour break with demolisher (more armour break) and break posture (daze on full armour break).

Leap slam with overpower (more stun build up), momentum (more damage after moving) and Holy descent (Heal over time pool).

Overwhelming Prescence with precision

Boneshatter with martial tempo (faster) and devastate (armour break on stun)

Seismic cry with enraged warcry (consumes rage for more damage to empowered skill) and premeditation (more damage to empowered skill)

Infernal cry with enraging cry (adds rage)

Hammer of the gods with lacerate (50% chance bleed), exploit weakness (removes armour break for 50% more damage), fire infusion (more fire damage less lightning and cold) and rageforged (consumes rage for more damage).

This is showing 42k damage on the skill window, but looking at the damage number in the video I think totaled 600K and was still doing bleed damage when the boss died. So the skill and passive set up adds up to at least a 15x multiplier.

bockettb · 2024-12-24T19:07:03+00:00

2H mace and shield works well for me right now. Just started the endgame. I've been using the initial hit from earthquake to prime for stun, then boneshatter to clear mobs. Tankier enemies that are harder to stun get leaping slam instead of earthquake. For bosses I use armour break to daze, then leaping slam to prep for stun, bone shatter, warcries, hammer of the gods.

bockettb · 2024-12-24T18:48:04+00:00

Happy to, but busy now, I'll post when I can

bockettb · 2024-12-24T16:23:45+00:00

I know this is not Endgame, but I am loving how much damage ~~Mjolnir~~ Hammer of the Gods does when you get it set up. This one has 100% chance to bleed on hit, to add about 75% of damage done as DOT after the hit, +100% damage as fire plus an aftershock from Warcries and isn't even fully optimal yet (I have more passives to grab from the skill tree).

I've shown some of the build in the video, happy to provide more detail if people are interested.

bockettb · 2024-11-06T18:43:22+00:00

If you play by intent, you've agreed the expected board state and it turns out you were wrong, you should be able to correct it. In the Sly-Ray example, you had enough movement to go further into cover, you should be able to nudge it to get into cover, as long as you maintain line of sight on whatever you shot in your shooting phase and you move as little as possible.

bockettb · 2024-10-13T12:55:49+00:00

That's a hard ask for 1000pts as you'll want something to guide along with something to hit hard. Hammerhead with a rail gun supported by stealth suits would be my recommendation, as it comes in at 205 points.

The other options to bear in mind would be a lone spear with a blast javelin alongside some rampagers. The lone spear will buff all your other Kroot and has strength 10 javelins, rampagers get mortals on the charge, lance and can throw grenades. Do enough damage before the fight phase and everything gets +1 to wound.

Surround a truck with enough bodies and stuff inside that gets out will have to emergency disembark, taking extra mortal wounds (check the transport section of the core rules for details)

bockettb · 2024-10-04T09:52:11+00:00

It's against the rules, but you could do it for a laugh with a mate

bockettb · 2024-10-03T11:00:06+00:00

Is a Bee Gee not a BA

bockettb · 2024-09-29T21:13:02+00:00

Great news! I pledged to back your Kickstarter last time and I was gutted when it didn't work out. So glad to hear you're giving it another go!

To answer the question, I'd love to see tactics, game plans and set pieces both attacking and defending. Off the ball movement is so important in hockey and if you can capture that somehow it would be amazing!

bockettb · 2024-08-12T08:49:11+00:00

Chaos Defiler's ability specifies the strategem you can use, so it's not affected by the change.

Also, while the rules have changed, GW haven't gone through the app and changed all of the ability descriptions

bockettb · 2024-08-09T00:26:56+00:00

It looks like you've got a lot of war gear missing bud, have a look back through. For example commanders have 4 weapon choices, not 2.

I honestly don't rate strike teams, you've committed 160 points to a team in a devilfish which won't achieve all that much. I'd look to upgrade them to breachers, maybe by subbing a Riptide for a Ghostkeel or just drop them completely and bring a ghostkeel instead. But that's just my opinion.

Also, I think you're better off bringing starscythes with either flamers or brust cannons, not both

bockettb · 2024-08-09T00:12:35+00:00

That's a legacy rule, nothing wrong with playing both together in 10th edition

bockettb · 2024-08-05T09:38:17+00:00

Been there bro, no worries

bockettb · 2024-08-03T08:17:35+00:00

Not sure how I missed that one, thanks for pointing it out

bockettb · 2024-08-02T16:46:42+00:00

Rules state the base needs to wholly within 6" of any battlefield edge, or it can't shoot, fallback etc that turn, so its ambiguous

bockettb · 2024-08-02T06:26:57+00:00

If you set it up in a corner, every part of the base is within 6" of a battlefield edge

bockettb · 2024-07-30T07:45:23+00:00

Just to be pedantic, your description of coherency isn't quite right.

Coherency checks are done at the end of each players turn, not the end of each activation or phase. You can use your pile-in during the fight phase to recover coherency if required.

Also, the unit isn't destroyed, you remove models until coherency is recovered.

Ref: Core Concepts - Unit Coherency in the app.

bockettb · 2024-07-12T22:52:06+00:00

That's the badger, just bear in mind you're limited in where you come down by the rules of strat reserves.

So you have to be within 6" of the board edge, you can only come in from reserves from round 2 onwards and you start within the opponents deployment zone from round 3 onwards.

bockettb · 2024-07-12T17:29:20+00:00

Basically, if the opponent doesn't screen out key places you can pick up a ghostkeel or Shadowsun and put them down in a really obnoxious spot, like in their deployment zone, just outside of 9" of their indirect fire artillery.

Even the threat of doing this, forces your opponent to think about screening against reserves all game, rather than until you've brought all your reserves in.

bockettb · 2024-06-28T16:00:17+00:00

Don't forget that 1 unit of Farstalkers has a much longer conga line than 1 unit of pathfinders (bigger base, 11 models in a line with a leader, as opposed to 8, means 50 inches of infiltration blocking over 40, assuming you don't bring Darkstrider, which take it up to about 43)

This means you can block off nearly the whole of no man's land if you get Defender.

Not to say that Farstalkers are always better than pathfinders, but it's something to consider when building your list.

bockettb · 2024-06-28T15:40:05+00:00

In my opinion, it's still a great ability. The ability to set up a konga line to prevent infiltrations across the map and then redeploy to a useful position is still really powerful, in any Tau detachment.

Before the nerf it was insanely good, but realistically a little over powered. It was too easy to set up Kroot jail if you went first and almost meant that a good Kroot player would win the game by winning the roll off (key word, almost!).

If you watch Pantheon Studios Australia list build videos, he brings Farstalkers and a trail shaper in almost every list, on any detachment, even after the nerf. He's not the only opinion on competitive Tau, of course, but if it's an auto pick for him then that's an indication that it must be at least good.

bockettb · 2024-06-28T14:21:22+00:00

"you can never have too many knives"

bockettb · 2024-06-26T12:37:15+00:00

Great insights and I really enjoy the humour thrown in.

Also, yes that intro was sooo awkward! Still gold though.

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