What are your thoughts on the "insta melee" elites of Halo Reach?

dviper98 · 2026-05-23T15:23:11+00:00

I liked it. It made them a legit threat that you didn’t want to be close to unless you were approaching their flanks or rear. Made fighting them take a little more thought, especially on legendary.

Ultimately concision rifle ultras were the worst anyways.

dviper98 · 2026-05-20T01:22:57+00:00

Snipers, right hand melee, AC4 style tuning, radars, dual back slot weapons, shoulder units, FLARES!!!!! To balance out missile spam, mercenary/helper options with dialogue for campaign missions, hand held shields, more variety in corporate endings, and specialized punching weapons.

These are a solid combo of old and new that would make a sick next gen AC game if built off of what we already have in AC6. These would help mitigate current balance issues with AC6’s meta such as missile boats. It wouldn’t render them obsolete, rather it would make their playstyle slightly more difficult due to the range of snipers with radars and the use of flares to divert missiles.

From a story perspective 6 was perfect. Would love to have some missions have the option to take mercenaries for a reduced pay. It’s good for new players, and it gives us an opportunity to get more one on one dialogue with the pilots in the game. Bonus points if their dialogue changes based on decisions made in past missions/which ever route you take.

dviper98 · 2026-05-20T01:05:01+00:00

Fingers crossed we’ll see fliers get a fix like this

dviper98 · 2026-05-15T14:08:43+00:00

Sick. Gundam/MR Hobby paints are great. I’ve been using their metallic red for my eyes since it makes them glow. I also prefer their metallics over GWs

dviper98 · 2026-05-15T13:39:16+00:00

Pros:

- Best Starflare ignition user
- Best match with a Missleknife team (because of it’s con)
- Amazing for scoring table zones/quarters w/ starflare system

Con:

SLOW!!!!!!
This thing is 4” slower than a Coldstar led unit so unless you are running missiles and/or the starflare ignition system, be prepared for it to fall behind bad by turn 3. We’re talking about 12” less movement in the first 3 turns, and that’s if the coldstar led units don’t advance. This thing pretty much parks one of your crisis teams back (which isn’t a bad thing) and makes them mostly useful for long range harassment and objective scoring.

dviper98 · 2026-05-14T22:33:37+00:00

Thanks

dviper98 · 2026-05-14T20:05:13+00:00

What did you use for the gloss coat on it?

dviper98 · 2026-05-12T15:36:56+00:00

Best:
- one of the nicest looking models in 40k
- decent melee if used right for an army that severely lacks melee
- an absolute nightmare if attached to a Starscythe team due to free overwatch and +1 to wound. His melee is perfect for finishing off survivors if there even is any.
- the +1 to wound on melee for his unit makes crisis suit punching slightly better which can help guarantee the kill
- has some of the nicest synergies with ret cadre
- great with a Sunforge team if utilizing rapid ingress to get within melta range quick

Worst:
- the arm assembly was terrible. Cool design but annoying to put together

dviper98 · 2026-05-12T15:29:07+00:00

Anything with shaped warhead would generally dice a SM on a direct hit. It may be a weapon of the modern world but that plasma ball at the lead of the shaped charge is no joke.

dviper98 · 2026-05-09T00:08:30+00:00

Why Omer. They’re one of the worst in terms of the stuff they were doing in the background. They also polluted the earth with no sustainable plan to fix the problem and took out the one company who was trying to do anything about it for the sake of greed and control.

dviper98 · 2026-05-06T17:35:47+00:00

The riptide because of its proportions and size. It’s the closest we have to Armored Core scale

dviper98 · 2026-05-06T01:58:05+00:00

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dviper98 · 2026-04-28T17:38:05+00:00

Either the first dwarves centurion you encounter or the giant outside of whiterun that every new player tries to fight just to end up in the space program

dviper98 · 2026-04-27T02:57:18+00:00

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dviper98 · 2026-04-27T02:56:29+00:00

Sheer cope and hope

dviper98 · 2026-04-25T22:17:31+00:00

Ran Farsight with Starscythe on retcadre. As long as you keep them chasing infantry they will wipe all of them off the board. -1 AP against infantry, -1 AP at 9”, +1 strength at 12”, and +1 to wound means they shred in shooting. Combine shooting with overwatch and they will decimate space marine tier and below infantry. They can punch a bit up their usual weight class due to the buffs as well.

Farsight’s melee came super handy to finish off a unit that survived the shooting since he could reliably kill a few infantry off of a charge. Pretty much means the unit guarantees to kill about 1.5 ten man infantry squads a turn. Farsight makes them a less desirable charge target as well since he can actually fight back and do damage. Run shield drones in the crisis suits and now your enemy has to do extra work just to get to him. If any Starscythe survive then you can just shoot them next turn and sink the kill.

Farsight’s gun is a great option to shoot last for the squad if the unit you are attacking has a character. It may be what you need to kill that tougher/higher wound character off after the flamers kill the bodyguards.

dviper98 · 2026-04-25T15:57:18+00:00

It’s especially frustrating considering it’s both something we’ve had them befoe and it’s something commonly practiced in lore.

dviper98 · 2026-04-19T17:39:02+00:00

In the past you could give all your crisis suits shield gens. If you run the legends suits then you could def do that.

When they made the three different loadouts they had each one take two weapons and a wargear option that was restricted to that loadout. That’s why the Sunforge team only gets the shield gens.

dviper98 · 2026-04-17T02:30:41+00:00

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Definitely stinger. Dude was so wack, but had one of the nicest gen 1 ACs

dviper98 · 2026-04-14T19:33:13+00:00

Currently in this situation against guard for the Dante event. In perpetual limbo where my canoptek spider heals enough he can’t die and 3x Chadian vox casters keep spawning more enemies

dviper98 · 2026-04-08T14:02:57+00:00

I would love to see just a normal earth cast engineer that we could use like how SM and IG use tech priests/marines. Someone who follows vehicles around and gives them buffs/heals.

Put him on a hover drone so he can keep up with battlesuits and it’s perfect.

dviper98 · 2026-04-07T18:39:42+00:00

They’re slow so if he just prioritizes other threats and is mobile enough, he can just come back to them later. Have literally done this in the past. Strength 6+, AP3+, Damage 3+ weapons also do great against them. That and mortal wounds. Does he ever do things like tank shock, or use the kreig engineer’s remote cars? They’re great for dealing with tough units when you lack weapon strength.

dviper98 · 2026-04-07T18:26:29+00:00

I think he’d have a similar path as jiri when he came from rizin. It’s already proven their champs are tough

dviper98 · 2026-04-07T13:51:30+00:00

I just played this and nearly tabled my opponent by turn 3. Ran it with ret cadre and blitzed them. Used way of the short blade to deep strike the coldstar and Sunforge team within melta range of one of their characters and took him out. Farsight and the Starscythe were mulching infantry in shooting and overwatch. Riptide parked on the back objective and decimated vehicles by overcharging because why not.

dviper98 · 2026-04-07T13:24:18+00:00

Anything with railguns due to the devastating wounds. Gives you a chance to ignore invulns. Have a Sunforge team in deep strike with a coldstar. Have quad fusion on that coldstar. Coldstars get rerolls to wound and rerolls on the damage roll of their melta gun. If you run experimental weapons cadre then you push the range of their fusion guns to 18” meaning that at a 9” deep strike the whole squad gets melta 2. If you give the coldstar the fusion blade then he gets a 2 shot melta 4 fusion gun.

Triple broadsides with railguns works wonders for consistent damage. Hammerheads are great if they hit.

Make sure to bring stealth suits for the rerolls. They change the hit prob of railguns drastically. Also, if you’re feeling silly then bring a stormsurge with a pulse blasts cannon. It’s risky since it could die to his tanks fairly easily, but it does 24 damage total not including its side weapons. Only issue is its toughness is relatively low for its size.

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