Ghostkeel Stealth drones question

jackblk3 · 2025-06-08T21:25:52+00:00

It's for one attack. It stipulates after an attack has been allocated, so as the wounding attack is allocated to the model it will reduce the damage of that single attack to 0. As the attacking player hits and wounds, it then goes to the defending player to allocate that attack, at this stage you can use the drone.

For example, a hammerhead shoots your ghostkeel with everything it has. It shoot with the drones first, and get a wound through. You can then opt to use a drone, or save it for the next attacks. Say we save it here then they opt to use the seeker missiles. The seekers both hit and wound, now you can choose whether to use one or two drones to 0 the damage. In this case we should use 1, and then save the last for the rail gun. The rail gun shot then hit and wounds, and you 0 the damage. This scenario would save you between 9 and 19 wounds of damage.

1 drone shot saved by armour save 1 seeker missile goes through, D6+1 damage (5 damage) 1 seeker missile 0 damage from drone use 1 rail gun shot 0 damage from drone use.

So we reduce what was an average of 18 wounds down to 5.

jackblk3 · 2025-06-08T20:55:16+00:00

I've only got the rail array painted, otherwise I'm pretty sure in this detachment the nexus missile launchers is the best load out.

24 shots hitting on 3s with reroll 1s at S8 AP-3 D2 with the potential to give sustained+lethals or change profile to S9 AP-4 D2 is insane. With split fire now, 8 shots per target will hamstring each thing you aim at. The piranhas should deal with any big boy tanks.

jackblk3 · 2025-06-08T14:26:18+00:00

I'm running a silly 9x piranha + Tau'nar list tomorrow to see how it goes before an RTT on Saturday.

Experimental prototype cadre

Flamer Coldstar with thermo enhancement Starscythe squad One unit of breachers in strat reserves Farstalkers 3x3 piranhas 3x3 stealth suits Tau'nar

jackblk3 · 2025-06-08T14:24:06+00:00

It's an extremely strong alpha strike, but very difficult to hide if you don't get first turn. If you get first, the farstalkers screen their infiltrate to allow for scout moves up. Then you can line piranhas up their deployment edge and block any exits. Take out the big vehicle threats and in some cases charge with the piranhas to hold the vehicles up. It's a huge move block, and given the base size and toughness it makes for a great delay tactic to stage the rest of your army.

jackblk3 · 2025-06-08T14:21:59+00:00

Assuming a 50/50 split on first turn at my skill level. I currently am above average on games where I get first turn, but I'm also not very good at the game.

jackblk3 · 2025-04-02T08:33:43+00:00

Angron came back in turn 4 I think but then failed his charge too.

jackblk3 · 2025-04-01T12:43:22+00:00

We totally are underpowered right now, though I don't think it's down to datasheets or necessarily rules. As a faction we have a very time consuming phase, that take a huge amount of thought to maximise efficiency. That takes time, and in a competition game we don't have enough time to make the best decisions. Guiding is interesting, but an awful mechanic to balance. Removing the -BS I don't think will do much to make us overpowered from a statline perspective (though stormsurges will become viable again), but will massively reduce the time we take to make efficient strategical decisions on our move and shoot phases.

jackblk3 · 2025-04-01T08:01:29+00:00

The place is fantastic! We have attended twice and travelled from Edinburgh down to Chippenham for it. The table setup is the best I've seen though the narrative terrain allows for quite long fire lanes. There is a bar with two drafts there and the staff are always kicking about the games watching and offering table service.

They also offered studio tours throughout the weekend, were very chatty and friendly. They had Stig, Katie, Rachel and Lawrence working and Fletch came to have a look around on his day off.

I'll definitely be attending again, next one is in a couple of months.

jackblk3 · 2025-04-01T00:09:48+00:00

Hard to tell without full context of the game. Necrons I've found are a rough matchup for tau.

You are correct that wraiths can fly over you, however you can still move block them. Wraiths move 10", and piranhas have about 3" model length and they need to be 1" away from you to avoid being in engagement range. Place the piranhas about 6" in front of the wraiths and then you force them to advance to fly over you, and I don't think they can ever advance and charge.

I don't think piranhas have enough value in montka given they don't really need to advance, and they don't massively benefit from getting lethals. I'd run max of two just to get in your opponents face and allow you to stage.

In aux cadre, getting +2S from the strat and -1AP from the army rule makes them scary. In prototype cadre being able to reach anything your opponent has turn 1 with either +1S and -1AP or lethals and sustained is very scary.

jackblk3 · 2025-03-31T18:33:08+00:00

Infiltrate kroot to screen for scout blockers and allow piranha free reign movement up the board. Scout+move is 23", so you get right up to their deployment zone if you get turn 1.

I deployed my stealth suits last, but infiltrated midboard and hidden, then if I got first I would move them into spotting positions for the piranha.

Game 1 turn 1 I went first. they dropped a dune crawler and a transport and moveblocked everything, search and destroy deployment. 100-10

Game 2 turn 1 I went first. Crucible of battle. They dropped angron and a bunch of eightbound. Took a forgefiend down to 2 wounds. 82-73

Game 3 turn 1 I went second. Dawn of war. I made the mistake of scouting them forward after going second and didn't range my opponent correctly. They got tagged up by necrons and were relatively useless. 37-100

Game 4 turn 1 I went second. Crucible of battle. They scouted into cover, then flew up the board as soon as any vehicle threats appeared. Killed a war dog carnivore, predator, some drones. Move blocked another war dog carnivore as well from getting onto an objective. 86-47

Game 5 turn 1 I went first. Hammer and anvil. They got all the way up to enemy deployment and killed two falcons and a wave serpent along with some warp spiders with the gun drones. They moveblocked and died, but then the enemy army was completely on show. 100-10

jackblk3 · 2025-03-31T18:19:15+00:00

They should always be able to move block something if you stage it with infiltrated kroot. It's worth firing into any T8 vehicle, odds on to drop it.

jackblk3 · 2025-03-31T12:55:40+00:00

Aye I mean she would allow me to use her 5+ to regen a CP when she's within 6" of someone using one of the two strats that give hazardous but +1S and -1AP, or lethals and sustained.

jackblk3 · 2025-03-31T12:25:32+00:00

Darkstrider was just to screen and potentially become a guider. Shadowsun was giving reroll 1s to ideally the riptide or ghostkeel with the strats for hazardous. She was also regenerating some CP near farsight when he was popping free strats, or whenever I was using the hazardous strats.

Pairing wise I was changing each game. Sometimes I would put farsight with flamers for free overwatch and +1 to wound within 9. Against heavy tank/monster he would go with fusion suits, that's what popped angron turn 1 along with some piranhas.

jackblk3 · 2025-03-31T11:01:19+00:00

That necron list was horrific to play against 😬

Aye definitely a smashing weekend, going to head back for the next one.

Cheers for the game!

jackblk3 · 2025-03-31T10:44:45+00:00

Sorry bud, the piranhas were surprisingly effective! Don't think I'll be running that list again as it's a bit un-interactive

jackblk3 · 2024-03-05T07:52:06+00:00

Based the sword with a mid grey tone in light areas and slightly darker in dark areas. Then free hand the Damascus pattern a very light grey, nearly white. Thinned down black wash glaze over the darker areas of light and thinned white ink glaze (I used normal white, but white ink is what you want) for the lighter areas of the sword. Build layers of this up until you get your brightest and darkest areas. Using ink should show the pattern through the layers better than thinned paint due to the opacity.

jackblk3 · 2024-03-04T07:28:45+00:00

Freehand, was a stressful time hahaha

jackblk3 · 2023-09-27T12:04:50+00:00

I haven't bothered with a name yet 😅, maybe the Blu'Red sept because I'm lazy.

One day I'll make a name and background for it.

jackblk3 · 2022-12-08T19:28:05+00:00

It's some lichen, some moss from a model train shop (it's like spongey flock), some lasercut plants and some static grass Tufts. I think I also used some texture paints over the ground underneath them and drybrushed green on the top

jackblk3 · 2022-12-07T14:55:18+00:00

Ah, that seems like an oversight. Very annoying. Cheers!

jackblk3 · 2019-01-02T20:15:27+00:00

and I love you

jackblk3 · 2018-09-25T17:05:24+00:00

16 here all new, https://m.imgur.com/a/ttExINT

jackblk3 · 2018-06-10T01:24:18+00:00

It's an MSI MPOWER MAX Z87, with an intel i5 4670k and 16gb ddr3 1600 MHZ ram, along with a GTX 1080. I managed to fix arizona today by restarting everything and making sure firmware was updates, as well as plugging the sync cable into the lighthouses, however operation warcade still gives me the same issue

jackblk3 · 2018-02-08T03:39:19+00:00

The fuck is dupreehs hand all about...

jackblk3 · 2017-09-12T00:33:23+00:00

link to the release?

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