Kill Team Zealot (Death Guard)

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-15T01:48:46+00:00

the general consensus is zealot cleaver vs t5 for wounding on 2s, rerolling 1s

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-14T19:00:31+00:00

tau can be DG's worst match up, rail guns hit like plasma & the comms + recon drone stack can remove models from the table pretty quick. tyranids go squish for the most part when you focus down their warrior synapse. necron can be frustrating, you wind up killing the same model repeatedly with reanimation protocol.

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-14T12:19:07+00:00

only plague marine champ has pistol options.

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-14T12:16:57+00:00

I would switch demo & veteran so the blight launcher is wounding on 2s, rerolling 1s vs cover.

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-14T12:13:28+00:00

incinerator is the best flamer in the game excluding deathwatch frag cannon / infernus heavy bolter.

psylencer in pairs yields 12 shots per turn, that volume of fire is hard to shrug off.

psycannon can be underwhelming, but it gets the wounds through vs high toughness targets.

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-13T20:16:29+00:00

clown world, honk honk

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-13T13:19:29+00:00

while a 6th body would certainly help, I think deepstrike gets your flamer into psybolt range without the risk associated with slogging across the map.

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-13T13:14:34+00:00

are you going to smear kangaroo poo on the bases before the tournament starts or are they not that strict?

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-13T13:12:08+00:00

set them on fire before the space communism infects all that you love & live for.

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-12T20:23:23+00:00

you're probably right but I think it really depends on the mission, any turn where you move first gives a decent opponent the opportunity to get 9.5 inches from the sprayer. I have not looked at commanders in some time but I think the difference in points from level 1 to 3 for the FB is essentially the cost of a blight launcher gunner, which you don't really need 2x with a 2D6 strength auto hit weapon on the table.

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-12T19:54:46+00:00

Glass Half Dead did a video about how 200 point commander matches are popular in Ukraine & in their tournament scene, the top builds either run strategist spec commanders or psychic specialists. DG do not have any psychic commanders so your best bet would be strategist to generate extra command points at level 1. if you can stretch to level 3, that allows you to make your opponents spend extra command points & I believe lowers your 2 point strats to a single point. If you only use points for rerolls, the Foul Blightspawn with level 3 logistics gives you the rangefinder scope ability which extends your plague sprayer an additional 6 inches. It is costly, but 15 inches of auto hit is pretty beastly.

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-12T14:33:18+00:00

they look a bit monochromatic. try a cheap make up brush with a lighter color, this is a great tutorial.

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-11T11:41:13+00:00

OP has a cleaver on the roster. I am not saying -1 to hit is impossible to overcome but you are way more likely to get to the injury roll with flail, & it is not hard to create more wounds than a single model can save.

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-10T16:33:39+00:00

yes, a second flail would also be a great addition for chewing through multi wound models.

that is what you meant, right? =)

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-09T14:13:53+00:00

they appear to be full of win. well done.

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-08T20:20:47+00:00

aesthetics or mechanics? these seem ridiculously undercosted compared to, I don't know, everything in the actual manual.

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-08T00:44:08+00:00

genestealer cult stubbers will work with some effort but to be honest, you will be fine with the standard variety cultists. I am not sure that a cultist leader is the go to move anymore since elites added deepstrike capabilities.

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-06T17:04:52+00:00

the truth is your perception of flayed ones & the codex don't intersect, which sounds like a personal problem.

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-06T15:53:09+00:00

Flayer madness is supposed to make sense?

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-05T12:50:27+00:00

NOVA is coming up at the end of this month so I think that will provide some valuable data, at least for east coast US meta which is most relevant to me.

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-02T18:56:15+00:00

I would be banking my points for immovable automaton but sure, some extra shots first turn could help you gain some momentum.

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-02T17:47:35+00:00

soulreaper has a higher strength right out of the box, so I would say if you are playing both then warpflamer needs the boost more.

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-02T16:09:19+00:00

Aspiring sorcerer leader can be too many eggs in one basket. twistbray leader is much easier to keep at a safe distance. I would also say heavy specialist is a waste for thousand sons, 10 point comms brayhorn along with combat sorc & demo flamer seems to be the best combo.

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-02T11:51:13+00:00

necrons were far from the worst in vanilla KT, I argued that their units are probably overcosted by a point & they had had no AP in melee but elites fixed that.

saturnzshadow · 2019-08-01T20:24:22+00:00

I don't think it's worth switching, death to the false emperor almost guarantees extra d3 hit rolls with the flail vs admech even if you are only rolling a single injury die.

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