Stinger salvo on crone

[TheHiveKing]

should i put the stinger salvo on my hive crone?

[blackrainbow]

Generally, no. The slightly extended range combined with four attacks vs a template means your going to be hitting more with the drool canon. Plus the drool has better strength. Now, your extra shot is going to be with the tentaclids. Heck, both your shots might be with these for the haywire. There are plenty of things out there that you need to fry their circuits with these that your stinger won't even touch. So, a second no.

[grarik]

I've actually had decent success with upgrading my crone to have a stinger salvo. It adds an extra weapon option where you're not vector striking/shooting tentaclids.

I know the crones main strengths are its s8 vector strike and its haywire missiles, but those aren't used every turn; in regards to vector striking, you may not fly over anything, or the unit you fly over isn't necessarily worth vector striking (I won't bother vector striking a monolith or land raider, for example). You also have only 4 haywire missiles so you wouldn't waste them on infantry, or you may have already used them all. By having the stinger salvo you therefore wouldn't be wasting the ability of MCs to fire 2 guns.

There is also the benefit that if you jink the crone, you can't fire the drool cannon, and you wouldn't want to waste any haywire missiles. If you have the stinger salvo you at least have something that you can snapshoot with, and its the same strength and ap as the drool cannon.

But at the end of the day it does depend on what armies you fight against and whether you'd prefer the extra shooting option rather than spend the points elsewhere

[Kark]

If You have spare points, go for it. I play crones a lot and stinger salvo is helpful. Extra 4 shots that can be fired as snapshots (after jinking), also can be used to finish off enemy units that just was flamed. Stinger is also AP4 (like drool cannon), so it forms nice combo.

It is not a must take, but it is useful.

[mattblowers]

I don't use the stinger salvo almost ever. Between VS and tentaclids I don't find that I use it enough and I'm usually struggling for points as it is.

[TheHiveKing]

Jun 15, 2015 5:05:31 GMT Kark said:

If You have spare points, go for it. I play crones a lot and stinger salvo is helpful. Extra 4 shots that can be fired as snapshots (after jinking), also can be used to finish off enemy units that just was flamed. Stinger is also AP4 (like drool cannon), so it forms nice combo.

It is not a must take, but it is useful.

in all of my lists i usually have an extra 15 points. Also is two dakkaflyrants and two crones good?

[Kark]

Jun 15, 2015 16:41:20 GMT TheHiveKing said:

in all of my lists i usually have an extra 15 points. Also is two dakkaflyrants and two crones good?

Almost every list of mine conists of 3 tyrants and 2-3 hive crones. Both can deal with many threats like MCs, 3+/2+ infantry, vehicles, flyers, invisible units, high cover saves etc.