The Spore Mine

[Imasho]

Hello Hive

I've not played in a while and was looking at the new mucolid mines, specifically in the spore field formation.


The way I read it deep striking spore mines no longer explode when deep struck and they land on a enemy model they now role a mishap and only explode if they make it into assault?

As an exception mines from biovores and harpys Do explode when the land on a model in the shooting phase.


Have I got that right?

[WestRider]

That is correct. Deep Striking Spore Mines can no longer be used as a sort of bombardment, they have to land and then Charge.

[Imasho]

Ah not so good i had visions of combining sporefield with skyblight a Cad and a comms relay for early bombardment. Ah well back to the drawing board.

Cheers westrider.

[buzz]

I mean they are still very useful deep-striking to re route vehicles and soaking up fire. I mean anything shooting at spore clusters is a waste and I've had mucolids last multiple turns of fire in 3+ cover while still being relevant. I've usually had 1 of 3 get a charge in, and they don't do much often but that's still alright. i mean if they mishap oh well, you'll have another 5 and 3 clusters. even if the enemy places them its just 15 pts regardless. I wouldn't give up yet, being aggressive with 15 pt models can be effective in controlling the enemy's actions.

[blackrainbow]

Old spore mines where one of my favorite and now sorely missed units/style of play. Early nukes or post deployment control, ahh the good 'ol days.

[Kwodd]

People love shooting my Mucolids and that's what makes them usef outside of the list building phase. The fact that they look like an MC means people who aren't in the know will put alot of dice into them without thinking twice. In the approximate 30 games I've ran them they haven't made more than a couple assaults. They are best when infiltrated from MoA or Sporefield because they can very quickly become useless with a bad DS scatter.

[Imasho]

So mucolids are definitely a cheap distraction unit perhaps infiltrated in front of stealers drawing some fire away?

[gigasnail]

think of them more as denial units. if they're not dealt with, they explode at S8 ap3 ignores cover. park them near objectives and they have to be cleared off before anything comes to try to claim it.

[robotoctopus]

I've found that another great use for mucolids is intimidating and herding flyers and FMCS. By not infiltrating mucolids you're free to charge any swooping FMC that dares come close on turn one.
Plus,infiltrating some out of los can really mess with a weaker flier coming in from reseves later in the game.

[Imasho]

Cheers guys I shall trial a couple next game.

[N.I.B.]

I managed to charge a Heldrake with a Mucolid once. Failed to roll 4+.

[nurglitch]

I've managed to charge an enemy flyer with a Mucalid. That was because my opponent, despite a patient explanation about what Mucalids are and what they do, moved his Razorwing really close to the Mucalid. The Sporefield is great though, especially if you can get lucky recycling units onto the board. The only drawback is getting the models!

[renko]

Since I have the models I always include the sporefield formation.
3 mucolids and 3x6 sporemines for 105 pts is just to good not to take.

The main reason is area denial. Love to see my opponents struggle to avoid them.
Occasionally they eat overwatch to. Just be careful to put them in combat as you can hit your own guys to.

[renko]

I also wonder, if the mucolid charges a flyer or fmc who are in the air, and there are enemy models under the blast as well as the flyer, are those models hit to?

[utam]

Renko, I guess that if they charge flyers/FMCs, they kinda skyfire them, so the models beneath are not hit... But that's only a guess, I think you should double check (don't have the rulebook with me now). Anyway, according to what I know, the battlefield has like two "levels" in WH40K - they are the ground and the sky, and they don't hit each other without skyfire or something like that.

By the way, nice to see this thread. I was just about to ask the same question as Imasho