How to Equip Termagants

[TheHiveKing]

so, i have 20 unbuilt termies and i want to know the best way to equip them. i already have 20 wth devs, but im not usre if i shold give the rest fleshborers or spinefists. i like the twinlinked, but i would miss out on s4 attacks. they would basically be gsc neophytes with twinlinked attacks and i already plan on running a nid gsc list. what would you guys give them?

[doberman]

I wouldn't bother with spine fists, If you have already decided that they are not going to have Devourers, go with Fleshborers.

If you are using a Tervigon you'll need the Fleshborers.

[No One]

Fleshborers. Definitely fleshborers. Mechanically, there's not much difference - spinefists are slightly better against T3, fleshborers slightly better against T5+, and same against T4. But the difference is fairly marginal - looking at less than half a wound on average for min squads. About the only clear advantage is that fleshborers can threaten AV10, but that's not a huge thing.

So, onto practical concerns. Fleshborers win here, hands down. They're your terv spawn, they've got the same strength as devs so you can roll them together to speed things up and they only require 2 lots of dice rolls (unlike spinefists, which require an extra lot for the twin-linked). Spine fists offer nothing here.

Fleshborers win slightly mechanically, and are so much better in ease of use.

[TheHiveKing]

so, is there actually any benefits to taking spinefists then?

[purestrain]

Feb 17, 2017 13:58:10 GMT TheHiveKing said:

so, is there actually any benefits to taking spinefists then?

Overwatch? Other than that when they changed them from being counted as melee weapons to just guns they fell out of favor.

[No One]

TheHiveKing said:

so, is there actually any benefits to taking spinefists then?

As above (or more generally, any time they're forced to snap shot) in the mechanical sense. That's...about it as far as I can think of.

[LordPathos]

Take the Fleshborers because they are babies to the FLESHBORER HIVE!!!

[slithernaut]

I would build at least 30 Flesh Borer gaunts before I build anything else. After that I would follow up with 30 Devourer Gaunts, and finally 30 spine gaunts

[Tyranoob]

Feb 17, 2017 14:55:10 GMT LordPathos said:

Take the Fleshborers because they are babies to the FLESHBORER HIVE!!!

You mean TLD conversion?

[dobbsy]

Just go fleshborers. In a game I played, I was charged by CSM and although the spinefists got more hits, the unit with the fleshborers got 3 kills, and the spinefist unit only got 1 kill