Daydreaming... If you could *pick* your BRB powers

[fleetofclaw]

Just a total daydreaming thought, but... if you could pick your BRB powers how would you roll?

If I was rocking a Swarmlord deathstar I'd probably do the following:
Swarmlord
-Iron Arm
-Warp Speed
-Gate of Infinity
-Life Leech

Then have a Tervigon throwing endurance down on him and his regenning prime and tyrant guards.

Why no Invisibility? Because I don't need it with how fast he's going to be in combat, and how impossible he is to kill him the first place, AND I don't like the idea of blowing my warp charge wad on 1 power. Between FNP, It Will Not Die, 2+ Look out Sir, 7-9 Toughness, regen on the prime, this unit is going to be impossible to kill on top of being *super* killy.

What would you guys do?

[kenji10000]

Iron Arm on the Doom. ^_^

[fleetofclaw]

Jul 25, 2012 18:17:49 GMT kenji10000 said:

Iron Arm on the Doom. ^_^

That would be pretty awesome, just float around and suck the life out of everything, so stupidly unkillable.

[gloomfang]

OM and Endurence on my BLords. OM, Iron Arm, TK shield and Gate for SwarmLord. Zoans would be Shriek and OM. Tervigon would be Endurence, OM and TK shield.

[fleetofclaw]

TK Shield? Hmm, when you have FNP, IWND (I love how close that acronym looks like i win), high T, etc etc, not sure if it's worth taking up the warp charge. With Gate and all the other survival goodness I see people getting *maybe* 1 round of shooting before Swarmy is blending them to death... and he is going to be 1 impossible to kill bug.

I can definitely see OM, but you're sure over-prepping for fliers in my opinion. On the BL it's problematic because you couldn't assault anything after using it (or with maledictions you can assault something else? Have to recheck the rulebook), but definintely on the zoans, being able to 1 round a flier would be sweet. In fact, that would be exactly my loadout on zthropes, OM and shriek (you pretty much replicate the versatility of warp lance and warp blast but MUCH more effective vs fliers).

[gloomfang]

Jul 25, 2012 19:13:06 GMT fleetofclaw said:

TK Shield? Hmm, when you have FNP, IWND (I love how close that acronym looks like i win), high T, etc etc, not sure if it's worth taking up the warp charge. With Gate and all the other survival goodness I see people getting *maybe* 1 round of shooting before Swarmy is blending them to death... and he is going to be 1 impossible to kill bug.

I can definitely see OM, but you're sure over-prepping for fliers in my opinion. On the BL it's problematic because you couldn't assault anything after using it (or with maledictions you can assault something else? Have to recheck the rulebook), but definintely on the zoans, being able to 1 round a flier would be sweet. In fact, that would be exactly my loadout on zthropes, OM and shriek (you pretty much replicate the versatility of warp lance and warp blast but MUCH more effective vs fliers).

TK shield is for the turn that he just sits there after Gating. Endurance is probably just as good if not better though. It is fun to gate within 6 inches and then make shots bounce back at them though.

And OM is not just for flyers. We are still mech heavy here and the mech players are pretty good at getting cover saves. Nice to get some glances and as it is a Maladiction I can run or charge whomever later on.

[coredump]

divination, presciience on the Blords

[kurbutti]

I wouldn't mind having to roll for powers if I could just have access to Divination. Now that I've got some exprience with the Disciplines available to Tyranids, I can't help but to wonder why EVERYTHING in Divination is totally worth taking. There would simply be no risk.

I'd just take 120 Devilgants and stick a line of Zoanthropes behind them casting Prescience / (whatever ignores cover) on them and misfortune at the enemy... Trololollolo

[killme304]

Iron Arm for DoM

Warp Speed, Endurance, and Iron Arm/OM (depending on the opponent) for the Tervigon

Either OM/Enfeeble, or keep normal powers on Zoans (depends on enemy)

Swarmlord with Iron Arm/Gate of Infinity (former vs armies like GK that can ID him, later otherwise), Enfeeble, Endurance, and Warp Speed.

[fleetofclaw]

I'm so in love with enfeeble! In fact I'm horrified of facing another Nid player laying enfeeble down on my shrikes and slapping them with a ST canon! Ugh.

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[Lanesend]

Jul 25, 2012 18:54:09 GMT gloomfang said:

Zoans would be Shriek and OM.

I was thinking about that. If you take a primaris power for killing infantry, wouldn't Smite be the better choice? It seems more reliable to me.
Didn't take time to mathhammer it out though.

[Jabberwocky]

Shriek ignores cover saves, which depending where you are applying your Zoans, could be important.

[Lanesend]

Oh yeah. I see it / get it now. Thanks Jabberwocky.