doom of malantai

[Winged Menace]

Im taking a single spore in my army only for doom. If I manage to wound doom with cluster spines, ill take it on the chin. The cluster spine spore is there to draw attention/shooting from the enemy. If I was taking gaunts I wouldn't bother with the upgrade, because I'm hoping they'll be ignored for the most part, and Idont want to risk killing 40 points worth of gaunts.

[Jabberwocky]

So I went with psychic shriek.

It would have been brutal since I was targetting a LD7 Fex, but I was in SitW range so failed to manifest, twice!

I was actually at S10 so cataclysm would have been good but then I would have had to hit the shrikes which weren't as big a threat as the Fex that came and IDed me.

I'll definitely try Shriek again.

[Winged Menace]

I can see the point of view on psychic shriek, because it is such a good power. I really have a hard time dumping cataclysm. I don't really know of any other potential str 10 ap 1 large blasts that are available for 90 points.

Do you need to roll to hit with psychic shriek?

[Gravekeeper]

The biggest pro with taking Shriek over Cataclysm is that it's create more wounds to a small unit (even a lone unit like a Fex or whatever) than a blast would.
Another pro is that it wounds no matter what T the taget unit has, unlike with Cataclysm which is really lousy if it's like s4 against let's say a Wraithlord or Wraithguards, MCs.

A con with Shriek is that it can not be used against any vehicle what so ever, which a s7+ ap 1 Cataclysm blast is really effective against.
Also Cataclysm has 24'' range where as Shriek has 12'', but is you deepstrike close to what you want it's really not an issue.

[milkybarnid]

@menace, i think you do need to roll to hit as it is a witchfire power

[Jabberwocky]

You do roll to hit.

Gloomfang summarized the differences nicely.