Dakkafexes... are they viable?

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Casteel, are you using the default Devourers the Carnifex comes with? I love the model but the Devourers look like sad stumps to me. Always interested in seeing conversions though!

[casteel]

Yes. They are small. It looks a bit silly but I tried to make them a bit less awkward by using the antenna head and slashing tail. I'll see if I can post a photo in a few.

[Rahab]

The Swarmlord arms make great front-socket devourers. Cut off the sabers and attach a termagant devour cone; the little gun tubes line up with some protuberances on the wrists nicely (if I can get my camera to work I'll post a photo). With the default arms in the back sockets, it looks pretty good, like its extending the front weapons to fire.

[leeroy1986]

Mine look quite nice, i chopped around the fingers of their old weapons ie Barbed stranglers/scy tals and chopped off 3x gaunt devourer after the gaunt fingers leaving the wormy side of it there and glue them in like a triangle section fill any holes in with the adrenal glands and wack over the gaunt carapaces(for each arm) so each of my creatures has about 12 gaunt devourers on them with various carapaces and adrenal glands hiding the gaps, it looks quite nice imo. I needed to buy more gaunts for my Tervigons anyway so it was a win-win situation as far as i'm concerned =)

[dorrin]

A huge YES!

I had two recently and they tore apart a baal class predator (two of them split to out flank the tank and take its side armour) and also took out a small death company squad (I shot it up then charged in).

[forteh]

Testing out a 2x dakkafex with prime deathstar later on, hiding a venomthrope in the back for good measure. Never used them in a brood so should be interesting to see how it goes, its 1250 points and I've sunk 400 into the 2 fexen - Oops! ;D

edit: the fex/prime/venomthrope deathstar did rather well, 10 death company shot up by turn 2, assaulted by vanilla terminators from landraider redeemer turn 3, killed all the terminators by turn 4, assaulted and destroyed landraider turn 5 to table him

They soaked up shooting every single round from the land raider, two rounds worth of shooting from the death company and a round from the terminators. The prime and 1 fex finally died in turn 5 from the landraider shooting and the last fex had 1 wound left.

Bearing in mind I still had the tervigon, doom, 5 raveners, devilgaunts and termagants (pretty much all of my force - I lost 2 units, the prime and 9 spawned gants) still standing, it didn't go too badly ;D

I will be running the dakkafex deathstar again, chuck a trygon and flyrant in for target saturation and it becomes scary - but then we all know that one!

[leeroy1986]

I ran 2 Dakkafexes tonight, they're very good vs Daemons(Fateweaver/Thirster/Princes) alot more useful than Trygons id say, then again the best unit vs Daemons seems to be Tervitoxigaunts. But obviously you gotta be careful with them

My issue with Trygons is they just seem to get minced in combat by other stuff ie, Greyknights, Bloodthirsters, Seer Council, Wraiths, literally every dedicated combat unit in the game outdoes them and Dakkafexes seem to benefit better under the current ruleset.

Leeroy

[casteel]

Since I didn't get to post the pictures earlier..:







I use the devourers that came with the model. A little small but I think the bright orange detracts from the scale of the pieces. lol

[Deleted]

Love the bold scheme man, you should make a thread to show off your fleet!

[gigasnail]

lol those sure as hell do stand out. nice bugs.

[casteel]

I will post some pics soon. I want to finish a couple more models first. I just got a Tervigon. I do have a few pics I can show but they aren't as good as the ones posted.

[commandersasha]

So, I just bought my first Dakkafex today: a Skaven Warp Cannon.
My biggest problem at the moment is shooty fliers: Dakkajets put out an obscene number of shots on the Waugh, Heldrakes can place a high strength cover-ignoring template anywhere they like, and Vendettas eat MCs. My DakkaFlyrant is too juicy a target, it's dead before it has taken out the fliers, so I'm looking at 2 Dakkafexen in the midfield.

One of the things that shouldn't be discounted if you're going to mathhammer Fex vs Fant is the Grounding tests: any enemy unit can cause a Str9 hit.