Feeding the Doom?

[ranmafan]

Hey all,

I've been playing around with 'unusual' lists (that is, lists which aren't within my comfort zone) and one of them involves a deep-striking DoM - I never thought about it until recently because I thought that a DoM would almost always have trouble getting to 10 wounds in the turn it arrives (for obvious reasons I want to cast Cataclysm the turn it arrives).

But then in a recent game I watched a person feed a squad of termas to a DoM just so he could cast Cataclysm - it was a thing of horrible beauty. (He also failed his 1-wound Hive Tyrant's Ld on Spirit Leech, which was hilarious)

Anyone tried this, and what are the pros and cons? Is it worth trying, and what is the best way to feed a DoM?

Edit: Looking at the codex again it seems this tactic cannot work. Sorry about that.

[danielhayman]

As epics as it sounds , I think the leech power only works on enemy units :,(

[ranmafan]

Ah shoot, you're right. Reading the entry now it says 'enemy unit' - so that game I watch was borked. Bugger it.

[wisdomseyes1]

I usually feed the Doom large units of grotz


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Speaking of large units of grotz, if you want this tactic to actually work, play daemons desperate allies with orks using grotz and use epydimus and nurgles rot to get the tally up to max. ^_^

[rpricew]

I typically feed mine 2-3 units of enemy models a game. Then usually a lone gunman on the hill takes him out with a Str 8 weapon. It's always the One Shot guy and never the massed wounds.