venomthropes

[biorivera]

just wondering what peoples experiwnces have been uaing venomthropes, and for those of you who use them hoq do you normally from a tactical vantage run them?

[elitemaster]

I use a Venomethrope in every game. My plan for them is to put a Termy unit in the fornt for screening but keep them in rang of the venomthrope so every thing is getting the cover saves. The I state off with deploying is I will deploy the thrope out of LOS so my opponet cannt shot it and I strate moving him up ones most of my units are getting to far form him but when I am moving him i try to keep him out of LOS.

[gloomfang]

I have 2 in my standard army. At 1250pts and below I run a Prime with them to make the unit bigger and to give some T5 protection from S8 weapons. At 1500+ I tend to just run them up between my Tervigon and Swarmlord with some sort of screen in the front. If I see some beardy git has taken a ML spam list then I deploy my tervigon sideways and use it to block LOS to my venomthrope (yes its cheesy, but they brought a cheese list). I then advance them up with the rest of my army.

Note that a unit of 2 venomthropes with a TS/LS/BS Prime is a suprisingly good CC unit against high toughness or high Int units that have low armor saves.

[liquid405]

They also have BS4, great for manning those Aegis defense line guns!

[fragile]

Oct 22, 2012 3:46:36 GMT liquid405 said:

They also have BS4, great for manning those Aegis defense line guns!

That they cannot fire by FAQ.

[Deleted]

You can use them to escort SL, nasty combo with Invisibility.

[N.I.B.]

Oct 17, 2012 21:15:22 GMT gloomfang said:

If I see some beardy git has taken a ML spam list then I deploy my tervigon sideways and use it to block LOS to my venomthrope yes its cheesy

dafuq?

[seanster3000]

I love Venomthropes; a moving 5+ cover save (that stacks with Stealth and Shrouded in Night Fighting); when assaulted your enemy has to take Dangerous Terrain tests for everyone; and the assaulting squad loses there +1 attack for charging, sign me up. It is also any squad within 6" I usually take at least 2 and space them exactly 2" apart then I measure 6" from that and start placing as many squads as I can 6" away. I personally think its nice not to have to rely on terrain all the time.

[Jabberwocky]

It's a shame they FAQed most of the benefits to only apply when the venomthrope unit itself is charged, not anyone getting their cover saves.

I guess they thought they would somehow be too good, even with dangerous terrain being barely significant now.

[liquid405]

Oct 22, 2012 3:55:02 GMT fragile said:

Oct 22, 2012 3:46:36 GMT liquid405 said:

They also have BS4, great for manning those Aegis defense line guns!

That they cannot fire by FAQ.

Gun emplacement /= Emplaced Weapons. Emplaced weapons are on page 96, gun emplacements are on page 105.

[Jabberwocky]

The FAQ was updated to take away both from us.

[drake118]

Enemies that charge our units within 6" of Venomthropes still take dangerous terrain tests. I know the FAQ did state otherwise for a bit, but they seem to have realized that that was stupid.

[halvar]

I can't find where they dropped the nerf drake. page 2, almost bottom left states that it's only when you assault the venomthropes itself.

[Jabberwocky]

My version says DT for any unit in the cloud but only defensive grenades on the Venom itself. So not quite as bad as before. Good catch.

[drake118]

Yeah mine says the same thing Jabberwocky's does.