Warlord Traits

[hannibal]

Which table do you generally use?

Obviously in each table some are more useful than others so I try and maximize my chances,

I run a Swarmlord as my HQ and usually use the Strategic traits as I think 4 of the options are really use, both reserve rolls, the redeploy and night fighting, the other two tables have 2 to 3 useful options in my opinion.

I'm interested to here from other people what do you roll on and why?

[fragile]

Strategic, mostly for night fighting and reserves.

[retnab]

Personal's my favourite. Command has 1 which is utterly useless (Inspiring Presence is redundant with our synapse) and Dust of 1000 Worlds doesn't do much for me since most Tyranids have Move Through Cover (MTC) anyways (remember it's a freebie on all MC's). Strategic is alright, again the MTC (Ruins) is mostly wasted but the rest can be alright in specific lists. I don't do much reserves though so in a non-reserves list Master of Ambush and Strategic Genius are wasted, putting you down to 4 useful options. Then there's Personal, all of which can be useful (Immovable Object on a walking Tyrant is beautiful) but the fact that it ONLY affects your Warlord (and his squad) is a shame. That does mean if you have a Prime or Parasite as your Warlord and hook them onto a squad they get them too, but it's still the Warlord and one squad at most.

So what's best? Really depends on your list. Personally I roll Personal, basically for any option other than Master of Manoeuvre.

[Jabberwocky]

I generally go personal or strategic.

Scoring HQ, outflank on HQ, stealth ruins are generally the ones I'd like. Some others can be good too, such as FnP near objectives.

[blindmage]

I go for the scoring Parasite every time. He'd be my only scoring unit! And he'd let me get Linebraker, most folks forget that the unit must be scoring to claim it (and that it's only checked for at the end of the game).

[commandersasha]

I've been having success with my Prime attached to my Hiveguard, for synapse and late-game combat; having him as my Warlord makes Personal my first choice: outflanking HG are awesome!

[retnab]

Dec 14, 2012 22:43:54 GMT blindmage said:

I go for the scoring Parasite every time. He'd be my only scoring unit! And he'd let me get Linebraker, most folks forget that the unit must be scoring to claim it (and that it's only checked for at the end of the game).

That's scoring or denial, so basically anything but Rippers for us.

[Raven]

Dec 15, 2012 1:11:07 GMT retnab said:

Dec 14, 2012 22:43:54 GMT blindmage said:

I go for the scoring Parasite every time. He'd be my only scoring unit! And he'd let me get Linebraker, most folks forget that the unit must be scoring to claim it (and that it's only checked for at the end of the game).

That's scoring or denial, so basically anything but Rippers for us.

Including Mycetic Spores, it's lots of fun to point out you get Linebreaker at the end of the game thanks to the spore your opponent has been ignoring all game.

[jifel]

Strategic: My local stores have lots of ruins, so that's great. Night Fight is nice. Rerolling outflanks isn't great but not bad. Both reserve roll ones are good. Redeploy I haven't used.

[elitemaster]

I go cammand mostly for that +1 to charge rang and the extra dice to running its nice to see a hormy units running wiht 4 dice and they are reroll so its mostly saying ok where is my free 6 in run this turn

[GuardDog78]

Flanking hiveguard with a prime...that's so beautiful!!!

[Bane Wordsmith]

I go personal, They way I see it Legendary Fighter and Immovable object give you more points, which is awesome and gives you a definite edge points wise. I've won many games because I've slain on of their characters and one by one point. Another game was capture the relic, which my Swarmlord was more than happy to do, try and get if off that bad boy.
Tenacity and Master of movement can really change games as well, It certainly makes your opponent have to adjust his strategy for something they didn't expect going in. Master of Defence and Master of Offence are not that great, but still aren't a total waste. at least they will always have a situation they can take advantage of, if played correctly.

Don't get me wrong, the other tables have amazing traits, but they also have some duds I'm not willing to risk getting. At least with personal, I know it will go to some use.

[lordbob]

I use the command tree for my coven army, it's really beneficial, except for one, rerollings one's when shooting at a squad within 3" of an objective, an already esoteric trait, for me completely useless since my army uses template weapons

[coredump]

I really need to look into warlord traits more... I dislike the mechanic, so I tend to ignore its existence until time to roll....

Not a good strategy.

[Jabberwocky]

Some of those traits open up entire game plans by themselves. Definitely good to know which are best against which sort of armies.