Post by swarmy on Feb 22, 2013 20:06:05 GMT
I'm pretty sure he means ending your swooping movement in cover...not switching to glue. Then he benefits from hard to hit and can get a cover save if needed...
How's that gonna work? A FMC can't get a cover save from area terrain. Yes, you can try to hide it behind a wall or smaller building or something like that, but good luck playing on a terrain setup where you can constantly protect a Harpy.
Aren't some people in this thread saying they have used them to some degree of success though?
So what? I made my Warriors and Bonesword Shrikes work for me, but you don't see me recommending them or saying that they're good units. It doesn't matter if you make a bad or mediocre unit work, they're still not good. They may work for you for some reason, but they probably won't work for other people.
The fact is: Harpies have some huge flaws and their survival is heavily dependable on the terrain setup. Sure, maybe you could make them work by taking 3 of them and 2 Flyrants, but look how much this will cost you. Again, if they were 100-120 points it would've been be ok to take Harpies if you wanted but they cost like a vanilla Tervigon. Not worth it.
That's actually a good thing you made those units work. Why wouldn't you share how you had success with those units? It goes a long way towards offering up some variety in our tyranids. The forum needs people trying out different things and telling people how they made them work for them. If people wanted to resign themselves to a mono-build army, or at the very least a cookie-cutter core, then you might as well just paste:
"Flyrants w/devourers x2
Tervigons w/claws & 2 powers x2
Termagants x2
Hive Guard/Ymgarls/Doom/Zoanthropes x whatever
Trygons x whatever"
in every single forum thread. A single tournament list post might as well just be stickied and no one would have anything to say one way or another about it.
The point is anyone with even 3 minutes of spare time to thumb through the strategy threads here knows what the "strongest" units are and doesn't need to be told about them. Finding ways to make the rest of the codex work is creative problem solving and is honestly more valuable to the community than regurgitating the same common knowledge information. Yes, he's expensive; we all realize that. Worth it for you? Maybe not, and we can respect your opinion on that.