Deathleaper and chammy skin

[Kwodd]

Thinking about running a laser guided mawloc list to switch things up and using deathleaper to bring em home. Chameleonic skin says lictors always start the game in reserve, does this apply to deathleaper? Can he start on the board ?

[infornography]

nope.
Deathleaper has to start in reserve as well.

There are problems with the laser guided mawloc strategy. If you are lucky, you will still get no more than 2 blasts out of it.

Here is how the strategy works
you start with the Mawloc on the board hiding in the backfield somewhere. The turn that your deathleaper comes in, you burrow the mawloc. If things go well this will be turn 2.

Then your deathleaper has to live for a turn while the mawloc is en route. If your deathleaper makes it through one round intact, then your mawloc can come up and annihilate something within range of it.

Then the next turn (turn 4) you can burrow again so you can come up again on turn 5. Again this only works if your Deathleaper can live for those two more turns inside the opponent's deployment zone.

it is a lot of points for a very risky strategy with several points of failure, but can be fun if you are wanting a change of pace and are willing to deal with a list that isn't as effective as it would otherwise be.

[afewveiws]

you're almost right. deathleaper bounces off board just like the mawlock so you just have to alternate them and it should work most of the game. if DL comes in turn 2 mawlock burrows then Dl has to survive a enemy turn, turn 2 mawlock comes in does damage and DL goes back into reserve and mawlock has to survive an enemy turn,repeat.
i would only try this if your going to bring 2-3 mawlocks

so the deathleaper never has to survive 2 enemy turns in a row.

[Kwodd]

Found answer to starting on board in FAQ. This list would have 3 mawlocs and be played in a club setting, nothing competitive but certainly a change of pace.

[gigasnail]

DL surviving one turn in the enemy deployment zone can be problematic.

[grarik]

The main problem I see with this strategy is that your opponent would have a whole turn to simply move away from deathleaper/ the lictors. You've essentialy got an 8.5 inch bubble (6 inches for the ability + 2.5 inches for the radius of the large blast template) of effectiveness with this strategy, assuming that deathleaper/the lictors don't die first.

[Kwodd]

I'm thinking the only way to get this list to work is to overload your opponents with distractions to make shooting at the deathleaper seem like a waste. Couple flyrants, doom, zoey pod. The more I think about it and read the comments the less it looks like fun and more like a couple hours of getting pushed around the table.

[afewveiws]

agreed. you'd be better off taking 3+ in a 2000+ list and let them scatter.

[dakkathrope]

I've tried this once. It was an enjoyable strategy but very underwhelming.

[gman25639]

I am actually getting a Mawloc soon, andi plan on running him, my RC tfex and either a podded devilfex or dsing trygon prime. Should be interesting,and yes, dsing stuff will be lictor guided.