Post by No One on Oct 29, 2016 1:30:58 GMT
Osedaxx said:
I'm still confused how removing two dice from your pool has ended the Psychic Phase. The formation says that for every unit PAST the first, so as a 1-3 at max you can only have 2 dice removed by this rule. Gun those T3 girls down and you're good. Not a game changer in my mind.... Less the formation itself, and more that it actually lets you take Sisters of Silence without going unbound - they've got the same anti-psyker rules as a culexus. Of course, since the culexus hasn't ended the psychic phase, I don't see why these would - it's not like they're available to half the armies and a culexus isn't
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mattblowers said:
12" radius = 24"circumference hence the 24" bubble; basic geometry. *Shrug* I don't know about you, but when I talk about (and hear about) bubble effects, I'm usually referring to radius (i.e. how often do you say a venomthrope has a 12" shrouded bubble?). The 'back' half of the 24" diameter (diameter, not circumference
), is...not hugely relevant, since the front part is where the effect is going to be of import first - i.e. they need to get within 12" of the enemy to be of use. Anyway, not that relevant - my main point was the rest of my post.
12" plus 5 models at 2" per is 22" x 2.
Not quite, since that's turning it into an 'oval', still with a 12" radius in one direction. Which is great for blocking off a chunk of the dz, but is inaccurate to describe how it extends out towards the opponent. (For an actual circle, they'd block off ~15" radius).
It means at least turn 2 before deathstars get spun up,maybe turn 3 (at least against a good player) AND it's only 225 points of your list. If you can't see how it changes the meta, for the better in most situations, I don't know what else to say.
...They're perfectly capable of getting spun up T1, T2, T3 etc (though if they haven't killed off the sisters, they're not really moving anywhere except shuffling forward a bit T1
). But again, a culexus can do the same thing (except with infiltrate, it can actually deny them a fair bit more movement T1, especially if you can hide a single model outside LoS). The top table for ETC had a single culexus shut down a psychic deathstar completely. Yet there were still quite a few psychic deathstars there. Will it give a bit more of a shift away from psychic deathstars? Probably, since sisters are cheaper to fit in the list. But a huge shift? Again, not seeing it.
