Post by foypen on Mar 4, 2020 23:19:06 GMT
They can. I've played three games with it. It was helpful in two games. In the third game, I was playing against thousand sons and if I moved into 24" my squads evaporated.
Generally, the chances of them perfectly killing a squad are low. They're either going to be wasting shots as they put too many into one squad and have overkilled it or that they didn't put enough into your squad and it lives and regenerates. Regardless, you're forcing your opponent down a very specific path, which is generally the best way to play nids.
Same with me. Sometimes it works better than others. Mainly a surprise when they go over the top to fight Stealers and Horms with very minimal high strength weapons. Funny story, I had a single Flyant take a whole turn of Tau shooting only losing 4 wounds, but it didn't have a happy ending when it died in my next charge phase to overwatch.
Trygon Prime and Dimachaeron typically get blown off the board in a turn or two, but then my shooty walkrant usually gets targeted early and forgot about to heal the rest of the game with Swarmlord, OOE, a couple Flyrants, and a Haruspex in their face.