Shockcannons in 9:th?

[wormlord666]

Is it time to rebuild all those Hive Guards? Shockcannons seems to be free. Jormbombs with the spell that gives them rerolls mayby has some play?

[topaxygourouni]

They are not free, their cost was just baked into the body. I would still go Impalers every day (especially if they end up ignoring heavy and dense covers too) only I would stick to 5 models so that I won't give any reason to enemy Blast weapons to be happy.

[garg]

6 should be fine for Impaler guard since they really only have to worry about iLOS stuff. Most artillery is getting 3 or more shots > 75% of the time. The only exception is mortars which might become common though they're not much of a threat to HG.

[hivefleetkerrigan]

I think out flanking shock guard could have some uses. I think that vehicles are going to be real important in 9e, so the ability to remove them will help. If you care about wysiwyg, then just magnetize the tips of the guns.

[zimko]

It depends on how dense your local terrain is. The more terrain, the better impalor cannons gets.

[hivefleetkaiju]

Jul 14, 2020 15:11:30 GMT hivefleetkerrigan said:

I think out flanking shock guard could have some uses. I think that vehicles are going to be real important in 9e, so the ability to remove them will help. If you care about wysiwyg, then just magnetize the tips of the guns.

No need to magnetize
The tip of gun can be push fit into the gun barrel

[mattblowers]

Jul 14, 2020 15:40:53 GMT hivefleetkaiju said:

Jul 14, 2020 15:11:30 GMT hivefleetkerrigan said:

I think out flanking shock guard could have some uses. I think that vehicles are going to be real important in 9e, so the ability to remove them will help. If you care about wysiwyg, then just magnetize the tips of the guns.

No need to magnetize
The tip of gun can be push fit into the gun barrel

Just the tip, give 'em the tip!

[autoxidation]

I think both Shockcannon Hive Guard and our FW Fexes with Wrecker Claws will be good this edition, assuming vehicles are more abundant. WS 4+ S12 4 attacks, rerolls hits and wounds against vehicles, can use the new strategic reserves rule for a whole brood of 3 at 105 points each... Looks pretty good IMO.