Post by tomb on May 17, 2022 18:45:59 GMT
Anyone who feels our gaunt forms are appropriately costed, I encourage to try taking a list with no, or minimal warriors and invest heavily in Gaunts, Gants, and Gargs. Test it out. If it works well for you, post your list and how it worked out.
Devourers are particularly silly so I won't say including those would be part of this challenge, but I am genuinely curious if some interactions could make our gaunt forms more than troop slot fillers and slightly expensive msu action/objective sitters. I don't think a gaunt carpet strategy could work well, but a couple medium to large units and some dedicated support for them to see if they can perform at the level that their cost validates.
My feeling is that they are all about 1 point overcosted and devourers should be free.
My feeling on warriors is that they MIGHT be a point or two undercosted but mostly Deathspitters and Boneswords should cost a point or two more rather than the bodies.
if warriors had a better save they'd be dumb good for the points.
Reguarding horma gaunts, I went 4-1 at a gt the other weekend with a unit of 18 Horms. They literally won me two of the games, wrapping a termite drill, taking the last wounds of it so that ten berserkers inside went poof and move/charge blocking three carnifexen in the mirror whilst picking up an objective. Old school horm tricks are just better with their new speed.
But.
I've dropped them and will be running 34 warriors this coming weekend at a super major, because they are just better in every way.