Currently I've read the book a few times, and picked out insightful ideas to try. First thing I'm going to do is try and modify my webway list. This shouldn't be a huge deal for me because most of what I had coming out of the portal was shoot then assault type units, like the Talos and Cronos, and Wracks. I'll maybe put the scourges in the webway instead of deep striking for a little more control.
One thing that I usually ran was two 10 man squads of wyches one from the webway and one from a raider. These are getting a couple slight changes, one unit will become warriors coming out of the webway. That second unit in the Raider though, they are going to take a single upgrade and be run in the exact same 'take on anything' role as before. Now most people have given up on assault because of snapfire, especially for light armoured units like wyches, but I found a gotcha.
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| Better than a Holy Hand Grenade |
That brings us to our single piece of wargear, the Phantasm Grenade Launcher. In case you don't know what it does, it is an upgrade for the squad character, the Hekatrix in this case, and it makes the unit count as having both offensive and defensive grenades. 5th Edition = meh, who cares, 6th ed though? Portable cover save vs snapfire. One of the new quirks to 6th is a change to Defensive Grenades.
ShootingA unit equipped with defensive grenades has the Stealth special rule against all attacks targeting them. so long as:
- They are within 8" of the unit firing at them.
- They have not gone to ground
So what does this mean? With your average assault range being about 7" with the fleet reroll, you are going to want to be within 8" anyhow, so when you declare a charge you get a 'who can get the most 6s' roll off. So this means you could get a 6+/5+FNP for your wyches.
I'll give it a try this weekend and report back.
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