500 Pt escalation Campaign

[Dedwoods42]

Serpents are good, but not that good.

Shields are great until you roll that 1 or 2 when they need to gun something down thats about to charge them.. At 500pts, JJ and Ben (if he takes a serpent) will gun down infantry with ease, but will no answer to Vinces Sang Guard and will struggle to hurt a Hive Tyrant.

Serpents are awesome when you can take enough of them or can protect them from combat/mass shooting. Anything that can strip HPs or assault them quickly will deal with them with ease.

Cheers for the input Rob, was going to say i didn't struggle against them in my last game and with with boards being only 4'x4' should be easy to corner...
I think leaving them as is should be okay?
As i say don't want to needlessly comp things, the only reason i brought up FMC is once they are air borne it is a real struggle to hit them let alone wound.
For example my sang guard would have to drop within 12" to get in range, fire 10 shots, so 1.69 hits. Then they would need 6's to wound (S4 aginst T6) so 0.27 wounds.
Then next turn after the more than likely event that i do nothing to it, it can go upto 24" away and is immune to charges while airborne!

Sounds fair enough to me - FMCs (Flyrants in particular) are a right pain - more than happy to just jump mine with some Gargoyles until 1000pts. Can even include that in the narrative - something about needing to recover from shredded wings ;-)