30-01-2015, 02:54 PM
(30-01-2015, 02:19 PM)will Wrote:(30-01-2015, 01:23 PM)Dedwoods42 Wrote: Good shout!
Cheers for the advice everyone - it's nice to get a bit of help!
FYI one wave serpent can and will kill a hive tyrant in one round of shooting if your not in the air. I know, its happened to meIf your in the air or you've forced a jink one serpent seems to be able to pretty consistently put a wound on a tyrant a turn. So my advice is if your using a tyrant keep him hidden for as long as possible!
Also bladestorm is a pretty annoying rule for our MC's so if your low on wounds or facing a lot of shrunken shots you'll want to jink.
I think electroshock grubs arn't a lot of use against serpents if you can't fly as by the time your in range to use them you'll be jinking a lot from their supporting units and unable to fire them! Might be fun if someone brings a dreadnaught and tries to charge your tyrant though and good against land raiders
Just my advice from my limited experiance using a not particularly competitive list against serpents.
As a Serpent user playing against Nids, Electro Grubs are fantastic.. they have a 84% chance to put a HP on a Serpent which it can do nothing against. Yep you forfit 6 STR6 shots, but they're not as likely to cause damage, Electro Grubs also stop Serpents from bunching up in corners away from your assault.
Flying Tyrants rarely need to jink in my experience, Serpents have no AP and the Supporting units are rarely twin linked, so aren't that much of a threat. Yes Bladestorm is a problem, but looking at the math.. 10 shots from 5 Dire Avengers needing 6's to hit and 6's to wound has a 0.2% chance of causing a wound through Bladestorm, 5 Fire Dragons have a slightly better chance at 0.6% chance of causing a wound.
So basically never jink against Eldar is what I'm trying to say, use cover to get your cover save (a toe dipped in terrain for even flying MCs is enough for a cover save).
