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How do you avoid getting ron up with mass shooting?
« on: January 9, 2005, 05:41:30 PM »
I have:

27 gaunts
3 Warriors
4 Rippers
16 Genestealers "two 8 man broods"

How do I avoid the "run up and get shot" tactic? is thier a way to move up to an enemy with LOTS of rapid fire without losing numbers? I fought a DE army. 6 10-20 man squads of DE warriors shooting down ALL my Gaunts who try to run up to him
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Re: How do you avoid getting ron up with mass shooting?
« Reply #1 on: January 9, 2005, 06:13:14 PM »
Frankly, against DE you stand no chance with that list. You need something to take down their skimmers, it seems that there is nothing more than venom cannons on the warrios at your disposal. Biovores would be very helpful.

Besides that using leaping warriors would save you from rapid fire...if you're good at guessing the distance. Don't use stealers against DE either, they are a waste of points.

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Re: How do you avoid getting ron up with mass shooting?
« Reply #2 on: January 9, 2005, 10:31:16 PM »
he wasnt using any vehciles, jsut infantry, he shot up most of my tyranids, cept 3 Rippers and 5 gautns took out 2 squads easily when they got up, oh he had no vehicles
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Re: How do you avoid getting ron up with mass shooting?
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2005, 08:31:15 AM »
What exactly did you usee? What gaunt configurations and so on?

DE can put of a lot of rapid fire...in fact more than marines can do, as two S3 rapid fire weapons at 16pts are better than one S4 weapon at 15pts.

Even without vehicles you need biovores...in this case frag mines, they will cause havoc in a footslogging troops heavy DE list

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Re: How do you avoid getting ron up with mass shooting?
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2005, 08:01:53 PM »
Hmm Biovores I'll get those! well my army is a veyr CC oriented Tyranid force, close to no shooting at all, hormagaunts with Bio-plasma and Toxin +Adren Sacs
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Re: How do you avoid getting ron up with mass shooting?
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2005, 11:14:02 PM »
No bio plasma on the gaunts! Drop the stealers too, and get sum biovores more gaunts and more warriors.

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Re: How do you avoid getting ron up with mass shooting?
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2005, 02:26:01 AM »
To suprise bioplasma has accautly taken down many units, I cahrged killer kans, killed them because of bioplasma
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Re: How do you avoid getting ron up with mass shooting?
« Reply #7 on: January 12, 2005, 07:06:57 AM »
also, its very useful when you have to aussault Eldar CC units, because there mandiblasters dont have as high an initiative as twice a gaunts.  Attacking first is always a plus.
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Re: How do you avoid getting ron up with mass shooting?
« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2005, 12:46:44 PM »
Drop the stealers too

Why should he? i'ev used stealers to great effect when i wnant to seek up on the person with infiltrair. But also i really think that you should invest in a couple of Lictors. that will prbably stop their shooting untill you close in.

 


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