Re: [Epic] cheese

From: John A Chapman <jac_at_...>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 10:37:10 +1100 (EST)

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> duckrvr_at_... writes:
> > At 16:30 01/22/1997 +0000, you wrote:
> >
> > >I'm glad to find someone else with the same opinion of Doomweavers.
> > >Since subscribing to the list I've been astounded at the number of
> > >refrences to Doomweavers as cheesy.
> >
> > Well, if many people consider them cheesy, then someone is not using them
> > correctly if they consider them useless.
>
> I'm one of the "mostly useless" people. Sure, they're
> beatiful in numbers where dodging a web throws you into another web,
> but then you've got so many Doomweavers that most units are cheesy in
> such quantity.
>
> When I fire them, I'm lucky to get a stand of dogfaces.
> They're too orky for my tastes. The potential for massive damage
> (Psylocked Overlord), but generally the Doomweavers just scatter and
> get ignored. It's not like it will EVER land where you place the
> template. Mandatory 2cm scatter is unpleasant on a 3cm diameter
> template. Also, there's never terrain like a bridge or anything that
> is small enough to try to block off using webbing.
>
        Well the best (albeit cheesy) use for them is still in conjunction
with wave serpents. Up until we found the rulings in the FAQ (ie recently) our
group played 'stunned' = 'immobile' (heck the description (fluff) says anything)
hit by the wave 'cant move'...). But now you land the web on someones (ie a
Reaver/Warlord/other High Value Unit) head , it moves out of the way. Next turn
 if you win initiative and have a wave serpent within 50 - push the titan back
into the web for some instant death. If you lose initiative the other player
 will have to move first to save it (ie usually a good thing for you - the
player with bunches of skimmers). Of course the cheese value of using a WS to
push something as large as a titan around is not negligible.....
        Also someones post before seemed to imply that warhounds got auto-diced
by the DW's web. I could have misread the post but I think this was meant to
happen because the warhound had no 1+ save. If this is the case you might
want to check the DW's rules - I think titans AND units with a 1+ are safe.....
        One last point - another way of immobilising titans - vibrocannon
(even good for halting a mega-gargant) - do they roll the scatter dice when
they hit a titan. The rules say they can only hit a square on the bottom row
so if they could scatter a- it would allow them to hit higher b - on titans
theyd scatter into empty space an awful lot (amazing how something as big
as a titan is in fact easier to miss than infantry......). However the rules
dont seem to make the VC different from the other weapons - any suggestions?
                                                        JAC
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