Mark A Shieh wrote:
>
> The three biggest things I remeber about the old stats:
>
> 1) If you were 51cm away, you laughed at one (31cm in E40k)
>
> 2) If it had shot its one-shots already, you laughed at one. All it
> really had left was its Plasma Popgun.
>
> 3) 650 points for 3? (250 for 1?) You might as well shell out the
> extra points for a Reaver BG or Warhound detachment, they don't
> die as easily...And the Stormhammer wasn't much weaker than it on the
> first shot, and much better on the second. The Stormhammer also was
> cheaper...
But made for a different purpose - the Stormhammer is,
as I recall, strongly anti-infantry while the Stormblade is very
anti-titan. The Hellion missile and the PBG pack a lot more
punch than anything the Stormhammer carries.
Which doesn't mean the Stormblade was useful - it wasn't.
Easy to kill short-ranged titan killers are not going to last long
enough to get into range of their targets... I never understood
why they cost more than the other SH tanks. A warhound detachment
with PBGs and TLDs is a much better buy.
> This thing was in the same category as Moles and Warp
> Hunters, though not quite as high on the bad unit scale as Hellbores.
> [Oops, I lost my company. It scattered off the map. Here, have 6VP]
10 VPs for the Hellbore company. And even if you didn't
scatter off the map, the infantry couldn't disembark until the
next turn (you might as well paint a big red target on the 'Bore
model). Hands-down, the worst buy in the game.
Scott Shupe
shupes_at_... shupes@...
http://www.rpi.edu/~shupes
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