Miller, Chris wrote:
> -----> For E40K I think the answer against the Soviet Rocket Corps would
> be lots of troops with "save" - it's the all T-Hawk (can you hit a flyer
> with
> a deathstrike missile? I don't think so but somebody check the rules...)
> and terminator army. He can't kill _everybody_...
Concur. Also, 60 Deathstrikes is a lot of Imperial Guard Artillery
Batteries. And a lot of points.
> (as an aside I'm curious - does he fire all 60 at once, or does he save
> a few or half-n-half or what?)
In 2nd edition, all at once, all multiple barrages with a few harpoons
if the opposition has titans, and a few Vortex missiles for special
targets.
It's not unusual to have to face 100 Barrage templates hitting over 50%
of the time in a 10,000 pt force. Not merely that, but in 2nd ed, they
could target command groups, and didn't need LOS.
As regards countermeasures - in 2nd ed, 20 THs would do it. The one time
he tried it on me, I used Bugs, mainly in Mycetic Spores (Drop Pods).
This worked a treat. The same would work in E40K, as would any airpower,
THs (of course) drop pods, Engines of Vaul or other skimmers.
Deathstrikes require LOS now, and cost a lot more relative to other
things.
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