Quote: (Ginger @ Dec. 27 2009, 18:09 )
Given that the aspects only have 5+ armour and 15cm move, once they are deployed out of the 'gate they will be quite limited in their movement. I would therefore pay the extra 200 for Wave Serpents which gives these guys the movement they need to move rapidly into position to support an assault or two as well as extra protection. Against the right opponent they can be left inside the Wave Serpents giving them extra range for shooting / assault.
I was afraid you would say that, since I'm struggling to find the points to afford sufficient Wave Serpents for all my Aspect formations in my 5000 point list, although if I take Warp Spiders in the fifth warhost, that group cannot use Wave Serpents anyway, so I could make a change here, but I don't fancy using that formation out of the Wraithgate as much as the second warhost, since at least the Dark Reapers have a decent range. Anyway, I'll post my full army list below, so that you can see where cuts could be made to accommodate more Wave Serpents.
On the Warp Spiders, I'm not sure what you mean about their perhaps depriving the other Aspects of a target, could you elaborate a bit on that?
Army list:Wraithgate: 50
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Aspect Warhost 1: 8 Swooping Hawks including 2 Exarchs: 350 (will teleport in)
Aspect Warhost 2: 6 Dark Reapers, 2 Fire Dragons: 300 (deployment via Wraithgate)
Aspect Warhost 3: 6 Dire Avengers, 2 Dark Reapers with Exarchs, 4 Wave Serpents: 550
Aspect Warhost 4: 6 Striking Scorpions, 2 Fire Dragons with Exarch and Autarch, 4 Wave Serpents: 600
Aspect Warhost 5: 4 Fire Dragons, 2 Dire Avengers with Exarchs, 2 Howling Banshees, 4 Wave Serpents: 550
Guardian Warhost: Farseer, 7 Guardians, 2 Wraithguard, 3 Wraithlords: 425 (deployment via Wraithgate)
Swords of Vaul Troupe: 5 Falcons, 1 Fire Prism: 315
Ranger Troupe: 8 Rangers: 200
Engines of Vaul Troupe: 2 Scorpions: 500
Warlock Titan: 850
Nightwings: 300
Total: 4990
The way I see it, I can only really afford to cut the Rangers to accommodate the Wave Serpents, but I finally have a larger formation to try to get them to be more effective, hence why I was going to try them out.
Any thoughts about how else I could fit the Wave Serpents in? If cutting the Rangers is the best option though, I will go for it.
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