Quote: (mnb @ Dec. 30 2009, 09:49 )
if you read the stats in raiders, you will see that it did not. much of us believed (not the army champ) that this AA shot was too powerful and wanted it downgraded. there is probably hundreds of posts on here with us bickering over that if you'd like a more in depth answer. bacically we thought it was way to powerful to bring down a landa, thawk, etc and all inside w/ just one shot.
that being said, i don't think you will find a single necron player that thinks the pylon (before or after changes) is overly powerful. it breaks way to easy..... but opponents still cry about it.
I'd like to comment on that.
It's not that I didn't think that shot was too powerful. It's that I didn't think the
formation was too powerful.
There's an important difference there.
My issue has always been, that while it looks good on paper, it's acutal performance on the field has never even come close to living up to that apperance, and it's only REAL utility has been to scare away WE aircraft.
I mean, a 120cm MW4+ TK(d3) sounds really ugly, until you consider it's on a 2 DC war engine that can't move, and is easily broken. So if you want to make use of it as a ground support platform, you have to deploy it where it has the best field of fire, which only exposes it to attack and makes it more easily broken. Baring that, you can hide it, and use it as an ineffectual AA platform, that's utterly worthless supporting your ground troops.
In short, their actual performance on the field has never justified their cost, and I never liked the Pylon. I would much rather have given it AA shots that were more numerous and vastly less powerful to make it a useful unit as far as AA goes, and worth the points you pay for it as an Anti-WE fire support platform. It would have been easy to justify by saying that it fired several, lower powered shots using the same energy the "finger of death" shot would do, which would explain the reduced range and hitting power. But I never did it because I didn't feel I had the right to radically alter a GW model.
