I know terminators do it, but what other formations do people use for taking the big guys down at the knees?

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I generally ignore the big stuff, but when you can't... prep it and make sure you've got lots of support, then engage it with a big unit-count/high FF formation. Tacticals, Russ, grot-heavy mobs, etc.

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Ive engaged stuff with giant cultist mobs from the lost and the damned before - more through desperation than choice - but they have worked out quite well. They work especially well when loaded up with either Big Mutants or daemons (preferably Flamers for weight of FF attacks)

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I have used the Eldar Autarch or Farseer to mount a combined assault on Reavers etc. Two scenarios are where you have two jetbike formations in support of Shining spears, or better if the Shining spears can bring along some Guardians in Wave Serpents. After the dust settles there are usually a lot of dead Eldar, but quite often a dead titan as well . . . .

I saw dptdexys use a pair of subjugators, then teleport his supreme commander in the middle and do a combined engage on a nearby warlord, making it very very dead.....

Crisis suits with a nearby markerlight dropped out of an orca can seriously damage a medium sized titan, shining spears with a couple of autarchs will do serious damage, and probably break the thing into the bargain, wraithguard are quite good, huge tyranid mobs are great, sheer volume of attacks counts for a lot

then you're looking at deathstrikes (preferably with shield-stripping vultures) shadowswords, cobras, russ executioner companies....

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Uge speed freak mobz. They will even take down a great gargant.

Really? Just on paper... even at 4+ to hit from 24 units that is only 12 hits with RA stopping 8 of them?
Care to explain further - thanks!

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Eldar Shining Spears are classic for taking down titans; sometimes utterly destroying them. Without elite assault troops or specialized units like Shadowswords & Death Strikes, however, the only way to truly take them down is to make a decision at the beginning of the turn to pummel it with mass firepower. Use AT shots to strip shields if you have MWs to follow. Imperial Guard can do a decent job with a Russ formation or mech inf formation, or both. Orks could do a decent job if you dared sustain with them and you had enough shots. Of course, titans are always good at taking down titans.

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Yes, game against Mekboy many years ago. Everything went my way with the game won early in the second turn so I threw a Uge mob against the GG. It was already prepped and took 5 wounds one being a crit. Combat was won.

GG rallyed but took another point of damage from the fire and was engaged again in turn 3. Almost the same result except that I got six wounds destroying the GG.

Didn't say they did it in one turn

Taking out the big titans in one turn is difficult at best. I managed to destroy a pair of Warhounds simultaneously on Turn 1 of a game years back with Shining Spears that flew out of a Wraithgate and got CC with all 8 units. The look on my opponent's face was priceless - you would have thought I ran over his puppy. Months later I had a similar experience against a Reaver and found the result to be far less stellar.

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[quote="Moscovian"Months later I had a similar experience against a Reaver and found the result to be far less stellar.[/quote]

Sounds like me every time I assault a Warlock Titan...less than stellar.

if you insist on engaging a warlock, you deserve everything you get

I believe MikeT managed to beat a warlock up with two terminator formations... it may have lost it's holofield tho....

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You engaged a Warlock titan?! That is insanity. I had my Necron Abattoir assaulted by a Warlock titan (talk about giants) and it walked away with 2 DC in damage. I lost 4 DC and broke.

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Your absolutely right.





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