Abetillo wrote:
It is a pity that the initial barrage was so lucky in getting the three Disrupt hits on both of them to be able to break them as that determined the victor too much, but the positioning of the templates had to be extreme to get the first on one of the Titans but afar enough from its center so the second and third template could position on both sides to get the center of the template each on one of the Titans so congrats on the cunning there. If only could put the third template touching the second instead of having to both touch the first one like says in the rules things would be easier ... but well where is the challenge that way?
So we definitely played that wrong. Have always assumed you strung out the templates, but probably NEVER in the past used more than two templates anyway. We did discuss wider separation for the two big titans but thought that it was likely that the templates could have got TWO formations somehow and that would have been equally effective overall (and might have actually done some damage rather than just laid BMs). The Eldar army had lots of 6 DC or equivalent formations that were vulnerable to two Barrage attacks.
Comparing the Plasma armament options and costs. Both have DC2, 2 void shields, Fearless.
Plasma weapons are all slow firing. 2 x AP5+ (30 cm) on both.
NetEA, 2 Ordinatus Minorus (Plasma Destructors), 400 points
Move 15 cm. Firepower totals: DC4, 4 voids, 10 x MW2+ (75 cm), 4 x AA6+ (30 cm)
EpicUK, 3 Ordinatus Minorus (Plasma Cannons), 425 points
Move 20 cm. Firepower totals: DC6, 6 voids, 9 x MW2+ (60 cm)
Alternate load outs include:
EpicUK, 3 Ordinatus Minorus (2 Plasma Cannons, Plasma Destructor), 450 points
Move 20 cm. Firepower totals: DC6, 6 voids, 6 x MW2+ (60 cm), 4 x MW3+ (90 cm)
NetEA, 3 Ordinatus Minorus (Plasma Cannons), 425 points
Move 15 cm. Firepower totals: DC6, 6 voids, 6 x MW2+ (60 cm), 6 x AA6+ (30 cm)
Adding an extra Carapace Landing Platform to the first NetEA plasma destructor formation
would currently cost 100 points and give them non-LoF shooting on sustain, advance, double.
So could shoot out to 105 cm (move 30, shoot 75) with equivalent of 10 x MW3+. Fairly Potent.
Perhaps costing the CLP at 50 points might deal with those options (2 Quake Cannons, 1 CLP
or 2 Plasma Destructors, 1 CLP) more effectively than reducing back to smaller Minorus formations.
I'd still like to be able field more robust 3 Minorus formations. The one core to one Ordinatus
formation makes it difficult to get many dedicated formations, but Fearless makes the two
strong formations more viable.