Initial Assumptions from the Faction Focus
hey folks I have been realizing there are way more combos here than I thought.
I totally understand everyone’s negativity right now, this was a wet fart of a reveal. But for the sake of discussion, I wanted to open a thread to discuss potential combo’s with these new detachments.
a lot of this assumes our core detachments are 2DP and stay the same. I find it silly that Realspace raiders will exist alongside these soup detachments, but here we are.
Kabalite Detachment: this one sucks.
scourges and ravages with sustained outside of Cartel is cute. that’s about it sadly.
I can’t believe it’s not SOS detachment:
Real-space Raiders lets you stack pain tokens and has some great Strats like:
1: auto 6” advance (on your no overwatch succubus)
2: Lethal Hits (double lethals for hellions or wyches into anything)
- If target is below half strength gain +1 to the hit and wound roll. really good for finishing something off with pile of activations.
Skysplinter lets you give wyches Lance AND lethals as well as drastically increasing their threat range or giving them reactive moves/charge and re-embark. This is actually really strong with Lelith and 10 ladies, who can and will kill a lot of infantry.
Coven:
In Realspace Raiders you have a -1 damage Strat, lethal hits Strat, and fire and fade. This means with the new fly rules, your Talos can be a very flexible unit! They can fire their haywire, and then move 4” back behind a wall or terrain footprint. Alternatively you can just plant them front and center with: T7, 3+ 5++, 5+++ and -1 damage on a 80 point 7 wound platform! It takes about 20+ Lascannon shots to kill 1 and that’s with 0 cover!
Talos and cronos can actually be pretty sturdy in other detainments and you still get to play with good rules from SoS (or cartel I guess).
If Reapers wager isn’t gone (it’s not looking good) all 3 of these are unironically solid to pair with it.
last thing I need to vent about…the commentators in the video clearly don’t play the faction. They talked about Scourges with Dark lances and haywire being good with only sustained into non vehicle monsters, about hidden on a unit that can shoot and scoot. They talk about spectacle not having access to lethal (bad omen?) and they talk about using 2CP to force a battleshock test to then get dev wounds if they fail it as if it’s good. I am more irritated listening to that that reading the article.