The Starshard Ballista looks cool, but I think it is not very useful in my 2 games. How do you even use it more effectively?
I bought the Iliathan Warhost battleforce box and played two 1.0k games against Flesh-eater Courts and Helsmiths of Hashut.
In FEC battle, my ballista didn't do much damage to his terrorgheist monster and the blind effect only lasts for a turn and not for the entire round so if he wants he can just wait it out until it is his turn to charge. And if I wnat to use covering fire, I have to decide whether I want to use my archers or ballista. And even though it blinded the terrorgheist for -1 to hit, the terrorgheist attacks mostly went through my wardens, completely annihilating the unit.
In the Helsmith battle, it just got obliterated in the first round by his rocket artillery lmao And it couldn't even reach most of his vital targets way in the back because they have like 36" of range versus my 30" range on my ballista.
I think that for a 120pt unit, the ballista is terrible and I could just better replace it with the archers instead for 20 more points, which did more work than my ballista did in those 2 battles. What do you guys and gals think though? How do you use your ballista if you do field them?