,Good p[oints so far. 2 slaughters work well together. I simply do not ise them like that that often.
Acrtually, any of the core cruisers would be a good choice. The muurder and the hades use the same model unless yu convet a murder to actually have prow lances so you get a 2x1 there. OTOH you will be fielding 2 murders only rarely, even if I field a murder and a carnage more regularly. basically I almost always tweam up my murder with a hades and ther you go with the chaos long range firepower
Now, on the issue of the devastation. 2 work perfectly well and can throw a load of AC for 380 pts. if you use them, it is usually wise to field them squadroned. Reasons
- you get to use the higher leadership of both ships to reload ordenance and other special orders
- One leadership roll to reload only. if you fail it, it is a more efficient use of a reroll.
- They can shield each other if squadroned. Since the hits in a squadron are always allocated to the nearest ship in the squadron you can have one of them absorving fire for a few turns and when it is heavily damage move it to the back, so that the new, fresh and shinny companion of the first one is the nearest target for the enemy to smash. Keeps them rolling loads of ordenance much longer.
As a footnote squadroning them for the lances is not worth it. For WB, yes, but not for lances. Lances hit on a 4+ regarless of intervening blast markers and the like, so it is not very sound to squadron them for that reason. Squadroning them for the previous reasons more than compensate for this, though
health and sixes,
Xavi
hmm.. I presume you meant Carnage not Hades there Xavi...
My fault