Ginger wrote:
My vote would be to just make the "Sniper" upgrade +25 for *the entire formation* and leave it at that!!
That would probably be fine with me. It would only result in sniper on 4 x 30cm AP5+ shots (what Eldar players get with 100 points of Rangers). 50 points for all would be more likely to have wide acceptance, but it's up to Dobbsy to make the call on which.
Ginger wrote:
Razorbacks
players are much more likely to take the Las version of the Razorback as it forms part of their armoury needed to address the general lack of AT capability.
Mechanised SM armies are less viable under the Epic-UK version of the list in general with more expensive Land Raiders, Predator Annihilators and Vindicator formations. Personally I often take 4 formations of such vehicles, plus 3-4 infantry formations with attached Razorbacks and Land Raiders and do well with such an army.
With the change I would still mostly take Las Razorbacks, but if the change makes Heavy Bolter Razorbacks rarely taken rather than virtually never taken then it will have helped and been a good success.
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Landspeeder Typhoon
Cheaper?
Absolutely. The Land Speeder Tornado is still the original +25, which is blatantly overcosted (Epic-UK price the Typhoon at +10 for comparison). It was
discussed a lot back in January with very strong support in the discussion and poll for reducing the cost. Dobbsy agreed it will be changed, hasn't got round to it yet, but doing so now would be the perfect time.
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I am not sure that it will make any difference, except where a list spams a number of Landspeeder formations and needs some variety for other reasons.
Bad Ginger - you don't need to use loads of Land Speeder formations to be effected by fixing the Typhoon. Small changes still help and everyone who bought an EpicA Land Speeder pack will have one in five of their models being a LST.
Personally I have 2 LS formations in my collection, one of which is a formation with all 5 being the EpicA model Land Speeder Typhoons. I acquired them at a fair bit extra cost but have never them in game yet because 325 points for a formation of Land Speeders is just ridiculous. Please make this feasible Dobbsy!
Ginger wrote:
*Tacticals* ...always seem to underwhelm.
Are you basing this on the Epic-UK meta? If so then I would agree. At 275 they are well costed IMO - I normally take 2-3 formations at 3k and fine them to do well. The key is to add a single Land Raider to each formation to absorb incoming firepower, they're a lot better that way. I wouldn't want to see extra Tacticals being an option.