I'm with Riku here. Now that I have figured out what works and what doesn't with the LG, hes a fucking beast.

From early on in the games design, each race was given a very important tool that was power free. In the case of SM, its power free artillery. For orks, nids, and eldar, it was power free AV. I think a great reason to jusitify why the Pdev should remain power free is that SM as a race, while having ...

haha so true! so true...

We have finally achieved much better racial diversity in the top 10 of the leaderboard. I will also point out that we currently have 3 IG mains now !

All I can really say is that the sorcerer got shit on by the neft to tics.

If I could only choose one thing, it would be for the tics to regain some melee damage and doomblast damage with the purchase of the AC.

I agree that scouts carry the race hard. They are so fast, and so deadly. Sure, vanilla they are crap. But the return on investment you get on scouts far outweighs that of most units in the game. Invisible grenades are just so dominant I don't know why they aren't used more. Mind you, Orks are the o...

What?

When the )(*#$& did that happen?

Kraken is the new anti-commander ammunition?

Don't know which weed you guys smoke, but hellfire rounds are THE reason to buy or upgrade to sterns. Provides a really good commander counter and also deals with those pesky melee squads that you don't have a bonus against normally (sluggas, banshess, stormboyz, genestealers, etc). Just my opinion ...

I will retest stikkbombs at some point.

Like I said though, last time I tested them, I used every ork buff available and it didn't change the damage at all.

Its still a crazy hard matchup for IG any way you look at it. I remember when I switched over to retail, and I bitched for a long time about the SWP/brightlance becoming the best platform in the game (it gets an ability which gives it even more utility than simply being able to be upgraded, where as...

I tested this a long time ago. Things may have changed since.

I think they were just talking about weapon_knockback immunity as a trait no? I think its pretty appropriate.

No suppression. Just a flat speed debuff to all targets. By T2, you aren't going to be using flamer purgs anyway so there will be no suppression stack to worry about. And honestly, if you buy a flamer dread and flame purgs to completely shut down an elite infantry squad like nobs or genestealers, I ...

The best suggestion was actually to give it a universal snare of 25%. Just like what the banewolf used to have. It makes perfect sense as this allows the dread to retain AV ability even though it loses melee resist with the flamer, and also makes the dread into a much more reliable melee screen.

stikkbombs also act this way AFAIK. I tried buffing them with all orky methods available and to no avail.

Not sure if my gripe is the population, but I always feel like phase shift comes way too early and often (after a huge range teleport). Maybe an energy increase on that would be good.

Squad and pricing is fine I think. It's always been the warlock leader. I think I remember Cael adding detection options for races dependent on a single unit, which was good, but I am very much in agreement with torpid that the warlock leader (along with his detection) has absolutely RUINED the IG v...

I would like to be marked down as an alternate/maybe player.

I will be using the Farseer, the Lord Commissar. and the Kommando Knob

Was there? Ahh man.... I didn't remember that part. A perfectly good fluff theme gone to waste.

Just out of curiousity, am I also allowed to apply parameters to playing random? Such as, I will play random, but not chaos sorcerer?

Dark Riku wrote:

Tex wrote:I beat Riku with an all khorne army. Game was casted long time ago.

Helps proving you can do anything versus apo and come out on top
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoV44QdAlb0

haha skulls for the skull throne!

As an expansion to this, my friend who plays FC tends to go for TH/teleport and melee dread in T2 and is able to bully his way through Eldar lines, so what counter is suitable? The adaptability of the dread makes me adverse to going for falcon or wraithlord, leaving only infantry which the TH massa...

I beat Riku with an all khorne army. Game was casted long time ago.

I will try the salamander army, I have always wanted to go hardcore with my flamers.

Mostly agree with Ace. MWB is a huge power sink for a shadow of its former self. Better power expenditure is the channeling runes and champions robe. Once you get good at utilizing this, you will also find that your warlock will now bait a ton of attention where before he was quite easy to ignore. T...

lol... I love your wonderfully supported statistics at the end of your post there Ace. "bugs out 3/4 of the time, and then only suppresses the squad the other quarter of the time". =D To that I would reply, try using the catachan shotgun blast, and you will likely never complain about the ...

Your starting unit cannot be used in any fighting capacity at all without spending power. Are you talking about scouts? No... scouts have half the dps of tacs and less than half the cost. Keep them in green cover and they definitely have fighting capacity. But of course, you are being slightly sarc...

Heretics are awful atm. I apologize to anyone prior to this post where I may have said something like "its just another change in another patch, lets play it out and learn the new meta". Your starting unit cannot be used in any fighting capacity at all without spending power. Further, doom...

I think the only gripe some people would have with it would be that the scan lasts for what? 5 seconds?

Its a pretty wicked wargear. Just have your shit ready to launch right after you scan.

@Riku I think you are really over playing how "niche" the tac drop is. Another tac squad in T1 is simply not going to be a bad thing if you use it in a very obvious fashion, that being, drop the pod to reinforce your army and/or use the pod to initiate an undeniable push on a power farm. I...

I was looking over my little notepad document that I jot down thoughts into, and I don't think we need to change anything about the knob. He does get a lot from his knife, but that's because its in huge competition with his starting shoota. 25 power seems reasonable, but again, It might become even ...