 Tactica Obliterators
Greetings every one!
Well after my last game my friends and I sat around and were discussing why the Chaos players got there asses handed to them. We Played an Apoc game that was 14,000 a side (2v2) Chaos vs I. Guard/S.Wolves/D.Hunters. The Chaos was fielding its own Traiterous Baneblade, 2 defilers, 4 squads of Terminators, 1 squad of Obiterators, 1 predator, and the rest was basic troops with heavy weapons. Icons varied from a large squad of 15+ guys with T5 to a few squads in rhinos with Inish 5 and some vanila CSM with heavy weapons.
Any ways. I played my I.Guard with 6 Lemon Russ, 1 demolisher, 1 stormblade and a decent number of troops to back them up. The Deamon Hunters just had an Iquistor Lord in Land Raider on the feild and the rest were in reserve. S. Wolves had a decent amount of troops, including 2 venerable Dreads!
Well my friend droped his Oblits behind my Tanks and shot and killed one. The next turn I simpily turned my lascannon squad from my Hq on him and shot 9 Lascannon shots and killed all of them in one turn. (9 shots, 6 hits after re-rolling 1's due to Sharpshooter, and then only rolled a single 1 on the to wound roll. He then failed all of his invunerable saves) He was stuned!
"Sorry dude, but that is what instant death will do to you" I said.
After the game he went on to complain about how easily I had taken out this particular unit. He swears up and down that these bad boys have won him game after game before. He claims that all he would have to do is drop them in like he did and they would just start blasting everything to bitz and he relied on a 2+ armour save and a 5+ invunerable save. I tried explaining to him that if he did reckless things like dropping them behind the lines of a heavily armed guardsmen army that they were going to be nothing but pick mist and memories right quick. He would hear none of that.
So I come to you fine folks to help my friend find ways of using his oblits properly. How best do you use yours? Do you even use them? Are they worth their points (in my oppinion no)?
Any help will be great,
Servo |