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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2007 5:34:34 GMT -5
I think that grenade launchers are good because they are versatile and can still pack a punch on the move. I also think that they look good on the models, but then again, so do all the special weapons IMO.
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Post by Commissar on Oct 3, 2007 8:51:54 GMT -5
LoL, not all of em! I hate the flamer, I think it looks so out dated, it looks like they made an over sized lighter...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2007 21:05:05 GMT -5
The cadian flamer does not look too dandy, I must admit, but the Kasrkin flamer looks just great!
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Post by Commissar on Oct 3, 2007 21:59:33 GMT -5
Yeah, it looks alot more...realistic...
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Post by Rolling Thunder on Oct 4, 2007 13:24:20 GMT -5
They are both fairly realistic-looking...though whyyou'd waste BS4 on a flamer is beyond me.
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Post by Turtleboy(AWOL) on Oct 5, 2007 4:23:38 GMT -5
heh long ago when this thread was created I was very anti-grenade launcher - I've come to really like the weapon as it's just great at forcing saves, has the potential to instakill T3 targets, the ability to negate 4+ armor, and the power to boost the number of S3 hits I make when I use the frag rounds vs. tightly packed enemies (cuz lets face it, most opponents aren't afraid of a frag grenade from a grenade launcher). all that AND it's an assault weapon AND it's got a massive range for a special weapon. all that for a reasonable point cost makes it my new winner for cool special weapon (though I still love me my plasma gunners).
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Post by Commissar on Oct 5, 2007 13:24:19 GMT -5
Yeah, tboy just said everything I love about the nade launcher and more! lol. I dont like plasma...it seems like if my men used it they would become sterile. And therefore no more babies. NO 400 BABIES!!! So, the race would die, and on a planet where zombies roam there is no room for that!
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Post by Turtleboy(AWOL) on Oct 5, 2007 17:57:14 GMT -5
heh.
while I agree that losing dudes to plasma overheats sucks, sometimes it's good to have them for when you know you're gonna die anyway and it's kill or be killed.
though zombies rampaging all over the planet might change that equation.
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Post by Commissar on Oct 6, 2007 20:41:50 GMT -5
Yes it might! They are handy and dandy and all together fancy.
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Post by Rolling Thunder on Oct 9, 2007 9:55:15 GMT -5
maybe I should keep yon meltaguns..... I just love the lil'bastards, so inflexible yet so utterly evil. Fun for all the family.
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Post by Commissar on Oct 9, 2007 16:09:11 GMT -5
They are dastardly fun. I have like...one, but it melted like, 5 grey nights before the little guy was smashed.
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Post by Rolling Thunder on Oct 12, 2007 9:26:07 GMT -5
Ahhh, the Knights in white satin. Such easy opponents in the hands off the 90% rookies who have them, so utterly (Gaellic swearing) in the hands of a veteran. But killing an entire GK terminator squad with a spec weapons team and a single shot from a long range pasma is so satisfying.
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Post by Commissar on Oct 12, 2007 16:33:10 GMT -5
LoL, the guy whome I was playing is a total vet. Crazy. I lost the game, 3 tanks killed by some freak with a plasma cannon. I crippled his dreadnaught though! A grenade launcher immobilized it, boom biot-botches!
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Post by Woz on Oct 12, 2007 20:43:50 GMT -5
I just love the good old GL. It's fine having other SW's in your force but for the bulk of my squads it's GL's.
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Post by Commissar on Oct 13, 2007 23:35:52 GMT -5
Yeah mine too, I love them! They are cheaper to model and cheaper in points than most.
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Post by Mabus on Oct 14, 2007 8:39:50 GMT -5
Grenade launchers are a safe bet, a jack of all trades, master of none. I like the 'nade launcher but there are other weapons that can peform more specialised roles better.
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Post by Rolling Thunder on Oct 15, 2007 13:30:54 GMT -5
Meltaguns!
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Post by Mabus on Oct 15, 2007 14:17:57 GMT -5
You are a spammer Rolling thunder.
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Post by Commissar on Oct 15, 2007 15:53:52 GMT -5
You are a...pimp-mobile pilot Mabus!
I wanna pick up some more meltas so bad! They are alot of fun, especially in big games.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2007 21:34:18 GMT -5
Roughly 50% of my squads carry pairs of Grenade Launchers, for two reasons: The range: including the move, it lets my Grenadiers provide mobile fire support to my other units The price: I bought 6 boxes of Kasrkin, so I had the models. My Elite-slot stormies, on the other hand, Infiltrate so they carry a plasma and a meltagun each, letting me get off 3 shots at marine-killing power if I get first turn. My Command Squad, on the other hand, ended up with 4 Kasrkin Flamers, specifically because they don't have BS4, and I wanted to hide that fact.
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Post by Rolling Thunder on Oct 19, 2007 11:33:27 GMT -5
And your Welsh, mabus. Flamers are cool though.
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Post by Mabus on Oct 20, 2007 6:07:34 GMT -5
Ha ha, point taken. Flamers are cool, I have a few and have founds them to be very useful in cramped terrain.
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Post by Rolling Thunder on Oct 20, 2007 6:49:33 GMT -5
I wish that the IG could use heavy flamers as an infantry heavy weapon without having to reduce our armour saves to 6+. It is more common to fight cityfight, and jungle fighters are worthless in that terrain, so if the guard used heavy flamers you could put together a stand-up close-quarters army.
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Post by Mabus on Oct 20, 2007 7:28:25 GMT -5
Everything has a 4+ cover save in cities of death and so it doesn't matter what your armour save is in these games. I'd recommend taking the jungle fighters doctrine in COD because the obvious disadvantage of th crap armour is irrelevent. Heavy flamers are awsome by the way, I'd lke to get some more in my army.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2007 9:06:48 GMT -5
I tend to take plasma guns as I fight agianst my friends' MEQs and TEQs (Deathwing, souped-up marines, chaos, and necron. Quite the armored opponents). As fot the overheating on a one, my other army is Skaven, so melting one guy on a roll of a 1 seems pretty good compared to the Skaven misfire chart.
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