![]() How is it not? Your hypothetical list's strategy would be built around exploiting the ability of this Formation to generate free Drones every turn. Tinkrr wrote: How on Earth is it a one trick list? More so, it's kind of silly to use the 6$ per drone model, seeing as you can go on ebay and get them for 3$ or so, and there's also the fact that other people have tons of drones that you can probably obtain for much cheaper. Now, you can say that's only half of what I need, but you're forgetting that drones will be dying each turn most likely and more so as the game progresses, so those will contribute to the Piranha refuels, and realistically you'll only need about 2.5-3 spawns of drones available, because if you need the full four, you've probably already won. As a whole that's another 30ish drones which is a full spawn, so with a basic army I have two turns worth of making drones at basically no extra investment than what I'd buy anyway. That's only 13 drones, yes, but that's also just the start of my army, I'll still need another Crisis Suit box or two because I want to play the Retaliation Cadre so +12 right there, I'm going to need a Commander which is another drone, and at least two Broadsides which gives me 4 drones I can magnetize so I can use them as missile drones or gun drones, I'd say the same for the Riptide drones I have but I'm using them for something else already. I just got back into the hobby and so far I've gotten a small force together, and let's see I got 6 drones from the Crisis Suit box, another 2 from the individual Suit box, 4 from the two Fire Warrior Boxes, and one from the random Stealth Suit model someone threw in for free. I'm pretty sure that in a tournament getting 1500pts+ of free models is always viable when the investment is so low, even if the models aren't amazing.Īdditionally the Piranhas come with the initial 32 drones, so that's already a start. You do understand that you're not only running 16 Piranhas in your army, right? All 16 Piranhas only cost 640pts, that means you have another 1210pts to spend on anything you'd like. Balance should always come from the rules, not whether someone is or isn't financially stable. So many games have tried to use this mentality, and it has failed every time, it's not a valid argument because if people want it, they can obtain it. "Not owning enough of _" is a perfectly valid AND practical concern. ![]() Though really I'm probably going to just run 2x squads of 2-3 Piranhas with Seekers, a squad of 5 Piranhas for drones, and then the mandatory one Piranha. It's not like we don't get free drones in like every box we ever buy. ![]() Heck, I'd do this if only for the novelty of filling an entire table to the brim with Drones. Think about how insane that is, you basically double your army in points if you're playing 1850pts, at the low cost of 640pts. ![]() ![]() Heck I'll even make it only three turns because you probably won't benefit from spawning on the last turn but rather use your Piranhas themselves if you think the game will end, which means you've only gotten 1152pts of free drone spawns. Even using the lower drone cost, and assuming a game ends in four turns, you've spawned 1536pts of drones. They pay for themselves in under two turns and then net you 400pts of units each turn of the game. When talking about balance, things like "not owning enough of _" or that it's not exactly fun to play, don't really apply as they don't actually address the underlying issue.Ī full Piranha squad is 640pts (16 Piranha), if you count drones at 12pts each they spawn 384pts a turn, if you count them as 14pts each they spawn 448pts a turn. ![]()
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