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I couldn't find me any threads on this, and I want to ask for the opinions of any OcUKers who play.
I'm a necron player, with a nice 4000 point army (Yay apocalypse). I've been looking at trying to get at least one squad of everything, to give me a larger army choice for battles. However, the Pariah unit has stumped me.
36 points, armed with a gauss blaster (S5 AP4 24" assault 2) and a warscyth (close combat, no armour saves allowed, not even invulnerable).
Pariah stats: WS4 BS4 S5 T5 W1 I3 A1 Ld10 Sv3+
Rules: Enemy units with a model within 12" of a pariah count as Lv7 unless it would be lower
Psykers within 6" of a pariah must make a leadership test at the start of their turn or fall back.
Fearless.
I just can't decide if a squad of these would be useful or not.
Ranged weapon wise, its the same weapons that Immortals have, but the immortals are only 28 points per model.
In close combat, they have an insanely powereful weapon, a terminator killer. However, they suffer from the lack of initiative that all necrons do, meaning that most of the units I would want to get them into combat with would wipe most of the squad out before I get to do anything.
Plus, and this is the cruncher, they aren't classed as Necrons. No We'll be back, no ressurection, no teleporting out of monoliths.
I'm just not sure. Playing a squad of them would paint a rather large target on them, an I would have to run them straight at whatever psycic/special characters they have, to try and get use out of the squad. As I'm pretty sure they would get the enemy focussing a lot of firepower on them, to prevent them getting into combat.
so, they would be a good decoy/meat shield. However, the ideal meat shield is either cheap or expendable. The models are all expensive, and unlike nearly every other necron unit, once one dies, its dead for good.
So, any necron players with other ideas on the Pariah? Any other people even play 40k?
I couldn't find me any threads on this, and I want to ask for the opinions of any OcUKers who play.
I'm a necron player, with a nice 4000 point army (Yay apocalypse). I've been looking at trying to get at least one squad of everything, to give me a larger army choice for battles. However, the Pariah unit has stumped me.
36 points, armed with a gauss blaster (S5 AP4 24" assault 2) and a warscyth (close combat, no armour saves allowed, not even invulnerable).
Pariah stats: WS4 BS4 S5 T5 W1 I3 A1 Ld10 Sv3+
Rules: Enemy units with a model within 12" of a pariah count as Lv7 unless it would be lower
Psykers within 6" of a pariah must make a leadership test at the start of their turn or fall back.
Fearless.
I just can't decide if a squad of these would be useful or not.
Ranged weapon wise, its the same weapons that Immortals have, but the immortals are only 28 points per model.
In close combat, they have an insanely powereful weapon, a terminator killer. However, they suffer from the lack of initiative that all necrons do, meaning that most of the units I would want to get them into combat with would wipe most of the squad out before I get to do anything.
Plus, and this is the cruncher, they aren't classed as Necrons. No We'll be back, no ressurection, no teleporting out of monoliths.
I'm just not sure. Playing a squad of them would paint a rather large target on them, an I would have to run them straight at whatever psycic/special characters they have, to try and get use out of the squad. As I'm pretty sure they would get the enemy focussing a lot of firepower on them, to prevent them getting into combat.
so, they would be a good decoy/meat shield. However, the ideal meat shield is either cheap or expendable. The models are all expensive, and unlike nearly every other necron unit, once one dies, its dead for good.
So, any necron players with other ideas on the Pariah? Any other people even play 40k?
more like Sudden Strike 2 
