Angryman here,
I played a 2K game against another club member on Monday night. I was using my Tyranids and Mike was using his Dark Eldar. The mission was 'bases' with pitched battle setup, terrain was light and spread evenly over the board. I got first turn, things were going well until the end of my movement when I DIDN'T cast FNP on my Swarmlord and Tyrant Guard, a few shots, no combat etc - Mikes turn 1, due to the amount of poison, re-roll weapons his Dark Eldar had, my Swarmlord died, horribly, he then took out some of my Hive Guard so my shooting ability was hampered. My turn 2 started and the Doom appeared in his spore pod of awesomeness. I then then went on to single handedly turn around what was a sure fire loss to me to a well deserved draw. At the end of turn 6 (when he finally died) the Doom had at least 80 shots fired at him, survived 2 lots of combat, he did have a lot of wounds taken off him but he kept on regaining them and turned the game around for me.
so the point of my post is this
How awesome is the Doom for 90 points? to the other Tyranid players out there, do you take him and if not, why? to the non Tyranid players, is it a broken unit?
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all comments welcome
DoM is pretty awesome - I don't take him regularly though because my normal opponents are MEQ (so Cataclysm isn't as effective as against lower Ld armies) and people quickly get wise to DoM shenanigans and start pouring on S8+ shots - it only takes one to get through and kill it.
ReplyDeleteI would say its an overpowered & underpriced unit which I would never use for that very reason ........................... others might say its a crutch that bad nid players need to use with this oh so awful codex :-D
ReplyDeleteI much prefer this dex to the last & as result have been tempted to get a small hive myself. Name suggestions anyone ????? Hive fleet Whodoom lol
ReplyDeleteHive Fleet Throbbon.
ReplyDeletetattybojangles is already taken
ReplyDeletefor 90 points he is a bargin for what it can do but as mentioned by 6th degree, it only takes one S8 shot to get through and he is gone!!
ReplyDeleteThats exactly the same for most models including nob bikers, or nearly all independant characters (excluding the lucky few eternal warriors) who are all twice as expensive have a worse inv save & dont have as much impact in a game as the doom. Other armies u dont also have to also worry a horde approaching with numerous mon creatures. Basically doom arrives kills loads of men, if u dont kill it it'll do same next turn, next turn etc. But if u shoot everything at him u don't thin hoarde. Worse arguement to support a case ever. After he's most likely made his points back on arrival I'm sure if first shot s8 killed him all nid players would say is hes made more than his points back and/or hes only worth 90 points. On that basis over powered & under coated
ReplyDeletedo you want to borrow my doom when you get a hive fleet?
ReplyDeleteI've borrowed ur fleet before didn't use the doom & had to proxy loads of models as I made a completely ultra anti net list hence u don't have the models :-O . It still crushed ur tailored anti nid list ;-p
ReplyDeletemy list isnt spammy or netty but it is awesome ;) the list you made was good, damn nids
ReplyDeleteI agree the DoM is way under priced for what it can do. I use him now and again in battles if i want to mix things up a bit. This keeps my games fun for both sides and does not allow me to become to dependent on its attacks. Plus its always fun to watch the expressions on my opponents face when we look at army lists.
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