AP Stacking, the Anti-Heavy Infantry nightmare!
Hello everyone! Zak Ludick here from Cape Town, South Africa and this is a Warhammer 40k - The Great Unit Review Wheel! post!
Now known as the Unit Review Library!
What is it all about? It is not there to just give a stat. It is there to give MY review of the unit!
A New Season of Reviews - A Challenge accepted!
The nefarious trio of World Eaters, Death Guard and Thousand Sons are set to get their new Codexes next. Actually, the great FOUR are each getting their favourite Legion's new Codexes but Emperor's Children did not have an actual Index before.
Anyway. I was speaking to my friend @nicolaasmuller about how my Review posts might not make a lot of money for me, but that cumulatively and on average some of them do good and overall there is an average that at least means that there is good movement of income into the Hobby Fund and that it would grow from there.
We were throwing around some numbers and looking at the average of my last 10 Review Posts, 20 Review posts and 30 Review Posts and we could come up with a range of how much I should theoretically be making across a large sample size of completing the remainder of the reviews for the nefarious trio mentioned above.
So Nicolaas says to me something along the lines of: That would be pretty cool if you could do it in like, a month. Maybe do like 2 a day.
So I explained it would be a little bit more than that but sure... it would be cool... is that a challenge? And yeah... here I am... Challenge accepted. 😎
It is now Day 26 of the Challenge.
Totals so far: 51/70 Datasheets done, 3/3 Army Rules done, 0/6 Detachment Rules done. Total 54/79.
Time elapsed: 86.66%
Progress completed: 68.35%
Hobby Fund - Working myself into the clear
With my hobby posts, I generate a hobby fund. 50% of the income goes into the fund. At the moment I put all my HBD earned from Warhammer posts into my alt account @zakl.hobbyfund.
I am collecting funds in the following ways:
- Blogging about Warhammer to earn HBD
- Accepting donations - Can be sent directly to @zakl.hobbyfund in HBD
- Selling some of the collection to friends.
At the current count I am paying off some hobby debts. I still have $288 to pay off!
Every bit counts!
Back to the review.
The whole project has become quite the Challenge! With so many units to review in the game the consensus in the hobby community is that I will not have enough time to review all of the Datasheets before the new edition of Warhammer 40,000 came out.
I should have started when 10th edition launched!
649 days since the start of 10th Edition.
This is Review #305, I am 344 reviews behind! (Lowest I have been is 314 behind)
Thousand Sons, Thousand Sons Predator Destructor
10th Edition Index
There is some dangerous stacking happening on this model! Thousand Sons = Inferno Bolters. That means extra AP.
Predator Destructor = extra AP vs Infantry!
Let's see how it stacks up!
This model is 130pts to field in this army and costs $75.
Let's check its stats!
Stats
Movement 10"
Toughness 10
Save 3+(armor/invul/Feel No Pain)
Wounds 11
Ld 6+
OC 4
Weapons
Standard arms: Predator Autocannon and Armoured Tracks.
This model could then have either:
2x Lascannons, or
2x Inferno Heavy Bolters
This model could also have 1 of the following:
1x Inferno Combi-weapon, or
1x Inferno Combi-bolter
This model could also have a Havoc Launcher
Ranged Weapons
Predator Autocannon
48" Range, 4 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S9, AP-1 and 3 Damage each.
Rapid Fire 2 (At half range of 24", gain 2 more attacks for a total of 6)
Lascannon
48" Range, 1 Shot, Hitting on 3+, S12, AP-3 and D6+1 Damage each.
Inferno Heavy Bolter
36" Range, 3 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S5, AP-2 and 2 Damage each.
Sustained Hits 1 (Rolls of a 6 to Hit cause an additional hit)
Inferno Combi-weapon
24" Range, 1 Shots, Hitting on 4+, S4, AP-1 and 1 Damage each.
Rapid Fire 1 (At half range of 12", gain 1 more attacks for a total of 2)
Inferno Combi-Bolter
24" Range, 2 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S4, AP-1 and 1 Damage each.
Rapid Fire 2 (When firing at half ranges, gain +2 attacks)
Havoc Laucher
48" Range, D6 Shots, Hitting on 3+, S5, AP0 and 1 Damage each.
Blast (Add 1 attack per 5 enemy models, rounding fractions down)
Melee Weapons
Armoured tracks
3 Attacks, Hitting on 3+, S6, AP0 and 1 Damage each.
Abilities
Deadly Demise D3 - When this model is destroyed, roll a dice, on a 6 it blows up dealing D3 Mortal Wounds to each unit within 6"
Destructor
When making ranged attacks against Infantry then improve AP of that attack by 1.
Thoughts
When this tank fires at Infantry, their Heavy Bolters become AP-3!!!
And the two Combi-Weapons Also have a -1 built in, with another -1 once shooting at Infantry.
In total, this model is going to wreck Space Marines by the squad-full.
That makes 21 Thousand Sons Datasheets Reviewed putting them on 75% Completed. The total Completed is 33.29% Complete! Can I review them all?!
Thank you for reading!
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I shall leave Army and Detachment rules here as well as World Eaters, Death Guard and Thousand Sons!
Army Rule and Detachment Rule Reviews
| Faction | Detachment | Review Number |
|---|---|---|
| Agents of the Imperium | Army Rule #2 | |
| Aeldari | Army Rule #4 | |
| Astra Militarum | Army Rule #1 | |
| Astra Militarum | Combined Regiment | Detachment Rule #1 |
| Astra Militarum | Bridgehead Strike | Detachment Rule #2 |
| Death Guard | Army Rule Review #6 | |
| Space Marines | Army Rule #3 | |
| Thousand Sons | Army Rule #7 | |
| World Eaters | Army Rule #5 |
Datasheet Review list (Alphabetical)
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Predator autocannon, inferno heavy bolters, inferno combi-bolter and havoc launcher and watch your opponent play at removing models.
A lot of infantry are getting hurt.
I would have thought that GW would make the Chaos Predator a lil different but the copy paste.
Right? Except for Inferno Heavy Bolters, they are the same.
Same same tank but with a different cherry on top. I would like to see chaos tanks have self healing like the rhino because demon engines😈
There used to be upgrades to Chaos tanks called "Daemonic Possession" that made them tougher. That was a 3rd and 4th edition rule.