Quin/De synergy

Well, the caress is on the troupe master as he has more attacks - and, it's there for fighting non vehicle units primarily (in my case, anyway) But I see your point, if they were to fight vehicles and he had a haywire grenade, then his caress would be going to waste. Maybe a 5/6 man unit with caress on TM and 2 caresses in the unit instead of 2 kisses - Either way, I feel like the caress is the best weapon for the TM. Maybe a kiss if you want him to take on a lot of challenges with multi-wound models I guess.

Regarding the deepstriking - Exactly, I wouldn't ever deep strike them. I'd always use them with a transport because of rising crescendo and our transports being assault transports.

I'm still brainstorming for DE/Quin synergy. Here's some random ideas:

- Scalpel squadron and path of heroes: better chance to get first blood (infiltrate, -2 Ld from SS). Freakish spectacle with Death his Not enough means a -3Ld malus, -5 if SS is close. And it gives target saturation. If the squadron survive until turn 2, wracks can support the Solitaire for an assault (or pinning from DS et SS).

- DE codex lacks pinning, SS et DS both have it at 18 and 24".

- A DJ is roughly better than 2 blasterborns against AV10, with 6" more range (but without AP2 on every pen):
Shuriken cannon: 2.5 hit, 0.2 glance + 0.84 pen before jink (if applicable)
One blasterborn: 0.67 hit, 0.11 glance + 0.44 pen before jink (if applicable)

Against T8 3+ MC, it's roughly similar to one blaster (but with 6" more, pinning, bio explosive, DINE):
Shrieker: 0.83 hit, 0.7 wound, ~0.31 wound after armor save
One blasterborn: 0.67 hit, 0.33 wound

Caldria wrote:

Well, the caress is on the troupe master as he has more attacks - and, it's there for fighting non vehicle units primarily (in my case, anyway) But I see your point, if they were to fight vehicles and he had a haywire grenade, then his caress would be going to waste. Maybe a 5/6 man unit with caress on TM and 2 caresses in the unit instead of 2 kisses - Either way, I feel like the caress is the best weapon for the TM. Maybe a kiss if you want him to take on a lot of challenges with multi-wound models I guess.

Regarding the deepstriking - Exactly, I wouldn't ever deep strike them. I'd always use them with a transport because of rising crescendo and our transports being assault transports.

Totally spaced the extra attack, although it is just one extra attack so I dunno how much it matters. I was thinking the storied sword or the rose but that is probably just for the fun of it .

Mononcule wrote:

I'm still brainstorming for DE/Quin synergy. Here's some random ideas:

- Scalpel squadron and path of heroes: better chance to get first blood (infiltrate, -2 Ld from SS). Freakish spectacle with Death his Not enough means a -3Ld malus, -5 if SS is close. And it gives target saturation. If the squadron survive until turn 2, wracks can support the Solitaire for an assault (or pinning from DS et SS).

- DE codex lacks pinning, SS et DS both have it at 18 and 24".

- A DJ is roughly better than 2 blasterborns against AV10, with 6" more range (but without AP2 on every pen):
Shuriken cannon: 2.5 hit, 0.2 glance + 0.84 pen before jink (if applicable)
One blasterborn: 0.67 hit, 0.11 glance + 0.44 pen before jink (if applicable)

Against T8 3+ MC, it's roughly similar to one blaster (but with 6" more, pinning, bio explosive, DINE):
Shrieker: 0.83 hit, 0.7 wound, ~0.31 wound after armor save
One blasterborn: 0.67 hit, 0.33 wound

Those are some decent ideas. I like that first one for a good alpha strike. A Psychic shriek on -5 ld would be devastating against anything, or that mirror of minds where you keep rolling until your opponent beats your roll. Since the SS has a LD of 10 they could never beat you so it would automatically kill what ever you cast it against (even if they have invul. saves it says you keep rolling until they are slain or get a higher roll).

Pinning is nice as well. No need for plasma grenades on your Incubi if the target is pinned. I'm liking this more and more actually.