5 Blasters in a Venom?

Unsure if this is an obvious question, but:

With the Under Strength Unit rule, is it possible to have a 4 man Blastborn squad paired up with an Archon (with a blaster) inside of a Venom?

Yes, you could also take a 2x 5man with 5 DL and 5 blasters in raider.

How would you do that?
Trueborns are limited to 2 DS a squad and 4 Blasters a squad, no?

Each squad of true born would do 2 dark lances and 3 blasters and counting the raiders dark lance it now has 5 dark lances between itself and the two squads and 6 blasters ... Expensive ... But will more then likely destroy whatever it's pointed at unless rolls are really really bad

Groan wrote:

Unsure if this is an obvious question, but:

With the Under Strength Unit rule, is it possible to have a 4 man Blastborn squad paired up with an Archon (with a blaster) inside of a Venom?

The only limitation is that you can't have any other unit of blasterborn in your army.

Archon_91 wrote:

Each squad of true born would do 2 dark lances and 3 blasters and counting the raiders dark lance it now has 5 dark lances between itself and the two squads and 6 blasters ... Expensive ... But will more then likely destroy whatever it's pointed at unless rolls are really really bad

This I understand though it doesn't seem like a good idea. And I don't think the above mentioned 5 DL and 5 Blasters is possible.

The limitation of only have one unit of Trueborn on the table seems fair to me! 5 Blasters in a Venom would be awesome and would actually give my Archon a purpose.

That's how I've been running mine. It's a nice unit, easy to hide, and fast for swinging around the flank.

Just had a fun game where the Venom spent a few turns slamming into a pair of Basilisks repeatedly while the Trueborn and Archon poured fire (along with supporting fire from a Ravager) into any units that tried to move in to assist.

MHaruspex wrote:

Just had a fun game where the Venom spent a few turns slamming into a pair of Basilisks repeatedly while the Trueborn and Archon poured fire (along with supporting fire from a Ravager) into any units that tried to move in to assist.

You know embarked troops can't shoot if the vehicle fell back ? So did your Archon and Trueborn get out of the venom ?

The Venom never fell back, only the Basilisks. Eventually they gave up and stayed in combat with the Venom, and at that point a group of Razorwing Flocks took the Venom's place while the embarked Archon and retinue moved on to other targets.

@Groan You can always have multiples units of trueborns, but you can only have one unit understrength

Résumé of what you can have (for example, dis is not recommended point wise x'))

- Raider / 1 DL
-- 5 trueborns / 2DL + 3 Blasters
-- 5 trueborns / 2DL + 3 Blasters  

- Raider / 1 DL
-- 5 trueborns / 2DL + 3 Blasters
-- 5 trueborns / 2DL + 3 Blasters  

- Venom / 2 Splinter cannon
-- 4 trueborns / 2DL + 2 Blasters  (understrength)
-- Archon / 1 Blaster

The point is for an army, you can have only one understrength unit of each type.
Edit : Sadly, no you can't . cf. posts below.

I beg to differ, it mentions:
You can have 1 unit of that type in your army with as many models as you have availible.
So a unit of 5 trueborn and a unit of 4 trueborn that means you have 2 units of that type (trueborn) which is illegal. As soon as you field a unit of 5 you cannot field an understrength unit anymore.

Sadly I have to agree. I initially read it the same way as masamune but that's not what it actually says.

Post edited, my bad
This rule seems pretty retarded

masamune wrote:

Post edited, my bad
This rule seems pretty retarded

It's all logical. The rule is there to allow you to play even if you don't have the minimum number of models.
With 9 models (5 and 4), you clearly have the minimum number of models (you could play one unit of 9, even though it sucks), so you cannot claim to use this rule.