Wyches are awesome now!

Mushkilla wrote:

Yeah I have to agree GW forgetting the open topped S3 rule is huge (I'm convinced they just forgot it).!

I doubt it. More likely they thought it was unfair that you could be assaulted from half the table away without being able to do anything about it, so they compensated by reducing the distance you could move before disembarking AND you get Overwatched AND you get blown up at S4 AND you can't assault from reseve AND you can't assault if you run BUT you can assault from 12 inches away if you can just roll double 6s.

To be honest these aren't bad changes, they only affect wyches the most because of their T3 and 6+ save. It's entirely fair for Orks in trukks, for example, because they're T4 and even a few orks in close combat will cause mayhem. And orks are only what, 6 points each?

I expect wyches will soon get an upgrade of some sort, although nothing too big. They're not bad at the moment, just a little bit too expensive for what they can do.

Barking Agatha wrote:

I expect wyches will soon get an upgrade of some sort, although nothing too big. They're not bad at the moment, just a little bit too expensive for what they can do.

Hmmm... If they connect with the enemy, they're still a bunch of dancing death for 10 points each, it's the upgrades that drive their value through the roof... Trick is to make them connect...

I'm confused. Wyches were great anyway. They've just gotten even better (apart from the inability to shardnet characters to leave them helpless against your characters anymore).

They were awesome, are awesome and allways will be awesome, but now they can eat tanks as well as infantry.

PurpleSuccubus13 wrote:

They were awesome, are awesome and allways will be awesome, but now they can eat tanks instead of infantry.

Fixed that for you

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It is absolutely nothing to get 3 or 4 glancing hits on a vehicle if you assault it.

But only one model can use the grenade, and only one attack may be made with it, regardless of any attacks left over! So how can u get 3 or 4 glancing hits with one wych suqad? (unless you mean over the course of the game)

the great thing about haywire 'nades is you are almost garaunteed to get 2 glancing hits per wych squad that has them
- 1 for shooting, one for assault. so, for an army with two 10 man wych squads, for 40 pts you can easily take out a vehicle every turn. and theyre just troops!

You might be confusing things here. One grenade per squad may be thrown, but one grenade per model may be used in close combat. A five girl unit of Wyches should cause three glancing hits or worse to any vehicle that has moved. Ten Wyches are death incarnate to any and every vehicle in the game.

Wow, i had to ckeck that in the rulebook, it was like it was too good to be true.... Wyches are the best AT infantry in the GAME!

It's.. just beautiful...

Im carefull with this thing.

Grenades are what screw Monstrous Creatures and Tanks royally now.
Im afraid GW might decide that its too sweet, judging by the way they handle with rules now