A noob's Wych Cult - from 500 upwards

well I also prefer scourges over reavers!! so hah!

You guys crack me up

In all fairness, I don't think Scourges would quite make the cut for me. There's extensive reasoning to this, though it might not be entirely correct...

- for every 5 Scourges you can 'only' take 2 special weapons
- meaning if one takes the AT route with lances or (haywire) blasters, it would leave 66pt of Scourges being naught but ablative wounds
- following that, I would much rather field them as AI and play to their natural strengths
- the shredder is unattractive when having to pay for it up from carbine, and I've learned from you guys splinter cannons ain't worth it either - 'naked' Scourges seem to be most cost-effective
- ...yet seem underwhelming, compared to Venom spam!

Lists I tend to run are duke DS lists, I use the lance weaponry to pop the light tanks and blow up the contents with razorwings. I use 4 venoms and 5 raiders because well... I have 4 venoms and 5 raiders. I prefer the scourges to basically stun lock enemy scary tanks. Also lets me deal with monoliths and blessed hull RL, something I need since I don't run wyches. (yet) So your right that it is 66 pts of ablative wounds, but the enemy only has so many tanks and afterwards my scourges are just venom support.

Scourges are (it sound funny) in "heavy" armour, and often other players forget they have 4+sv, with reavers, you have to be in constant move to claim 3+ cover sv.