it would be nice to put them alongside a reiver squad that was buffed, actually? like if they made the reivers a little better and then a chaplain to make them more dangerous in melee, or an apothecary to make them more survivable
I wish Phobos had some *customizable* characters, as all of the ones we have are entirely single-pose with no wargear options. Terminator, Tacticus and Gravis captain not only have multiple models, at least one of each has multiple left- and right arm options, but not a single one of the Phobos characters has that. (Also, the Phobos captain is basically Sevastus Acheran, and the SM2 game only makes that *extremely* clear.) I love the Phobos armor styling and I'm slowly building up a Vanguard company, but I want some more options.
I think if reivers had pistol 2 and their gun option was 18” pistol/assault 3 with the ability to spend a command point for you to nominate a target model or unit for assassination where the reivers did 5+ mortals to them, they’d be better.
Only thing Reiver LT is possibly good to lead is SW Hounds of Morkai, making their targeted battleshock ability 18" instead of 12", and because HoM don't have grav chutes he's not restricting anything on them. Though they're really not brought as there's better units, if I'm fighting Eldar, Tsons or GK I'll bring a Lt+5 man if I have the space.
Goofy combo, 2 Incursor squads each with a Phobos Lt. Put the mines to use. Another odd combo is a 10 man infiltrators squad with a Phobos librarian with the execute redeploy upgrade.
Why is gw so afraid of giving phobos marines good weapons? Give reivers special knives called vibro blades or something like that to justify giving them better ap Phobos has one single kit thats worth even considering to buy with infiltrators/incursors everything else is to bad to consider putting into a army I can tolerate the power capris for the sake of lighter armored marines which is cool but i just use them as intercessors
The reiver lts only mediocre use is to follow a terminator squad with the fear made manifest enhancement in 1st company detachment. And hope you can catch a pricey enemy unit to kill off 3 models. Even that takes so much effort for like a 50% chance to even yield anything good. So yeah, hes trash
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I wish we got a Phobos chaplain or apothecary, Idk why as I would never use them. I still think it would be fun
it would be nice to put them alongside a reiver squad that was buffed, actually? like if they made the reivers a little better and then a chaplain to make them more dangerous in melee, or an apothecary to make them more survivable
The phobos librarian has such a cool model. It's not even fair!
The best use for a Reiver Lt is as a paper weight , and even in that function he'll be outdone by many other things
He looks really cool if you take the extra effort to fix his emperor blessed power capris
I wish Phobos had some *customizable* characters, as all of the ones we have are entirely single-pose with no wargear options. Terminator, Tacticus and Gravis captain not only have multiple models, at least one of each has multiple left- and right arm options, but not a single one of the Phobos characters has that. (Also, the Phobos captain is basically Sevastus Acheran, and the SM2 game only makes that *extremely* clear.)
I love the Phobos armor styling and I'm slowly building up a Vanguard company, but I want some more options.
I think if reivers had pistol 2 and their gun option was 18” pistol/assault 3 with the ability to spend a command point for you to nominate a target model or unit for assassination where the reivers did 5+ mortals to them, they’d be better.
Only thing Reiver LT is possibly good to lead is SW Hounds of Morkai, making their targeted battleshock ability 18" instead of 12", and because HoM don't have grav chutes he's not restricting anything on them. Though they're really not brought as there's better units, if I'm fighting Eldar, Tsons or GK I'll bring a Lt+5 man if I have the space.
Goofy combo, 2 Incursor squads each with a Phobos Lt. Put the mines to use. Another odd combo is a 10 man infiltrators squad with a Phobos librarian with the execute redeploy upgrade.
so that means we can't use the librarian with the incursors. would be fun with their assault weapons
Worth bringing - LT with Combi weapon
Not worth bringing: Everyone else
Infiltrators with a librarian are actually awesome though, if not a big mover and shaker
I wish he had the gravchutes
Why is gw so afraid of giving phobos marines good weapons? Give reivers special knives called vibro blades or something like that to justify giving them better ap
Phobos has one single kit thats worth even considering to buy with infiltrators/incursors everything else is to bad to consider putting into a army
I can tolerate the power capris for the sake of lighter armored marines which is cool but i just use them as intercessors
For the algorithm
Much appreciated
The reiver lts only mediocre use is to follow a terminator squad with the fear made manifest enhancement in 1st company detachment. And hope you can catch a pricey enemy unit to kill off 3 models. Even that takes so much effort for like a 50% chance to even yield anything good. So yeah, hes trash