Sunday, March 27, 2011

long long ago a cool Spiderman villian or the other transport

The second and last transport option for the Dark Eldar is the Venom. It seats five, is armor 10 on all sides, is an open topped fast skimmer and clocks in at the previous codex Raider price. There is only a blurry drawing in the codex of this vehicle. So once again there is no model for a codex unit that many people want to/ do use.

What do/ will you look like Venom?
Well what else is the Venom? Well not much. It comes standard with a twin linked splinter rifle, splinter cannon and flicker field. Wait...it comes with what? Yup a 5++ save (no comment) and two poisoned weapons. Once again if the flicker field wasn't stock it would be cheaper and easier to throw all over the army. It can have many of the Raider-esqe upgrades: Retrofire Jets, Chain Snares, Grisly Trophies, Envenomed Blades, and Night Shields. The twin linked rifle can be swapped for a splinter cannon as well. Honestly, I wouldn't dump the extra points for most upgrades, well except for the splinter cannon. i can see a few uses for that armament.

So Ian, what do you think? How would you use this?

Well, if I was to use this transport I would run it with Trueborn with dual dark lances and swap the twin linked splinter rifles for a splinter cannon. This could make for a nice anti-transport platform. I can see moving 6", firing dark lances at a Rhino and then dropping 12 splinter cannon shots on the contents.

I can also see going the double splinter cannon Trueborn and double splinter cannon on the Venom. This will pepper the heck out anything that isn't a vehicle.

I see the same pros and cons as the Raider. If you want multiple small units and a transport option for them, then this is the vehicle for you. There really isn't much else to say about this besides....MAKE A MODEL FOR IT!  PEOPLE WANT IT  AND WILL BUY IT!

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