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Post by darkangeldentist on Sept 6, 2017 23:04:38 GMT
In light of their frankly awful reputation this performance deserved to be shared. It's about as niche as you can possibly get but it was just so ridiculously cute that I'm still smiling about it.
Alongside a couple of other solos they tied up and wore down a full unit of Trollkin Highwaymen. The poor trollkin were helpless in the face of wind barrier because they have gunfighter and no melee weapons. So Lynus and Edrea walked up to them, let Lynus swing his sword, put up wind barrier and dare free strikes. Wrongeye was equally annoying with submerge which achieves the same effect.
Unfortunately I did time waste abysmally so lost on clock (I'm just so crap with time) but these guys held an entire flank safe in the knowledge there was literally nothing the ranged only highwaymen could do.
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Post by Tom_Bombadil_ on Sept 6, 2017 23:27:47 GMT
Its always so nice to see under appreciated and weak models getting work done even if it is highly situational
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Post by pox on Sept 7, 2017 14:27:33 GMT
Barnabas' swamp pits do it even better! Just makes shooty only models cry.
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Post by Lahn on Sept 7, 2017 14:39:46 GMT
Its always so nice to see under appreciated and weak models getting work done even if it is highly situational If a model is weak, how is it under appreciated? |
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Post by Tom_Bombadil_ on Sept 7, 2017 14:50:11 GMT
Its always so nice to see under appreciated and weak models getting work done even if it is highly situational If a model is weak, how is it under appreciated? I was more referring to them as separate catagories as in 'It's nice when weak models get play and do well and when under appreciated models get play and do well' Lynus and Edrea fall into the weak category in my opinion. Sorry for lack of clarity. |
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Post by darkangeldentist on Sept 7, 2017 18:54:01 GMT
Its always so nice to see under appreciated and weak models getting work done even if it is highly situational If a model is weak, how is it under appreciated? A model is usually regarded as weak or strong dependent on what it can do or brings to the table relative to it's cost. Gorman Di Wulfe is probably still quite a strong model by this measure. Stannis Brocker is a laughably weak model considering his cost. On the minions side of things, Alten Ashley probably counts as a strong model whilst a gobber tinker would be weak. A model is appreciated if it can make it into lists because of what it brings to the table. So in the case of the tinker it's because of the repair ability (and survivability), for Alten it would be for grievous wounds and monster hunter. Many models are appreciated for those specific things they bring to the table. This is probably most easily seen with pirates whose throng of solos are all pretty weak individually but are appreciated by some for their accumulated buffs and support abilities. Lynus and Edrea are weak models because they do very little work and bring extremely niche and hard to utilise support abilities. Even though there are corner cases where they could be useful almost no one considers this enough justification to include them into lists. Thus they are both weak and under appreciated since almost no one has anything good to say about them normally. Even in my list their presence was mostly due to trying out a theme list where they were one of the few units allowed. As it turned out they proved riotously amusing because I was able to get a lot of value out of them and drastically impact my opponent's plans because of it. |
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Post by Azahul on Sept 7, 2017 22:45:17 GMT
I ran them for a little bit in a silly little Midas list where their job was to give a Razorback Crew the ability to snipe out columns. I'd have Hutchuck knock one Warbeast down, a Bokur render another stationary, and then with Alten, two Efaarit, and the Razorback try to scalpel out the Spirit on both 'beasts. It was good fun  Maybe not 5 points of good fun, but it frustrated the heck out of my opponents. |
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Post by Lahn on Sept 8, 2017 1:28:35 GMT
If a model is weak, how is it under appreciated? I was more referring to them as separate catagories as in 'It's nice when weak models get play and do well and when under appreciated models get play and do well' Lynus and Edrea fall into the weak category in my opinion. Sorry for lack of clarity. All good, I blame english for being the abomination that it is. |
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Post by darkangeldentist on Sept 20, 2017 12:04:26 GMT
New update on the exploits of minions 'worst' unit. This time they were helping Calaban battle Grymkin and the dreamer's Dark menagerie. Here they provided exceedingly valuable spot removal of gremlin swarms. Edrea managed to zap two in as many turns and Lynus even managed to shoot straight with his rifle. Viktor would be so proud...
With the 2017 steamroller packet I am becoming increasingly fond of small character units like them for zone contesting/scoring due to being inexpensive and relatively expendable.
Honourable mention to Blythe & Bull who were also in the list and managed to feel like they pulled their weight as well. They killed about half a unit of dread rots and finished off a rattler. Not to forget that both of them survived the game!
In other news, Beast lore'd Brigands can cycle prey terrifyingly quickly through light warbeasts.
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Maybe not 5 points of good fun, but it frustrated the heck out of my opponents.