Fire Prism linked fire...

[AlphariusOmegon87]

... is freaking awesome! You can snipe fools from 3 range all day with that ability!

[~HaY~]

i dont remember top well but i ever understood if it is better to just bave two fire prism shooting the target or use linked fire.

Same thing with Tau's targetting... why not just shoot the target with two ppl then using one to point...

i should check out the math sometime...

[Jey]

Originally posted by ~HaY~:

i dont remember top well but i ever understood if it is better to just bave two fire prism shooting the target or use linked fire.

Might be better if you're using the Blast/Large Blast mode against stuff with 6-8 armor and high-ish HP.
Most of the time you're better off moving two fire prisms at range 2 and firing though.

Same thing with Tau's targetting... why not just shoot the target with two ppl then using one to point...

But like T'au designating laser there are things to take in account.
What if one of your fire prisms is low HP? Then you'd rather him to be far away and giving its action to buff a Fire Prism is better than... doing nothing?
What if you are wary of Melta Bombs? Then maybe you'd rather act a bit carefully, and again not waste an action.

For T'au designating lasers, first and foremost, the use is for Seeker Missiles.
A Sky Ray hitting 4 tiles away ignoring all obstacles is strong and can take down a hero that was a bit too enthusiastic.
But also if you face an enemy with high ranged reduction (e.g vespids in ruins, shining spears with jink...), removing the RdR AND giving +1 accuracy will yield higher damage than firing with both squads..
Finally, if a fire warrior squad has been crippled (lost 3+ models), moving 2 tiles away from the enemy and designating it can help a 5 models FW deal more damage than if you shot while allowing you to be a bit protected.

[~HaY~]

Originally posted by Jey:

Originally posted by ~HaY~:

i dont remember top well but i ever understood if it is better to just bave two fire prism shooting the target or use linked fire.

Might be better if you're using the Blast/Large Blast mode against stuff with 6-8 armor and high-ish HP.
Most of the time you're better off moving two fire prisms at range 2 and firing though.

Same thing with Tau's targetting... why not just shoot the target with two ppl then using one to point...

But like T'au designating laser there are things to take in account.
What if one of your fire prisms is low HP? Then you'd rather him to be far away and giving its action to buff a Fire Prism is better than... doing nothing?
What if you are wary of Melta Bombs? Then maybe you'd rather act a bit carefully, and again not waste an action.

For T'au designating lasers, first and foremost, the use is for Seeker Missiles.
A Sky Ray hitting 4 tiles away ignoring all obstacles is strong and can take down a hero that was a bit too enthusiastic.
But also if you face an enemy with high ranged reduction (e.g vespids in ruins, shining spears with jink...), removing the RdR AND giving +1 accuracy will yield higher damage than firing with both squads..
Finally, if a fire warrior squad has been crippled (lost 3+ models), moving 2 tiles away from the enemy and designating it can help a 5 models FW deal more damage than if you shot while allowing you to be a bit protected.

very true.

[AlphariusOmegon87]

What if one of your fire prisms is low HP? Then you'd rather him to be far away and giving its action to buff a Fire Prism is better than... doing nothing?
What if you are wary of Melta Bombs? Then maybe you'd rather act a bit carefully, and again not waste an action.

This is a fantastic point as well, it puts a wounded fire prism to work while it can heal

[~HaY~]

Originally posted by AlphariusOmegon87:

What if one of your fire prisms is low HP? Then you'd rather him to be far away and giving its action to buff a Fire Prism is better than... doing nothing?
What if you are wary of Melta Bombs? Then maybe you'd rather act a bit carefully, and again not waste an action.

This is a fantastic point as well, it puts a wounded fire prism to work while it can heal

I dont think the fire prism at the back will heal as long as it made any action during the turn or gets attacked. So linking fire to another may prevent it from healing even if it didnt move.

[TemplarGR]

Indeed it is a cool ability. Not so useful when using the Lance mode of Fire Prism's main weapon though. Linking the weapons gives the damage of the other tank(s) to the main one, +2 armor penetration for each link. Since the lance trait limits enemy armor to 8 and the fire prism lance mode already has 8 armor penetration, you don't get any armor penetration benefit when hitting with the lance mode using a linked Prism.

But if you use focused or especially dispersed mode, this can make it devastating against enemy armored infantry.

Other than that, this ability should be somewhat useful for tactical purposes. Allows you to exploit the full strength of your Prisms while keeping your distance, avoiding exposing all of them to the enemy, plus the flexibility of keeping your formation and being able to attack with full strength at any side. But seeing as your secondary weapon does not get linked, it is a considerable drawback.

[Stardustfire]

Templar, its one of the few correct transformations of TT rules (and there it was a useless gimmick) the first TT models dont got a sleak little bigger lanserlance like weaponform like the actual modells do, but a very big prisma (out of metal on top, what made it useless for me to even try to get mine on a hoverbase, to heavy and sideweighted) and the weapon rule (its only a rule for that weapon, not for the tank itself, if it woud be for the tank every from the eldar exept the scorpion woud have it, its the eldar poundon to the rhino chassis shema from SM) sayed that one tank shot with his prisma into another tanks prisma, enhancing the output power of the other tank that way.

[~HaY~]

Originally posted by Stardustfire:

Templar, its one of the few correct transformations of TT rules (and there it was a useless gimmick) the first TT models dont got a sleak little bigger lanserlance like weaponform like the actual modells do, but a very big prisma (out of metal on top, what made it useless for me to even try to get mine on a hoverbase, to heavy and sideweighted) and the weapon rule (its only a rule for that weapon, not for the tank itself, if it woud be for the tank every from the eldar exept the scorpion woud have it, its the eldar poundon to the rhino chassis shema from SM) sayed that one tank shot with his prisma into another tanks prisma, enhancing the output power of the other tank that way.

Not trying to be rude but your paragraph is incomprehensible.

What are you trying ro say?