So, I saw the amazing sunstorm squadron statistics in white dwarf and I thought to myself (wouldn't it be awesome to be able to link four fire prisms together and get those amazing abilities?) So I go down to the local store, order the four fire prims (which with my 30% discount was only $120) and began play testing with falcon chasis to see how they did.... THEY SUCKED. Seriously, template weapons against nids did so little it wasn't even funny. I couldn't target the gargantuan creatures because they would only do one wound and against the regular nids it seemed like my fire prisms did too little to be any good at all. So here's the question, do you use fire-prisms in your apocalypse or regular army? How do you like them? What armies do you find them useful against, or completely useless? I have 3 unopened fire prisms here that I'm thinking about selling on ebay just to recoup my costs but I don't know yet.
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I got hammered by someone using that very technique. I don't know exactly how it works (as I play Deathwing and not Eldar) but I did have to be real careful not to bunch my models together. I just couldn't make all the saves he was forcing with the blast templates.
Not that I want to see another army like this (and I'm not sure how it will fare once 5th gets here) but I will say that I needed to play tons of games with my 2 LRC force before I learned how to use it effectively. I lost alot of games before I figured out the nuances of the army list.
Give it some time and really play test the list before folding up tents and moving on.
Well I played 5-10 apocalypse games with anywhere from 3-5 fire prisms and everytime I would rather have a bunch or dark reapers instead of one blast template... just my view on the subject though
I agree with olof21. Use dark reapers and falcons instead of so many fire prisms. Yet, in apocalypse games 2fire prisms are a fair combination for their cost - they can trouble your horde enemies. But more than those would be wrongly spent points in my opinion.
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