{"id":596,"date":"2010-12-11T00:29:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T05:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocketshipgames.com\/blog\/?p=596"},"modified":"2010-12-11T00:29:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T05:29:28","slug":"imperial-guard-artillery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2010\/12\/imperial-guard-artillery\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperial Guard Artillery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_597\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/armabasilisk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-597\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-597\" title=\"armabasilisk\" src=\"http:\/\/rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/armabasilisk-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Photo &amp; model by Forge World.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-597\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo &amp; model by Forge World.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Matt was <a href=\"http:\/\/sarcophagi.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/40k-question-medusa-or-colossus-or.html\">pondering on artillery pieces<\/a> to add to his Valhallan villains, so I thought I&#8217;d offer up my comments.<\/p>\n<p>Options are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Basilisk: Incredible range (240&#8243;) and great strength (9 AP3)<\/li>\n<li>Medusa: Ok range (36&#8243;) and amazing strength (10 AP 2 or 1 depending on shell)<\/li>\n<li>Colossus: Great range (240&#8243;), good strength (6 AP 3), ignores cover<\/li>\n<li>Griffon: Solid range (48&#8243;), ok strength (6 AP 4), re-rolls scatter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once you&#8217;re committed to using some artillery I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s possible to go really wrong with this decision, except for the Basilisk. It&#8217;s a shame, because I like the look of the Basilisk the most with its long barrel, but with a 36&#8243; minimum range it really doesn&#8217;t make sense except on a *big* Apoc table.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen Kiril make excellent use of the Colossus. The AP 3 with no cover saves on a Large Blast marker makes it a Marine killer par excellence. The Medusa also sounds impressive, but personally I think it&#8217;s less terrifying. It&#8217;s maybe good for working over Terminators (hint, hint), but generally the boards Matt and I play on have a good amount of terrain. Given that, I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s as useful as the Colossus. Certainly I fear the latter much more.<\/p>\n<p>The Griffon though is probably a good safe bet. Previously I didn&#8217;t really realize it is so much cheaper than the others, and I&#8217;m generally a big fan of bodies over fancyness. The other guns don&#8217;t seem unnecessarily fancy, but the reduced cost of the Griffon yields up a whole additional full Veteran Squad, or another squad and a half of normal grunts. If you&#8217;re trying to soak up points I think the others are definitely credible, but there&#8217;s a lot to be said for simply having more guys out there soaking up wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Another big point to me in Matt&#8217;s particular case is that he tends to play on his (awesome) 4&#215;4, Warmachine styled boards rather than more traditional 6&#215;4 40k boards. On a 4&#215;4 the 24&#8243; minimum range of the Colossus could really crimp your style; even on a 6&#215;4 it&#8217;s tight, and requires parking the gun in a far corner, ripe for being outflanked. The 12&#8243; minimum of the Griffon is a lot more reasonable for smaller boards.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, remember that Ordnance Barrage weapons (so, everything here except the Medusa&#8217;s shells) cause a Pinning check with a -1 modifier to Leadership if they cause any unsaved wounds. Doesn&#8217;t sound like a big deal, but I think that&#8217;s actually significant. They could potentially achieve almost as much, particularly against MEQs, just by pinning units as they do by removing models. Certainly I&#8217;ve had important units held at a stand still from continual pinning wounds, with significant game effects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt was pondering on artillery pieces to add to his Valhallan villains, so I thought I&#8217;d offer up my comments. Options are: Basilisk: Incredible range (240&#8243;) and great strength (9 AP3) Medusa: Ok range (36&#8243;) and amazing strength (10 AP 2 or 1 depending on shell) Colossus: Great range (240&#8243;), good strength (6 AP 3), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2010\/12\/imperial-guard-artillery\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419],"tags":[272,38,274,36],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rules-and-tactics","tag-40k","tag-imperial-guard","tag-miniatures","tag-tactics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}