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Slings or throwing stars
Topic Started: 26th July 2004 - 03:29 AM (500 Views)
Warlord Skavek
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For my Night Runners should I use slings or throwing stars
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...you're definetely an odd one....
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Saxon
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I've been toying with this issue myself, and have gone for the throwing stars. Basically the importance of nightrunners is their manouverability - you're going to be moving them around alot which means that more often than not with slings you'll get -1 for moving - so 5's to hit, outside 9" gives you another -1 so 6's and god forbid you ty and shoot twice :huh: , the benifit of the stars is as thrown weapons there's no modifiers, so even with moving you're still hitting on 4's, downside being of course that the range is only 6".
The only way to decided this one would be take both and see what the results are.
The other benifit of stars is that they are 2 pts cheaper per model meaning a) more night runners in the army B) units aren't quite as expensive when the fail panic/terror/fear tests and run for it - never to rally ;)
hope this helps
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hmm... research, what a novel idea
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Matt
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Yeah I say throwing stars - cos who knows how far you are going to be able to shoot with the Under the cover of Darkness rule - with throwing stars you are always going to be able to shoot!

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sorry but range of 8 on a throwing star dude :P
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Nope, throwing stars are range six. PWGs and Death Globes are 8", maybe that's where you got confused?
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Matt
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Yes Throwing stars are 6" range
so you will always be able to shoot so Under the cover of darkness doesn't effect the Star Flingers - so stars are my 1st choice

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IIRC warpstone stars are 8"
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definatly throwing stars! :D
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Stars a probably a better choice(POISON! POISON!) because you will proably be moving AND shooting.
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id like to note you get 12 throwing stars/daggers in a box while you only get 4 slings.
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id like to note you get 12 throwing stars/daggers in a box while you only get 4 slings.

But to keep with the pure WYSIWYG rules you only have to represent the units equipment on 25% of the models so a unit of 10 NR with slings only have to have 3 sling equiped models to be WYSIWYG. However for the hardercore crowd you can easily make slings from a piece of string... just glue both ends to the rats hand, if you want you can green stuff a sling pouch on it.
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s'nkeep
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that i did not know thanks tho its fun. i was just gunna build sling units after a few more boxes of night runners but that easier yay!
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I like stars for Nightrunners, and for gutterrunners poisoned stars works very very well.
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shoudn't this be a poll?

And I like slings
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