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How useful is Warplightning Cannon?; Warplightning Cannon?
Topic Started: 1st August 2005 - 01:11 PM (929 Views)
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I remember back in the good old days when I played Skaven *gasp*, when I shot my warp-lightning cannon at my bros Boar Chairiot. He was laughing his ass off when I rolled strength 2, but not after it did 2 wounds :P
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Yeah, well in my first game against an Ogre opponent, I've shot the cannon only once... it blew up on me the second time... And still made my points back with a mere 4S shot... Still took 4 ogres down with it though...
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hmmm...ogres...yes-yes, a worthy target for clan-clan skyre's uber-uber machine...

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The chance to do 6 S10 hits to each enemy in a line up to 48" with a 100pt war machine is well worth 100pts in my mind
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although the cannon may be fun and occassionally useful, lets not forget how easy it is to destroy....if any unit in the enemie's army can so much as draw a Line of Sight to it, consider your cannon dead

even a unit 48" away from the cannon can declare a charge on it, therefore FORCING it to flee, it doesnt matter if the charge would be successful it still flees, and good luck rallying on LD5 hehehe....

and THAT is why I'm gonna play Eshin muahahhahaa! although when i get around to collecting a normal skaven army I will definitely get one of these just for the fun of it lol
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Skriggit the Rat Ninja
Sep 2 2005, 10:37 PM
even a unit 48" away from the cannon can declare a charge on it, therefore FORCING it to flee, it doesnt matter if the charge would be successful it still flees, and good luck rallying on LD5 hehehe....

I think we have a thread on this somewhere. To summarize:

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Q. Can you declare a charge on a Warp-lightning Cannon from anywhere
and force it to flee?

A. No. The rules say you can't declare charge if you're not
relatively confident to reach the target.
S. Alessio Cavatore - Warhammer Design Team / Rulebook page 265
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oh, well why thank you very much, you've pretty much destroyed my only reason to not take a lightning cannon! :lol:

I'm glad I found out about that because one of my friends always talked about using that on a Skaven player


Of course, you still have to be aware of flying units because 20" is still quite a far distance....
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I changed my mind.... NEVER USE THE THING! Misfores 3 times in a row.... rolld range 20... then Misfires and blows up! ARGH! It's useless! (kicks cannon repeatedly). Still getting over that...
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Aug 1 2005, 08:11 AM
Hi, I'm considering getting warplightning cannon but just wondering whether it is useful or just another fluffy unit?

It's limited range of 28" (on average) means you have to move quite near the enemy.

In a 2k game,
how many of you actually find it useful?
how many would you field?
how do you optimize its use?

Get as many as can there awsome i have two and they work plus they look awsome on the batlefield


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