Shredder

[Kenrick Dargoth]

Good Morning (6.18)

I'm assembling my pathfinders right now. The Shredder costs 25pts.
I think it's not worth it. You have +1d6 and Piercing 1. But You loose Underslug grenade launcher, so You won't be able to cope with bigger targets. I think it's just better to pay 35pts and You get additional corpse and morita.
Especially with new SST:EVO rules

 

[MongooseMatt]

YMMV.

I like the Shredder - think of the reaper guns in Aliens, and you are pretty much there

 

[Kenrick Dargoth]

YMMV?


I understand but I'm not talking about fluff but the rules. Becouse in every wargame there are differences between those two .

 

[5.56 Surgeon]

Well as the most numerous bugs will be Warriors, the Shredder is top notch, as it is the bet way to deal with the Carrion with the piercing 1 trait.

I like two full squads with 3 Shredders to deal with the prelimanry Warrior rush, followed by Reaver missile squads to hit the big stuff.

 

[tneva82]

But You loose Underslug grenade launcher, so You won't be able to cope with bigger targets.

I won't generally rely on those d6+1 grenades anyway. From what I can tell(don't have pathfinders book) shredders sounds excelent anti-warrior weapons. And funny that warriors are generally most common bugs anyway

Leave big stuff to javelins and other heavy weapons. Underslung grenades are more of "wish-wish" weapons. And against carrions that piercing is just great. Roughly doubles the kill rate. Sounds good to me

 

[Makoto]

Depends on "where"
Am usually facing at least a couple of tankers, and usually some flyers, so find the shredders not exactly effective - much more prefer to take flamers, especially they're much cheaper. But that depends on the enemy, against non- marauder MI would probably use some of them too.

 

[JoseDominguez]

I have lots of shredders and they are good, but, I've recently started fielding units with 3 snipers and a javelin, reason being that the pathfinder javelin is the best weapon in the game (IMHO) and the more units you buy, the more you have, the more you have the less of a target each one is. THe javelins give the unit punch and range (breaching tunnel markers at long range, only the nukes can do that otherwise), but keep it cheap. It's worked brilliantly so far.

 

[Cozmo]

Armourer very handy for misfires on them more dice=more to go wrong