I love how people bitch about 1 shot weapons when the first Elite the Eldar are gonna get is the Pathfinder Sniper. Prepare the Salt Wagons Eldar cause its gonna be directed t you soon.
As an Ork player, we almost never got armor saves. And depending on the weapon that hit you, neither did anything else. A squad of Space Marines could lose half their number to most AoE/Template weapons without even getting a save against it. Most because those same AoE weapons are of a large caliber with enough power to rupture Power Armor like it's paper. Then again, I'm working off of older rules, where a high enough Armor Penetration on a weapon would cut through you like butter. But this same mentality is often shown in the novels of the 40K universe. Weapons of sufficient power are shown to tear through enemies regardless of size, armor, or skill (plot armor aside). Some weapons are just too strong to stop from killing you outright, and I support their inclusion in this game. Especially as those same weapons have sufficient drawbacks to keep everyone from using them constantly. Don't like getting killed quickly and brutally? Don't be in the Warhammer 40K universe then. Pick another game.
We're still not sure if they will be able to one-shot, though. Wouldn't be surprised if their rifles are basically glorified Stalker Bolters.
Meh..even if it were like Stalker Bolter damage but with a 2.5x Headshot multiplier instead of 2x like normal weapons with some sort of stealth mechanic....I think that would be ok.
You say this as if it's not already directed at us. We already have enough salt to spawn an entirely new god, we're going to need a hell of a lot more than a few wagons to help us.
You can't prepare Salt Wagons if these wagons are everywhere(mostly in Hold the Line or Fortress but you catch my Dakka).
Its almost as if we're playing a game where everyone known planet, race and universe has been in a constant state of war for the last 10,000-20,000 years, and the only industry/technology that has held up through the ages is how to make weapons that are more killy'er than the enemies...
That's why EC was much better off with a bit higher TTK IMO. To help the user out a little when we get those little lag spikes here and there we have that extra durability to survive those situations. "One shot" or On Hit Kill weapons that take your entire health pool(and shield in the case of EC) are garbage in any online PVP game. OHK AOE is the worst possible mechanic imaginable in a PVP settingand EC has that plenty.
