Not to be rude but there is way more huffing and puffing about how hard something is then there is of actual how it is. The Las needs the vehicle to be completely still to hit?? Can you aim or just can't be bothered? You can shoot any vehicle with a Las while aiming, the failure is setting up in niche spots with to narrow of field of fire. It's not that difficult to keep a Las trained on a moving vehicle. Plasma is the same as Reaper, they both have projectiles with travel time, so takes more skill or needs to be closer to lead on enemy vehicles. So pick a better range and learn to lead, this isn't plasma ball of death that you just spam in the general area of infantry to kill. Not to mention these also work extremely well to good vs infantry where the other AV doesn't. Hawks can stun tanks with Haywire? No they can't, they did in the past but that has been changed for a while now, all they do now is slow vehicles a bit and do minuscule damage. They only really work in coordination with another AV hunter. JPA Powerfist i can sympathize with a bit as the dual function of it on the AV side makes it hard to be effective, but if the vehicle has stopped it's not as much of an issue, but it exploding in your face is. A moving vehicle though is hard and landing on it while moving takes some skill. I firmly believe it is not the Melta that is the problem nor has been the problem. Even as a FD, chasing a moving vehicle, even a Rhino is pointless and most definitely will not destroy it, let alone even half health it. You can't shoot and run, the fusion has a windup and your not getting much heat on the vehicle by the time it's out of range. So not sure what your talking about them chasing a Rhino, as all they have to do is stop after a good lead and change to a gun to put the chasing dragon down. Or get out and shoot em, both work. This is the exact same issue Multi Melta has, and even though better range it still suffers being able to get within heat range and not getting intercepted by someone else. Pistols to Devs will help. The whole killing vehicles to fast is because the bomb is fast to place and take half the vehicles health. With just a melta vs a vehicle with defender is not some "free kill" that others say it is, because while he melta's it you kill him long before he even gets to his second charge. Use your melee strike and it interrupts his melta, you win and he can't hurt your vehicle.
Holy shit the damage for melta was halved and the multi-melta went from 6 ailement to 2.5. Why wasn't the bomb nerfed instead?
Farm will go on for me.Those abandoned xp in packs of 3 too hard to resist.But at least now all the whiners wil have no excuses anymore.
Fun fact: factions with lack of melta players are going to have even less vehicle control now XD (unless multimelta is OP now, then there's going to be a lot)
How is the Melta Faring against infantry? If it's not sufficiently buffed, we could say goodbye to ever using it. Might as well roll a PF that is good against both.
Except rokkits didn't get touched and it takes about 3 to down a rhino and 4 for a pred. Meltaguns are dealing less than 1/4th of their original damage.
Because pretty much most people on this forum have been crying like babies about damn Melta, which as I've been saying for ever and long before the announcement to nerf melta, is the problem wasn't really Melta. I swear, most show up here to cry how they got beat and can't seem to put it in context to what the issue is. And since some dude with a melta and bomb blew up his precious vehicle that was parked against a rock with its ass out and for easy access with no one around to hear the explosion, automatically comes to the forums to say how OP Melta is. All they needed to do is was put a half second charge timer on bombs and any protected vehicle would be much harder to kill. But alas, I do have to laugh in a cynical way as I can hear Brent saying from twitch that they were going to nerf melta slightly. Well halving is sure seems like a lot more than "slightly".
So are rokkits now one of the best non heavy Av weapons in the game against Eldar now? they were untouched and Eldar tanks now have 40% less health than a Rhino.
