A comprehensive guide to veterans: 1) Spawn as a veteran class 2) Get instakilled by an opponents Plasma cannon 3) Spawn as a veteran again 4) Get instakilled by an allied Plasma cannon (optionally get run over) 5) Spawn as a basic class
This is such an incredible indictment of the system. The lackluster veterans, the few precious loadout slots, the inability to rely on a free anti-vehicle loadout for non-Eldar.
Don't forget that once you spawn a Vet you're running on foot/vehicle the rest of the game for sure, no redeploy cheese to help out like you need to for fear of wasting a Vet life.
I use it to run the exact same warlock build that I would normally, plus the 400LP armor. I guess I should be excited that the shoulderpads are gold? The other two advanced armors I've unlocked for Scorp and Banshee look exactly the same as regular. =/