Re: IG COMMENT: Sentinels

Posted by BobbieTheDamned on Mar 26, 2010; 1:19am
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/IG-COMMENT-Sentinels-tp4791785p4801482.html

Personally I love sentinels. I think they look awesome (egg on legs version was best though).

They can be handy on the battlefield too but they have to be handled right. They're not a drednaught or a tank really, more like an extra heavy weapon squad that happens to be impervious to anything bellow strength 4 (which is pretty good compared to guardsmen!). Two sentinels with multi-lasers is about the same cost as three weapons teams with the equivelant weapons and will survive longer against the same sort of shooting. Best thing to do is try and keep them in a hull down position as much as possible, they live a lot longer, especially now that it works as a cover save!

Armoured sentinels I've not tried yet (been a while since I played IG), but they look like a waste of points. 20pts more for av12, and access to weapons you'll probably not want.

Sentinels are also great for attracting fire away from your more valuable vehicles. There's also the old trick of using them to tie up swarm enemies that are trying to charge your guardsmen, stuff like hormagaunts can't dent a sentinel but if it assaults them they have to stand there getting stomped on until a bigger 'nid comes and does something.