riptide loadout

[Grenndal]

Hi everyone I was building my first riptide and I was wondering if it was worth the pain to magnetize the heavy weapon arm. I don't see many people use the burst cannon and was wondering if I just haven't bee n paying attention enough or is the Ion Accelerator really the only option?

thanks for your time

[Chaoschrist]

I guess it depends on what your use is for a Riptide. The Ion Accelerator is a lot better IMO, but I can see some uses on the Burst cannon as well.

Velocity tracker + Burst cannon for glancing flyers to death?

I guess one can do math and see how many hits you can score on average with Heavy 8/12 vs. a Large blast against horde armies. But seeing as 2+ saves are a thing, as well as deepstriking (I'm looking at your terminators) large blast templates take them out pretty effectively (especially with that interceptor upgrade).

[Tyrendian]

yeah I think Interceptor pie plates are just too good not to take... my friend wants to use the Burst Cannon as well but keeps falling back on the Ion Accelerator too...

[MajorWesJanson]

Ion Acc having gets hot when overcharged or novacharged is fine, as it is a 1 in 6 chance on a single shot. Odds are once, maybe twice a game.
Gets hot on a Heavy 12 is an average of 2 wounds per turn. Makes it far more dangerous to use in comparison.

[Gleipnir]

Unless of course you allow for rerolls on all your misses and ignores cover on your Heavy Burst Cannon by attaching an IC with Multi-spectrum Sensor Suite, Command and Control Node, Puretide Engram Neurochip. Also makes that commander signifigantly harder to kill due to majority toughness from the riptide and 2 shielded missile drones.

[Tyrendian]

Unless of course you allow for rerolls on all your misses and ignores cover on your Heavy Burst Cannon by attaching an IC with Multi-spectrum Sensor Suite, Command and Control Node, Puretide Engram Neurochip. Also makes that commander signifigantly harder to kill due to majority toughness from the riptide and 2 shielded missile drones.

that, and you still have your 2+ against those Gets Hot! wounds

[Xenith]

I think Tau generally already have enough ways to make a mess of hordes, through fire warriors and burst cannons, kroot and such. A s8 ap2 is something that is very much harder to come by in the army, and shores a definite weakness. Is the heavy burst cannon rending? I would think it would have to be to make it comparable, then overcharging it to 5+ rending.

[Gleipnir]

Yes nova charged the Heavy Burst Cannon has rending, ultimately the big tradeoff between using Burst Cannon vs Ion Accelerator is twice the hits at half the range at 6 strength rather than 8 and a large blast.

[LordGrise]

I magnetized mine, and I would strongly suggest everyone else with one does too. The Heavy Burst Cannon (HBC) isn't nearly as bad a self-destruct device once you have the Farsight book; there's an option (Earth Caste something-or-other - I have to wait for the dead tree edition, so I don't have it to hand) that allows to reroll misses, making that Gets Hot! thing negligible.

Not to mention I would expect it to be revised in the next edition - books come and go, the big print giveth while the small print taketh away - but the model is forever, or at least 'til you sell it or throw it against the wall.

Anyone got anything new on the XV107?

[Patrick Boyle]

I magnetized mine, and I would strongly suggest everyone else with one does too. The Heavy Burst Cannon (HBC) isn't nearly as bad a self-destruct device once you have the Farsight book; there's an option (Earth Caste something-or-other - I have to wait for the dead tree edition, so I don't have it to hand) that allows to reroll misses, making that Gets Hot! thing negligible.

Not to mention I would expect it to be revised in the next edition - books come and go, the big print giveth while the small print taketh away - but the model is forever, or at least 'til you sell it or throw it against the wall.

Anyone got anything new on the XV107?

Earth Caste Pilot Array, I think. It also lets you reroll the nova reactor roll I think? It certainly makes the heavy burst cannon more viable.

[chicop76]

I would magnitize the arm. For now the ion is better due to being a tank killer, term killer, and your all around killer of most models ot there. However if 7th edition come out an you have a new weapon that is better than the ion than you don't have to worry about chopping off any arms and such.