Quote Originally Posted by Tyrendian View Post
the viability of Scarabs depends heavily on terrain I'd say - if you can keep them out of sight you're golden, but if there's one thing Scarabs don't like it's a Nova Cannon, or by extension most any template or blast weapon at S6 or above, especially if it ignores cover... and at 1k points the Scarabs aren't even as much of a throwaway unit as they would be in larger games. If your terrain collection doesn't contain many big blocks to hide behind, I'd probably take the newly T5 Wraiths over Scarabs, also because they pretty much ignore Lasgun fire from the vets.
Scarabs do remain cheap and cheerful though. Whilst Nova Cannon are to Scarabs are as say, Hammers to Kittens*, it's a shot your opponent will have to take. Nobody wants Scarabs up in their engine grill. You can use that forced target priority to your advantage


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