Dakka dakka dakka dakka!!
Lootas are soon to be the premier shooting unit in the game, by a large margin. They were already amazing in the 5th ed rhino-heavy meta. But now with the new rules in 6th they will be astonishingly deadly.
Going from BS2 to BS1 isn't a big deal. Lootas already have the volume of fire that makes up for that. But with so many advantages gained by dropping to BS1 I can't wait for 6th now.
Snapfire: Shoot any assaulting unit at BS1, while giving up nothing. I dare genestealers or Wolf Scouts to come at me now. Muhahaha.
Move and shoot: (unconfirmed) Heavy weapons can move and shoot at BS1. Wow. Moving lootas. one game, long ago, I got to play with relentless lootas. It wasn't pretty. I could even keep them with the KFF..
Flyers: Zooming flyers hit on 6's. With AV10. Whoopie! Dead flyers!
Glancing: 3 glancing hits? Not a problem!
The downside is that with cover mostly moving to a 5+ I'll either have to bring my own walls or use the 2nd FoC to bring additional characters with bosspoles. A mek with bosspole is 40pts, a small investment to keep the lootas on the table.
The only hard part for me is if it's worth dropping Snikrot for 15 more lootas...
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