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It serves it purpose. If pinning was so easy to achieve, how many people woul d RUSH to use it? I mean think about it. It is nigh unreal to take battle hardened fighters or warriors and say they can be pinned by some floating drones... though it is possible, you just have to imagine the circumstances beyond the roll of the die. Pinning is still useful, and even if not in your eyes, it is an effect, it does not take away from the fact that the gun has power and the unit is still useful via tactic or scenario.

Gun Drones aren't that great, but they do have better accuracy than a Fire Warrior. (55% compared to 50%) What Drones are best for is filling up holes in your list for cheap, and providing extra models quick. What's nice is if you're trying to make a list and don't have quite enough models to fill up everything, then Drone Squads become useful. However, once you've got a fully fleshed out army, Drones fall by the wayside until you play Kill Team or a mission with Sentries. (And, as mentioned, for distracting berzerkers and the like)

I really dont think gun drones can do s**t against vehicle armor.

Oh, im still fuzzy on how vehicle rules work, I thought the armor piercing value had something to do with it.

Drones do give VP's if bought in a squad. What you're thinking of are vehicle Drones. In any case, Deep Striking is iffy at best, especially Deep Striking behind a tank which has it's back up near a board edge. You're only going to hit 1/3 of the time, and if you're dropping into a ~6" corridor, then there's a good chance you're falling off the board and wasting 72-96 points.


The only AP values that matter against vehicles are AP- and AP1. AP- means that the weapon can only glance, AP1 means shots which equal the armor value penetrate instead of glance. All other AP values mean jack squat against targets with an Armor Value.

Hammerhead?

-Mykal

Depends on your point of view. If you qualify heavy tanks by the number of guns they carry and a front armor of 14, then no. Tau tanks carry two guns most of the time, sometimes three, and the tank with the heaviest front armor only goes up to 13. If you mean comparitivly heavy, as to Eldar tanks, or heavy as in ability to withstand alot of punishment, then yes. Tau have the heaviest skimmer tank (not counting the Monolith because of it's lumbering speed), and between it's high armor and ability to re-roll immobilized results, it actually has a pretty good battlefield life. Not quite as charmed a life as a Monolith or pimped out Falcon, but still pretty good.