How many flyers in a typical army?

[Brother Glacius]

I'm a bit confused as to the number of flyers you can add to your army. Anyone feel like summing up the options?

[Andrewgeddon]

I think it really just depends on which detachment (or combinations you take):

-Air Wing Detachment allows for 3 to 5 flyers

-6 other detachments allow you to take up to 2 flyers per.

Assuming you are playing by the "3 detachment limit" suggested by the rulebook, you could sprinkle up to 6 in if you stick to some of the more traditional detachments, or you could take 3 Air Wing detachments and get up to 15.

[InfestedKerrigan]

You can almost get 15 Heldrakes at 2k.

 

 

Hmmmm

[Edosaurus Rex]

20 hours ago, InfestedKerrigan said:

You can almost get 15 Heldrakes at 2k.

 

 

Hmmmm

How are you managing that? They are a minimum of 188 points once you pay for the Hades autocannon and the Heldrake claws (you know, because stock equipment costs extra now). Baleflamers cost even more!

[Dusldorf]

22 hours ago, Andrewgeddon said:

I think it really just depends on which detachment (or combinations you take):

-Air Wing Detachment allows for 3 to 5 flyers

-6 other detachments allow you to take up to 2 flyers per.

Assuming you are playing by the "3 detachment limit" suggested by the rulebook, you could sprinkle up to 6 in if you stick to some of the more traditional detachments, or you could take 3 Air Wing detachments and get up to 15.

I think there will have to be limits on the # of detachments you can take...otherwise things will get quite silly.

[Brother Glacius]

Originally I was curious because I was planning on owning a bunch of necron flyers...but someone beat me to them :(

[InfestedKerrigan]

1 hour ago, Edosaurus Rex said:

How are you managing that? They are a minimum of 188 points once you pay for the Hades autocannon and the Heldrake claws (you know, because stock equipment costs extra now). Baleflamers cost even more!

 

Good call, forgot to check those costs. Still, that is 10 drakes at 2k.

[Andrewgeddon]

1 hour ago, Dusldorf said:

I think there will have to be limits on the # of detachments you can take...otherwise things will get quite silly.

Absolutely agree. I doubt you will see more than 3 detachments allowed in events, outside of wacky / narrative stuff.

[VonVilkee]

I heard the rule book strongly suggests 3 detachments for matched play 

[WestRider]

32 minutes ago, VonVilkee said:

I heard the rule book strongly suggests 3 detachments for matched play 

They actually suggest different Detachment limits for different Points levels, which is cool. For the most part, tho (1001-2000 Points), we're looking at three Detachments, yeah.

[VonVilkee]

23 minutes ago, WestRider said:

They actually suggest different Detachment limits for different Points levels, which is cool. For the most part, tho (1001-2000 Points), we're looking at three Detachments, yeah.

That is really cool! What is their suggestion at 5k ish? I wanna play apocalypse and just use wysiwyg and power level. 

[Dusldorf]

3 minutes ago, VonVilkee said:

That is really cool! What is their suggestion at 5k ish? I wanna play apocalypse and just use wysiwyg and power level. 

[VonVilkee]

I have a six month old my imagination is a bit run down for 40k...

[Dusldorf]

Just now, VonVilkee said:

I have a six month old my imagination is a bit run down for 40k...

i was being cheeky but that really is their recommendation: they don't have any recommendations past 3k (up to 4 detachments per army).

[VonVilkee]

23 minutes ago, Dusldorf said:

i was being cheeky but that really is their recommendation: they don't have any recommendations past 3k (up to 4 detachments per army).

 Cool thanks! I was being a bit cheeky as well. 

[Prophecy]

4 hours ago, Edosaurus Rex said:

How are you managing that? They are a minimum of 188 points once you pay for the Hades autocannon and the Heldrake claws (you know, because stock equipment costs extra now). Baleflamers cost even more!

You could just fly them around and play warhammer duck hunt for an hour. Get your own little kid to point and laugh as you fail to kill them.

[WestRider]

Their chart stops at 3K, but it's pretty easy to extrapolate past that. Basically just add one Detachment to the limit for every 1000 Points you increase the Game size by.