Simple enough poll.


Which type of Ordinance do you prefer?

Torpedo?

Bombers?

Figther CAPs?

Assault Boats?

Other?


Obviously fleet choice effects this to some extent, so feel free to add that in if you'd like to explain your choice below.

I won't even tell you how to define "prefer". You can determine it by any method you want, or mix of methods, from counting up the total strength of that weapon type you field, averaging how many of your ships have that type, or just putting one you like even if your particular fleet doesn't have it you just hate facing it.

Two things.

One... Assault Boats covers anything that transports troops, EXCEPT boarding torpedoes.

Two... Yes I wussed out and put a mix. No, I also can never decide chocolate or vanillia either. And if I do, the place also always offers strawberry and then I'm back to square one.

OOPS

Forgot witty lines for Fighters and Bombers...

For Fighters... (Because I've seen Top Gun 89 times, and I don't care if Tom Cruise is nuts)

For Bombers... (Because they let me roll more dice then a trip to Vegas would)

I picked torpedoes... Purely because I don't like any of the other options, attack craft, bombers or assault boats. I don't use torpedoes heaps as part of my plans, just launch off a whole swarm if I'm playing as Imperials and let them do whatever, or at least scatter the opponent's line. I'm a fan of lances and (to a lesser extent) weap batteries.

Bombers or impaler assault modules. I'm really torn, as bombers are heinously effective and impalers are virtually indestructible fire and forget weapons. I guess I'll go with the impaler for being able to hit and run and for being indestructible until boarding.

I don't prefer any type of ordnance, because I need them all. It depends on the Situation.

-assaultboats to destroy escorts
-bombers to destroy capital ships
-fighters to escort my bombers

Eldar Torpedoes.

torpedos are for sissies feel my weapons batteries and nova cannons

Ehm, well that depends on how much Nova Cannon you bring along.

And yes, I favour batteries as well (backed up with lances).

But this is an ordnance thread and Eldar Torps are plain evil.

Fired by a fast ship which can hide.
turrets can only hit them on a 6.
when they miss they may re-roll.

So many death vessels at the hand of my Nightshades and Wraithships.

dark eldar are evil agreed but almost all my ships can take nova canons because im the sit back and watch your fleet disolve sort of admiral

I'm talking standard Corsair and Craftworld Eldar torps by the way.

Your Nova Cannon scatters,
Eldar can hide and have a good holo save.

i choose bombers as i m mainly like to use a small wave of torp bombers and then follow up in the same turn with a bomber wing in order to distory a battleship by overwheming the turrents so they got 2 nasty types of eldar ordence to fire [ insert giggle here ]

not are torp bombers great but allow you to redirect a torp salvo to the weakest armour of the target in question

by the way i play corsair eldar here so my torps and bombers need a 6 to be hit and i get to reoroll dice too for amount of attacts and torp misses!

*Hums the Dambusters March*

Bombers all the way. A decent sized bomber wing (i.e., all the launch bays on a Styx) can cripple or destroy a capital ship with almost contemptable ease. I dont care if its got heavy armour (because the attacks go on the smallest value) and I get 6d6 attacks. Some half decent rolling and BOOM!

Although as a Chaos Admiral I dont get many torpedoes and tend to have enough launch bays to run interceptors as WELL as bombers.

Oh, and if its at all possible I like waiting until I see the whites of their eyes - at less than 20cm theres no stopping them.

i use everything, but i use bombers most

Bombers and torpedoes... Eldar bombers and topedoes.

I love ordinance. That's why every one my my ships in my craftworld eldar fleet can launch it.

Torpedoes all the way, theres nothing that reprisents a WWI fleet better than batteries and torpedoes. i am very anti-AC, only employing fighters as defence, but torps are my main ord. choice, especially firing a stg 33 torp salvo point blank. The emperor looks kindly apon those who employ his will in the form of this awesome ordinance.

I went for fighters, but then again, I'm an Ork, so I might be a bit biased on that one. ^_^

Greetz

I prefer to go straight-up ordnance heavy. I launch fighters when i need them to knock down torpedoes and enemy ord. The rest of the time, I'm blazing away with torpedoes. When I get close, I start launching point-blank waves of bombers, and I've been known to teleport before as well.

Agreed however that Eldar Ordinance is comprised of flying rapists. I like thier equipment and playstyle alot, so am looking to get them.

torps, cause I play IN. nothing says hello like an IN line of battle within 30cm firing snapshot torpedoes.

Fighters... and alot of em - I need to keep those pesy strike craft off of my lovingly nurtured Hive ships :P. Putting out 6 bases of fighters per turn with no cap limit on my ordnance is insane for building a 'what ordnance?' CAP swarm that ensures the survival of my Blitz line (three clawed and tentacled cruisers) and subsequent picnic in the void that the battle turns into.

Fighters... cos I hates the ordnance when it isn't mine.

Also, I don;t need those 15cm torps and assault boats... I can just whack a tonne of feeder drones or sick my cruiser on anything i wanna hit and run :P. Then board with impunity muahahahaha *gribble*...