Do Death riders get it rough unduly?
Morning folks,
Had a game last night (my first as guard) against Tyranids. I have quite a few Krieg units including 2x5 Death riders. From everything I see on Reddit or talking about them it's all "not worth the points" or "proxy as rough riders" and generally all negative. I took them in my list anyway because I'm a bit of a bad boy who doesn't listen to the masses who probably know better than me. However...
They were really good!
I kept them behind an engineer rush but lingering close to my tanks and turn 2 they each got a charge off against a squad of hornygants on each side who were barreling towards my armour successfully intercepting them. Both made the charge and wiped the squads, even using the frag lance when again all the rhetoric says frag lance bad, only use sabre! They then tied up some scary genestealers and a broodlord alongside another squad of hungry ass bug things (forgive me I am new and not aware of the names of the creatures that haunt my nightmares).
This meant they wiped two units and tied up another two across two turns even shrugging off the initial attack from the genestealers with 3+ saves assisted by Take Cover!
They did eventually die, as all Kriegsmen should in service to big E but allowed the tanks to slam some important stuff for a couple turns.
All said, really impressed with them and promoted me to fight their corner, give them a chance people you may be surprised.