Barking Dog

By blkdymnd, in Dust Tactics

Am I the only one that sees the Barking Dog as hugely powerful? 6-9 dice against vehicles up to six times? You could use 3 shots twice and take out most things in the game. I'm surprised they didn't limit how many 'barrels' you could use per turn. Granted, it's a 'permission' model, but still seems ultra powerful.

Well, you can only fire one barrel per turn. The M40 only has a single line, so that means a single attack, which you can use 6 times throughout the game. Sure, it's powerful, but just give it a high AP cost and it fits the game perfectly.

Oh you're right. I saw the expendable ammo line and forgot you can only use as much expendable ammo as you have models. Thanks for reminding me.

I have the Barking Dog and the Dust-48 experimental unit card pack. The unit came with a card that states the M40 recoiless is a reload weapon: total nonsense. How can you reload a weapon like that during a battle? So I'm using the other card (Dust-48 experimental unit card pack) that states it is a limited ammo weapon. Makes more sense. But since we play very large games(600+ AP) I run out of ammo most of the time!

Yeah, its stupid powerful for the weapon it carries.