Super heavies coming to a 40k table near you!!!!

[MM3791]

Even without D weapons, super heavys can be taken down with conventional heavy weapons.. remember you will also have access to a lot more heavy weapons anyway. Super heavys are fun and can be powerful, but still overrated. I think the formations and stratagems are overall more dangerous.

[robpro]

Super heavies got super awesome in the new book, ignoring 5/6ths of the damage table.

A solid D str hit on a super heavy will still ruin it's day. As to what has D weapons (not counting titans)

of the 8 or 9 variants of a Baneblade only one has a D weapon and it's only the size of a large blast.

New necron has a D str apoc template (which is terrifying)

CSM walker thing has a D str close combat weapon

Stompa has something D i think

as to Matts point, yes Melta will still put a hurting on them and the quickest way to kill a super heavy is get some str 10 close combat on it and those 9 hull points will disappear fast

Str D is rough business, but look at how many points those units costs. Should something that costs 400-700 be able to one-shot say a land raider or a riptide? And those points would likely be tied up making sure one thing becomes very dead, while the other guy would lose a 150-250point model and then still have 500 more points of stuff that wasn't sunk into the super heavy.

When thing have MULTIPLE guns that strength D (not one gun with 2-3 Strength d, but 2-3 guns with 1+ str D), then it starts to break down... but then you're getting into the realm of titans.