realistically the fuck am i meant to do about scarab occult terminators. i play world eaters and was beating my thousand sons friend, hard. then 10 scarabs deepstrike, single handedly fuck the shit out of literally every unit on the board and i lose. this is not the first nor 5th time this has happened.
what the actual fuck actually counters this

>>95962821 (OP)
Patience anon, just wait for the next seasonal model release. GW usually nurfs the current successful units while powercreeping the new one to encourage win obsessed to paypigs buy it. If your oppoent's models are todays winning meta, they won't be by christmas.

just roll better

>>95962923
idk these scarabs have been raping me since the start of 10th

>be raging violent retard with literal metal spikes in your brain who tries to hit people with axes in a sci-fi setting
>get rekt by big brain psychics who remembered to bring guns
Seems fitting to me.

>>95962821 (OP)
A ten man brick of Scarab occult (probably with a character) is a very expensive unit pointswise, and World Eaters have several good ways to handle it. The most obvious way are forgefiends. Triple plasma forgefiends are basically tailormade to annihilate terminator bricks, and either just keeping one hidden or sticking one or two in strategic reserves and then bringing them in as a response to the scarab occult will kill most of the brick. Another efficient way to do it are Eightbound in Berzerker Warband. They're D2, which isn't optimal, but they hit S10 on the charge which means you're wounding SOTs on 3s even through their -1 to wound, and even small units of eightbound should put serious dents into the SOTs on the charge, and they can easily be kept hidden in small terrain pieces while being fast enough to threaten large areas of the board.
So what you want to look for are things that are either S10 or D3, preferably both (forgefiends) and then find a way to deliver that damage into the brick when it appears.

>>95963239

>>95963239
>Be raging violent retard wearing a literal mining suit who tries to shoot people with bullets in a sci-fi setting
>Get rekt by big brain weebs who remembered to bring cheap robots

Damn didn't realize you were cool like that, Anon.

>>95962821 (OP)
>not screening your backfield
Skill issue

>>95963239
This. Meleefags can get fucked with a rusty dildo. Nothing is more satisfying than seeing the look of sheer rage and frustration on some meleefag's face as my gunline annihilates his army from across the table and he can't do shit to stop it.

>>95963709
I hope you recover from your trauma from getting annihilated by Biker Nobz in 7th Edition.

>>95963742
Never happened. I'm just tired of meleefags always bitching and whining about how GW needs to make melee armies more viable. Nevermind that melee armies absolutely shouldn't be viable in any setting that has modern or futuristic guns. After all, you don't see any melee focused armies in the real world anymore, do you? There's a reason for that and that reason is because guns made ranged warfare superior to melee warfare in every conceivable way. Even when fighting does get up close and personal in the real world, soldiers still prefer to blast their enemy in the chest with a shotgun over trying to stab them with a knife or beat them to death with their entrenching tool.

Disagree with me and insult me all you want, but I firmly believe melee has absolutely no place in modern/sci-fi wargames. You want melee? Go play a wargame set in an ancient or medieval setting.