You use the printed stat of another looped model, but you also have a condition that lowers it by one.
Your new defence is now lowered unless you are using a Metal Gamin and iits 'protection' action which specifically cant be.
Edit: Additional clarity.
Edit: This is also why Francisco cannot make everybody in the loop defence and WP 8, the conditions dont help the buff.
Holy crap, didn't even consider chatty.. that could put a spanner is peoples well crafted plans.
Also, this does seem to have lol factor vs Nekima, she loves the black blood.
I tested the snipers with the above combo, it was ridiculously effective, depends on terrain though, if you can see it, you can kill it with the snipers.
If you wanna go full 'stupid', drop in two Trappers aswell =D
28 stones of stupid.
This has come up before and I cant remember what people said.
However I play it as a healing flip for each construct, feels more in-keeping with the game.