Brace of pistols

So on wednesday I will be facing a VC player in a team game. I have wood elves on my side, and he has empire on his. Now this VC player tends to bring that tar pit style army. Lots of zombies and skeletons..

My idea was to bring 3x3 man-eaters with poison and sniper and get rid of those casters and characters.

Question being...Is it better to run brace of pistols with the negative to hit. Or get less shots with higher chance to hit.

I will probably run a flaming banner as well to get past any regen.

Just realized I posted this in wrong forum. If an admin could do the honours 

Eh, this is a FAQ, so you're not terribly wrong im(not so)ho

With posion, brace is better. I can mathhammer if you want, but the summary is not having to roll for wounds means you want to hope for 6s, so throwing more dice is better

Yeah thats what I figured. Pretty sure that what ill be going with.

thanks for the input!

just remember that maneaters have to take different rules for each unit.

More shots = more poison, but don't run them in a 3x3 because the back rank won't be able to shoot.  Go 4x2 or something, but 3x3 is just wasted shots.

As above, you need at least 6 guys with brace of guns and sniper+poison to do anything to even a 2W character.

VC casters can bunker in unit behind other units and hence get light cover to your shooting and hence your sniper hits on a 7+ negating your poison, so be careful!
(remember that poison shots can still bring down terrorgeists fast!)

Normal ogre units of 4-6 models can be used to lock his tarpit units fast before they obstruct your movement. I have found that 3 ogres can roll badly once in a while and actually lose combat to zombies.

Scouting man eaters with additional handweapons dish out lots of S5 attacks and will eat zombie hordes very fast!

I would still go with brace of pistols as it give you an extra attack in hth.
Remember also, you don't have to fire both and take that minus. If the number goes above 6 shoot a single shot instead so the poison still works