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Does Rambo make the cut in a competitive Mech IG list? He sounds good on paper but reserves are pretty random. He can show up early before those terminators are outside of the land raider or he can show up late when the terminators already kicked your ass. He can blow himself up if the scatter is bad and if he doesn't the enemy will kill him and he will give up a kill point if it is a kill point mission.

What are your experiences with Rambo?

This is my current mech IG list here
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/263063.page

I was thinking of cutting the Executioner for a second Manticore and Rambo

Anyone who says no has not been on the receiving end of a STR10 blast.

Seriously he is a fantastic deal overall have him appear in cover throw demo charge.

His Ballistic skill is high enough as well.

He also comes with meltabombs.

He affects your opponents deployment because they know its coming. Seriously a amazing buy.

Hollismason wrote:Anyone who says no has not been on the receiving end of a STR10 blast..

*Ahem* Strength 8 Large Blast actually. But otherwise I concur with you. Marbo allows you to play mind games with your opponent.

I hate him.

For IG players debating on his effectiveness lemme give you some examples I've had.

1 game he blew up 2 broadsides, 2 crisis suits, and seriously damaged a hammerhead. This was with the demo charge.

another game he destroyed 2 crisis suits, blew up a hammerhead and killed a 20 man kroot squad. This was with democharge, meltabombs, and that wonderful pistol followup with assault. Yes, he singlehandedly took on 20 man kroot, broke them, then ran them down.

a game, not mine, he tied up a 10 man plague marine squad for 3 turns. He was hiding in jungle and potshotting plague marines TRYING to march down field and into the fight.


Get him. He's worth it. And the "SURPRISE!" popping out 1" anywhere sucks on the receiving end.

A Demo Charge that shows up anywhere, and only scatters 1-3" on average, if at all? If I could take three of him, I would.

He is a pain in the arse every time i have to play a guard army.
If anything, its worth taking him to piss people off.
Combine that with the fact he is cheap and highly effective and you have a bargain.

I usually tend to throw Dante or Mephiston at him when he turns up just to make sure he dies when i need him to.
and to stop my DC dreadnought from being blown apart.

If you cut Marbo, he'll cut you right back.





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Ha! That was fun. I'm gonna try another one:


Marbo doesn't need an Eldar farseer as an ally; his enemies are already doomed.

Not when a force wep (with 6-8 attacks) removes his head he doesent

Ok, ok, I swear after this I'm done.

Sly Marbo's charge range isn't six inches, it's "demo."


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Sly Marbo once played an objective mission just to see what it was like to not meet every victory condition on his own.

Sly Marbo bought a third edition rulebook just to play meat grinder as the attacker.

Sly Marbo's charge range isn't six inches, it's "demo."


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Sly Marbo once played an objective mission just to see what it was like to not meet every victory condition on his own.

Sly Marbo bought a third edition rulebook just to play meat grinder as the attacker.

Please continue! these are priceless

I could have sworn demo charges were st10 mmeh. I have experience playing against him.

I have lost not all in one game.

Probably
4 to 5 dreadnoughts
Predator
Predator Annihilator
2 to 3 bike squads
Sternguard ( numerous)
Marines ( numerous)


Basically he is annoying little gak and your only hope is his demo doesnt hit and scatters lessening the damage.

For only 60 points he's bloody awesome (Considering that a demo charge on vet sqauds is 30pts, your only taking his insane stat line for a very cheap price of a extra 30pts on top of the demo charge)

Ok here is my Commando story, I actually pretend he is the commando from the original Command and Conquer, because it is so much more fun to yell "I got a present for ya!" when chucking the demo charge, or "that was left handed" when he takes someone down with his pistol. Anyhow it was an objective game and well my guard dont move so my eldar opponent had most of them. A squad of dire avengers were hiding behind a building holding an objective. Marbo pops out demo charges 9 leaving only the exarch. Next turn the exarch charges me and marbo cuts him down, Marbo then proceeds to fleet to a second nearby objective and charge a squad of pathfinders on that objective killing them as well winning me the game

Volkov wrote:Ok here is my Commando story, I actually pretend he is the commando from the original Command and Conquer, because it is so much more fun to yell "I got a present for ya!" when chucking the demo charge, or "that was left handed" when he takes someone down with his pistol. Anyhow it was an objective game and well my guard dont move so my eldar opponent had most of them. A squad of dire avengers were hiding behind a building holding an objective. Marbo pops out demo charges 9 leaving only the exarch. Next turn the exarch charges me and marbo cuts him down, Marbo then proceeds to fleet to a second nearby objective and charge a squad of pathfinders on that objective killing them as well winning me the game

Ha! That's awesome. I loved command and conquer.



Any terrain containing Sly Marbo is dangerous terrain.

Oh yea! C&C commando was made of awesomeness of awesome +3. I could solo whole bases with him so long i could quickly take out those pesky survivors from each building.

But yea... marbo is basicly what happens if you did have a C&C commando in war40K ;p

Any terrain containing Sly Marbo is dangerous terrain.

Ok these are going in my signature


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Whocares I am not sure how to credit you, because if I say credit to Whocares for the quotes, then well...I sound like I dont care where I got the quotes

Convert up marbo as tanya.
????
profit!!


With that said, if you use him one of five things happens.
1-your opponent freaks out, worries about him, and loses the game because they were more worried about the 60 points coming in from anywhere then the 1500+ across from them.
2-your opponent doesnt plan for him at all, and loses something big to him.
3-your opponent plays a list he isnt good against, such as pure serpent eldar and he dies without doing anything.
4-marbo fails in his mission, either not coming in til the game is over, coming in early against someone who reserved everything, or blowing himself up.
5-your opponent plans for him, and isnt intimidated. If they are playing like this you probably lost marbo or not though.

Volkov wrote:

Any terrain containing Sly Marbo is dangerous terrain.

Ok these are going in my signature


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Whocares I am not sure how to credit you, because if I say credit to Whocares for the quotes, then well...I sound like I dont care where I got the quotes

No need to credit me.


Sly Marbo was originally armed with a power weapon, but he dropped it while assaulting a space marine command squad just so his enemies could feel pain.

I love him!!! one of my fav things to do is drop him right in from of my opponents mech column. Plop him right in front of a Landraider with termies in it and force them to deal with him. Go on tank shock him I dare you! Also Marbo + calladus = awesome

Double team demo charges - Could work well with demo-vets deep-striking from a outflanked flat-out moving valkyrie.

But what's this business with going-to-ground and silly-high cover saves?

Razerous wrote:Double team demo charges - Could work well with demo-vets deep-striking from a outflanked flat-out moving valkyrie.

But what's this business with going-to-ground and silly-high cover saves?

Sly Marbo doesn't go to ground, the ground comes to him.

whocares wrote:

Razerous wrote:Double team demo charges - Could work well with demo-vets deep-striking from a outflanked flat-out moving valkyrie.

But what's this business with going-to-ground and silly-high cover saves?

Sly Marbo doesn't go to ground, the ground comes to him.

xD...

Sly Marbo doesn't need a demo charge to destory anything... he just stares it down til it explodes.

So it sounds obvious he is worth the points.

G

Superscope wrote:Sly Marbo doesn't need a demo charge to destory anything... he just stares it down til it explodes.

Sly Marbo may not run during the shooting phase. He may either walk, or kill.

whocares wrote:

Razerous wrote:Double team demo charges - Could work well with demo-vets deep-striking from a outflanked flat-out moving valkyrie.

But what's this business with going-to-ground and silly-high cover saves?

Sly Marbo doesn't go to ground, the ground comes to him.

Einstein is smiling in his grave

Abbadon, Kharne and Sly Marbo were sitting around a camp fire telling stories. Abbadon tells about fighting 3 Dreadnoughts at once and destroying them, Kharne tells of destroying a entire Terminator Squad. Sly Marbo just smiles and continues to stoke the fire using his penis.



Shamelessly stolen from here

Simply: Yes

Replace any Chuck Norris joke with Sly Marbo and you have insta-win.

Superman wears Sly Marbo pajamas to bead.

Rambo is simply amazing. Most of the time, Rambo hits with the demo charge or scatters only an inch or two and kills more then his points worth with that demo charge alone. If Rambo lives beyond that is just a bonus. The kill point Rambo gives up is not that big a deal because Rambo usually does more then his points value in damage to a hard unit that would take a bit of firepower to kill.

Eidolon
Tanya as Rambo is pretty good idea girl power is great. What model would you use as the basis for this Tanya conversion? Adventures in greenstuffing sounds like it might be the way to go.