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I'm trying to make a 900 point list for a escalation league battle...

Mission: Big Guns Never Tire.

Special Rule: You may select ONE Heavy Support choice at HALF THE POINTS.

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I will be facing space marines With 1 landraider redeemer filled with some close comdat termies. a drop pod and some other stuff

what i got now are 2 almost the same list.
big deifferece is: 2 troops of tankbustas and 1 group of mega nobz and 2 Kustom mega cannons
or
3 troops of tankbustas and 4 kustom mega kannons.

Lists are here:

list 1

list 2:


should i take shoota boyz or slugga boyz?
i thought low point battle is in favor of the soota boyz.

Only tankbustas will give me a hard time with the landraider and his flama's so i got 1 list with meganobz>

anny thoughts?

Not a bad list at small point! Good anti tank and can be very fast if you want it to be. The second set of cannons are kinda over kill tbh. The 10 tankB'z, lootas, and the one set of cannons will be more then enough to take care of heavy units and tanks. One squad of bikers is good at 5-7 man with a big choppa on the boss, 2+ st on a charge makes them a threat to most tanks and all types of Inf. So dropping that cannon and ur unused points = about 100p. The one thing ur lacking is boys with a punch. Use that 100 to add 2 rockets and 2 more boys then use the rest of the points to add to your bikers. See what that looks like

good points..

I add 1 biker and a nob niker with power Klaw (he will eat all tanks) or maby i need to give hem a Big choppa like you suggested for the intiative 3?

About the 2 rokkit boyz in the big group: i'm not rlly a fan of rokkit boyz in a big boy squad. If they are not in fire range they usally run so no use for the rokkits. If they are in fireing range they gonna charge annyway so 2 rokkit shots won't do that much in that case.

So with these moderations i still have 25 points left.
if i switch the Pk on the biker for a Big choppa i will have 45 points left...

I wouldn't bother with a RL boy, he'll rarely hit and the rest of the boyz aren't shooting at a tank anyway.

I'd max out grots on the kannons, because T7 wounds at 3 points a piece? Yes please!

Normally I like lootas, but 7 of them is an odd sized unit. It's just shy of reliably killing AV11 vehicles. I'd move the points into more tank bustas, or drop a kannon and take a MANZ missle. Tough call.

Or drop the Pk on the bikers for a big choppa, and use the extra points on 3 more lootas?

I'm a fan of having big shootas or rokkits in boys squads as it gives them a chance to pop a rino and then charge the crunchy marrines inside it. But, as he said it's like a 1 in 20 chance you get both to work.

See if you have enough points after adding lootas to add more grots or more boys.

That group of 7 lootas was bothering me as well :p

I usally take 5 or 2 groups of 5.

MANZ Missle is 140 points, I used them in my first league game of 650 points. problem is that they never make it to a target if the trukk is poped.. i have 10 more tankbusters but still need to build them.. Could take another trukk with 5 bustas

- 2 lootas
+ 4 gtots and 2 ammo grots for the mek gunz

Thats 35 points left to spend.

I could add 1 tankbusta to each squad and have 9 points more to spend.
or ditch the lootas for another 5 tankbustas in a trukk. Problem with that is that i really like the loota's

So, Little update,

I can take 1 heavy slot and half the points..
i made another list, dropped the trukk on the boyz cuz they never gonna survive and made 1 mob of survivable boyz.

anny thoughts?

I like the second list. The two squads of bikes will help give you speed to move around and claim objectives or deal with threats quickly. I found out the hard way in my escalation league not having much speed got my orks shot to pieces.

bomb squigs on the tankbustas gotta be done

BAN wrote:
bomb squigs on the tankbustas gotta be done

Yeah i Know, i got only 2 (damn those things are hard to find). I could convert some grots but what do you suggest on dropping?

I made all my bomb squigs from grots. Your right though I don't know what I'd replace.

New game new edit:


I will be facing space marines With 1 landraider redeemer filled with some close comdat termies. a drop pod and some other stuff

what i got now are 2 almost the same list.
big deifferece is: 2 troops of tankbustas and 1 group of mega nobz and 2 Kustom mega cannons
or
3 troops of tankbustas and 4 kustom mega kannons.

(see first post)