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 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
Anyway, I thought the consensus was that Warhammer 40K was a horribly unbalanced and poorly written though fun game with GW's intended target demographic being casual beer & pretzel gamers, not Competitive tournament players?

Being GW's main target demographic, surely my opinion is at least partially relevant?

Have I gone through the Looking Glass and arrived in a world in which Warhammer 40K is a game written by and for competitive gamers?

Exalted.

At my FLGS, we're gearing for an April Kill Team tournament, and it's actually got the player base around here more excited than anything else we've done in 6E. The competitive guys are racking their brains with every last build they can think of, the collectors are excited they'll actually have an excuse to field some of their lesser competitive units, the new players are happy they'll be able to play toy soldiers for only $50 bucks, and the store itself is happy because people are buying at least one new kit, and paints and such.

And everyone is happy there won't be any D weapons, flyers, or undercosted-yet-totally-unstoppable monstrous creatures.

I'll be trying out a squad with no jump packs, a few power weapons and a chaplain charging out of a Stormraven Gunship. I am under no illusions over whether it's a strong choice or not. Should be a fun one in less competitive games though.

They are beautiful models, worth some effort.

Hmm, that does sound interesting. The obvious drawback is no assault unitl T3, but then you'd be lucky to get one before that anyway. The Chaplain should certainly help them out. Just make sure you have other tanks/flyers so that the Raven is not just blown away as soon as you hover.

Let us know how it goes.

For what it’s worth, I picked up a box of the Vanguard Vets when they came out, and assembled them as:

(With jump packs)
Sarge - LC/SS
One - Power axe/SS
One - BP/CCW, meltabomb
Two - BP/CCW (basic)

They are still awaiting paint, and so this is just a theoretical shelf deployment. But it’s my balance of point cost to getting the job done. Keep in mind they would almost always be escorting a HQ, either a bare bones chaplain, or a TH/LC captain (with jump packs)