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I'm aware lol, however this is only for 40k armies. I was tempted to include 30k, however considering that not many people play it at this time I was more focused on the 40 k space marine armies in this regard. That being said, to those who play Space Wolves, what would be a good drop pod list? I could use an example because in all honesty I'm not sure what would be the best route for them to go in that regard. Do you run terminators, long fangs, a frost wolf, or any other different units besides Grey Hunters?

Martel732 wrote:


Heavy flamers are useless against meched up opponents.

No they're not. While they're not fantastic they're far from useless.

In the case of Blood Angels you can throw a Heavy Flamer in a squad and back it up with a Meltagun to give them some solid, all around potential regardless of your opponent. Add in a Combi-Flamer or Inferno pistol on the Sergeant and you're even better off. So if you drop in, scatter, and end up next to an enemy tank you can punch some holes in it or if you land next to a squad of infantry you're still good. Plus have you ever seen what Heavy Flamers can do to open topped vehicles? Sure it might leave the vehicle itself unscathed but anything inside isn't getting out unharmed. And if we're talking Dark Eldar then you've got a chance to ruin raiders as well as the units within.

In the case of Dreadnoughts, for anyone that can take them really, Heavy Flamers are still a fantastic option when Drop Podding because of their defensive use. You can position a Dread to negate return fire by using the pod as cover but there's plenty of armies that will happily charge a dreadnought, if not to kill it then to tie it up. A quick D3 from a Heavy Flamer OR TWO can thin things out enough to tip things in the Dread's favor.

5 man squads can't have heavy and special weapons. Or do you mean 10-man squads?

I still maintain that the BA can't cause enough damage to not be eviscerated the next turn. Unless, of course, your opponent has a lot of reserves, in which case, any drop list is pretty much a hard counter. I'll stick with SW, who are largely immune to counter-assaults. I can't help but think that these games where BA drop pods are doing well are because of opponents setting up very poorly or having a lot of reserves. I don't fear drop BA at all in a mirror match. To me, they're begging to be tabled.

yeah...those dang ultra marines placing in grand tournaments right now with drop pod lists getting only 8% of votes. LOL.

Didn't see Adepticon results, but highest LVO marines were IH/BA, but that was MSU boltgun spam, not pod spam. IIRC, most of the top-10 armies that were Marines (4?) were each different chapters.

UM places well with CentStar using Tiggy, which can't pod unless you include BA or SW anyways.

The last time I remember seeing a UM pod list do well was MSU tac spam in mostly pods pre-SW/BA update.

(How was Adepticon spread around the top 10? All I saw was top place was demons)

I don't know about best, But I get loads of amusement from my Ork drop pod

Ultramarines with pods I can see wing pretty good. I voted for salamanders due to nostalgia and the fact they are the best with close up weapons, but...

Then again, the idea in my head requires an allied pod of some kind to put the centurions in with Tigurius. Minimum tactical squads with melta/combi melta. Maybe a suicide command squad with meltas.

Maybe blood Angels, get a heavy flamer/flamer tac squad, an he that boosts warp charges, and a fa pod. Or wolves, for the fa pod. Double special grey hunters and a stormwolf/fang/whatever.

Maybe I'll look up these ultramarine pod lists. Not that I'm likely to run one, because building pods properly requires sacrificing children to satan.

Edit: forget centurions, playing around in battlescribe has seen some half decent lists.

Does anyone hae an example of a tournament ultramarines/Calgar drop list? A link or something would be appreciated.