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Made in au
Regular Dakkanaut




I went in the local torney the other day. Did well on the table top (Top 5 for Battle Points) but this list was marked as EXTREAMLY CHEESY and OVERPOWERED.

HQ

The Blue Scribes

Herald of Tzeentch
- Master of Sorcery
- Boon of Mutation
- Breath of Chaos
- Daemonic Gaze

Elite

Flamer Squad
- 3 Flamers

Flamer Squad
- 3 Flamers

Flamer Squad
- 3 Flamers

Troops

Pink Horror Squad
- 5 Horrors
- Bolt of Tzeentch

Pink Horror Squad
- 5 Horrors
- Bolt of Tzeentch

Pink Horror Squad
- 5 Horrors
- Bolt of Tzeentch

Pink Horror Squad
- 5 Horrors
- Bolt of Tzeentch

Pink Horror Squad
- 5 Horrors
- Bolt of Tzeentch
- Changeling

Plaguebearer Squad
- 5 Plaguebearers
- Noxious Touch

Fast Attack

Screamer Squad
- 3 Screamers

Screamer Squad
- 3 Screamers

Screamer Squad
- 3 Screamers

Heavy Support

Soul Grinder
- Tongue

Soul Grinder
- Tongue

Soul Grinder
- Tongue

It got the lowest army composition score by the judges, but 3 players voted it as a well designed list. What are your views?

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at 2008/10/12 08:13:32


 
   
Made in de
Ladies Love the Vibro-Cannon Operator






Hamburg

Well, adjust your troop units: 2x 10 Horrors and 1x 10 Plague Bearers should be enough to improve composition score.

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Made in us
Stealthy Dark Angels Scout with Shotgun




It seems awfully repetitive but not terribly cheesy. Your Grinders have the wrong weapon upgrade. Your troops have no durability. You put too many upgrades into the Herald. Screamers are terrible in my opinion.

Honestly this army is just not that frightening.
   
Made in au
Regular Dakkanaut




The screamers i would end up doing 2 squads of 4 rather then the 3 squads of 3, they did their job against enemy armor. The soul grinders were given the strength 10 shot for monoliths and land raiders (there were a few of these) in case i misshaped or the screamers were killed off a bit early
   
Made in ca
Stealthy Space Wolves Scout






Windsor, Ontario

12 min. size squads, I'm not surprised they were upset

Though I am surprised you didn't get rocked in the kill point missions (I think this is specifically why GW added in the kill point missions, to prevent min squad cheese).

You just put as many bolts and breaths in the list you possibly could, it looks like.
   
Made in us
Been Around the Block





Looks like fun, I would prlly cheapen the Herald, play another instead of the scribes and run 2x8 screamers, then get more horrors and drop some/all the bolts from them. Possibly swapping out the profile(s) on the SG

Well if this list is cheese, it's more like kraft in that it's not aged and they just didn't know what it really was. seriously any halfway decent assault army should chew you up.

I am working on massing horrors to run a mono Tzeentch list too. I would prlly run with Fateweaver for his re-rolls. and additional shooting

It does make for fun deepstriking since you get to drop in and shoot while they are all deployed.
   
Made in au
Regular Dakkanaut




i got a major loss in the kill point mission against DE raider spam. It didn't help that i had 4 mishaps (Herald and horror squad, Screamer Squad, Horror Squad and a Flamer squad) rolling 1s and giving 5 kill points, which is what did the damage.
   
Made in au
Regular Dakkanaut




The Defenestrator wrote:12 min. size squads, I'm not surprised they were upset

You just put as many bolts and breaths in the list you possibly could, it looks like.


Every Squad had its job. After the torney i questioned the judges - and was told my list was cheesy cause of the 3 soul grinders and the changeling, yet they never watched the list. Changeling and his squad normally sat on a DZ objective with The Blue Scribes sitting near buy to pavane troops out of my DZ (+1 Bonus Points for No enemy units in your DZ) and The soul Grinders spent as much time in CC as they did shooting
HQ - Support Rolls
Elites - Anti MEQ
Troops - Anti Hoard and additional Anti MEQ/Armor
Fast Attack - Anti Armor
Heavy Support - Some CC ability and Additional anti MEQ/Armor

i knew of 4 Marine armys, 1 necron, 3 Ork, and 2 tank heavy guard. Plus as i was short of cash i made use of models i had to try to make a somewhat competitive list.
   
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Longtime Dakkanaut







The tournament organizers were ridiculous if they considered that cheesy and/or overpowered.

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Made in au
Regular Dakkanaut




Yeh, i know. 3 of 5 players said it was a well balanced and nicely designed army, i did get a major loss with a horrid deep strikes on first turn losing 2 squads and a soul grinder being placed in terrain and getting immobilized :(
   
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Beast of Nurgle




Within the Warp

This list is no way OP IMO...
Must be your circles.. I play against some very good strategists. I can see now a Shooty Ork Army chewing this list up.

Problems with troops.. light fire can take out 5 horrors with ease.
SGs with tongue.. For some reason rolling one dice turns up a 1~3 too often. More so that not for sure..
Flamers are AWSOME maybe too awsome.. a well spaced army with break them up though.. They will get focused fire early.. due to their shock attack nature.

My 2 Cents..
Mausama

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I play Chaos Daemons and Chaos Space Marines.
Chaos Daemons - 4000 points
Chaos Space Marines: 3500 points 
   
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Virulent Space Marine dedicated to Nurgle



where i want to be

Well this has to be one of the shootest list Ihave seen for daemons. I don't see how it could be thought of as cheese your just giving up all HTH for fire power the same way other army's give up units for tanks. Still this is about as fragile as you can get. If you can shot this glass cannon more then once though you should win.
   
 
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