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Hi dakkapeople!

I'm planning to take 10 terminators in 1500 points. They will be armed with 2 cyclone missile launchers. Are assault cannons a better choice? Does this drain too much points away from troop choices?

I thought about this because I have many terminators from AoBR.

Against everything but AV14, the cyclone missile launcher is a better choice. In general yes, that drains a lot of points away from troops, but with the right list it should work fine.

Might work against most armies but Dark Eldar will eat those Termies for breakfast

I don't think that DE will eat my termies, unless the enemy arrive from reserves and assault. Also nobody around here plays DE I guess. A good tactic would be to deep strike the terminators just 24" away from the nearest enemy, then they won't likely be able to assault. Dark lances will of course work, but the anti-tank fire is needed elsewhere. Do the Dark Eldar have better ways to kill termies?

thats almost a quarter of your points in one unit so what more are you gonna take thats going to soak up that much anti tank power ?

Actually I am going to split them into combat squads before deep striking. Okay, I must admit that the terminators are a good choice to shoot at with a-t guns, but I possibly take rhinos. But rhinos won't take much beating...

Would it drain TOO MANY points? I don't think so... Would it drain points? Hell yeah

But this is not bad at all. You need troops for what you need troops, and IMHO if you use the termis to help troops make their job there is no problem in the mentioned points draining

I'm going to be trying out the same thing. Although they may not make it into every 1500 point game.

I'll be choosing Assault Cannons though. I think cyclones are much better (Heavy 2!), but they just look too cumbersome for me - A terminator with an assault cannon, however, looks mean as .

I saw a guy this weekend run 10 terminators in 1500 points (one cyclone in the unit) with Lysander (for storm bolter rerolls) AND a terminator librarian with infinity gate (the teleportation spell)

They took singlehandedly took out (in 3 turns) a 5 man termie squad, a landraider redeemer, a tactical unit, a dread with MM and CCW, and a SM captain. There was still Lysander and 3 termies left. They never got a charge off until the Landraider in last turn...

Now that is a pretty badass squad!

I think that a terminator with cml looks awesome compared to an assault cannon armed one. The squad will also look more dangerous when all those missiles are there, ready to be shot.

I've used 10 terminators at 1500 points to great affect in 4ed all the time (2 assault cannons and lib in one squad, 2 hvy flamers in another). Worked well with Salamander rhino rush as heavy hitting backup. Probably still workable in the new edition.

Well, I'd take 10 Assault Terminators, say 7 with thunder hammers and storm shields, as they are much more durable.

Zaephyr wrote:I don't think that DE will eat my termies, unless the enemy arrive from reserves and assault. Also nobody around here plays DE I guess. A good tactic would be to deep strike the terminators just 24" away from the nearest enemy, then they won't likely be able to assault. Dark lances will of course work, but the anti-tank fire is needed elsewhere. Do the Dark Eldar have better ways to kill termies?

Ravager with disintegrators. 120 pts. 3 shots strength 4 AP 3 blast enough said

^

Uh...what?

nealtk wrote:

Zaephyr wrote:I don't think that DE will eat my termies, unless the enemy arrive from reserves and assault. Also nobody around here plays DE I guess. A good tactic would be to deep strike the terminators just 24" away from the nearest enemy, then they won't likely be able to assault. Dark lances will of course work, but the anti-tank fire is needed elsewhere. Do the Dark Eldar have better ways to kill termies?

Ravager with disintegrators. 120 pts. 3 shots strength 4 AP 3 blast enough said

2+ save FTW?

He got mixed up. It's 3 S7 AP2 Blasts or 12 S4 AP3 Shots. So they could hurt but personally I love the big units of termies

aw crap, my bad

The only thing to do is

1 Assault Squad w/ Redeemer

1 Assault Squad w/ Redeemer



10 Man Scout

10 Man Scout


Chaplain.

Hollismason wrote:The only thing to do is

1 Assault Squad w/ Redeemer

1 Assault Squad w/ Redeemer

QFT

Hollismason wrote:The only thing to do is

1 Assault Squad w/ Redeemer

1 Assault Squad w/ Redeemer



10 Man Scout

10 Man Scout


Chaplain.

darklances ftw

DE eat most heavily armoured armies, but there isnt really anything you can do about that.