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Small heavy hitting squads are excellent.


I was considering something along these lines

Command Squad

+ Bikes


+ 4 Plasma Guns

+ 4 Power Weapons

315 points


Do you think it would be worth the points? As for Plasma Guns, they gain relentless so they could fire and assault. 8 Ap 2 shots along with the fact that Feel no Pain would help against misfires. Add in a Chaplain on a bike and you have a squad that is a pretty heavy hitter.


So what are some of your command squad bling?

That command squad is way way too heavy a hitter... 8 PG shots 5-6 hit, 4-5 wound... half a MEQ squad dead. Charge, 12 attacks (2+1 for charging x4) 6 hit, (assuming LC's) 4.5 wound... that's 8.5 to 9.5 wounds on one turn before you toss in the Apothecarie's half a wound or better, let alone the chaplain.

You'd do much better to run one power weapon, and Khan... charge in your turn, average round of combat will kill half to 2/3 of the squad... opponent's turn you'll kill 1/4 to 1/3 or so... allowing you to Hit and Run out on their turn, if they're not dead. That'll set up a tac squad to finish them off, while you rinse and repeat on the next squad.

315pts for 5 1 wound models with no inv save? you're a braver man than i. i agree that the plasma guns are a bit much. if you want to make them very expensive why not give them all storm shields instead. 5 T5 2+/3+ models with FNP is a lot scarier and still so expensive it will make some people cringe.

I like having 3 flamers in mine. It has worked miracles.

As far as the squad goes, it would be useless unless you could give it some serious cover, but the FNP is absolute sex for your men.

I always thought that Command squads should be mean and this one just about fits the bill.

My advice for biker armies is to take a bunch of LRs, They are great cover for your army, and bikes will love the amount of high strength firepower they eat like an unclean one at McDonalds

You could always have them accompany a Librarian with the Force Dome psychic power.