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i get a lot of flack from my friends about using the armored company data sheet for my tank(particularly anti tank rounds) because nothing makes a chaos player madder than taking out his filthy baneblade with a couple leman russ with the rounds...hehehe. the data sheet was used in the 06' games day tourni and many other places besides. most of the stiff is fairly point heavy as well (anti tank rounds are 20 pts per tank). why so much bellyaching?

Armoured company also has no scoring units of it's own, so even if the list is ridiculously powerful it does have a weakness (aka inability to win except with wipeout in 2/3rds of scenarios).

That being said, didn't someone run an armoured company list in the last GT? I remember seeing his list on BoLS. He had something like 12 leman russes, and two allied land raider's (one DH, one WH) with troops in them for scoring.

The problem is that most armies have to be balanced to fight horde AND tanks, so when they suddenly find themselves facing a wall of AV14, they're not really sure how to handle that.

You could have scoring units in an AC, you just have to fill your (my :( ) precious troop choices with armored fists squads instead of awesome LR tanks.

And PirateRobotNinjaofDeath is right, I have also seen them played recently in events.

Armored companies, in defiance of all logic, don't get Armored Fist squads as troop choices. Only tanks.

Armored Fist is fast attack.

Ogiwan wrote:Armored companies, in defiance of all logic, don't get Armored Fist squads as troop choices. Only tanks.

I think it's more in compliance with balance Armoured company is strong enough as-is without scoring units. Try playing marines vs 14 tanks with ap 3 or better templates. That they have to win via wipeout is already balanced enough

I think it's because it's just an old, non updated list.

padixon wrote:You could have scoring units in an AC, you just have to fill your (my :( ) precious troop choices with armored fists squads instead of awesome LR tanks.

No, you take WH allies - Sistiers & Storms.

sourclams wrote:Armored Fist is fast attack.

ah, thanks for the correction.

No, you take WH allies - Sistiers & Storms.

and thanks for the correct solution!

Are we talking regular games or Apocalypse? The OP mentions killing a baneblade and ticking off his Chaos opponent. If it's Apocalypse, armored company rules are just fine, balanced, and fit the game. Armor piecing rounds don't seem to out of line when you consider defense lasers and orbital barrages.