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I use to play pure noise marine armies with like 30 sonic blasters... in 4th edition CSM.

I just picked up the current edition, and I was looking it through.. WOW.

What hapened (haha - big blasters is so much more expsneisve)


So I'm just thinking and toying around... is a Sonic Weapon based army any good? or any fun anymore?

Is it playable?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/225147.page

theres a guy around my store who plays noise mrines sometimes...
hes a decent player, however never seems to do good with the noise marines...
dont know if that says something about his playing of them or the army itself, but just puttin that in there

It can be fine if you play Lash of Submission on your HQ characters and some Oblits/Vindicators/Defilers in your Heavy Support choices. You can certainly run a bunch of noise marines with sonic weapons in a list like that to good effect though.

Well, sonic blaster spam is still playable, although the Marines with sonic blasters are more expensive by +1 pt.
The blastmaster got a big hit. The weapon is very expensive and cannot be taking in a Havoc squad. ;D

I don't think the blastmaster is worthless now, it just plays a different role than it used to.

Before, you had tank hunting squads of havocs destroying anything that walked in front of them, and now you have 5 guys in cover, on an objective, shooting at troops, or transports, or the occasional lashed/circle jerk.

I still think it has a use, but for a unit in a rhino or one with larger numbers intent on assaulting, I would skip it.

My favorite noise configurations are either

5x Noise Marines
-4x Sonic blasters
-Blast master
Champ with power weapon
-Rhino

or

10x Noise Marines
10x Sonic blasters
Champ
Doom siren, Power Weapon
-Rhino

On either, I'm starting to discover the power of using a combi melta on the rhinos. The noise marines themselves draw a lot of attention with their possible fire power, and don't really have the ability to crack other transports/tanks.