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Im taking this list to semis. Its all about moving up as fast as you can and working together. I'll be playing at Game Empire Pasadena. What do you think?

Dante

Lemartes

Death company x7

3x Vet Assault Squad 9xman. Powerfist, Power Sword, 2x Melta Gun

3x Assault Squad 10xman Powerfist

1x Tactical Squad 10xman Melta Gun, Multi Melta, Powerfist

3x Attack Bikes 3x multimelta

Thats a hell of a lot of Marines.

Hopefully running that many assault marines works out against top tier armies at the ard boyz.

Approx. 75 marines, 2 SCs, and three MM attack bikes. Would heavy mech be a problem? I guess not if you get the assault the entire time and just punch away at rear armor. I LIKE IT!

Yeah thats what usually ends up happening with all the power fists i run. I usually shoot the melta guns first at the tanks and see if that takes them out. Tanks like vindicators, landraiders and battle cannon mounted ones are a big priority.

What if they screen their big tanks with smaller tanks?

I go after what i can reach in the assault phase.

Locally that build is known as the Angry Marines, and works well.

Only thing I'd suggest (and its a pretty big change), is to drop Lemartes for Corbulo, and give him + the Death Co a land raider to ride around in. Furious Charge makes all the difference.

Can we say that the new scenarios for the second round help out assault armies more for ex. this one?

I think only the second mission helps out CC armies and it'll still depend on who deploys and goes first. Also with the sheer number of search lights out there being put in every imperial list a list like yours has to worry since people won't sweat lighting themselves up if there is nothing to shoot back at them with.

Hulksmash do you know what armies and how many people will be playing at the Game Empire?

Well there should probably be around 18 players, possible 21 if i've forgotten a qualifier. Expect to see at least:

-1 Eldrad/Avatar Wraithwind Army
-2 Nidzilla
-2 Tau
-2 Mech Heavy Guard
-1 Speed Freak Ork (if he comes, not sure if he is)
-3-4 Marine Armies

And the above aren't for sure. In fact the only 5 I would guarentee are you, Wraithwind, 2 Nidzilla, 1 Guard and probably the Tau guy

Do you feel its gonna be really tough competition and who do you see having the best chance of taking first. Last year i was there the comp didnt seem so hard and daemons took first. I played him in the second round and with the list i had i really couldnt hurt his 5 MCs that he had. My list was just everything i owned and wasnt very balanced.

I know a fair amount of the guys that are going and the ones I know are pretty good players. Competition will be pretty tough. To many variables on who would have the best chance. I'm just going to roll dice and use 14 armored vehicles in a single battle

When will this be?


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If my flag shows Canada its wrong I am Los Angeles.

Its ard boyz round two on august 8th, our semi is taking place in pasadena CA.

Thanks.


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Thanks and good luck.

I'd like to play your army with an army consisting of only avatar models...

I think the first mission hurts this list a lot but the second and third will be great with the mobility and close combat power-a heavy close combat nidzilla or a very resilient army with strong cc elements would give you a run for your money though.

Your anti tank is good with the meltaguns (can you take melta bombs?) and the rending on death company give a nice edge against certain units and mcs but all in all I think just more of the same (that being marines) won't fare too well against armies that are innately good at killing marines.

Wondering if you NEED that tactical squad or if you can add a baal or two? That extra shooting might save you some headache and they can potentially tubro and be as fast as the rest of your army being fast-soemtimes ha (if mobility is an issue).

One thing to look out for is when playing IG, for example, charging oen squad, wiping it out and then getting shot to pieces in the guys turn-if he is smart or lucky with unit placement it could make it very difficult for you forcing you to have bad charge options, you know? You might want a terminator squad in a LR with some baal predators, who knows?


Obviously you are trying to get as much jump infanty as possible but just be careful with how you deploy and such, I played a friend with his blood angels and sometimes they end up getting in the way of each other. If only jump infantry could turbo boost eh? ALso, if you have a good mix of tanks/jump infantry and regular infantry you can use the tanks to screen your jump marines wich is a bonus and also throw your vehicles onto objectives to contest or whatever. A good space marine player I think makes good use of cheap transports and tanks!

Mixed blood angels dont work. Hence i dont run any vehicles. I only need cover for ap 3 guns. which i have my front line to give it to. Its all about move and move. Then charge all together. It really helps not getting shot when all my units are in assault. Once that happens there aint much units left to get shot with. I really dont mind losing 20 guys in the first turn. That has happened before and i still end up winning the game. So i got used to it happening. I wonder how ur wraithzilla would deploy against me since you have such short range weapons.