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So...I played a couple of games today with my Raven Guard-turned-Blood Angels, and I got lazy writing the list so I decided to make just about everything Death Co. with Astorath for S's and G's. Army was basically 10 DCo. in a Rhino, 15 DCo. with jump packs & Astorath, 10 Tac marines with 5 in a razorback, and 2 dreads (1 Furioso librarian and 1 DCo. dread with a melta grapple and drop pod). Small, straight forward, points gimped because the DCo. with jump packs are waaaaaaay too expensive...but it was fun anyways.

1st game against Tau I got rick rolled, a nice welcome back after 6 years from 40k, lol. Didnt kill much, both death co. squads god stuck in the open and took a full round of Tau shooting each...didn't help that I failed a lot of FNP rolls but w/e. So chalk that one up to bad rolling and rustiness.

2nd Game against Orcs went well, Magna grappled a Battle wagon 10 inches into base with my Immobilised DCo Dread, and my DCo. squads just ripped through his infantry, he had 2 models left when the game ended on turn 5.

So, it seems to be a very straight forward list, really comes down to rolls, and being able to get your DCo. into combat, which can be hard since their cost prevents you from taking nifty things like SRG's to get them into combat more easily. I feel like it would be much more cost effective to put the jump pack DCo. on foot and in rhinos or a DP...would save a bit of points. The question would be, who would I stick the jump packing Astorath with? And as cool as they are, I could drop the Furioso Librarian and use those points and the points I would save by removing the Jump packs off the DCo. to buy a couple more DCdreads, but i dunno.

If anyone has any ideas on how Death Co. armies, let me know, I could use some suggestions. Keep in mind I play with what I have and overhauling a list is out of my budget (economic recessions suck a$$). Second, I play Infinity competitively, and only got back into 40k to play with some friends 1 night a week or so, so I have to plans on tournament play or even extremely competitive play, so I don't need any "Zomg, ur such a newb for trying to play Death Co., they're soooo not practical" type of posts.

-Thanx all

As Astorath allows you to have multipule DC squads why not just have one small jump pack squad to go with him and then put your other DC squads in your Rhinos? (Actually can DC squads use Razorbacks? Just a thought...)
Mick

DC can use any Dedicated Transport and they get a 35 pt discount.

Thats like a Razorback with a free TLAC.

radiohazard wrote:DC can use any Dedicated Transport and they get a 35 pt discount.

Thats like a Razorback with a free TLAC.

No, they don't. ASSAULT Squads get the Discount. DC do not.

Gwar! wrote:

radiohazard wrote:DC can use any Dedicated Transport and they get a 35 pt discount.

Thats like a Razorback with a free TLAC.

No, they don't. ASSAULT Squads get the Discount. DC do not.

Curses - I'm wrong.

radiohazard wrote:

Gwar! wrote:

radiohazard wrote:DC can use any Dedicated Transport and they get a 35 pt discount.

Thats like a Razorback with a free TLAC.

No, they don't. ASSAULT Squads get the Discount. DC do not.

Curses - I'm wrong.

Well, not entirely wrong. They can still Select any Dedicated Transport.

15 DC with Lemartes in a LRC anyone?