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Field Lord Castellan Creed.
Use Tactical Genius on the largest, meanest tank at your disposal.
Cover it with an Ordnance Battery.
Encourage your opponent to destroy your "disposable" tank and watch them start to twitch.

Impossible Sofa wrote:Field Lord Castellan Creed.
Use Tactical Genius on the largest, meanest tank at your disposal.
Cover it with an Ordnance Battery.
Encourage your opponent to destroy your "disposable" tank and watch them start to twitch.

Why outflank one tank when you can outflank a squadron of 3

LRDMs I assume? Three of those off the right flank...

That's a good now, actually. Outflanking units can put the pressure on too, DS not so much, but can be a factor. I personally fear drop pod dreads and outflanking genestealers.

Jihallah wrote:

KingCracker wrote:A sure fire way to unravel other players (ANY player, not just SM players) is to wipe out entire units ASAP. I personally like to focus on entire units until that 1 unit is dead and gone. So usually I can wipe out 2 units or so a turn depending on game size and table set up, that ALWAYS gets opponents on edge, because they started with say 6 units to my 7 or 8, and now they only have 4 units to my 7 or 8. Thats all it ever takes, then the pressure gets to them, they start to over think and panic. Even seasoned players start to panic even a little bit. Sometimes thats all you need, is that little bit of panic.

+1. Removing a whole unit is removing an element of their army- when you start with 15 odd and you get whittled down to below 10 you start feeling it. Also utterly crippling a unit I find is worth more sometimes than killing it (outside of KP games!). A armless, legless dreadnought raging and useless can sometimes be more demoralizing that having it removed from the table

Agreed. Leaving smoking piles of useless is pretty good too, because they have to come back to them EVERY turn. Its good fun.

Vortex. Of. Doom. x2.

And lots of Demolishers.

MrMoustaffa wrote:Step 1. Play IG

Step 2. Buy 9 LRBT's

Step 3, fill board with lascannons/plasma/melta, LRBT's (plasma sponsons for even more fun!)

Step 4. Evil laugh (practice makes perfect!)

Step 5. ???????

Step 6. PROFIT!

In all seriousness though, the only thing I've seen that bugs MEQ players is lots and lots of low AP weapons, and large numbers of models. If my army consists of a relatively even amount of guys, they don't care, but when I outnumber the guy 3 or 4 to 1, and have at least 3 lascannon shots per turn for every transport he has (not counting melta/plasma/battlecannons) that does a lot to intimidate someone.

That said, every army has that one thing they get intimidated by. It's just figuring out your advantage and exploiting it

Better idea

Step 1. Play IG

Step 2. Use three to six executioners with plasma sponsons

Step 3. Field plasma vets in chimeras, give the sergeant a plasma pistol

Step 4. Have a CCS in a chimera with plasma guns and a pistol

Step 5. Field melta storm troopers

Step 6. Fire up to 30 plasma cannon shots and 51 plasma gun/pistol shots per turn

Step 7. ???

Step 8. Profit.

Honestly IG were practically made to kill marines, and as much as I hate the executioner (I have never needed 3 -5 plasma cannon shots against a single unit, and if I did a demolisher with plasma sponsons would probably be cheaper and more efficient), it is the best unit in the entire game when it comes to killing terminators. Hell you could probably kill Draigo and a chunk of his 2 wound terminator army with a single tank (granted the tank is like 230 points, but still).

Plasma/melta crisis suits, broadsides with plasma and multi-tracker, BS5 cover ignoring S6 AP3 rail rifles, power blob, fusion cascades, medusas...all good for killing marines, and except for the rail rifles, termies too.