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Looking at it, that swap does make sense. It gives you longer range firepower and means that you can hide the acolytes. It seems to change the wraiths into a counter assault unit rather than an alpha strike. If you want alpha strike then I'd keep both the wraith squads.

Another thought. If you make your troops 2X3 acolytes, you can use the termi points for paladins to up the firepower. If you then do the wraith swap, just take the psyfleman and put the rest of the points into more paladins

MarkCron wrote:
Looking at it, that swap does make sense. It gives you longer range firepower and means that you can hide the acolytes. It seems to change the wraiths into a counter assault unit rather than an alpha strike. If you want alpha strike then I'd keep both the wraith squads.

Another thought. If you make your troops 2X3 acolytes, you can use the termi points for paladins to up the firepower. If you then do the wraith swap, just take the psyfleman and put the rest of the points into more paladins

Sounds like a good idea, I'll play around with the points a bit and see if I can make it happen

Then put Coteaz with the paladins for prescience and maybe a 4+ invul

Alright I played around with the points and came up with this using your suggestion about the paladins

HQ
Destroyer Lord
MSS
Sempiternal Weave

TROOPS
5 Warriors
Night Scythe

5 Warriors
Night Scythe

FAST ATTACK
6 Wraiths
3 Whip Coils

HEAVY SUPPORT
Annihilation Barge
Annihilation Barge
Annihilation Barge

HQ
Coteaz

ELITES
5 Paladins
2 Psycannon
3 Halberds
2 Hammers

TROOPS
5 Acolytes

6 Acolytes
Bolter

FAST ATTACK
Stormraven
Hurricane Bolters
Psybolt Ammo

HEAVY SUPPORT
Dreadnought
Dual TL Autocannons
Psybolt Ammo

Nice. Can you start one group of acolytes in the raven? That'll protect them assuming it doesn't get shot down

Ya that sounds like a good tactic should I do the deep strike drop of thing with it In the backfield?

I think in the last FAQ they removed deep strike from all flyers. So, no.

Keen to hear how the games go!


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I think you'll need to be careful with the troops cos you don't have a lot of them for 1850.

I was talking about the way you can ds the unit inside the SR using the shadow skies special rule

If you put a Warrior squad inside the 'Raven, give three of them meltas. This suicide squad has a good chance of killing a tank, and a three-man melta squad is only 42pts! Definitely worth it if it works.

 Elric Greywolf wrote:
If you put a Warrior squad inside the 'Raven, give three of them meltas. This suicide squad has a good chance of killing a tank, and a three-man melta squad is only 42pts! Definitely worth it if it works.

"oops....my 42 point unit just took out your 250pt landraider!" Now that is a disposable unit with some firepower.