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Made in ca
Secretive Dark Angels Veteran




Canada

 Grey Knight Janitor wrote:
Okay well, from what you run it looks like you're running filler units and no hard hitters. You have no pain.

Bike squad is good (I hope you're using Grav-guns), but try and put a captain/chapter master on a bike(give him the shield eternal and a thunder hammer so he can wreck face). With bikes being troops you can cut the one squad of tac's, and make the other maybe a lazback/drop pod for some fire support. Space marine tacticals are tough to remove, but they aren't that great at removing other units.

Drop Pods to help disrupt his lines a little. Sternies with combi's, or just normal tacticals with a heavy and special. In a game with a good amount of fast movers, drop pods over rhinos.

Grav-centurions if you have them.

Put melta bombs on all your characters, for 5pts they're a bargain.

Honestly your list is fine for friendly fluffy games, but if you want to win, even just once, you're going to have to break out some stinky cheese. For space marines that is bike troops (with grav), command squads on bikes loaded up with grav-guns and storm shields and grav-centurions with maybe a libby casting invisibility. That being said you'll need to cut out the termies, because they're no good these days, and the assault squad because all they will do is die a horrible death.

So this a is preliminary list

Captain (215): Bike, Shield Eternal, Thunder Hammer, Melta Bombs, Artificer armour.

Tactical Squad (210): 9 marines +sergeant. Lascannon, meltagun,
Melta bombs.

X2 Bike Squads (156 each): 5 bikers + sergeant. 2 grav-guns.

Centurion Devastators (260): 3 centurions. 3 grav-cannons plus 1 omniscope.

That comes to 997pts. I just made this now so add and subtract your choice units as you see fit.

I like it, quick simple and violent. He won't know what hit him. 8/10 would recommend again

DA army: 3500pts,
admech army: 600pts
ravenguard: 565 pts

 
   
Made in gb
Confident Halberdier





UK

 Zande4 wrote:
Try the beat stick Chaptermaster, you could even take Clan Ruakaan and run 2 of them.

Chapter Master
Bike
Thunderhammer
Shield Eternal
Artificer Armour

Chapter Master
Bike
Thunderhammer
Gorgon's Chains
Artificer Armour

Also keep in mind the Gorgon CM gets an extra attack for having 2 ccw because the chains are not a storm shield.

Thought you could only take 1 weapon on a bike? and thanks but no thanks for shield eternal... id rather have a scout squad or a razorback for 5 points more.
next game i play (see http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/624190.page) I'm pretty sure i'll be up against mostly warriors and CSM squads with some arks, a triarch stalker, immortals etc maybe a monolith but I'm not sure if he's built it yet...
gonna try a Dev with 4 plasma cannons and Tacs with plas and HB to try trash some necrons

   
Made in us
Oozing Plague Marine Terminator





The TH is specialist however.
   
Made in au
Infiltrating Broodlord





Brisbane

 Fellwing wrote:
 Zande4 wrote:
Try the beat stick Chaptermaster, you could even take Clan Ruakaan and run 2 of them.

Chapter Master
Bike
Thunderhammer
Shield Eternal
Artificer Armour

Chapter Master
Bike
Thunderhammer
Gorgon's Chains
Artificer Armour

Also keep in mind the Gorgon CM gets an extra attack for having 2 ccw because the chains are not a storm shield.

Thought you could only take 1 weapon on a bike? and thanks but no thanks for shield eternal... id rather have a scout squad or a razorback for 5 points more.
next game i play (see http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/624190.page) I'm pretty sure i'll be up against mostly warriors and CSM squads with some arks, a triarch stalker, immortals etc maybe a monolith but I'm not sure if he's built it yet...
gonna try a Dev with 4 plasma cannons and Tacs with plas and HB to try trash some necrons


Was just going off experience, my friend was none for 5 with his Iron Hands against my Crons till he took the Dual Chapter Masters, I've lost 2 in a row since.

 
   
Made in gb
Confident Halberdier





UK

thanks for the help
last night i FINALLY managed to beat my esteemed cousin in a 1000 point game
I took:
Librarian with Jump pack
Tactical squad with Plasma Cannon, Plasma gun, Rhino
Tactical squad with Plasma Cannon, Plasma gun, Rhino
Assault squad
Stormtalon with Lascannons

Imperial Guard allies:
Company Command squad
Platoon Command squad
Infantry blob (x20)
Conscripts x20 with Commissar

only got 3 turns due to starting late but it was pretty much over by then
focus fired him off the table
good fun


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Also deployed really deep, gave him 1st when I won the roll off, so denying him 1st turn shooting :-)

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