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So me and a friend are playing a small 1,500 point game. I play SM and he plays IG. And he said that a few IG heavy weapon crews could decimate my SM force in a few turns. I disagreed and after i beat him i got to thinking what is a way that you would go about competley wiping out a SM army. I would like to know at least one reason for every race so please dont be shy to reply.

Chaos Daemons, hellblades on bloodletters of Khorne and just Khorne daemons in general.

For Tau I would say, Broadsides and either Missile Pod/Plasma Rifle/Multi Tracker or Fusion Blaster/Plasma Rifle/ Multi Tracker Crisis suits with some Pathfinders. Not surefire but probably has the advantage.

Anything with AP3 large blasts.

Anything with lots of power weapons.

Anything with just far too many bodies for the Marines to handle in combat combined with the ability to get these bodies INTO combat.

My all Thousand Sons list welcomes your AP3/2 spam with every single model having a 4+ invulnerable save.

I do count as Space Marines right?

Bolter shock it is.

Remove their ability to tactically suppress you by using tactics they can never expect.

Melissia wrote:Bolter shock it is.

Dammit.

Jerk :(

Sisters do just a few things, so I have to practice doing them as good as I possibly can... which means I would end up combining fire with two separate Sisters units onto a single 1k sons in order to defeat them. Bolter shock and flamers, just trying to put as many wounds onto the squad as possible in one shooting phase.

Which is easier said than done, if the opponent knows what they're doing, but them's the breaks.

An all Thousand Sons army has a few uh... limitations of its own.

But we look damn good while being ineffective. That striking Blue and Gold!

The times when you make a Grey Hunter squad disintegrate in one round of shooting from one squad are all worth it.

Small points level Deathwing vs leman russ exercutioner = tabled marine player.

CSM - lash +oblit/vini = dead marines

Imperial guard do all of it. Too many bodies, the executioner AND ap3 large blast. Heaven. not to mention melta vets in a vendetta for those pesky LRs

Any army with wepons that ingnore armour , large blasts , deep strikeing , a space marine army with no libraian got no chance agienst Grey Knights , or chaos sorrcerers plus Daemon princes and Khorne daemons.

tell your freind to ditch the HWS and take lots of vehicles then seen what happens. MY IG army can easily table marine armies at 1500 points. Granted it also depends on the marine army in question and the luck of the dice.

No one mentioned nids? Genestealer and Ymgarl stealer spam FTW!!. I've destroyed the backbone of my oppenent's SM by turn 2.

Guard really shouldn't have trouble with Marines at all. There's so much high strength/low AP/large blast weapons in that army that it isn't an issue.

Battlecannon=dead space marines.

Virus bombs .... dead world = dead marines