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I'm off to a Combat Patrol-sized tourney/event at the weekend and I'm having trouble deciding which army to bring. Usually, when I go to a tourney, I use it as an excuse to paint or finish off a new army, but at such a small points value, I have lots of options on my shelf.

For those who don't know the rules, they are as follows...

* At least one Troops, 0-1 HQ, no other restrictions.
* No Special/Named characters
* No 2+ Armour Saves
* No models with MORE than three wounds
* No Monstrous Creatures
* No vehicles with a total armour value of 33 or more
* No large blast templates
* You may use any codex or FW list.

And the options sitting on my shelf are

* Chaos Daemons (all slaanesh)
* Chaos Space Marines (noise-marine heavy)
* White Scars
* Imperial Guard (penal legion/fast attack/lots of psykers)
* Squats (Imperial Guard with lots of plasma)
* Tau

And, if theres a better option with a ridiculously small number of models, I could make a new army this week - it's only 500pts, right?

Wait, did they forget to ban psychic powers?

Yep, looks like you can take Psychic Powers - they don't mention it in their rules pack!

Fast Attack Imperial Guard. I presume this is Sentinels and Chimeras or Rough Riders? It's nice and fluffy, i.e. feasibly a combat patrol and it should give your opponent some problems. Also, I'm an IG player

The OC-D

A few test lists, then.

SQUATS
* Primaris Psyker
* Infantry Platoon
* PCS with Meltagun
* Inf Sqd with Plasmagun
* Inf Sqd with Plasmagun
* Hvy Sqd with 3 (Mole) Mortars
* 3 Armoured Sentinels (Robots) with Lascannons


PENAL LEGION (Fast attack Guard)

* Primaris Psyker
* Penal Legionnaires
* Penal Legionnaires
* 7 Rough Riders with Meltagun
* 2 Scout Sentinels with Lascannons, Searchlights
* 2 Scout Sentinels with Autocannons, Searchlights

Tau can be pretty good.

Battlesuits and a Fire Warrior squad in a Warfish.

BTW we may not be playing by Combat Patrol rules.

Do something like:

6 Firewariors.
Shas'el (or whatever the name of the normal HQ is), 2 bodyguards, drones.
Crisis Shas'vre, 2 extra battlesuits, drones.

And just keep jumping around, so they can't kill you. Don't fight back, just hide and wait for them to get mad and forfeit the game.

Or you can play your Squat list and win

This is a list I came up with that I plan on using for our next 40k in 40mins tourney

Flak-Plasma Guard
Troops
Veteran Squad pts: 130
3x Plasma Guns, Power Fist
Veteran Squad pts: 120
2x Plasma Guns, Sniper Rifle, Power Fist
Heavy Support
Hydra Flak Tank pts: 75
Hydra Flak Tank pts: 75



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Oh, and Medusas with bastion breacher shells are legal in Combat Patrol

Kilkrazy wrote:Tau can be pretty good.

Battlesuits and a Fire Warrior squad in a Warfish.

BTW we may not be playing by Combat Patrol rules.

Maybe I'll have a look at Tau - I sort of discounted them on account of too-expensive vehicles but it might work...

And this is for a different tournament - I'm still not sure what I'll take to Canterbury...

EmilCrane wrote:Oh, and Medusas with bastion breacher shells are legal in Combat Patrol

But you wouldn't want them - with no landraiders, etc to target the standard shot is better.

Personally, I'd go very walker heavy. Killa Kanz probably. Messes with a lot of armies at this points level.

White scars would be a fun as a combat patrol. Tough, fast and hard hitting! Failing that I would say guard on foot with a Hydra if you have something to represent it.

Potential Tau list?

* 2 x Crisis Suits (Plasma Rifles, Missile Pods, Muti-Trackers, 1 Marker Drone, 1 Gun Drone)
* 2 x Crisis Suits (Fusion Blasters, Burst Cannon, Targetting Arrays, 1 Gun Drone)
* 8 Fire Warriors in Devilfish (Disruption Pod, Targetting Array, Multi-Tracker, Smart Missile System)

Chaos Space Marines can be brutal in really low points games, specifically Plague Marines. At such low points plus the restrictions of the Combat Patrol most armies can not field enough to deal with FnP.

Another good one would be Blood Angels because they're quick and can be given FnP.

FnP is a bitch. :(

oni wrote:Chaos Space Marines can be brutal in really low points games, specifically Plague Marines. At such low points plus the restrictions of the Combat Patrol most armies can not field enough to deal with FnP.

Another good one would be Blood Angels because they're quick and can be given FnP.

FnP is a bitch. :(

Hmm. This might be a plan - any suggestions for a good 500pt FnP Blood Angel list? I have a load of Marines lying around, but I'd have to build and paint it in three days, so as few models as possible, really.


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A quick look brings up...

* Sanguinary Priest (Jump Pack, Power Weapon, Melta Bombs)
* 8 Assault Marines (Meltagun, Sgt with PowerFist)
* 8 Assault Marines (Meltagun, Sgt with PowerFist)

Some more ideas...

IMPERIAL GUARD (Blob)

* One Infantry Platoon, consisting of...

* PCS (missile launcher)
* Infantry Squad (Hvy Bolter)
* Infantry Squad (Hvy Bolter)
* Infantry Squad (Hvy Bolter, Commissar with Power Weapon, Sgt with Power Weapon)
* Heavy Weapon Squad (3 Autocannons)
* Heavy Weapon Squad (3 Missile Launchers)

* 5 Rough Riders


or,

CHAOS DAEMONS

* 6 Fiends (Unholy Might)
* 15 Daemonettes
* 6 Seekers


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Actually, I'm going to put this as a Poll in the Army List section - I need to decide by tomorrow if I'm going to have it ready for saturday!

Yeah, with the deaomns are you still allowed to use assault to deploy?