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What do people think of this elite unit. I have one and have not used it yet. I like there ablities and i have heavy bolter, flamer, sword/bolt pistol, 7 bolters.

they're a negative. 3++ is nice but they arent any more resilient to small arms fire. However it costs you alot more when they die. basically you're not getting a good value for your points.

i thought the slow and purposeful would be considered good and the fact that they can take a hit that would kill a tank

If you can control the situation enough that they really take advantage of what makes them cost so much (invulnerable save, deep strike, slow and purposeful, 2 attacks), then they're good.

Problem is that's pretty difficult to do, and against some armies, just not possible. Some armies don't have any attacks that would ignore a 3+ armor save, for example.

koridon wrote:i thought the slow and purposeful would be considered good and the fact that they can take a hit that would kill a tank

it's good yes.... thing is opponents will realize that lascannons and such arent the best way to handle them and just shoot them with bolters. it creates a very temporary problem for your opponent. relentless is good too but not worth what you're paying for it on this unit.

Good point, and i did not think of it that way

just thought of it, but do they make good ways to distract a monsteroius creature

I wouldn't put that to the test. From what I know, trying to distract a monstrous creature with bolter fire is not effective. For me legion of the damned are just another kill point that can be easily acquired.

i ment in melee sense they have the 3+ invul, so they can make the save

I suppose, but in a turn of combat a melee orientated monstrous creature will destroy most of this expensive squad. If I had a monstrous creature and you assaulted it with your legion of the damned the first thing I would do on my turn would be send another squad in to help and the melee would last a lot shorter.

good point i just thought it might work to hold off the damn nids and there monsterious creatures untill you get more fire power or a melee beast of urs in, like terminators with storm shields.

and damn 4k imperial fist army, mine is only 3400 atm

Cool! How much of yours is painted? mine is only half painted as i started painting my chaos after id only finished painting 1K which slowed the painting right down. Id like to see some of your models if you have painted any.

Yet again soz modesty dignified sausage and to answer the question they can be made to work as an effective unit, going for independent characters that specialize in combat for example. As a battle-tempered pre-heresy thousand sons player I don't like the look of them but thousand sons are about the only army that would fear them, and we have bigger fish to fry, assault terminators for example.

TRISKELION7: Stop following me!!!

lotd dont have 3++
only 3+/5++

Devastator wrote:lotd dont have 3++
only 3+/5++

who told you that lie? lol in the codex it says their saving throw is invulnerable

How do you make the little high liighted words work

koridon wrote:What do people think of this elite unit.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/267222.page

Way ahead of you. One year ahead.


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dignifiedsausage wrote:TRISKELION7: Stop following me!!!

He does that to everyone. You get used to it.

Shrike, except this guy is asking specifically about tactics, not whether people use them. Also, it's probably getting a better rate of replies as it stands.

As a unit, they are good. 3++, Relentless, Heavy Weapons.
As a choice, they are bad. Simply too expensive and out-classed by the likes of Terminators and Sternguard.

However, they can be made to work and at the very least are great looking and good for friendly games.
Adding a Librarian with GoI can really help actually, boosting their manoeuvrability and hitting power.

As has been said, they are too expensive for what they provide and 3++ isn't actually that much use. However, they are good fun and can be made to work...

how about for an apoc game

You have to find a good choise for them. Anti Mech is cool because they can have the multi melta with move and fire, but that is also what your land speeder can be for. Perhaps they are good at fighting incumbi?

Well Apocalypse Games are typically a casual/friendly thing, so by all means.
Their 3++ may also get more use in such games too.

Just Dave wrote:Shrike, except this guy is asking specifically about tactics, not whether people use them.

Uuh...

shrike wrote:talk here about the pros and cons.

Uhhh...

"Subject: legion of the damned: who else uses 'em?"

"Who uses 'em?"

that and he has more replies than yours all-ready.

if it's just a friendly game and/or you want a deepstriking relentless MM(which you might notice you are paying through the nose for) they can be nice.

Appoc could definitly see their usage on a larger scale. there is even an Appoc sheet for LotD Terminators(2++ save FTW)

not good enough- in higher point games points can be used better. I don;t like them.

where can i find the sheet for lotd terminators

on GW's site under the Appoc Datasheets IIRC.

http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1180084_Space_Marines_Datasheet_-_The_Legion_of_the_Damned.pdf

Unfortunantly, this one was made before the current codex came out.

they have FNP instead of all saves being Invulnerable. still decent and quite a bit cheaper too.

too pricey for what they can and more than likely won't do

They make cool squad leaders and/or paper weights.

I converted mine with meltaguns for use as Chaos Chosen.