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Hi,

I'm really posting here for some advice I'm creating a fluffy Emperors Children-y CSM army.

I've been looking at a lot of other peoples army posts and while most of those are very competitive rather than fluffy I noticed a distinct lack of blastmasters.

Now, i'm very inexperianced (First attempt at a game posted in the army reports by hangfire ) but i was wandering why you would only take the sonic blasters as the heavy blast seems like it would be shockingly effective, especially with lashing DP's.

Is there something i'm missing which is hugely obvious here or are they just not worth the points?

It's simple, it's that they cost too much. I'd rather have more Marines than weapons.

Fair enough - Do they not even make up there points with lashing units into tiny squishy blobs?

If not i'll maybe go with a champion to make up the 6th man in my units, can always get a doom siren for the last one so i still have some template goodness

How about sonic weapons on your terminators as well.
Am in the process of making a possessed land raider complete with music sytem and pole dancing daemonette on top with underfloor lighting. Shame it aint in the rules.

Well it may not be fully Emperor's Children but this sounds interesting, hear me out: Chaos. Rock. Show. Emperor's Children are the Musicians, Khorne Berzerkers are the metal head fans, Plague Marines are the roadies and thousand suns are the bouncers. Find the old Emperor Children marines that had actual guitars for weapons and I assure you it will be the greatest thing.

Chaos rock show sounds very amusing!

However, my background is to eventually build up to having a set of twin DP's, one male one female.

The idea being that they were both from Chemos(sp?) back pre-heresy, leaved a idolent and luxurious lifestyle due to the changes to the planet brought by fulgrim.

While the male went off and joined the EC's the girl started relishing the decadence and eventually, after much acts of naughty slaaneshness were both made into DP's and seduced a fair whack of EC's away after the heresy itself.

I want to be predominately sonic noise marines, in groups of 6 (Sacred number!) while i want to be as fluffy as possible I also want it to be playable.

However.. Someone so SO needs to make a Slaanesh rock concert diorama

Always build my noise marines in six's, just feels right somehow.

I thought of a Rock versus contest between the Noise Marines and the Ork Goff rock band. The appeal of all the zanny stuff the grots could be getting up to and you can still get the band.

NMs are overpriced and sonic weaponry generally just exacerbates that. About the best you can do is Doom Siren ACs with a delivery squad and min sized blastmaster squads that hang back on objectives.

jmurph wrote:NMs are overpriced and sonic weaponry generally just exacerbates that. About the best you can do is Doom Siren ACs with a delivery squad and min sized blastmaster squads that hang back on objectives.

But that would defeat the object of having a EC army.

jmurph wrote:NMs are overpriced and sonic weaponry generally just exacerbates that. About the best you can do is Doom Siren ACs with a delivery squad and min sized blastmaster squads that hang back on objectives.

QFT

Been playing EC along time and NM have broke down into 2 builds 6 in a rhino with Doom Siren and PW OR 6 with Sonic blasters and Blastmaster.

Ive actually had alot of success with both builds. just make sure that rhino squad is supported after they blast the ish out of a squad.

If they had the old Sonic Havoc Squads, then they would be worth taking. Right now they're just a really overpriced and overdone version of a Tactical Squad.

Kurgash wrote:Well it may not be fully Emperor's Children but this sounds interesting, hear me out: Chaos. Rock. Show. Emperor's Children are the Musicians, Khorne Berzerkers are the metal head fans, Plague Marines are the roadies and thousand suns are the bouncers. Find the old Emperor Children marines that had actual guitars for weapons and I assure you it will be the greatest thing.

You mean the first thing I search on google...

Laughing God wrote:

jmurph wrote:NMs are overpriced and sonic weaponry generally just exacerbates that. About the best you can do is Doom Siren ACs with a delivery squad and min sized blastmaster squads that hang back on objectives.

QFT

Been playing EC along time and NM have broke down into 2 builds 6 in a rhino with Doom Siren and PW OR 6 with Sonic blasters and Blastmaster.

Ive actually had alot of success with both builds. just make sure that rhino squad is supported after they blast the ish out of a squad.

and oh the pain that caused tonight my friend

The joy of embracing the fluff - i love the idea of sonic weapons and fully embracing happy cuddly slaanesh so will try to tweek accordingly to make them usefull as well as just cool!