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Stravo wrote:In light of this is a foot slogging army still a viable option?

Yes.

Foot armies can do anything that non-foot armies can do with just a couple of exceptions, such as ordnance spam, or being either "fast" or "skimmer". Not having these things, though, are easily work-aroundable, while there are some things that foot lists can do that are more difficult for mechanized lists (like being good in assault, for example).

Really, it's more of a play style thing than any real question of viability.

Flavius Infernus wrote:This battle report by Ailaros is a really good illustration of what a fast-moving army can do to a footslogging army:

http://www.ailarian.com/folera/batreps/blood-conquers-all/blood-conquers-19.html

Even though the Eldar player completely failed to concentrate properly or use his mobility, even Ailaros admits that it was a tough matchup.

Yeah, that's why I'm taking stormtroopers and real heavy weapons now.

On foot, of course.

I drew up a 1500 pt. CSM list with something like...

Sorcerer, wings, gifts of chaos
Sorcerer, wings, gifts of chaos

raptors (5), power fist, 2x meltaguns
raptors (5), power fist, 2x meltaguns

CSM (10) MoCG, 2x meltaguns, power fist
CSM (10) MoCG, 2x meltaguns, power fist
CSM (10) MoCG, 2x meltaguns, power fist
CSM (10) MoCG, 2x meltaguns, power fist
CSM (10) MoCG, 2x meltaguns, power fist

Or something like that.

The sheer quantity of melta + some mobility options means you're good against vehicles while the sheer quantity of 3-attacks-on-the-charge dudes with rerollable Ld10 means that you're very likely proofed against hordes. Plus, 72 dudes in power armor is going to be tough to wear down.

That and you have gifts of chaos, which can help with some of the more obnoxious things out there like commissars and wraithlord.

Haven't done it (haven't even started... so many models...), but it looks nice on paper.