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I'll be facing almost every army under the sun so I wanted to craft a list which will have a good shot at facing most anything.

Okay, so I've gotten some feedback and revisited the codex and I think I've settled on a focused list I really like. I would still like to hear any critique folks may have but It looks quite standard

HQ:

Crow

Librarian w/ Nemesis Warding Staff, 3 servo skulls, Might, Quickening, Sanctuary.
- I had thought of dropping the staff, downgrading to the demon hammer, and using the extra points to psybolt the lascannons on the razorbacks.

ELITE:

5 Paladins w/ Psycannon, 2 Halberds (1 master craft), Demon Hammer, Force Sword -
All of these guys are kitted differently to take advantage of wound allocation rule. Please let me know if Master crafting one of the halberds doesn't work for that rule. I also wish I could fit a brotherhood banner but...
The librarian gets attached to this unit

TROOPS:

5 Purifiers w/ psycannon, demon hammer, 3 halberds in Razorback w/ TL Lascannon
Crow joins these guys

6 Purifiers w/ Psycannon, demon hammer, 3 halberds in Razorback w/ TL Lascannon

6 Purifiers w/ Psycannon, demon hammer, 3halberds in Razorback w/ Lascannon & TL Plasma Gun

FAST:

Stormraven Gunship w/ TL Lascannon & TL Multi-Melta
The paladins mount up in this

HEAVY:

Dreadnought w/ 2 TL Autocannons, Psybolt Ammo

Dreadnought w/ 2 TL Autocannons, Psybolt Ammo


Scoring Units: 3

Models: 24 Infantry, 6 Vehicles


The general idea is to use the dreads to whittle down mobs while the stormraven maneuvers all out on turn 1. Turn 2 stormraven moves in, deploys for precision assaulting then moves on its own to go tank hunting.

The 3 Razorbacks tank hunt on turn 1 and the guys inside are used to capture objectives and make precision assaults. I intend to run one razorback in each flank, one dread in each flank and the stormraven and crow's razorback in the middle. Although I have also had good luck focusing on one flank - I can use a razorback to kite along the opposite flank.


Raz Dre |-- 12" --| Raz Storm |-- 12" --| Dre Raz

2000 Volts wrote:
Librarian w/ Nemesis Warding Staff, 3 servo skulls, Might, Quickening, Sanctuary.
- I had thought of dropping the staff, downgrading to the demon hammer, and using the extra points to psybolt the lascannons on the razorbacks.

ELITE:

5 Paladins w/ Psycannon, 2 Halberds (1 master craft), Demon Hammer, Force Sword -
All of these guys are kitted differently to take advantage of wound allocation rule. Please let me know if Master crafting one of the halberds doesn't work for that rule. I also wish I could fit a brotherhood banner but...
The librarian gets attached to this unit

TROOPS:

5 Purifiers w/ psycannon, demon hammer, 3 halberds in Razorback w/ TL Lascannon
Crow joins these guys

Crowe isn't an independent character and cannot join units. For the Librarian, he's probably better off with just a MC Nemesis Force sword since it's cheaper, and The Shrouding is very powerful if he's going to be in a Stormraven. Also, you, um, can't psybolt lascannons. If you're going to use razorbacks to tank hunt early they're going to have to expose themselves to early counterfire, and discard their other role of transport. If you cut all the lascannons and warding stave, you can squeeze in a third psyfleman dreadnought and get better light tank hunting.

NExt to Crowe's entry is says Infantry (Character) which is the same it says for Librarian, Brother-Captain, Champion ect.. in HQ.

Ahh - missed that about the psybolt ammo - but It makes sense. I worry about dropping the Lascannons for another Psyfleman dread as that'll drop the total number of vehicles which can penetrate AV14 to 1.

I think I will drop the Nemesis Stave but not sure what to do with the freed up points.

Forgot to mention - the point total is 1849

check the special rules, he doesn't have independant character while the libby etc do

Wow I just saw that - that really sucks. How do people field him then? Just run him up the field screaming like a lunatic?

In Annihilation Crowe usually just hides. In the other two standard missions, you can just have a squad sit on a homebase objective and Crowe jacks their ride to go contest and pester MCs. If you just use blade shield, he can clear out large clumps of stuff like boyz or wyches through Cleansing Flame and have a reasonable chance of not dying to them. For the most part Crowe is really just considered to be a purifier tax so you can bring a ton of them.

Psycannons or assault cannons with psybolt ammunition can rend through AV14. Between still needing a 6 and only one shot, Lascannons are not terribly efficient at it. Melta-henchmen, Nemesis Dreadknights, or Dreadnoughts that keep the CCW are going to be more efficient at it than trying to get your transports to crack AV14. That extra Dread could always have multimelta/doomfist and get ferried by a Shrouded Stormraven if you need to. Purifiers are not like Long Fangs, they can't just hop into a ruin and do their job while letting their transport go shoot people. As it is, you're begging people to crack your transports in your deployment zone then run away to negate the bulk of your army. In addition there just isn't a whole lot of viable AV14 where you can't just go for side shots to get through or be content with just glancing it out of activity. You can even just go get Warp Rift on your librarian and auto-pen vehicles with it.