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So what do people think of using a Master of the Forge in a Drop Pod List? It looks like I could get 10-11 Drop Pods with 3-6 Dreadnoughts (with half of those close in Ironclads). That's a whole lot of fire power especially if you give the Master of the Forge a Conversion Beamer.

It would look a little like this:

1 or 2 Masters of the forge w/ Conversion Beamer and Bike.
- These exist purely for a highly mobile high-strength weapon platform. It's on of the only ways to get a S10 AP1 in the SM Dex

5-6 Drop Pods with 5x tac Marines (1 melta each)
- These are mostly for capping objectives and small unit combats

4-6 Drop Pods with a mixture of lascannon dreadnoughts and ironclad dreadnoughts
- These would be your primary heavy hitters. the Ironclads can shred most anything close up and the lascannon ones are long range support

I know this is a ludicrous list , I just wanted to see what people thought haha

Tactical squads must be 10 models strong to get meltas, or drop pods...

wileythenord wrote:Tactical squads must be 10 models strong to get meltas, or drop pods...

Correct. However, they can combat squad after they leave the drop pod, and each take a melta.

CxOrillion wrote:

wileythenord wrote:Tactical squads must be 10 models strong to get meltas, or drop pods...

Correct. However, they can combat squad after they leave the drop pod, and each take a melta.

Tactical Squads can't take two meltas.

1850 MotF dread spam you say? It's pretty damn good. Cooked this up in about 5 minutes:

Master of the forge with power weapon 115 points

Vulkan

Ironclad with heavy flamer in place of storm bolter + drop pod 180 points each

Ironclad with heavy flamer in place of storm bolter + drop pod

Ironclad with heavy flamer in place of storm bolter + drop pod

10 marines with flamer and multi melta + power fist in drop pod 205 points each

10 marines with flamer and multi melta + power fist in drop pod

Ironclad with heavy flamer in place of storm bolter + drop pod

Ironclad with heavy flamer in place of storm bolter + drop pod

Ironclad with heavy flamer in place of storm bolter + drop pod

Comes to 1845 points, you can drop 4 ironclads first turn, deploy both marine units or whoever you want. Normally I'd say conversion beamer, but in this case you don't want a free kill point walking around. After all all your drop pods are already that.

heartserenade wrote:

CxOrillion wrote:

wileythenord wrote:Tactical squads must be 10 models strong to get meltas, or drop pods...

Correct. However, they can combat squad after they leave the drop pod, and each take a melta.

Tactical Squads can't take two meltas.

herpaderp, you're right. somehow the multimelta got changed into a meltagun in my brain.

Thanks all! Yeah I know there are a few mess ups but you get the general idea. Also, thanks for list!