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Right started playing Dawn of war 2, and it got me thinking, would an "army" like this one work? So, using the limitations of the game (no ML/HB on the scouts etc) i came up with this so far:

captain-termie armour, 2 lightning claws

5 tac squad-meltabombs

scouts-bolters, sniper rifle, meltabombs, 5 camo cloaks

venerable dreadnought-assault cannon, extra armour

devastators-3 heavy bolters,plasma cannon

assault termies-lightning claws, thunder hammer+stormshield

this comes to 895 points. Now, yes i know 5ed is all about the vehicles, so right there it suffers, but what about cities of death? or the ever prevelent rumours of 6ed being about the infantry again? Do people have changes they would make? And if anyone has tried a similar lisst out of curiosity let us know!

You forgot assault Marines! An army of it could work but it wouldn't be the most competitive thing in the world. I will say that on more than one occurrence I've thought of doing a DoW2-themed Blood Ravens army with converted sergeants, but I don't need more Space Marines!

Brother SRM wrote:You forgot assault Marines! An army of it could work but it wouldn't be the most competitive thing in the world. I will say that on more than one occurrence I've thought of doing a DoW2-themed Blood Ravens army with converted sergeants, but I don't need more Space Marines!

Nope their there. Thaddeus can use termie armour along with the force commander :p

Will you rewrite ATSKNF so your marine sarges buff your squads to beat down on anything ? Then it might work!

Why would i rewrite the rules? The idea was to get it as useful but fluffy as possible to see how well it the game sizes up to tabletop

doc1234 wrote:Why would i rewrite the rules? The idea was to get it as useful but fluffy as possible to see how well it the game sizes up to tabletop

I can answer that - not well.
Any attempt to use any source of fluff (novels, games etc) for an army will probably never be competative. But if you like the army then that doesn't really matter.
To make it fair you should let your enemy ork HQ have 8 wounds