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SM captain, JP PF iron halo artifacer armour 175 pts

2 x dreadnoughts, 2x tl autocannons plus extra armour 140each

10x terminators, 2 assault cannons

tac squad 1, 10 xtac marines, Plasma cannon, plasma gun, plasma pistol and power sword on sarg riding in razor back with TL assault cannon 290pts

tac squad 2, 10 xtac marines, Plasma cannon, plasma gun, plasma pistol and power sword on sarg riding in razor back with TL las cannon 290pts



storm talon tl assault cannon and tl lascannon 150 pts

pred 1, turret autocannon, sponsons lascannons 120 pts
pred 2, turret autocannon, sponsons heavy bolters 85 pts

my opponent used last game, librarian in termi armour with 5 ranged terminators with assault cannon
tac squad with plasma cannon and plasma gun
thunderfire cannon

tau

shasel with 2 crisis bodyguard
1 battlesuits i think
10 firewarriors
10 firewarriors
5 pathfinders
3 broadsides


I was using a borrowed army last time with no AP1 or 2 or 3 really, this time I am using a few units from the dark vengeance set plus a few ive picked up, only reason i am using the commander with jp is I have that model I also have a couple of chaplins librarians (power armour) or company master I could use?.

Is extra armour on the dread worth it?, just 2 scoring units ok? I am hoping for a gun line approach and for my commanded to bog down his commander and kill him (hence the 2+ save to protect against plasma) his broadsides will be my first target with that much firepower i should be able to wittle them down

opinions? what have i missed or what could i do better? only my second game since started playing again so want to put up a fight

bat rep will follow

thanks


mark

Hi.

I was going to suggest giving the Captain Terminator armour so that it would look more fitting putting him in the Terminator squad, but if you don't have the model you don't have the model, it'll be fine.

On the extra armour front I would say no, simply because your opponent's more immediate threats are going to be the Terminators and possibly the Stormtalon and Razorbacks, plus if you put them in cover you're unlikely to be stunned.

I personally normally like to take at least 3 scoring units, but then none of my armies can combat squad, so you have the potential to become 4 scoring units. It should be fine but as I don't play standard Space Marines it'll be interesting to see how it goes.

Hope this is useful.

Very good point! exactly why I asked on here as I forgot about combat tactics and didnt know they both become scoring so thats the plasma cannon left in one squad and plasma gun and sarg in the other during the game

Well no bat rep, but my tanks got blown to smitheriens by the 2nd turn really, dreads followed quickly after and I was left with little troops and i didnt make much of a dent in his army, thats what I get for trying to outshoot the tau eh, my opponent was blessed with awesome rolling for penertrated tanks, pretty much 6 on each roll!

That game hurt!

Yeah, when you're first getting back into 40k it can take a while to get used to the game again. Especially when you're running a new army.