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Hi all,
Working on building and painting a Deathwing army and was looking for some feedback. It's for a group of casual gamers and is by no means needing to win tournies. There's little to no aircraft in the group for some reason which is why there's no anti-air in the list. It was built more for fluff and wanna have a fun in your face army to play. Any and all thoughts and feedback welcome.

Belial: 190 Points
Deathwing Command Squad: 315 Points
- Deathwing Company Banner
- Deathwing Champion
- Apothecary
- Plasma Cannon
Deathwing Terminators: 377 Points
- 3x Thunder Hammer Storm Shield Terminators
- Plasma Cannon
- 3x Chainfists
Deathwing Terminators: 255 Points
- Cyclone Missile Launcher
- 2x Chainfists
Deathwing Knight Terminators: 235 Points
Hand to Hand Contemptor Dreadnought (Forgeworld): 185 Points
Hand to Hand Contemptor Dreadnought (Forgeworld): 185 Points

1747 Points Total

The armies in the group are:
Orks - spams bikers, koptas, cans, and nobs
Blood Angels - spams anything armor and death company, uses storm talons and storm raven
Necrons - new player that changes his list constantly, one flyer and lots of troops, c'tan is his staple
Chaos - changes lists and doesn't know how to play it, berserkers and abbadon are his staple, has helldrake
Tyranids - uses swarms, but may have quit due to a loss I handed him with my Raven Guard
Necrons - warrior spam
Eldar - mixture of all units, eldrad, avatar, pathfinders, fire prisms, guardians

If one of em field some aircraft I could sub out the 3 TH/SS Termies with an ADL with quadgun. Any thoughts of who I should really worry about in this group and why?

Looks like a fun list! I'm assuming the five chainfists are there to fill out spare points?

With the new FAQ an all DW assault on turn one is now illegal for sure, you'll have to have boots on the board. You have a total of 7 units (characters count separately, even attached to a squad) so that means 3 units on the board...

I would drop the Knights since they don't score, get a small unit of devastators all MLs and the ADL/quad-gun and I would swap both Contemptors for the Mortis-Pattern instead for fire support and extra AA.

Just my 2 cents.

Have fun.

 Verthane wrote:
Looks like a fun list! I'm assuming the five chainfists are there to fill out spare points?

Yep yep. Had 25 points left over and figured why not. It's either that or an ADL for added cover.


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 phoenix darkus wrote:
With the new FAQ an all DW assault on turn one is now illegal for sure, you'll have to have boots on the board. You have a total of 7 units (characters count separately, even attached to a squad) so that means 3 units on the board...

I would drop the Knights since they don't score, get a small unit of devastators all MLs and the ADL/quad-gun and I would swap both Contemptors for the Mortis-Pattern instead for fire support and extra AA.

Just my 2 cents.

Have fun.

I may not use the devs as I'm trying to stay all DW for fluff and full on termie spam. The mortis contemptors are awesome. I have one for my Raven Guard and he's a beast for anti-air. I may consider that option for sure with both sporting TL/ACs and MLs if points allow. After all the aircraft is down they'd be good for light vehicles as well. Thanks for the input.

looks good is there at least a sarg with TH,SS in ech squad to soak up low ap and do look out sir goodies?

 Lovechunks wrote:
looks good is there at least a sarg with TH,SS in ech squad to soak up low ap and do look out sir goodies?

In another thread I read according to the codex and the FAQ, you can't swap out the sarg's sword and SB for the TH/SS. It's probably unanimous in thinking that GW screwed that up. My games are all friendly and probably could if I wanted and could show where the points were spent on the upgrades. I agree that it's a great idea to run him in that configuration up front.

true that you can still take a normal termi with th.ss to stand up front and soak up wounds as he would have a deffernt load out of gear