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Kirasu:

I didn't say I didn't want Fast vehicles: Fast vehicles are great, particularly stuff like Predators. However that extra 15pts adds up. Each Marine is ~15 points. So converting a Space Marine force to a Blood Angels force gives you -1 Marine per Rhino. Each Sanguinary Priest gives you -3 Marines. Eventually you're down a squad or two to give conditional bonuses to your army. That's why I'm not a fan of Plague Marines: Sure they're good against small arms fire, but they pay extra points for effectiveness against stuff like Battle Cannons, Plasma Cannons, and so on that they gain no benefit against, and which is good anti-marine weaponry to begin with. 50% tougher against small arms, but less resistant overall with fewer wounds.

The majority of the weapons in the game may be S3-5, but the weapons that do the damage to Space Marines are usually the weapons that ignore Feel No Pain as well. Stick one in Terminator Armour, for the cost of another two Space Marines, and attach him to an Assault Terminator squad with Thunder Hammers and Storm Shields and you have something evil though.

I think one approach will be just to leave the Sanguinary Priest in a transport, and use its hull to both protect him, and cast his net far and wide.

coem on you are a choas player. We have the daemons , scary spikey stuff and undead people . They should be scared of us

Nurglitch wrote:Mellon:

Maybe swallow them whole with Molochs? Feel No Pain doesn't work against AP2, and S6 wounds on 2+. Or ambush them with Lictors, who can attack them instead of the unit they accompany.

Remember that Feel No Pain isn't going to do anything against Monstrous Creatures, AP2-, Pyrovores, and Bone Swords, and Furious Charge on works if you...charge.

Yeah, I'm quite content that I'll be able to kill them, I just lack ways to do it reliably before turn three, and it's rather likely they get to assault me before then because of all the transports and the aggressive styles of both our armies. But in general I'm not too worried about the BA. I think the tyranids will be a good matchup for them and I think the BA will decrease the effectivity of gunline armies a bit, wich is nice for nids in the meta.