Thunderdome (SW & Dark Angels) in Maelstrom

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**iddy00711**

Hey, I'm trying to come up with a good Space wolf, Lib. Conclave, Dark Angel death star list which will do well at Malestrom.

Having gone through some of the top lists ( Aaron Aielong, Steve Sisk etc) I still can't figure out how they do so well in mixed Male/ Eternal war missions?

**Slayer-Fan123**

Do you have links for those lists? I don't have them memorized off the top of my head. I might be able to give a reasonable explanation for you.

**Lord Commissar**

They do well in Maelstrom because you can break a piece of the deathstar off, say a 2+ rerollable jink save dark angel guy, who can then boost on the objective.

**jy2**

Use Ravenwing Land Speeders as your scoring units for Maelstrom objectives. They are fast, dirt-cheap and pretty darn survivable with 4+ re-rollable jink saves.

**Silverthorne**

jy2 wrote:
Use Ravenwing Land Speeders as your scoring units for Maelstrom objectives. They are fast, dirt-cheap and pretty darn survivable with 4+ re-rollable jink saves.

Yes. And the fireball build can smash up xenos real bad for less than a naked combat squad of tacs.

**jy2**

Didn't you know that Ravenwing is the new cheese?

**iddy00711**

Cheers. But still it seems like an easy army to counter, as soon as you spilt up the death star it's no where near as durable. Actually I really like Tasty taste 's no mercy list, a lot more 'balance' to it.

@slayer
http://bloodofkittens.com/blog/2015/09/09/tits-tournaments-nova-open-2015-top-16-lists/

**jy2**

TastyTaste's list is much, much different from Aaron and Steve's list. He is in essence running a mini-star and a more balanced list. However, his list will have trouble against armies that can ignore cover (i.e. Tau) as well as multiple Imperial Knights. Steve/Aaron's lists are intentionally extremely unbalanced lists designed to overwhelm most opponents. However, TastyTaste's list isn't what you can call a "Thunderdome" list.