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So I've always ran the ravenwing for forever. I've been through the days where they were worse than normal marine bikers, I've been through banner of devastation days, and now we come to the newest version of the ravens. Since Games Workshops great wording of you may take up to 3 HQ's and all units in a Ravenwing Force Org must have the Ravenwing special rule (IE Sammael is the only valid HQ outside ITC ruling). Well my FLGS doesn't use ITC rulings and won't allow me to stick a librarian in my Ravenwing Strike Force. I was considering doing a White Scar chapter Tactic librarius conclave as an ally with 3 guys on bikes. basically we play at 2k for most tournaments and my normal list consists of 6 squads of x6 Ravenwing bikes, 2 of which have attached attack bikes. 4 squads have 2x melta, 2 squads have 2x melta and attack bikes with MM. 2x Dark Talons, 2x Dark Shrouds, and Sammael with librarian. Since i can't include the libby, I was considering dropping one squad of bikes and picking up the 3 librarians. This would give me the benefit of 4/5 of my squads having skilled rider from the attached librarians / Sammael and Stealth due to the shrouds, IE 2+ cover galore on jinking. I normally play against a wolf star and tau at tournaments, along with necrons.

Tau I've never had to much issues with due to dark shrouds not allowing overwatch and just turbo boost first round to almost melee with them. The wolf star is basically a guarenteed invisibility star which the bikes just run away from constantly jinking from any other guns and pick away at it since I'm stuck snap firing anyways.

I was curious if this was the correct answer to my issues, or should i go with a cullexus in a drop pod for my anti wolf star needs?

If they are using ITC rulings. run the white scar conclave and abuse Invisibility.

When they rage at you tell them you will stop when they let you play your Ravenwing as they were obviously meant to be played.

Alternatively, there is an email floating around from GW saying that you can run a chappy or libby for the RSF but they don't get the ravenwing rule. You could show them that.

I'll look for that email since that would make me happy. I hate abusing the stupid conclave for the invisibility / 2+ rerollable cover saves for most my army junk.