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I recently bought a SM Sternguard Vet kit for my fledgling Imperial Fists army and I've got a couple questions in regards to kitting them out
1.) Am I supposed to running full sets of 5 combi weapons when Im drop podding them?
2.)Can the Combi-Bolters fire the special Sternguard ammunition? (This may be a dumb question)
3.) If the answer to #2 is Yes , is there any reason for being to magnetize the Regular bolters for my Combi weapon SGV?
4.) Heavy flamer Y/N?
5.)What should my Sargs kit be looking like for drop podding tactics?
Thanks in Advance

Combi-bolters do indeed fire special ammo, but not stormbolters.

If you can magnetize, I would.

I don't like the heavy flamer, because I can already ignore cover with my ammo.

I don't like podding sternguards, as I like them to live and be mobile for more than one round.

Yeah, it is pretty stupid that Stormbolters don't get Special Ammo.
I also agree on the Heavy Flamer being a bad idea. LotD do that whole thing better.

That said, I actually prefer Pods because I run them out of the Vanilla codex, and as a result I can throw them in the back whilst Biker troops and Scouts advance.

Awesome,Very direct. Thanks!

It helps that BA Rhinos cover 24" in one turn. I just really hate putting them in harms way. They aren't worth throwing away as a melta delivery vehicles anymore, that's for sure. Poison is $$ vs most MCs.

That's true. Fast Rhinos aren't worth the Blood Angels tax though.

It's too bad they can't get a Storm land speeder. That would be awesome.

Martel732 wrote:
It's too bad they can't get a Storm land speeder. That would be awesome.

that would be the dream! until they get blown up that one time and you curse the speeder to hell haha

Who cares? Meqs are great at surviving wrecks. They aren't good at anything else in 7th, but they are still good at surviving wrecks.

Hi all continuing this tread

Sternguard viabile builds please

Either 6 guys in razorbavk

Or 6+ in a pod

Got the no heavy flamer above, should they saturate one combi type ie 6x combi grav?

Will be used in tournament settings so cannot choose loads for the opponent.

Edit correcting spelling..

I’m actually quite fond of the HF. It’s the only thing I think is worth getting rid of the special ammo for. It works very well at the range SG tend to operate, and wants to shoot at the same sort of things as the special ammo. Plus wall of death for when you get charged.

If you are going with combis, go big, and go pod. You need to maximize the alpha strike, so don’t mess around. Think about the target to want to kill, and how much firepower you will need. For melta, this is going to be 4-5 shots. You should probably keep them all the same unless you are a full 10 man squad and plan to CS out of the pod to take down two targets.

My personal preference is 9-10 guys in a pod, 2xHF. It’s not a bad spot to stick a HQ.

Sternguards are great in casual / semi competitive games, with the special ammos, they are tool box unit to handle most threat.
My general built would be always a 10men squad (8 or 9 if planning to stick a aritificer armor captain or Terminator Librarian with them), depending on the opponent expecting, with either 2 HF, 8 stock bolters, or 2-3 combi plasma and rest arming stock bolters or just all stock bolters. Former used against horde army like non monstrous Nids, Orks, IG blob and even Tau, later used against other MEQ / TEQ, general MCs.