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So im finding some common threads with the tournament BA lists, with one style of list in particular making some pretty serious waves. Here is the general idea.

Baal Strike Force or Flesh Tearers detachment

Dante

Priest with various wargear (usually angel's wing, sometimes valour's edge or veritas vitae)

8-10 sanguinary guard with 2 power fists and chapter banner

7-9 various drop pod units, usually with 3+ tri melta assault marine squads, the rest filled with a mix of sternguard, melta/flamer tac squads, or furioso dreadnoughts.

Allied Iron Hands detachment

Shield eternal chapter master on bike

Scout squad to fill minimum troop requirement.

Basically the list is just looking to put as many melta guns as possible in drop pods to crack problem targets like knights, wave serpents, land raiders, baneblades, etc, while using the sanguinary guard deathstar (from here on out known as BloodStar) to mop everything up.

Just theorycrafting a bit i can see that the strong matchups would include knights/adamantium lance, wave serpent spam, most tau list, any mechanized marine list, and thunderwolf deathstars. White scars would be a fairly neutral matchup, as would green tide. Flying circus, airforce lists, and centurionstar would almost undoubtedly be bad matchups.

It's an interesting idea. Nice to have 2 EW dudes in the unit assuming Smash Fether foes in the Bloodstar (I'm not sure this term will stick, but I'll go with it), although then he receives no benefit from his T5, but does gain 5+ FnP...hmmm.

I might try and write a list around this. Seems odd that our second HQ slot wouldn't be filled however.

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 evildrcheese wrote:
It's an interesting idea. Nice to have 2 EW dudes in the unit assuming Smash Fether foes in the Bloodstar (I'm not sure this term will stick, but I'll go with it), although then he receives no benefit from his T5, but does gain 5+ FnP...hmmm.

I might try and write a list around this. Seems odd that our second HQ slot wouldn't be filled however.

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Have a look at the list I posted a page or so back.

Hi all. I've been using a podded full 10 man tactical squad with a heavy flamer, flamer and a hand flamer and power weapon on the vet.
It's not done very much for me except die every game so far so I'm tempted to drop it completely. But i just love the unit itself and in the pod it scratches my fluffy itch.
Before i do does anyone have any suggestion's on what to do with it? ie change the load out, which i can do and/or squad size and try other role's? I see other's tend to use a melta-gun. Are they combat squadding or just popping off the odd melta shot and wasting the rest of the squad?

Think about putting your tacticals in a rhino or a razorback.

My go to with the last dex was a 5 man assault squad with a melta gun and a dual plas vet sergeant in a heavy bolter razorback.
Squad did excellent for me.
That was 160 pts.

For 175 in the current dex you can get 5 tactical marines with a plasma gun and a combi-plas on the serg in a las/plas razorback.

The trick is to use the razorback to screen other units as they're advancing, dump the tacticals so they can shoot at something, and then run around the board holding points.

This is the sort of squad that doesn't have to kill its point cost back to be 'worth it'

So i made the cut to the top 8 in the league at my LGS! The competition from here on out will be really tough though. Here are the armies at the top right now.

Note: both necron players are using the old codex, since the league started before the new book dropped.

White Scars bikes with Red Hunter bike allies
Blood Angels DoA with DanteStar (me)
Grey Knights double CAD dreadknight spam with imperial knight
Iron Hands trip mortis contemptors with imperial knight
Necron air force with double pylons
Necron barge spam with transcendent c'tan
Astra Militarium air force with imperial Knight
Orks with Green Tide formation

Top 8 is a single elimination tournament held next Saturday. Getting close to the end!

@Walnuts
Yeah I'm running that for one of my other troop's. I've been trying to avoid spamming but that seem's like the go to set-up for BA tactical squad's.

I would ideally like to keep 10 in a pod. I will clear that up.

Cheer's

 th3maninblak wrote:
So i made the cut to the top 8 in the league at my LGS! The competition from here on out will be really tough though. Here are the armies at the top right now.

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Top 8 is a single elimination tournament held next Saturday. Getting close to the end!

How did this go?