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Going for a DOA theme. SO! RULES!: No tanks, no Tacticals, everything must take a jump pack if it can.


HQ:
Reclusiarch w/ Jump Pack, Plasma pistol ... 170

ELITES:

Sanguinary Priests (2) w/ Power Swords, Jump Packs ... 180

TROOPS:

Assault Squad 1 w/ Powerfist, Meltaguns (2) ... 235

Assault Squad 2 w/ Powerfist, Meltaguns (2) ... 235

Death Company (15) w/ Jump Packs, 2 Power Weapons, 2 Power fists, Thunder Hammer, Hand Flamer, Plasma Pistol ... 660

Demdiddydizzy wrote:Going for a DOA theme. SO! RULES!: No tanks, no Tacticals, everything must take a jump pack if it can.


HQ:
Reclusiarch w/ Jump Pack, Plasma pistol ... 170

ELITES:

Sanguinary Priests (2) w/ Power Swords, Jump Packs ... 180

TROOPS:

Assault Squad 1 w/ Powerfist, Meltaguns (2) ... 235

Assault Squad 2 w/ Powerfist, Meltaguns (2) ... 235

Death Company (15) w/ Jump Packs, 2 Power Weapons, 2 Power fists, Thunder Hammer, Hand Flamer, Plasma Pistol ... 660

scrap pistols on the dc and just give them power fists insted

i think the death company are way too many points, i can imagine a smart player will just kite them with a fast vehicle and make them pretty useless due to rage. i would cut the points down for them to fit in another assault squad and maybe a librarian. with the assault squad and librarian that would leave you with 300 points for death company to configure how you choose. either that or take vanguard vets, just my opinion

As had been said in the other thread, I'd lower the DC counts. Also 1 PF on them is fine, drop the other and Thunderhammer. Use the Assault squads to tank hunt...get a 3rd unit if you can.

@cmjs123 - Yeah, starting to see some flaws with them. Maybe cut em down to 7-8? Maybe a Lib.

@ Reps0I - Hm, well I was going to maybe grab a SR (if it fits with the DOA theme), to rush the DC around. I could use it to tankhunt. And I was also gonna consider Devs as an option

If you get the Storm Raven are you keeping the DC Jump Packs as well? It's cool you are trying to make a DC-centric list, but paying for the JPs and a Stormraven for them is a lot of eggs in a fragile basket.

Put the DC in a Raven, you get some more firepower and some help with the rage. IIRC the points cost is about the same as all those JP too.

It's a fun list, I've played similar and it's hit or miss

Demdiddydizzy wrote:@cmjs123 - Yeah, starting to see some flaws with them. Maybe cut em down to 7-8? Maybe a Lib.

yeah thats probably a much better idea, i think when it comes to death company more bodies is better than tooled up squads, however you dont want to have a huge unit of them, try and use them to tie up their vital units as death company seem to just stay put against most odds.

How about this for a set up guys?

I added the Death Company Dreadnought, mostly for extra killy, and because I love Dreadnoughts. I try to include one in every army I get.

Now... What to do with 65 remaining points?

HQ:

Reclusiarch w/ Jump Pack, Plasma pistol ... 170

ELITES:

Sanguinary Priests (2) w/ Jump Packs, Power swords ... 180

TROOPS:

Death Company (6) w/ Jump Packs, Power Weapon, Plasma pistol, Power fist ... 265

Death Company Dreadnought w/ Heavy Flamer ... 135

Assault Squad (10) w/ 2 Meltaguns, Powerfist, Plasma Pistol ... 250

Assault Squad (10) w/ 2 Meltaguns, Powerfist ... 235

HEAVY SUPPORT:

Storm Raven w/ Multi-Melta ... 200

lose the plasma pistol on the assault marine sergeant and chaplainl, and get 5 scouts with snipers and camo cloaks for holding an objective in cover. (go to ground for a 2+ save)

Ergh, Scouts? Is it really worth that?

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssssssssss.

It just seems like that scouts in small numbers wouldn't do much. Not much at all at least.

they are there to hold an objective inside terrain. that way your assault squads can focus on taking out the enemy and taking/ contesting enemy objectives

That sounds... Actually reasonable. Hm. I'll try it.

Properly kitted, a scout sniper squad costs 100 points. That 100 points can get a 2+ (4+ base, +1 camo cloaks, +1 gone to ground) cover save and sit on an objective while popping off missiles and sniper rounds at anything that tries to come by and contest it. For 100 points? That's pretty much amazing.

I don't think I have 100pts laying around, but I'm sure I can arm a sniper squad with cloaks.

Missile Launcher on Scouts is optional...you just need a minimum of 90 pts for Scouts with Sniper Rifles and Camo Cloaks. You have 65 pts already...dump a combination of the plasma pistl and PW (from Priests) to make up the points.

But as everyone has stated, it's a cheap unit (and survivable unit) to sit back on an objective at your end. Enables your other units to just worry about hacking up dudes on the other side of the table.

Scouts are great babysitters. They won't do much to affect the actual game other than securing that one objective for you and holding it.

I'm not sure if I'm willing to remove the PW's. The Heavy flamer from the DC dread and the two plasma pistols will be enough points for the scouts. Maybe even enough extra for a missile. So, is going to ground done in the movement phase? I've never used it before. I've used scouts before, but I never thought of going to ground.

EDIT: Yeah, I have enough points for it if I do that. Even enough to get the missile and throw meltabombs on a squad!