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Greetings Dakka!
I've picked up the B@C box (like many people on this particular forum), and am busy figuring out how to kit them out, so I have a few questions for those battle harder veterans.

My very rough list is the two HQs from the box as they are, the terminators, two apothecaries, two twenty man tactical squads and a heavy support squad all with missile launchers, but I'm still debating the details. I'm going for about 1,500pts to start with.

- Are 20-man tactical blobs with apothecaries actually any good? Because a big swarm of marines looks damn cool
- Would it be worth taking the Reaping and having my heavy squad sit on a back-field objective?
- How would you suggest kitting out the dreadnought?
- How easy is it to head-swap the preator? I really hate painting skin

Thank you very much

20 man blobs with an apothecary are seriously tough to move.

I don't know anything about the reaping so can't advise there

Twin kheres for the contemptor

It's very easy getting a helmet to fit can be a bugger though, I've turned the praetor into a primus medicae

Use the reaping. those extra heavy support slots are amazing. I generally run 3 20 man tac squads with apothicaries and then fill remaining troop slots with lascannon devs or missil devs. attach Durak Rask to one of those squads for tank hunter and you're set.
then use my heavy slots for tanks. essentially getting move through cover on tac squads is amazing. i also run morty so they become fearless aswell.

always always kheres on contemptors.

the head is an easy swap. a bit out of scale with some armor marks but hardly noticeable.

I can verify the reaping is amazing. I too run multiple 20 man tactical blobs with apothecaries along with several heavy support squads. One thing this thread has overlooked is the ability of ANY character to take rad grenades when you take the reaping. This can be huge. I often will take the extra CCW or despoiler squads with the reaping to take advantage of that rad grenade goodness. 40+ attacks with -1T is going to do some damage.