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Is there anything particularly useful?
Load up on plasma, a particular vehicle or something else?
I'm going up against world eaters soon and am looking for ideas.

Large units of conscripts with first rank fire second rank fire will kill space marines just from the sheer number of shots.

The same stuff all the IG lists used to run BAO and most other tournaments before it.

Basilisks, Conscripts, Scions, Heavy Weapon Teams and maybe a Taurox or Manticore or four.

IG lists of that nature took 1st, 2nd AND 3rd at BAO.

 usernamesareannoying wrote:
Is there anything particularly useful?
Load up on plasma, a particular vehicle or something else?
I'm going up against world eaters soon and am looking for ideas.

Plasma works good against marines, especially on BS3+ scions or veterans. If you've got Scions, HSVG also does very well against Marines. HSVG are 4 shots S4 Ap-2 at 24". You can bring 4 in a full squad of scions, and reroll 1s with a Tempestor Prime supporting you. That's an average 13 hits, and 7 wounds at -2 to their save. Pretty good for 18 points a dude. I like them in a full squad of scions to use them as extra wounds, and they hit pretty hard also.

You can also get surprising results with sheer volume of fire. A full squad of 3 Mortars do average .75 wounds to Meq. But they only cost 27 points and they have indirect fire. Load up 4 full squads and you'll see veins start to pop out of your Marine opponents forehead as you roll 36 dice a turn, no matter where he hides, all for 108 points. Sometimes lady luck will be in your favor and he'll roll a bunch of 1s, but even straight odds you'll usually make your points back in two turns.

Taurox Prime does good work as well. Load it up with the Gatling cannon, 2 HSVGs, and a Stormbolter. At 24" you're laying down 22 (24 at 12") S4 shots and 8 S4 -2AP shots, for 98 points. Oh, and they're BS3+. Your opponents will learn to make these a priority target though so watch out.

My strategy for guard so far has been to bring a lot of units that can all do work. It probably wouldn't get me far in a tournament, but its fun and usually successful. My opponent never has any single thing he should be focusing his attention on, which means he's left making hard choices.

Thanks guys, this is all kind of what i figured.
I didn't think the hsvg stood up to plasma?

I have about 6 russ I'm trying to figure out what to do with too.

Is there a particularly good variant to go with?
I wouldn't even mind converting them into a chimera variant if something there stands out.

HSVG are good, they're just not as good as plasma in most cases. HSVG are great for killing the type of target you inquired about, 3+ MEQ, so they have a role. Plasma is universally useful so often overshadows the other choices.

As for Russes, I think they're mostly crap so far. The random damage output is annoying for such an expensive tank. I've run all of the variants and the only ones I still use, on ocassion, are the punisher and demolisher. I prefer infantry and artillery though.

which artillery?
i could see converting the russ into a basilisk or manticore variant pretty easily.

i think that i may try out some mortars too.
i like to roll buckets of dice

 usernamesareannoying wrote:
which artillery?
i could see converting the russ into a basilisk or manticore variant pretty easily.

i think that i may try out some mortars too.
i like to roll buckets of dice

Right now basilisks are good but Manticores are king.

I hate it, but LR tanks seem to be garbage. I don't play competitive, so I'll probably field them anyway but I won't expect much.

now i just need to find some cheap missiles

 usernamesareannoying wrote:
Thanks guys, this is all kind of what i figured.
I didn't think the hsvg stood up to plasma?

I have about 6 russ I'm trying to figure out what to do with too.

Is there a particularly good variant to go with?
I wouldn't even mind converting them into a chimera variant if something there stands out.

Plasma is better if you drop within 12". But then you're 12 inches away from marines, so I hope you killed them all....

HSVG does good work from 24" away. It depends on your tactics.