http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/14.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net MEQ army fielding LR/5x termie with Pedro, 2 vindicators, 2 rhinos/5x squads and a 6 man something other. (sorry all meqs look alike and can carry every absurb weapon/round so why they even have different models is beyond me, I digress)

Anyhow I got a draw on a kill point game

So this slap together job seemed to do well but I was hoping for comments and suggestions.

Btw the 3x Spear with exarch popped the LR first round.

TOTAL 1498
HQ
Farseer Runes of Warding
Fortune
Mind war

Avatar of Khaine

Troops

Guardians(x10) EML

Guardians(x10) EML

Dire Avengers(x10) Exarch bladestorm

Dire Avengers(x10) Exarch bladestorm

Heavy Support

Wraithlord EML/Wraithsword

Wraithlord EML/BL

Wraithlord EML/BL

Fast Attack

Warp Spiders (x5) Exarch Surprise Assault

Shining Spear(x3) Exarch
withdraw
shuriken cannon
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A few glaring issues are present though. While you look scary in hand to hand, if a couple of power fists make it into your lines backed with numbers, you are going to have a problem. While all your hand to hand power will squash a few things into paste every round, you don't have the sheer number of attacks necessary to make your lines hold against a dedicated assault army.

Related to this, the shining spears are very out of place in your force. They are a hand to hand unit with small numbers and a lot of mobility where as the rest of your army is dedicated to slow foot slogging advance. This not only seems out of place but is probably eating up points that could be better spent elsewhere. In place of the shining spears, I would recommend taking some harlequins. They are impossible to shoot at from long range and at the same time, they could be running in front of your lead units and providing them with a cover save. Once the enemy starts getting close, you could just have the quins move back behind your lines and wait for the enemy to charge you (or you can charge them if it looks like that's the best way to do things). At that point, you can pile the quins into the combat to finish off whatever unit was foolish enough to get that close to you.

Finally, you have a farseer with 2 psy powers but you didn't give him spirit stones. This means that he can only ever use one power per turn and the other will just be going to waste. You should either buy him spirit stones so he can use both powers every turn or drop one of the powers. Another consideration for your farseer: while picking off incoming powerfists is going to be important for this army, you may want to consider ditching mind war in favor of doom. Since you will be doing a lot of fighting at close quarters and with large numbers of shots/attacks, wounding 50% (or so) more often is a huge bonus...think about it.
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Pie plates and what not are no exception to this. In order to fire a template, you must place the template with the hole over the base of a model. That model is the target of the template weapon. If that model is a harlequin in a squad with a shadow seer, the firing squad has to roll for sight distance just like firing a direct fire weapon. Now what someone could do with a template weapon is shoot a squad that's near the quins and hope that the blast scatters into them. There is nothing that stops this from happening, so just keep the quins 3"-4" away from your other units and you should be fine.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226880/516131.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/226880/516131.page GMT