themrsleepy wrote:The biggest difference between your list and mine is initiative strike. I think that mine are survivable enough in a 1500 to last till I1. But you HQ's really are actually more expensive. I think that the one squad will have a higher survivability because of wound allocation than two seperate squads. Do you have another reason for splitting them apart? And whats the reason for the weapon changes on a model with belt of russ? And yes saga of the warrior born looks awesome... contemplating on dropping something to add that. Oh and I didn't take saga of the bear because I took the fenrisian wolves. I figured I would sluff off the wounds to them that would cause instant death, at least from shooting attacks. By the time I get to combat I figure I'll only have a wound or two left from shooting, so eternal warrior won't be too big of a deal.

Unholy martyr, I'm not understanding on how you are creating a second cavalry unit?

themrsleepy wrote:All my Hq's do have 'different gear'. They just can't have the exact same gear. The dex says same gear combination, so add in something or take one little thing away and tada! The frost axe striking at I is the difference, all of mine are powerfists or TH. As for the troops I will probably take rhinos instead of drop pods for a while during play testing as I don't have any drop pods yet. The point of the first drop pod is to help deny movement lanes, making it more difficult for the opponent to run away and split up. I realize that a skilled player will see this and be able to counteract it, but not everyone is skilled. How would a triple vindicator list hurt this so bad? With the wound allocation and each HQ having it s own pups to sluff wounds off onto, enough should survive to get into combat. Splitting off the Hqs to target seperate things is part of the plan. I don't plan on leaving it as one squad for the entire game, just until they get some cans open and make things a lot more squishy. The drop pod list, first pod comes in empty with the troops in reserve. Troops might be squishy but what are you going to have to shoot at them when the thunderwolves get there? That's the theory behind the list. As for tactially deciding what gets tied down and what gets killed, well I always hope to kill it all lol, but that's just tactics for you and not something you can properly prepare for until the game unless you know exactly what your opponent is bringing. I see the downfalls you guys are saying, every list has downfalls, my question is does this list have the components necessary to outweigh them?