<![CDATA[Latest posts for the thread "Black Templars: how viable is the drop pod assault?"]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/69.page JForum - http://www.jforum.net Black Templars: how viable is the drop pod assault? IC with it.

So is this an alright tactic? Or am I going to get cut to pieces and should stick with MSU and one counter charge Crusader squad?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/488966/4979570.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/488966/4979570.page GMT Black Templars: how viable is the drop pod assault? IC. Whatever unit comes in generally gets shot to pieces before it can assault the following turn. A dreadnought is more fun to drop than a crusader squad, I've found.

I've had more success using the drop pods mid field and rushing my rhinos forward to support them, attempting to cut the table in half and create a fire zone. Black Templars can shoot very well with 5-man terminators squads sporting 2xCyclone missile Launchers or Assault Cannons with Tank Hunters.

It's the Righteous Zeal that's the problem, now. Being force to move the full 6" toward the nearest unit will pull you out from behind cover and into precarious positions.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/488966/4980025.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/488966/4980025.page GMT Black Templars: how viable is the drop pod assault? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/488966/4980182.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/488966/4980182.page GMT Black Templars: how viable is the drop pod assault?
I doubt that place is with CC-oriented Crusader squads, though; the great strength of the Crusader squad is the numbers and cheap extra Neophytes to catch bullets you can bring, limiting them to a squad that would fit in a Drop Pod seems counter-indicated.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/488966/4980732.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/488966/4980732.page GMT Black Templars: how viable is the drop pod assault? OT, how does the BT codex fair in 6th ed ?]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/488966/4980778.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/488966/4980778.page GMT Re:Black Templars: how viable is the drop pod assault? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/488966/4982362.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/488966/4982362.page GMT Black Templars: how viable is the drop pod assault? CMLs dropping accurately on turn 1 was just pure awesomeness! With the latest update we can't do that anymore so as mentioned above the drop-pod assault isn't very useful for BTs.

To answer mayfist's question, I've done relatively well with a Terminator-heavy (2 tank-hunting terminator squads and 1 assault terminator squad) list and MSU of initiates; no vehicles whatsoever (until I get a Mortis Contemptor), and 2 ADLs with quad-guns (via dual FOC).

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