After making good progress with painting as I mentioned previously, I decided to re-jig my army list for blog wars X to reflect this progress and make the army a little bit more competitive.
Old List
HQ - Sanguinary Priest with Jump Pack, Veritas Vitae and Valour's Edge (I actually have to check Alex's ruling on taking two relics... Valour's Edge will get the boot if it isn't allowed)
Elites - 2 x units of 13 Death Company. 2 x power fist, 2 x thunder hammer, 2 x power sword, 2 x hand flamer, 2 x infernus pistol, 4 x bolters, 5 x bolt pistol and 7 x chainsword.
Elites - Lemartes, Guardian of the Lost
Troops - Cassor the Damned
Troops - Raphen's Death Company
Fast Attack - Drop pod with Deathwind Missile Launcher
Heavy Support - Storm Raven Gun Ship with Twin linked lascannon, Typhoon missile launcher, 4 x stormstrike missiles, searchlight and extra armour.
New List
The main differences are in the composition of the Death Company squads, taking advantage that the Baal Strike force detachment lets you have an additional elite slot and spreading my eggs between more baskets! Here is how my squads will look like now.
Elite - 9 x Death Company with 1 x power fist, 1 x thunder hammer, 1 x power sword, 1 x hand flamer, 2 x infernus pistol, 2 x bolters and 4 x bolt pistols
Elite - 9 x Death Company with 1 x power fist, 1 x thunder hammer, 1 x power sword, 2 x hand flamer, 1 x infernus pistol, 2 x bolters and 4 x bolt pistols
Elite - 8 x Death Company with 1 x power fist, 1 x thunder hammer, 1 x power sword, 1 x hand flamer, 1 x infernus pistol, 2 x bolters and 4 x bolt pistols
This gives me an extra unit that has the ability to move fast and claim objectives as needed. This has the same overall models as the previous list but has a power fist, thunder hammer and power sword less altogether. The points not having these weapons freed up allowed me to add an additional sanguinary priest as follows:
HQ - Sanguinary Priest, jump pack and additional weapon (bolt pistol).
This gives me 2 x sanguinary priests and Lemartes to lead each of these squads! This means two of the death company squads will be charging at initiative 5 and swinging at WS5 because of the blood chalice. Whilst Lemartes squad will charge at initiative 5 and get re-rolls to hit because of zealot.
This will also all be at strength 5 for the chain swords and power sword due to furious charge and strength 9 for the power fist and thunder hammers.
Anyway, any thoughts on the new list? I definitely think its a stronger list and am getting quite excited for the tournament now, least of all as I will get to meet to of you fine people from the blogosphere :)
Peace out,
Rob
New List
The main differences are in the composition of the Death Company squads, taking advantage that the Baal Strike force detachment lets you have an additional elite slot and spreading my eggs between more baskets! Here is how my squads will look like now.
Elite - 9 x Death Company with 1 x power fist, 1 x thunder hammer, 1 x power sword, 1 x hand flamer, 2 x infernus pistol, 2 x bolters and 4 x bolt pistols
Elite - 9 x Death Company with 1 x power fist, 1 x thunder hammer, 1 x power sword, 2 x hand flamer, 1 x infernus pistol, 2 x bolters and 4 x bolt pistols
Elite - 8 x Death Company with 1 x power fist, 1 x thunder hammer, 1 x power sword, 1 x hand flamer, 1 x infernus pistol, 2 x bolters and 4 x bolt pistols
This gives me an extra unit that has the ability to move fast and claim objectives as needed. This has the same overall models as the previous list but has a power fist, thunder hammer and power sword less altogether. The points not having these weapons freed up allowed me to add an additional sanguinary priest as follows:
HQ - Sanguinary Priest, jump pack and additional weapon (bolt pistol).
This gives me 2 x sanguinary priests and Lemartes to lead each of these squads! This means two of the death company squads will be charging at initiative 5 and swinging at WS5 because of the blood chalice. Whilst Lemartes squad will charge at initiative 5 and get re-rolls to hit because of zealot.
This will also all be at strength 5 for the chain swords and power sword due to furious charge and strength 9 for the power fist and thunder hammers.
Anyway, any thoughts on the new list? I definitely think its a stronger list and am getting quite excited for the tournament now, least of all as I will get to meet to of you fine people from the blogosphere :)
Peace out,
Rob
I think its a good change. More units means more targets for the enemy and more chance to score objectives in maelstrom missions.
ReplyDeleteDo you have any points left for Meltabombs? You have a lot of power fists and thunder hammers, but may struggle against high AV vehicles (you will still need 5's to wound AV13, so some Dreadnoughts could tie down and slowly slaughter your death company units). I like a liberal sprinkling of meltabombs in an army to take on any drop pods, dreads or land raiders I may come across.
I don't unfortunately, I'm relying rather heavily on me getting the charges off after some infernus pistol shots which are melta. If I get the charge off I will be glancing AV13 on 4's due to furious charge putting the thunder hammer and power fist up to S9 which at WS5 or re-rolling to hit should give me a fair chance of smashing it.
DeleteSomething to think about in future lists though!
I assume all your Death Company's have jump packs?
ReplyDeleteHaha aye they do! Confused me for a moment there as I forgot you can take them without jump packs (perish the thought). I like my mad men bouncing and frothing through the air thank you very much :P
DeleteLooking good. I definitely prefer the more spread out version.
ReplyDeleteAlso, now you could just swap one of the Relics over to the other Priest and avoid the multiple Relics issue entirely.
You know I thought about that just the night before your comment and gave myself a bollocking for not doing that. Fortunately Alex at From the Fang running it was fine with this combination ad the veritas vitae specifically states it doesn't replace a weapon and the relic limit says one weapon may be swapped. So all is well, but if I use the two priests in future lists I will split the relics between them.
DeleteTerrifying. 30 screaming blood angels running right at you. Terrifying. Good work :)
ReplyDeleteThanks man! I hope they bring me at least 1 victory :)
DeleteHi rob list sounds cool, I'll be travelling from Bristol to attend this as well with my space wolves drop pod list!
ReplyDeleteHey Bluffreggie! Dragontree from Vanguard forum :) Look forward to seeing you and your wolves there!
DeleteGreat day out really enjoyed it bar game two!
ReplyDeleteGreat day out really enjoyed it bar game two!
ReplyDeleteHaha yes it was good fun! Shame about your game two mind. looking forward to Vanquish next!
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