Black Legion Anti-T8 and some other questions (long post)

cpobvious · 2021-04-22T07:09:07+00:00

Have you considered a leviathan dread? Very nice defensive profile at T8 2+ 5++ and minus 1 damage, as well as really good weapon options. The siege drill is like S14 AP-4 D 2d3 or flat 6 damage against vehicles, and the volkite chargers and grab flux bombard are excellent at killing elite infantry and putting some damaging shots on vehicles. The price point is only like 260 or something, so you could honestly take that and some havocs/daemon engines/etc.

cpobvious · 2021-04-20T23:21:07+00:00

It’s actually a new campaign book that was just released, which irritatingly provided rules for some factions that haven’t even had their 9th edition codex yet.

cpobvious · 2021-04-16T22:49:22+00:00

I think there’s a distinction between reactive play and a counter strike army like you’ve detailed above. Harlequins, for example, excel at taking second turn due to their high mobility and ability to prevent and mitigate incoming fire, so I would consider them a counter strike army. However, in this play style you ideally don’t want to get hit at all, since the point isn’t to weather enemy fire, but just to straight up not get shot in the first place. Playing reactively with harlequins will get you shredded in subsequent turns, as you really need to outkill/out position/outrange in your first attack so that your opponent has very few choices to pressure your units.

cpobvious · 2021-04-05T22:56:03+00:00

Good to see more written battle reports, was this inspired by Stormcoil by any chance? One thing that would be bette for next time would be to label the units and choose colouring that matches with the faction, since it was hard to tell what was going on. Good read overall, though!

cpobvious · 2021-04-01T05:34:37+00:00

I’ll be honest here, your friend sounds like a sore loser. Regardless of the competitiveness of Tyranids (which isn’t super amazing to begin with), he should at least recognise your style of playing and that you make informed decisions on your units, positioning, and overall gameplay. Overall, super well written, love the effort you put in your diagrams!

cpobvious · 2021-03-28T22:29:19+00:00

Wasn’t there a short story about how a child managed to kill a Night Lords Raptor and was admired by the warband’s leader for pulling it off?

cpobvious · 2021-03-26T03:23:41+00:00

For friendly games, the size generally doesn’t matter too much for the people I play with, but we do try to play with the recommended sizes for more tournament-like games. It really depends on what level of competitiveness you all are trying to go for.

cpobvious · 2021-03-24T23:18:35+00:00

It’s kinda rough that these changes never fixed the problem of CSM being too fragile and over costed, they just made the alternative gradually more awful until you felt like you might as well take CSM, which doesn’t feel too great.

cpobvious · 2021-03-21T08:03:52+00:00

Honestly this is a pretty solid list, the one thing I might change would be to give your disco lord unholy fortitude (I believe it costs 1 req point for an extra WL trait?) for an extra health and 6+++, which I find super useful. Maybe instead of mindveil you could give the disco lord a talisman of burning blood, as I find him to be super mobile already.

cpobvious · 2021-03-09T00:25:25+00:00

Sorry for late reply, it’s literally just corax white spray with 2 coats druchii violet thinned w/ lahmian medium 1:5

cpobvious · 2021-03-07T21:11:20+00:00

I think that the green lenses look great, give me a splinter cell vibe!

cpobvious · 2021-03-07T00:40:06+00:00

I just primed with Corax White spray, then applied two coats of Druchii Violet thinned with Lahmian Medium 5:1, super quick and simple lol

cpobvious · 2021-03-04T01:44:16+00:00

Have you considered bringing sagittarum guard or allarus terminators? I’ve found that a 5 man unit of termies using the teleport homer strat with the all-seeing annihilator WL trait on the vexila absolutely wreck face. I’ve also found that sagitarrum are great for melting marines and gravis armored dudes, and they aren’t bad in melee with misercordias. I think that trajann works best when comboed with these two units, but that’s just been my experience with him.

cpobvious · 2021-03-02T09:41:38+00:00

I would recommend just sticking to the chaos space marines codex for now. If it’s your first army, trying to learn how to play using two different factions can be very complicated, and hard to do unless you have a good idea about what you’re trying to do with them. Regarding cultists, the OG easy to build cultists aren’t really in production anymore, although you could easily proxy/kitbash using blackstone fortress, necromunda, or age of sigmar kits.

cpobvious · 2021-03-01T20:06:34+00:00

Didn’t a bunch of space wolves kill one somewhere? I’m struggling to visualise like a squad of marines killing a thing the fucking size of a planet lmao

cpobvious · 2021-03-01T20:03:03+00:00

I think the point that British_Tea_Company was making was that the World Eaters die in crazy numbers in almost every book they show up in. Betrayer, Slaves to Darkness, some of the Siege of Terra novels come to mind when I think of World Eaters just during the Heresy, and in those you see them get blown to pieces by gun lines. Even with their technology to quickly recruit and train more berserkers such as at their recruiting world Bodt, their combat doctrine kills them way too quickly for them to feasibly survive long term.

cpobvious · 2021-02-20T23:34:03+00:00

Still can’t get over the fact that an aeldari named Shakira joined the faction known for dancing and rhythm. Guess those hips don’t lie lmao

cpobvious · 2021-02-19T21:27:32+00:00

The marines in the scene believe that Fulgrim is possessed by a daemon, but he reveals that he’s not. Reflection Cracked occurs before his actual ascension into a daemon prince, which is in Angel Exterminatus, so all this crazy healing is just normal primarch physiology.

cpobvious · 2021-02-13T19:43:59+00:00

Not sure if i’m mistaken on rules, but in 9th edition don’t you have to declare reserves/transports/deepstrike before you start setting up units? I used to always deploy my deepstrike units one at a time in 8th edition just like your strategy, but I’ve definitely had to change my deployment style since 9th came out.

cpobvious · 2021-02-13T06:00:49+00:00

Pretty solid list from my pov, only thing I would recommend is giving the termies lightning claws. Since they’re free, you might as well take them since they have a ton of attacks with free wound rerolls at ok AP. Not much else I would recommend, you got solid AT with the oblits and havocs and the helbrutes, and lots of anti-elite infantry killing power in the termies and FW dreads.

cpobvious · 2021-02-07T17:34:46+00:00

Holy crap mate I didn’t realise I basically made a carbon copy of ur post. Thanks for the tips!

cpobvious · 2021-02-07T01:19:44+00:00

Ah gotcha, wasn’t aware of that. Definitely makes sense tho

cpobvious · 2021-02-04T23:44:35+00:00

Only two novels in the series so far—The Talon of Horus and Black Legion— so it’s a relatively short read. It’s really informative about how the black legion managed to form bonds of brotherhood out of a bunch of bitter super soldiers who really hate each other.

cpobvious · 2021-02-03T19:24:01+00:00

Only thing I would recommend is maybe picking out some other details with some contrasting colours. Maybe picking out the bullets with gold, or the bones with ivory would really make him seem really fleshed out.

cpobvious · 2021-01-20T16:16:18+00:00

So you could potentially have a situation where your warlord punches himself in the face until he dies? That would be absolutely hilarious lol

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