Feb 16th Tournament DA list

1750 Dark Angels

HQ


Librarian 120
- really just for the psychic hood, i expect some lashes

Sammael 205
- speeder version

Elites

Deathwing Terminators 245
- 1x pwr swrd + SB, 2x pwr fst + SB, 1x dbl LC, 1x pwr fst + ass cnn

Troops

Ravenwing Assault Squadron 305
- 6 bikes, 2 flamers, 1 pwr fst + attack bike

Ravenwing Assault Squadron 405
- 6 bikes, 2 flamers, 1 pwr fst + attack bike + landspeeder tornado

Heavy Support

Devestator Squad 225
- 10 men, 4x heavy bolters
- perhaps drop these, get 2 more tornadoes?

Devestator Squad 245
- 10 men, 4x missile launchers

So yes, same list as before. It went ok. I'll be dropping the Libby for another tornado (then I'll probably be playing lash all day )

Any other ideas?

i like the idea you added two devastator squads instead of vehicles but why not add a dreadnought or something?

Id drop the one with the hvy bottlers for more tornados which should last longer if you can keep it moveing

i wouldn't go so much with the tornados since i always thought that space marines and chaos are best with numbers... if you can do that.

Yeah, I've toyed with the idea of dropping one dev squad. But against an enemy that comes to me, the devs are good for baiting them into a fire lane. It's hard to chase the rest of my army... but chasing the devs is deadly.

true true i also always thought of a devastator squad as a group who could take a hit also

Yeah, 6 bolters have a 1/3 chance of downing a landspeeder once its in range... no fun.

Oh, and to those who care... I have my new camera lens too. So I will be taking pictures.

cool... do you place them on the internet? or just keep them yourself? maybe we can use the pics for the poster. To show our group off. nothing big, just small pictures

wow....you said you were toying with this....it will be interesting to see how this holds up

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To show our group off

Perhaps, although I prefer to use illustrations for the posters to keep it more ambiguous.

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you said you were toying with this

Yeah, it's a strange list to run. I may go more typical multi-wing... but terminators + bikes just kind of suck for their points when compared to the regular marine imo.

i completely agree. the bikes ( in my eyes) are used for tying someone up and teleporting in near the enemy. ( teleporting terminators not bikes)

yeah, although i tend not to get close with the enemy unless i know i will kill them.

I'd much rather shoot from afar and run away for a late game jump onto the objective.

good but its hard for bikes to keep and object. of what i have seen. even late in a game

No way you can stop them if they jump on their at the bottom of turn 2

Ravenwing lesson # 1: Always start second if possible.
Ravenwing lesson # 2: Always hide/deepstrike your Landspeeders (see rule #1)

thats good but what if that place is already taken and tying will not work? plus those land speeders don't do much while hiding do they?

Well no they don't do much while hiding, but it beats getting shot before you get your glance only

Bikes don't do too good of a job running headlong into combat to try tie an enemy up unless quickly supported. Which is the trick if you go aggresive with them. Very difficult in 1750.

except with orcs and all there open toped vehicles. orks can quickly reinforce there bikers up front. but not so much with the empire

Matt, do they run a tournament up there every other week or something?

Nathan: Yup They rotate fantasy and 40k. I sometimes go up on the fantasy weekends and get a 40k game in and watch a bit too.

Very nice.

where are you guys talking about?

The pics will be great Matt... cheers for the effort.

Are the Attack Bikes Hvy Bolter or MultiMelta?

Multi Melta. Since I can't take squadrons of them I tend to field them with the MM.

Oh and Marc, I will work on getting some sort of tactica together, just got really busy last night.