So, as you heard in our last main line show with Chuck;
Flatcon is very shortly to be here. As
such I’ve been in prep mode for the last couple weeks. Mostly in that I have to put my Space Marines
together for the 40K tournament, but also in list design for my Dwarf army for
AoS. I’ll be attending for the weekend
days (Saturday/Sunday) because I’m not willing to really take off on Friday
night, particularly when I don’t play, nor do I have any interest in Kill Team.
So, let’s talk 40k.
My last Blog Post was whether I should even bother playing or not. It appears from everything I’ve been told
recently that generic Space Marines are on the low end of the power spectrum
suffering from first Codex syndrome which means they are the old book being
both underpowered and overcosted as GW found their way through 8th
edition. Not that I’ve got the practice
or skill to win even if they were still competitive. Especially considering that I don’t have some
of the more powerful or useful options available to the army. Ignoring all of that though it was a reason
to try and get my Space Marines back to the painting table and so I built a
list.
Captain with
Primarchs Wrath
Librarian
with Force Sword and Bolt Pistol
5 Scouts
with Boltguns
10 Tactical
Marines with Vet. Sgt. with Power Sword & Bolt Pistol, Plasma Gun,
Lascannon
10 Tactical
Marines with Vet. Sgt. with Power Sword & Bolt Pistol, Plasma Gun,
Lascannon
Dreadnought
with Heavy Flamer & Close Combat Weapon and Twin-Linked Heavy Flamer
Dreadnought with
Twin-Linked Autocannon and Twin-Linked Autocannon
8 Devastators
with Vet. Sgt. with Power Sword & Bolt Pistol, Heavy Bolter, Missile
Launcher, 2 Lascannons
Predator
with Predator Autocannon, Heavy Bolter Sponsons, Pintle Storm Bolter, Hunter
Killer Missile
Total:1225
Points
Command
Points: 8
I originally had two Razorbacks with Twin Heavy Bolters and
Pintle Bolters in place of the Flamer Dreadnought but dropped them in favor of
less painting because of the deadline. While
ideally speaking this is a well-rounded list with a number of high power
weapons, average mobility and particularly with the Stratagems the Heavy Bolter
and Missile Launcher have the ability to throw Mortal Wounds. Along with the Strategem that makes the
Captain a Chapter Master I have the ability to re-roll those critical
hits. The Scouts give me a small ability
to dump out some guys a distance or to counteract enemy deepstrike. The fact remains that I don’t feel like this
has any chance compared to what I’ve seen locally in tournaments but gaming is
gaming and gaming is important win or lose.
The real victory, whether I do well in the tournament or not
is the fact that I’ll be getting this chunk of the army painted. Probably about ½ of the models I own which
means it shouldn’t take much more effort to finish it off. Shouldn’t…
Moving on to Age of Sigmar though I wish I would’ve built a
Stonehorn and painted him so I could field the big Ogre/Monster list I’d been
planning but I’ll be rolling out the good old Dwarfs again. I’m very likely to be taking the same list I
took to Siege World because I don’t feel like building a new list of some kind
though I’ve been debating on changing some small bits up though I’m not certain
what. I’d love to have a unit of Slayers
included but they would not be able to replace the ally’s points that are so
usefully being spent on the Celestial Hurricanum. The only thing I’ve looked at
changing is maybe dropping the Longbeards for some Irondrakes, but that would
require me to buy more models so while it’s a possible thought, it isn’t super
likely. Currently I’m looking at the
following list.
Warden King
x1 (Grudgebearer)
Runelord x2
(1 with Ancestral Pickaxe)
Cellestial
Hurricanum
10 Warriors
Hand Weapon/Shield x2
10
Longbeards with Great Weapons/Shields
20 Hammerers
20
Ironbreakers
30
Quarrelers
Total: 1920
Points
Command Points 1
So, the other consideration was to drop a unit of 10
Warriors and increase the Longbeards up to 20 models. The total cost would go up 20 points, still
leaving me with an extra Command Point but also give me another larger unit for
holding objectives as well as a unit with Great Weapons for Rend in
combat. I feel like that may be a solid
choice, but it ceases to be a throw away unit to block someone up at that point
but will be a significant investment that I’ll absolutely have to babysit. I guess that will likely be a last-minute
decision truly.
Those are my lists.
Hopefully they don’t suck. I
guess proof is in the pudding, we’ll find out soon enough.
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