My friend Stan who runs the excellent Games Workshop store at the Square One shopping centre in Mississauga was good enough to accommodate my oddly pointed force (we played a 585 point game) with a small portion of his really cool Chaos Marine army.
First up lets look at what I was able to get finished for our game...(this is in addition to the Space Hulk Terminators I painted last year.
My two half Tactical squads each featured a Sergeant with a Plasma Pistol as that is the closest you can get to an anti-armour choice with five-man squads using the Blood Angels army list. The Plasma Pistols were a mixed bag, 1 of them on my left flank picked off a couple of power armoured Chaos Marines so that felt well worth the point but the one on my right flank failed to penetrate the armour of a Rhino through 3 rounds of shooting so no so good there.
My Captain who I decided to paint in Death Company colours was thoroughly unimpressive. He failed every Iron Halo save he got, caused 1 wound with his Plasma Pistol and due to his extremely crappy Iron Halo saves was killed before landing a single blow with his Power Fist. I have since revised my use of him from "temporary" to "retired" he will not be appearing in another game unless he is a second character rather than my army general.
My star players were definitely my five-man Terminator Squad. Although they were wiped out (by cultists!) they more than made up their points as they killed; the Chaos Marine Lord, a Chaos Marine Dreadnought and some giant space-pony thing that looked like it was probably pretty bad news.
I lost the game 2 objectives controlled to 1 but had a great time playing my first game under the current 40K rules (which I have to say I think are AWESOME). I also learnt a few things to inform my next few choices on what to add to my army so I'm pretty excited about that.
-Jay
Sweet! Glad to hear you had a good time, and are enjoying the new edition!
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear about Captain Power Fist, didn't mean to jinx him. He could always go back to being a sergeant...
Any plans on what to do to bring the army up to 1k?
Thanks Dave! What's not to enjoy?
DeleteAt this point I'm painting the stuff I want as I want to do it rather than working towards a specific goal in terms of points but the next few things planned are:
- add 5 marines to each Tac Squad including a Missile Launcher and Flamer
- add 5 Death Company with Jump Packs
- drop Captain self-destruct and replace him with a different officer model (Terminator Librarian or Captain with Jump Pack)
I was also hoping to add a Dreadnought with Multi-Melta but I didn't realize the only place to get one had been Assault On Black Reach and that ship has sailed. So after adding my next 15 marines and a new leader I'll re-assess but it looks like I will definitely still be looking for an anti-armour option.