Are you ready to ruuuuuumble?! We’ve got a great battle for you tonight, everyone. Reecius’ continues to test his Airborne Imperium list vs. Nick’s Space Marines. Who shall prevail?!
Reecius continues to work on his crazy mash-up list that revolves around deployment shenanigans. With Lias Issodon at the helm, he comes automatically with the infiltrate Warlord Trait, and a reroll on reserves due to one of Issodon’s awesome abilities. The rest of the list then all either comes with or is granted by some means at least a few of the following USRs: Deep Strike, Outflank, Infiltrate and Scouts. This means the list can react to nearly any opponent or deployment situation as needed.
This also means you have a list that cares not if it goes first or second, which is great for 7th ed. The list also packs a ton of firepower, much of which gets the all important Ignores Cover USR (due to orders), can pin units and in general, is very flexible.
The downside to the list is very little ObSec, no melee ability, and a relatively high model count but that is somewhat squishy.
Lastly, there are 3 powerful flyers in the list to bring some punch and some relatively harder targets to take out. (Note: please forgive the proxy, we are using a Vendetta as the Avenger as Reecius does not have th emodel, yet). We’ll see how it goes in practice for its second game!
| Airborne Imperium | 1850pts | ||
| Unit | Description | Size | Cost |
| Space Marines CAD | Raptors CTs | ||
| Issodon | (Warlord) | 1 | 175 |
| Scouts | Bolters | 5 | 55 |
| Scouts | Bolters | 5 | 55 |
| Elysian Drop Troops Detachment | |||
| CCS | M.Gun x 4, Fist | 5 | 115 |
| CCS | M.Gun x 4, Fist | 5 | 115 |
| Veterans | P.Gun x 3 | 10 | 125 |
| Veterans | P.Gun x 3 | 10 | 125 |
| Vulture | Punishers | 1 | 155 |
| Vendetta | – | 1 | 130 |
| Avenger | – | 1 | 150 |
| Skyhammer Annihilation Formation | Imperial Fists CTs | ||
| Assault Squad | M.Bombs | 5 | 90 |
| Assault Squad | M.Bombs | 5 | 90 |
| Devastators | M.Launcher x 4 | 10 | 200 |
| Drop Pod | – | 1 | 35 |
| Devastators | M.Launcher x 4 | 10 | 200 |
| Drop Pod | – | 1 | 35 |
| Totals | 76 | 1850 |
Nicks List:
Ohhh, Knight-Acherons are sweet. Str 7 AP 3 on a helstorm template is just awesome. I’m excited to see how this plays out.
Yeah, this should be a really good game!
Hope you’re rested up, Reece!
Somewhat! Haha
I can’t believe how much almost every army has been updated and new factions haven’t played since 2013. Can’t wait to see results been watching old BRs.
Yeah, you have a lot to get caught up on, buddy!
Damned! Missed it – European timeframe was not helping though. Can’t wait for the full length video on YouTube so I can see how the Raptors did this time!
Cheer!