Hey guys, time for rubber to hit the road! I’ve got a crackpot list, let’s get started!
Hey guys, BigVik here. After weeks of talking about how to keep your cool at the table, to practice mindfully, to gage your weaknesses and strengths, etc. etc. I’m finally talking practice as opposed to theory.
Today I’ll be talking about my list, my perceived strengths and weaknesses for the list, my cheat sheet on how to play it, and how I plan to test the list.
My List
Battalion (Imperium, Astra Militarum, Cadian, troops obsec, CP+5)
HQ
Knight Commander Pask w/ Executioner cannon, plasma cannons, storm bolter, heavy bolter
Tank Commander w/ Executioner cannon, plasma cannons storm bolter, heavy bolter
Troops
Infantry Squad w/ mortar team
Infantry Squad w/ mortar team
Infantry Squad w/ mortar team
Supreme Command (Imperium, Astra Militarum, Cadian, CP+1)
HQ
Company Commander w/ Kurov’s Aquila, Warlord: Supreme Strategist
Lord of War
ShadowSword w/ 4 heavy bolter, lascannon sponsons
Vanguard (Imperium, Adeptus Astartes, Blood Angels, CP+1)
HQ
Sanguinary Priest w/ boltgun, jump pack
Elites
13 Death Company w/ Chainsword, bolter, 2 thunder hammers, jump pack
5 Death Company w/ Chainsword, bolter, 1 thunder hammer, jump pack
5 Death Company w/ Chainsword, bolter, 1 thunder hammer, jump pack
Total: 2000 pts, 10 CP’s
What the list does: This list is a combination of combined arms, threat overload, and death by math. The Blood Angels total to less than half of my Power Level, so I can deep strike all of them if I feel the need to.
There are 3 primary packages in the list; the blood angels are meant to meat grind dudes, the tank commanders and guardsmen are an anti-big things package, and the shadowsword with 2 psykers and engineer are the centerpiece of the list, meant to kill other centerpieces.
The List’s Strengths: This list can kill just about anything, it has plenty of units to throw onto objectives, has LOTS of CPs due to the recycling center that is the company commander, which ensures the blood angels have plenty to play in the sprinkler with.
The List’s Weaknesses: I have a lack of chaff, however with the new faq this is not as much of a problem, I still feel this list will have a VERY high mastery cap.
This list is also very vulnerable to terrain set up. In the upstate NY meta, where I play, there is a lack of proper line of sight blocking terrain, that shadowsword is IMPOSSIBLE to hide, meaning the list really wants to go first. However, with 14 drops, that will happen about 40% of the time, meaning I have to learn to play around this, or to see what needs to be ripped out of the list to get a Taurox or Chimera in the list to get those characters consolidated into 1 drop.
My Cheat Sheet/Plan of Execution by package:
Pask and bro: they need to find a central point, sit there, and shoot. Stratagems: Overlapping fields of fire
Super Heavy and support staff: the support staff hides behind Monsieur Brick, and he tries to survive and/or block my opponent up and/or kill every large targe he can get to, this will of course be while the psykers make him +1 to save and -1 to hit him, while the commander hides in a corner. Stratagems: Overlapping fields of fire, Defensive gunners, Crush Them
Death Company Package: these guys troll, they slam into my opponents line, they grind up low value dudes, or assault snipe vulnerable large targets using the thunder hammers, they use their jump packs to grab objectives, they take prisoners and make my characters impossible to target, etc. etc. Stratagems: Forlorn Fury, Auspex Scan (probably never), Upon Wings of Fire (objective grabbing), Descent of Angels (3d6 re-rolling is a THING), Vengeance for Sanguinus (for exploding 6’s or 4+’s depending on opponent), Honour the Chapter (Swing Again!!), Only in Death Does Duty End (Kill Lamartes in Assault, F***ing DO IT!)
What testing this list needs:
- What do I have to look out for, other than my super heavy getting killed top of 1?
- How much can I keep alive in the list for late game objective scoring, or will I have to go for progressive scoring?
- This is a personal thing, I need to grind at least 5 games in each ITC scenario, that’s 30 games, before I can truly feel that I’ve got the list PARTIALLY mastered
- I need to see about finding every tourney winning meta list, proxying, and playing against them, every single one. It’ll be challenging just from a logistical standpoint, but let’s see how well i can do it!
Well that’s it for today! Post in the comments what you’re up to from a competitive standpoint, what are your testing goals, what are your tournament goals?
Do you have an idea for an article in this series? POST’EM!
Quote of the week: “How can you think and hit at the same time?”- Yogi Berra
And as always, Frontline Gaming sells gaming goodies at a discount, every day!
Frontline Gaming will buy your used models for cash or store credit!
