Bigjohn792 Posted May 20, 2014 Report Share Posted May 20, 2014 Hello all. I'm working on building my first army list. My wife and I are both new and going to play each other for a bit before we go out and try random opponents. We decided on 1850 points. I'm looking for any advice on loadouts and add\remove units. I'll write out my list then the pool of units I can draw from. I'm looking for an all comers type of build. HQ (174) sgt Garadon and 5 man squad 4 bolters, 1 missle troops (580) 10 man tac squad (205) 7 bolters, 1 missle, 1 plasma gun, 1 sgt rhino 10 man tac squad (205) 7 bolters, 1 missle, 1 plasma gun, 1 sgt rhino 10 man tac squad (170) 7 bolters, 1 missle, 1 plasma gun, 1 sgt elite (450) 5 man tac terminator squad (225) 4 storm bolters, 1 cyclone, 1 sgt 5 man tac terminator squad (225) 4 storm bolters, 1 cyclone, 1 sgt Fast attack (145) Storm talon gunship (145) Assault cannon, typhoon Heavy support (501) Dev squad (186) 4 bolters, 4 plasma cannons, 1 sgt Dev squad (200) 5 bolters, 4 plasma cannons, 1 sgt Predator (115) Auto cannon, Las cannon sponsons That's 1850 on the dot. List of what I have to use. Captain Lysander termy captain chapter master 35 tac marines 15 assault marines 2 storm talons 10 sternguard 15 terminators 10 Dev marines 6 centurions 1 predator 1 hunter (going to use as rhino most likely) 1 rhino I've received most of this stuff used so I'm stripping and repainting. I'm also trying to cut and mod what I can. Any advice on loadout on anything would be great. Like I said I'm new and not sure on what to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel Angel Posted May 20, 2014 Report Share Posted May 20, 2014 While I'm sure members have some great advise to give. Most are waiting to see what 7th ed will bring. The tactics could change a lot soon or might not. Just not sure yet. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VonVilkee Posted May 20, 2014 Report Share Posted May 20, 2014 One thing I will toss in, missile launchers are not worth standing around for five guys to shoot. I've had better luck with heavy bolters for troop squads, three shots twin linked at 18" is decent even on the move. I can tell you are running sentinels of terra based on hq. On the subject of HQ independent characters are usually better, and big G is complicated. You can take his pistol and better equipment on a regular captain allowing you to take a command squad which can be awesome fire power. Our just allow the hq to run off alone as interference. Gives options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Hanaur Posted May 20, 2014 Report Share Posted May 20, 2014 Lysander is soooo good. He must needs be included, for he is awesome sauce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VonVilkee Posted May 20, 2014 Report Share Posted May 20, 2014 Lysander is soooo good. He must needs be included, for he is awesome sauce. Very expensive tho! You do have terminators there to join him to... On that note I'd take one unit at full strength, you can always combat squad apart if desired. Allows kill point conservation at the loss of a single sergeant. Power fists are desired over power swords in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigjohn792 Posted May 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2014 I love lysander. He's awesome. And a big reason I picked IF and then sentenals. However he is expensive. I want to run hum with a 5 man th/ss terminator squad. I just don't have the points at 1850 imo. Plus. I don't have a land raider or storm raven to transport him yet. I was also thinking about dropping Garadon and taking a librarian. That would give me some more points to a second stormtalon. Both with skyhammers. Or put those points into other units Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VonVilkee Posted May 22, 2014 Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 The sentinels librarian only relic is really good! Rerolling the psychic check could port straight over and be amazing... It is definitely an unknown quantity but sentinels are awesome... Totally worth not having access to the shield eternal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Hanaur Posted May 22, 2014 Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 Must... have...Lysander... aaaaaaaaaaaaargh... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tombking Posted May 22, 2014 Report Share Posted May 22, 2014 Must... have...Lysander... aaaaaaaaaaaaargh... I sort of agree with you there. But with his new cost and the change of bolter drill rules, well he can be a bit of a point sink for a list under 2000 points. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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