Armageddon: Order

[the_trooper]

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Chapter Master Avaro

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[Opforce3]

not a terribly long charge, you know... 2" from the thunderhawks front door, then 6" to some random unit.

i see no glory.

[Grand Master Steve]

We are the Angels of Death we bring death from above! In the Emperors name WE SHALL NOT FALTER!

[Spooky]

Mostly we need to remeber to have our bases covered.

We need to be able to deal with flyers, Super heavy's/titans, massed troops, sudden ambushes, flank marching armys, Heavy Infantry, and toughness 7+ monserous creatures with 3+ or better armor saves. Ohh and be able to take and hold objectives useing troops.

Flyers are tough to hit and hard to really hurt without ap 1 weapons luckly they usualy have armor no better than 10 things with AA mounts are ideal and you should remember all pintle mounted weapons are considered to be AA mounted. the odd hydra flak vehicle is ideal but will be targeted quickly failing at that Pintel mounted storm bolters and heavy stubbers on rhino's and chimmeras are probebly the best for there points.

Super Heavy's and Titans can be tough I would like to see the two sides titans fighting eachother but its more likely they will focuse on nukeing troops. titan hammer squads are also very nice especialy with the new storm sheilds. that also makes them great against monsterous creatures.

Sudden Ambushes/Flank marched armys Also drop poding armys and the new demon codex army. they tend to appear where you least want them at the worst time. in most games they can be tough but with flank march and the less formal set up of mega battles you can see whole armys arrive in one turn right behind you. this takes some dedicated troops both mobile assault and ranged to get to them and nutrilize them before they do too much damage. I would be very suprised if we get to turn 3 without a good size army trying to get behind our lines. Idealy the troops dedicated to this should be fast, assault troops, or mounted, bikes and such, mabye even a few deep strikeing units in reserves to deep strike into our lines when needed.

Heavy infantry both sides will have terminators and similarly tough units they can often shrug off all but the worst attacks and I wont be suprised to see 100+ of them headed at us. as allways plasma weapons are great. these types of units are usualy very slow on there own, takeing out there transportation early and giveing yourself several rounds to gun them down is almost required.

Monsterous creatures cant forget these guys and not just tyranids but chaos demons too. unlike most titans these things tend to be decent up close and far more mobile. Similar to titans these things almost require you take them on with similar creatures and mechines. 12 las cannons shooting at a toughness 9 bio titan will only avarage 4 pre save wounds and with 8-10 wounds itself this could get dicey.

Finaly, Holding and Captureing objectives. We all love mega battles because we get to play around with toys normaly too big for the game but we cant forget the rank and file solders those basic troops that every army needs, in some ways guard are perhaps the best army in the game at holding a location, lots of men lots of guns. for objectives in our deplyment zone or near it bunker stratagems can keep our men safe in other locations vehicles with troops in or behind them stand a far better chance then alone.

I know none of this was useful at all but I should be reading..or asleep so I needed to waste time on something.

All this sounds reasonable. But it occurs to me that we can't cover our bases if we don't coordinate our lists to at least some extent before the event...

[Chase]

I strongly agree with that.  Get on it.

[jesterofthedark]

haza the order side is currently in dis-order.  O the sweet irony!!!

[Achillius]

Okay, the forces of Order.. really? That's really not quite accurate. After all we represent the Imperium of Man, that is billions of worlds that the forces of Chaos, Dark Eldar, orks, Necrons, Tyranids, Tau, and Eldar would all love to get their greasy mits on.

However, that said, the Tau and Eldar would much rather work against you than with you so they fight on our side. So check it out billions of planets, a multitude of languages and attitudes to select from and then we add the weird dudes. And still you persist in calling this the side of Order. We're more like a theocratic democracy, with side kicks. Our communist allies will be with us until the end of their enemies and we'll be back at our hobby, infighting and ruining each others petty schemes.

So for future reference, we're the good guys. That means we're better looking, have cool guns and enjoy the simpler things in life.


Cheers,
Alan
Imperial Guard

[Achillius]

For the record.
       My Guard will be in attendance, we'll bring troops and stuff to blow up other stuff with. Scary tanks and even scarier Infantry.

I have to agree we need a quick meeting, what's everyone doing the weekend aftern Xmas, Saturday around noon?

Cheers,
Alan

[Moosifer]

For the record.
       My Guard will be in attendance, we'll bring troops and stuff to blow up other stuff with. Scary tanks and even scarier Infantry.

I have to agree we need a quick meeting, what's everyone doing the weekend aftern Xmas, Saturday around noon?

Cheers,
Alan

Sounds good to me.

Quick question for the order folks, anyone have any crux terminatus shoulder pads?  (the inquisition type symbol that comes with the HQ and Cmd Squads)

[blantyr]

For the record.
       My Guard will be in attendance, we'll bring troops and stuff to blow up other stuff with. Scary tanks and even scarier Infantry.

I have to agree we need a quick meeting, what's everyone doing the weekend aftern Xmas, Saturday around noon?

Cheers,
Alan

Around noon, Sat Jan 3, I'll hopefully be with Rob Sims'  Dark Heresy crew in the back room, likely with Cookie who is also running with Order this year.  We generally play until around two, but I suspect we could adjust schedules a bit, one way or another, for an Orderly meeting.

Bob

[Opforce3]

hey alan...

[Achillius]

For the record.
       My Guard will be in attendance, we'll bring troops and stuff to blow up other stuff with. Scary tanks and even scarier Infantry.

I have to agree we need a quick meeting, what's everyone doing the weekend aftern Xmas, Saturday around noon?

Cheers,
Alan

Around noon, Sat Jan 3, I'll hopefully be with Rob Sims'  Dark Heresy crew in the back room, likely with Cookie who is also running with Order this year.  We generally play until around two, but I suspect we could adjust schedules a bit, one way or another, for an Orderly meeting.

Bob

understood, but what about the Saturday after christmas, or the 27th on this fine Calendar....

[Rob S]

I will most likely be there every saturday after Christmas, so whenever we want to organize something I can come.  I can't offer any tanks, or even any infantry to help our side though. =\

[Spooky]

The 3rd works okay for me. The 27th doesn't.

[jesterofthedark]

Ha, ok I'll refer to you as the "good guys".  Mostly in the form of:
 

"Jeeez, those guys are good at dying." 


HAHAHAHA I have ribbed you justly in your forum.  Compare yourselves to me and know that you will come up wanting.