[Plainville MA] "ARMOR WAR" 1250pt 40k Tournament - 10/26

[Sam Butler]

I'm not too worried about anything.

I suppose you could have said that NOVA was going to be dominated by people using some combination of Tau and Eldar with monstrous creatures.

I've heard that Plague Marines are going to dominate this event.  I've heard that bikes are going to dominate.  And I guess grav guns are too good here also.

So... Plan for that stuff if it's a giant concern?

The restrictions are mostly in place due to fluff.  If someone exploits a perceived flaw in the rules and ends up winning the event because of it, that's perfectly fine.  These weird, different events are done for a few reasons.  One of those reasons is to get people thinking about what might work and what might not.

I reasonably certain that there's a list or 5 or 10 that does very well against Plague Marines, bikes, and grav guns.  Very few things aren't allowed and at 1250 points a few bad die rolls can change the entire game.

Plague marines dominate very few things...  and mostly inanimate ones at that..

[Sir_Prometheus]

wait, you're saying plauge marines are bad?  They're statistically as tough as a terminator most of the time, and they have plasma guns, which means they can't hurt almost everything. 

[Typhus]

Might want to make an addendum for Plasma Cannon spam, since those are "small" blasts.

[Sir_Prometheus]

well, come on, we can't just rule out everything that might hurt a Space amrine, ar we?

And don't forget sonic Blasters and all that.  Give the chaos guys a chance.  This would be the one time taking lots of sonic marines would be a good bet. 

[Chase]

I'm okay with the small blast templates.

[Benjamin]

We should ban power armor for this tournament.

[Typhus]

*shrug*

Then I don't want people to complain when I bring 17 Plasma Cannons

[Sir_Prometheus]

OH NOES, JARED'S BRINGING THE PLASMA SERVITORS, THERE IS NO WAY TO COUNTER!!!!!!!!

[Typhus]

OH NOES, JARED'S BRINGING THE PLASMA SERVITORS, THERE IS NO WAY TO COUNTER!!!!!!!!

[Mike_k]

This is a great idea.

A very great idea but it also sadden's me that marines are such shit this edition so far that they need a fluff event to feel viable and special.  Being the power armored fanboy I am though I dig it.

Also FYI at 1250 if your worried about bike armies you should be because I am going to smoke all of you bitches.  VROOOM VROOOM

[Typhus]

Also FYI at 1250 if your worried about bike armies you should be because I am going to smoke all of you bitches.  VROOOM VROOOM

THIS.

[Sir_Prometheus]

Y'know I kinda feel like asking the community what I should take.

SHould I take:

1) My Grey Knights.  Probably like two full strike squads, Coteaz, some purifiers in a Redeemer, maybe some cultists with razorbacks on the side.  Good old fashioned 5th ed stuff.  I think it will smash other Marines if I can catch them, but might be outgunned at the 24" range by some lists (cuz GK are expensive, yo) and it will also have like no long range to sepak of.  But I have all the models and I miss playing them, they're pretty. 

2) Bike GK-ish guys.  I actually have Grey Knights on bikes, which look pretty bad compared to what I can paint now, but I still love 'em, cuz f'U, they're GK on bikes, and I think that's awesome.  I would be building some others to be more normal bikes, the GK guys might become a command squad. 

3)  Borrow my friends Black templar guys, and seriously put like 70 marine bodies on the table.  I am never likely to play that otherwise, and I think it could be awesome.  (Jared would enjoy shooting them up with his plasma bomb, I think too)

[Chase]

70 marines sounds awesome!

[Sir_Prometheus]

Heh, Chase #2 would have had me buying the most models. 

But yes, #3 is tempting just for the purity of it.  We're 70 marines, Bolters, fists and couple plasma guns should be enough to do the job!

[Destecado]

Just to double check, do dedicated transports count towards the 750 points in power armor?