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Imperial Guard Message Board :: General :: Tactics :: Servitor Shield Wall. Author Topic: Servitor Shield Wall. (Read 222 times) Sgt. Rock Conscript member is offline Joined: Mar 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 44 Location: The Imperium of Man Servitor Shield Wall. « Thread Started on Oct 31, 2009, 10:39pm » So I was thinking, Servitors have a 4+ save and a Tech Priest has a 3+ save. If you fielded a Wall/Gun Line with Heavy Bolters, Multi-Meltas, or Plasma Cannons. You can field a wall of 10 Servitors with 4 Heavy Weapons. And In Melee Tech-Priests are Vicious, They have Power Armor and a Power Weapon. And Their Servo-Arm Str 8 and Ignores Armor. If you had the Servitors as either a Cover Save or extra fire power to a Gun-line army. I see no reason to NOT field them. Sure they cost some points but they more effective than priests in a Ranged Guard army. I mean almost every Guard Army fields some type of vehicle. Servitors are 15 pts each so a full squad is only 75 pts which isn't that bad. Two Tech-Priests and Servitor Squad will equal 240 points Vanilla. Which is a total of 12 units that can fit into a Chimera. You can field a Tech-Priest with 2 servitors armed with heavy bolts for 115 pts and double that for 4 heavy bolters for a total of 230pts this isn't as cheap as a H. Weapon Teams but still MORE FIRE POWER. I am going to probably field this for a Heavy-Tech Based army. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged 185th Vetkan Royal Engineers W-L-D 2-0-0 jarms48a Warmaster member is offline Striking fast and hard. Joined: Feb 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 653 Location: Australia Re: Servitor Shield Wall. « Reply #1 on Nov 1, 2009, 3:00am » but for that 230 points you can almost get 3 heavy bolter teams. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged jarms48a Guy: "Hey, what's going on?" Mr. Galt: "The targeter was a bit off. My missile scattered onto your table." Guy: "But this is fantasy." Mr. Galt: "And?" Quote John_Galt Quantity has a quality all on its own. Quote Joseph Stalin dragoon6 Colonel member is offline I'm sorry, what was that you were saying about my unit? Joined: Jan 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 481 Location: Longmont, CO Re: Servitor Shield Wall. « Reply #2 on Nov 1, 2009, 4:02am » Yes you can do all those things...but 4 squads with an officer and a h.b each is only about 250 pts. so ask youeself, which buy is more appealing? Not that this isn't an idea worth exploring a bit more in depth as a supplement to your army, but it just isn't something that's spamable, if you get my meaning... Dragoon 6 Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged "It takes ten thousand casualties to make a general." - Army maxim meaning that experience is the best, and sometimes only, teacher. Game record Imperial Guard (4th ed book)155-80-72 Imperial Guard (5th ed Book) 3-0-0 Imperial Navy (BFG) 2-0-0 Brettonia 14-3-4 genilyenovick Captain member is offline "So when was the last time you saw a land raider fly 30 feet in the air." Joined: Nov 2006 Gender: Male Posts: 164 Location: Mars Re: Servitor Shield Wall. « Reply #3 on Nov 4, 2009, 12:22pm » I like the idea or if you wanted to do a counter assault unit. the servitors technically all have power fists. They all have servo arms so for the vanilla squad you get 13 standard attacks with 3 being power weapons. Then you get anothe 6 power fist hits from the servo arms that they all have isn't that just great. You would be using a lot of points in order to get that out of any other unit. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged For one day the machine god will rise and the galaxy will finally be cleansed. fatuous Warmaster member is offline Joined: Jan 2007 Gender: Male Posts: 870 Re: Servitor Shield Wall. « Reply #4 on Nov 6, 2009, 5:20am » HO(nestly, I don't see the point of giving serivors heavy weapons unless it's for fluff, or with an inquisitor to target deep strikers. Don't have my dex on me atm, but getting the regular servo armed servitors for a techpreist and mounting them in a chimera would be much more use IMO, better chances of getting to those damaged vechiles, and the chimera mounts some pretty good fire power anyway, for not that much points that a few heavy bolters, can move and shoot, and.... well for me is a better offer. HEavy weapons on servitors are a bit too pricey for their BS. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged sirbebox Guardsman member is offline Joined: May 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 54 Re: Servitor Shield Wall. « Reply #5 on Nov 6, 2009, 1:51pm » I love servitors but putting any heavy weapon less then a plasma cannon is worthless, and even then armoured sentinels work better in that role. So if your going to use servitores in my eyes use them as a repair/counter assault unit. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged ElegaicRequiem WARLORD member is offline Dark Lord of Terra's Pants Joined: Mar 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 4,076 Location: Subjugating Commorragh Re: Servitor Shield Wall. « Reply #6 on Nov 7, 2009, 11:15am » This would be a cool idea for a fluff-based IG/AdMech force. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged My Guard Codex: Ministry of Pants Tellius PDF 3rd (errant) [3-0-0] Scarlet Edge 3rd [1-2-0] Martel's Blade [4-1-0] Forum Jump--------------------» Home--------------------» General--------------------- News- General 40k --- Scenarios- Beginners Board- Picture Post- Painting and Conversions --- Imperial Guard Conversion Guide --- Painting Guides --- Terrain- Fluff- Rumors- After Action Reports--------------------» The Imperial Guard--------------------- General IG anything board.- Drop Troops- Infantry- Tanks- Tactics- Army List--------------------» The Great Universe--------------------- Allies of the Imperium. 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