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Imperial Guard Message Board :: General :: Tanks :: New executioner-what should I do with it? Author Topic: New executioner-what should I do with it? (Read 295 times) alex4ajm3 Conscript member is offline For the Emperor! Joined: Oct 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 35 Location: Deserts of Surrey New executioner-what should I do with it? « Thread Started on Oct 30, 2009, 10:47am » Just joined IGMB 10 minutes ago. I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of my first executioner and I'm wondering what I should use it for (build army around it/use as support). I've got 1000 points of guard without it, one basic russ, veteran squad, platoon with 2 infantry squads in it, 10 storm troopers, sentinel, lord commissar and fully upgraded CCS. I normally use a gun line approach with my platoon combining to hold objectives/gun line and my vet squad to capture objectives around turn 4. Main opponents are normally MEQs so I'm building the executioner but don't quite know how to use it. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Imperial Fists Strike Force "Steadfast" Drisinta 47th Vets 92% of knights have moved on to saying "ecky ecky ecky pi’tang zoop boing" . If you're part of the 8% who still say "Ni" copy and paste this into your signature! For every guardsmen to fall we will send a hundred more, and for each of them a hundred more, and for every 10,000 guardsmen to have fallen we will send a single Space Marine Julian Sharps WARLORD member is offline By the time you hear them, it'll be too late to run. Joined: Mar 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 1,039 Location: Incoming Re: New executioner-what should I do with it? « Reply #1 on Oct 30, 2009, 11:16am » Use it to kill things. Specifically MEQs. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Brothers-in-Arms: Aeon, Reds and Royals, Batou, John Galt, Shugotenshi, Scarper, WILLEM, Vesuviushetlan, Rolling Thunder Sisters-in-Arms: Sister Galatea, Makarova Quote: "Your cunning plan would have worked, if not for one thing. Me." - Rolling Thunder Current Record (W/L/D) 08th Corvis: 9-4-4 08th Corvis (5th Ed): 9-2-3 501st Emperor's Fists: 6-2-0 alex4ajm3 Conscript member is offline For the Emperor! Joined: Oct 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 35 Location: Deserts of Surrey Re: New executioner-what should I do with it? « Reply #2 on Oct 30, 2009, 11:18am » thanx anything more specific?? Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Imperial Fists Strike Force "Steadfast" Drisinta 47th Vets 92% of knights have moved on to saying "ecky ecky ecky pi’tang zoop boing" . If you're part of the 8% who still say "Ni" copy and paste this into your signature! For every guardsmen to fall we will send a hundred more, and for each of them a hundred more, and for every 10,000 guardsmen to have fallen we will send a single Space Marine Laughing Man Warmaster member is offline Mr Flibble is very cross and therefore we will attack under cover of daylight. Joined: Aug 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 506 Location: Britain in the middlish. Re: New executioner-what should I do with it? « Reply #3 on Oct 30, 2009, 12:10pm » Plasma cannon sponsons and lascannon hull that's 5 str 7 ap 2 small blasts and 1 strength 9 ap 2 if you stay still and 4 str 7 ap 2 blasts if you move. it'll shred normal marine squads and force lots of saves against terminators, storm shields might pose a small problem. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Space Marines? What Space Marines? All i see is those sets of boots where the plasma and munitions were just fired. Attributed to Anonymous Guard Commander. Loyal Imperial Guard player. Recovering SoB player. Fledgling Empire player. alex4ajm3 Conscript member is offline For the Emperor! Joined: Oct 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 35 Location: Deserts of Surrey Re: New executioner-what should I do with it? « Reply #4 on Oct 30, 2009, 3:08pm » thanks a lot that helps. I'm now thinking of an elite inquisitor just for the mystics drop pods die!!! Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Imperial Fists Strike Force "Steadfast" Drisinta 47th Vets 92% of knights have moved on to saying "ecky ecky ecky pi’tang zoop boing" . If you're part of the 8% who still say "Ni" copy and paste this into your signature! For every guardsmen to fall we will send a hundred more, and for each of them a hundred more, and for every 10,000 guardsmen to have fallen we will send a single Space Marine sirius Conscript member is offline Joined: Nov 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 3 Re: New executioner-what should I do with it? « Reply #5 on Nov 2, 2009, 4:43pm » Add plasma sponsons and trade the Heavy Bolter for a Heavy Flamer. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Laughing Man Warmaster member is offline Mr Flibble is very cross and therefore we will attack under cover of daylight. Joined: Aug 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 506 Location: Britain in the middlish. Re: New executioner-what should I do with it? « Reply #6 on Nov 2, 2009, 5:41pm » Plasma sponsons yes, heavy flamer no, lascannon! Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Space Marines? What Space Marines? All i see is those sets of boots where the plasma and munitions were just fired. Attributed to Anonymous Guard Commander. Loyal Imperial Guard player. Recovering SoB player. Fledgling Empire player. westrider Warmaster member is offline Cpt. Burton of the Phrygian III, Blue Company Joined: Feb 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 861 Location: Seattle Area Re: New executioner-what should I do with it? « Reply #7 on Nov 3, 2009, 1:37am » I don't bother with the Hull Lascannon, the 5 Plasma Blasts are all the Firepower it needs. The Lascannon is an extra expense on an already pricey Tank, that misses far too often for my taste, and leads to trying to use it against ofther Tanks, which is NOT what the Executioner should be shooting. Plasma Cannon Sponsons are the only upgrade worth spending Points on, since they directly, and exactly reinforce what the main Cannon is doing. I wouldn't build an Army around it. I really try not to center an Army around any one Unit. You lose that Unit, and all of a sudden the rest of your force is adrift. It's even worse with a Vehicle, which can potentially go down to a single shot. I generally try to go through my Turn without thinking too much about my Executioner, and then, at the end of my Shooting Phase, use it to hit whatever the rest of my Army failed to kill. Unless, of course, there's something that's just too perfect of a Target for it, like a tight group of Terminators or Honour Guard or something. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Phrygian III Imperial Guard Regiment "Hail and Kill" Freedom from the Tyranny of Pants! alex4ajm3 Conscript member is offline For the Emperor! Joined: Oct 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 35 Location: Deserts of Surrey Re: New executioner-what should I do with it? « Reply #8 on Nov 3, 2009, 2:25pm » Ok thanks I'm thinking of making the weapons interchangeable. Do you have to use rare earth magnets for this or can you just do the easy (and cheap) way of sticking a thin layer of Blue-tack to it? Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Imperial Fists Strike Force "Steadfast" Drisinta 47th Vets 92% of knights have moved on to saying "ecky ecky ecky pi’tang zoop boing" . If you're part of the 8% who still say "Ni" copy and paste this into your signature! For every guardsmen to fall we will send a hundred more, and for each of them a hundred more, and for every 10,000 guardsmen to have fallen we will send a single Space Marine Ymoot WARLORD member is offline !on hO Joined: Mar 2008 Gender: Male Posts: 4,437 Location: YOURFACE, CA Re: New executioner-what should I do with it? « Reply #9 on Nov 3, 2009, 2:29pm » Blue tack oughta work just fine, though I haven't tried it myself. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged gribbit. twitch Guardsman member is offline Nuke 'em till they glow then shot them in the dark Joined: May 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 62 Location: Australia (NSW) Re: New executioner-what should I do with it? « Reply #10 on Nov 7, 2009, 9:23pm » While that tank is great, it also sounds like an expensive bullet magnet. "Chapter master we just lost a whole lot of smurfs because of one tank" "Blow that thing up" If the plasma cannon sponsons don't "Get hot!" first. I suggest either not feilding any or feilding a min of 2, spread the targets Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Cad, Hemt, Sputci 95% of teens would cry if they saw the Zac Efron at the top of a skyscraper about to jump. copy and paste this if you are part of the 5% like me that would sit there with popcorn and a camera. People now adays can't complete a game of snakes and ladders without running off to the internet to whine that ladders are broken and snakes are too powerful NONE OF THAT RAP CRAP!!!!!!! ElegaicRequiem WARLORD member is offline Dark Lord of Terra's Pants Joined: Mar 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 4,076 Location: Subjugating Commorragh Re: New executioner-what should I do with it? « Reply #11 on Nov 7, 2009, 11:31pm » Luckily, you won't have to worry about the Gets Hot! part. 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] alex4ajm3 Conscript member is offline For the Emperor! Joined: Oct 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 35 Location: Deserts of Surrey Re: New executioner-what should I do with it? « Reply #12 on Nov 8, 2009, 11:39am » Those load of smurfs could just be his 400 point 10 man terminator squad. I get double my points back. Also, he won't be shooting at the rest of my army Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Imperial Fists Strike Force "Steadfast" Drisinta 47th Vets 92% of knights have moved on to saying "ecky ecky ecky pi’tang zoop boing" . If you're part of the 8% who still say "Ni" copy and paste this into your signature! For every guardsmen to fall we will send a hundred more, and for each of them a hundred more, and for every 10,000 guardsmen to have fallen we will send a single Space Marine commissarbob Warmaster member is offline Forward, FOR GLORY! Joined: Dec 2008 Gender: Male Posts: 604 Location: The frozen north Re: New executioner-what should I do with it? « Reply #13 on Nov 8, 2009, 1:15pm » I find that against MEQs the Executioner pretty much always earns its points back and generally sticks around to really put the hurt on them. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged The Emperor protects. Dyslexics of the world UNTIE! The difference between ignorance and stupidity is that with ignorance one may not know something but is willing to learn, where as stupidity is where one may not know something but is unwilling to learn. verminard Colonel member is offline Joined: Jan 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 310 Location: Maryland Re: New executioner-what should I do with it? « Reply #14 on Nov 8, 2009, 6:37pm » K&J magnetic is a great place to get some rare earth magnets. I had ordered things from them before and was very happy with the service, speed of delivery and the product in general. I include them on all my interchangeable parts. http://www.kjmagnetics.com/categories.asp?gclid=COHOndDI_J0CFYdd5QodzVMhpQ Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged westrider Warmaster member is offline Cpt. Burton of the Phrygian III, Blue Company Joined: Feb 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 861 Location: Seattle Area Re: New executioner-what should I do with it? « Reply #15 on Nov 8, 2009, 8:56pm » Something I forgot to mention: The Absolute perfect Target for the Executioner is a Squad whose Transport just got popped. They almost always end up clumped together just waiting for the Blast Markers to rain down. I've killed Tac Squads twice over that way. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Phrygian III Imperial Guard Regiment "Hail and Kill" Freedom from the Tyranny of Pants! Laughing Man Warmaster member is offline Mr Flibble is very cross and therefore we will attack under cover of daylight. Joined: Aug 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 506 Location: Britain in the middlish. Re: New executioner-what should I do with it? « Reply #16 on Nov 9, 2009, 6:15am » Terminators who had deepstriked are also good targets. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Space Marines? What Space Marines? All i see is those sets of boots where the plasma and munitions were just fired. Attributed to Anonymous Guard Commander. Loyal Imperial Guard player. Recovering SoB player. Fledgling Empire player. westrider Warmaster member is offline Cpt. Burton of the Phrygian III, Blue Company Joined: Feb 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 861 Location: Seattle Area Re: New executioner-what should I do with it? « Reply #17 on Nov 9, 2009, 8:00pm » Depends. If they're Assault Terminators, they'll usually Run to spread out after they Land. If was Tactical Terminators and they took the Phase to fire, though, you've just been given the single best Executioner Target ever. Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Phrygian III Imperial Guard Regiment "Hail and Kill" Freedom from the Tyranny of Pants! guardsmen Captain member is offline I think Ive got it now serg I just take and pull out the pin, like this... Joined: Aug 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 182 Location: USA Re: New executioner-what should I do with it? « Reply #18 on Nov 10, 2009, 6:10am » 2 squads of devastators clumped together blam! now a heap of molten plasma (true story) Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged "I'm sure that there is a logical explanation for this...bravo one just decided go in there and make loud bone crunching noises" "Ok well go in together side by side, you first" alex4ajm3 Conscript member is offline For the Emperor! Joined: Oct 2009 Gender: Male Posts: 35 Location: Deserts of Surrey Re: New executioner-what should I do with it? « Reply #19 on Nov 10, 2009, 2:52pm » *likes* Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Imperial Fists Strike Force "Steadfast" Drisinta 47th Vets 92% of knights have moved on to saying "ecky ecky ecky pi’tang zoop boing" . If you're part of the 8% who still say "Ni" copy and paste this into your signature! 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