Post by renegadeguardsman on Mar 14, 2012 20:16:11 GMT -5
So I'm in the process of building a Renegades army using the IG codex, and I want to do something different from the cookie-cutter competitive lists one sees...everywhere. I don't care about competitiveness because, well, I don't compete.
So anyways I'm thinking of using a hybrid foot/ mech army with a gunline supported by LRBT's or bassies deploying as normal, and an all chimera-mounted Al-Rahem platoon outflanking with the help of an Astropath. The Al-Rahem platoon will be hosing the enemy side/rear with multi-lasers, heavy bolters/ flamers and probably plasma's firing from the hatches. Hopefully this will force my opponent to falter on deciding which is the greater threat and ultimately fail to deal with either.
My gunline will consist of the usual power-blobs (commie, power weapons, AC/GL) of 20-30 men each, and probably a few las HWS's receiving orders from the nearby PCS's. I'd like to have HWS's as well as bassies/ russes as a sort of backup against lance weapons (lance weapons are really what kept me from going with an entirely mech list btw). As mentioned earlier my CCS will have an Astropath, and If points allow I'd also like to take Straken for obvious gunline anchor-ing purposes, and maybe melta-vets in a valk to outflank and help deal with Land Raiders and the like.
Of course this will be a pricey list points-wise, probably only viable in the neighbourhood of 1850+. But if possible I'd like to have a stripped-down variant of this army for those lean 1500pt games...
So what do you think? Would something like this be viable? And if so what would you reccomend? All opinions, comments, advice greatly appreciated, thanks in advance...
So anyways I'm thinking of using a hybrid foot/ mech army with a gunline supported by LRBT's or bassies deploying as normal, and an all chimera-mounted Al-Rahem platoon outflanking with the help of an Astropath. The Al-Rahem platoon will be hosing the enemy side/rear with multi-lasers, heavy bolters/ flamers and probably plasma's firing from the hatches. Hopefully this will force my opponent to falter on deciding which is the greater threat and ultimately fail to deal with either.
My gunline will consist of the usual power-blobs (commie, power weapons, AC/GL) of 20-30 men each, and probably a few las HWS's receiving orders from the nearby PCS's. I'd like to have HWS's as well as bassies/ russes as a sort of backup against lance weapons (lance weapons are really what kept me from going with an entirely mech list btw). As mentioned earlier my CCS will have an Astropath, and If points allow I'd also like to take Straken for obvious gunline anchor-ing purposes, and maybe melta-vets in a valk to outflank and help deal with Land Raiders and the like.
Of course this will be a pricey list points-wise, probably only viable in the neighbourhood of 1850+. But if possible I'd like to have a stripped-down variant of this army for those lean 1500pt games...
So what do you think? Would something like this be viable? And if so what would you reccomend? All opinions, comments, advice greatly appreciated, thanks in advance...