3k Elysium List

[coldash]

I have an upcoming game soon and have made a 3k list for it. I am writing this at work so dont know individual points off hand. This is the FW list so certain differences are in effect.

CCS- PW, lascutter, missile launcher, 2x auxillary Grenade launchers, bodyguard(i had 15 points left over, if I can find something more useful then cool).

1st Platoon-
PCS- PW, lascutter, meltagun
1-2 squad- melta gun, demo charge
Valks x2 w/MRPs
Heavy Weapons(HW)- Missile Launcher x3
Heavy Weapons(HW)- Missile Launcher x3
Heavy Weapons(HW)- Mortar x3
Support team- Melta x 3
Support team- Melta x 3
Drop Sentinels x2 Multi-melta, Hunter Killer missile

2nd Platoon
PCS- PW, lascutter, flamer
1-2 Squad- flamer, demo charge
Valks x2 w/MRPs
HW- Heavy Bolters x3
HW- Heavy Bolters x3
Heavy Weapons(HW)- Mortar x3
Support team- flamers x3
Support team- Plasma x3(I think, now I am trying to remember if they get access to plasma even)
Drop Sentinel x2 Heavy Flamer, hunter killer missiles

Vendettas(individuals) x3
Vulture w MRP x4
Vulture w Punisher Cannon

So yes 9 aircraft, and more heavy weapons than I can shake a stick at. I will be teamed up with a 3k Siege list as well. How does this sound? Any major changes? I still have 3 full squads of storm troopers available.

[coldash]

Well since no one commented, the battle ended in a draw. IG ended up on the defensive, and Grey Knight vindicare assassin and a conversion beamer techmarine annihilated 4 of the bastions. My vedettas rocks, one of whom shot down a Storm raven fully loaded with a dread and deathcompany, whew! The Vendies did well, the other aircraft mostly just flew around and popped shots off. The enemy army was mostly mech and they couldnt touch them. I lost 25 troops to deepstrike mishaps, and another 10 engineers(two squads of 5) to demo charges bouncing off the vehicles onto them. Everyone else did well although they were mostly one hit wonders across the board. My vehicles did almost all the work the whole game.

[The Hawk!]

glad to hear that you did quite well and good man pooping the stormraven :3 should teach the rest of the imperium for using horrible looking aircraft! to be honest, it sounds like you were just unlucky with the rolling and timing tbh better luck next time

Dave

[Deleted]

Dude! I've been planning the same x9 aircraft, are there any bigger IG aircraft vehicules? secondly its gonna cost an arm and a leg !! expecially converting them into vendettas

[Julian Sharps]

The largest (in fact, only) IG aircraft is the Valkyrie airframe (I will argue that the Vulture is a heavily modified Valk variant).

Probably the most cost-effective way to convert Vendettas is to use the lascannons from the heavy weapons squad box (since you're probably not using them in your weapon teams, since you took autocannons, missile launchers and/or mortars, right?) and take two per wing and another for the nose. Glue the two for each wing together and attach them to a weapon hardpoint (preferably the missile mount, especially if you want to be able to swap between Valks and Vendettas), and then, with a little finagling cut down the last lascannon to the size of the nose cannon and either mount it on the same side or replace something on the other side (the spotlight, I believe, but since Valks come with those as standard...).

[Deleted]

nice point but does a vendetta have 3 lascannons or 3 twin linked lascannons (as in 6 lascannons?)

[Julian Sharps]

It has six, but they fire as three that allow you to re-roll misses.