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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2006 14:52:54 GMT -5
I was just wondering what everybody thought about an artillery company?
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Post by starwoof on Dec 3, 2006 15:46:43 GMT -5
Good for a detachment for a mega battle, wouldnt touch it otherwise.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2006 18:10:56 GMT -5
That would be frickin sweet in a mega-battle.  You could even include some FW Medusas. Not much good for anything else though. |
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Post by Turtleboy(AWOL) on Dec 4, 2006 1:20:27 GMT -5
you get points for theme with this idea. theme points are gold.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2006 4:37:55 GMT -5
i think it would be a blast to play with.. get it .. blast.. artillery.. hee hee.. so bored at work..
seriously though.. i think it would be cool to play as .. mega battle or otherwise.. fluffl could be howthe enemy has broken the front line ( with IG not really that hard ) and the artillery company is all that is left before the enemy ran sacks the nearby city.. i think you could do some really good modelling opportunities with it as well.. all the units are behind sandbags and emplacements.. would be interesting to see..
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2006 13:54:39 GMT -5
An Artillery army works well in the advanced missions later in the 40K book where you have definded defensive armies and also bunkers. Bunkers are your friend.......
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Post by Lt. Col. Hawkrin on Dec 4, 2006 22:44:28 GMT -5
Has anyone read the gaunts ghosts books... There is an armoured company in "straight silver" that is so awesome. I made me want to start an armoured company.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2006 2:30:09 GMT -5
cool hawkrin.. havent read it.. but did they also have the artillery company? or was it just armored?  bunkers are great but that is a slim chance u will get it.. would still like to play a straight arty army in a cleanse.. and see how well it works.. i have a ton of stand and shoot armies.. could be interesting to see who lives longer.. me in hiding, lobbing barrage/ordinace or them with their railguns and carbines.. |
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Post by Turtleboy(AWOL) on Dec 5, 2006 20:57:21 GMT -5
the army definately wouldn't be a 'line' army but you could make fluff for it saying that the regiment was from a world that produced basilisks for the imperium so they supplied their regiments with those instead of tanks. also the regiment could have some fluff where they always found themself deployed on the outskirts of the artillery formations and were always being overrun by raiding enemy forces so were like the front line of the artillery formations - maybe the regiment is run by a commissar who likes to volunteer the regiment for duties that position the army in suicidal places so they can offer crushing bombardments unexpectedly to the front lines as it advanced but often left them in a sackable position. maybe you'd have some hellhounds and stuff to support the basilisks due to the fact that the army has come to feel like being sacked is standard practice due to how the regimental commissar (or general) employs them. could be fun!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2006 5:07:49 GMT -5
It does sound fluffily fun!
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Post by The Refined Gentleman (M.I.A) on Apr 17, 2007 7:06:29 GMT -5
becuase my army are trained in open area tactics soone tactic i use is using tanks for cover, i also use artillary companys for covering barrages.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2007 14:09:12 GMT -5
Ive seen an armoured company use the artillery docterine in the back so you can take griffons and basiliks as troops in a 1850 tournament once did great until it hit escalation against blood angles player with 3 drop pods and assault marines. 6 Basilisks in a 1850. Good luck with it. But ill stick with my battle tanks supproting my infantry.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2007 8:29:47 GMT -5
Artillery company would rock! u could have bassies everywhere and u could have sentinel squadrons as well acting as support units scouting around ure battery positions in search of any enemy forces that might have infiltrated...long range big booms sweet fluff
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2007 20:46:13 GMT -5
Remember that Schaffer's Last Chancers count as your Troops Choice if you take enough of them.
HQ: Regimental Command Platoon. Command Squad w/ Mortar, 2 Mortar Squads, Sentinel
HQ+ 2 Troops: Col. Schaffer's Last Chancers. Full compliment of LC'ers w/ Mortars (10 mortar teams)
Fast Attack: Support Sentinel Squadron (IA3: Taros Campaign) armed w/ Sentinel Missile System (can fire as a mortar)
Heavy Support: 1 Mortar Platoon, 2 Basalisks
Total tubes: 30 Mortars, 2 Basalisk.
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Post by knight (M.I.A) on Apr 23, 2007 17:03:44 GMT -5
Major Whitman slept during the math lessons?  In your army list are 38 mortars, unless you don't count the Sentinals as mortars. If not then you just got 29 mortars And why do you stop so early? You still have 4 troops choices left that you can fill with normal infantry platoons. You can get another 7 mortars with each platoon... But back to some reason. Such an force would only work in a mega battle as you have nothing that can face troops in direct combat, except Schaeffer and Kage... Oh and here is the addition of the mortars: HQ: 2 Mortar Squads: 6 Last Chancers: 10 Sentinals: 9 Platoon: 11 Overall that's 38 mortars + 2 Bassies |
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Post by Woz on Apr 23, 2007 17:31:36 GMT -5
Artillery Companies will rule if that codex Apocalypse comes out
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2007 8:22:36 GMT -5
nawww ya think....big boom kaboooom! will totally rip a hole in the planets surface with all that bombardment
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Post by Oztoon on Apr 27, 2007 22:35:28 GMT -5
Dude i play one and it isn't as bad as people think. I've played about 12 games with mine and won 8 of them. which when playing against Marines and necrons isn't that bad lol. So yeah its a great idea to consider. I you are looking into an artillery company i would also look into forge worlds new siege list in the up coming Imperial Armour book, if you want.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2007 22:34:43 GMT -5
Math's for servitors, boy, not soldiers.  And what about in urban combat, where line-of-sight is so hard to draw, hmm? |
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Post by knight (M.I.A) on May 2, 2007 3:58:45 GMT -5
indirect fire and replace the bassies with griffons. outch.
and as heavy support you can still choose some of the normal tanks
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2007 5:17:17 GMT -5
" maybe the regiment is run by a commissar who likes to volunteer the regiment for duties that position the army in suicidal places so they can offer crushing bombardments unexpectedly to the front lines as it advanced but often left them in a sackable position. "
I would hate to have a regiment that is run by a crazy commisar like that LOL." all right you gun bunnies take those basalisks and charge that position '
" sir, did you just say charge that position with my basalisk ?"
The sound of a bolt pisolt is heard.
" any one else not hear what i just said ?"
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2007 0:09:27 GMT -5
"Of course I did soldier. Why else would they give it a Heavy Bolter?"
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Post by Colonel Grammissar Azalar on May 5, 2007 19:23:36 GMT -5
Has anyone read the gaunts ghosts books... There is an armoured company in "straight silver" that is so awesome. I made me want to start an armoured company. Out- I belive it is Book One "First And Only" They are upon a World bogged down by Chaos, and they are going to raid a Hive city. The Ghosts are told to meet a Aterlliery company, lead by Commader Otiz. And they Basalisk are shaped like Birds, with the barrel as the beak. |
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2007 5:32:41 GMT -5
now wouldnt that be a sight to see
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Post by Colonel Grammissar Azalar on May 8, 2007 5:19:21 GMT -5
Yes, It would. It would be a great set of models.
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