1850 (Mech-Foot Hybrid) League List

[tallarncommander]

Hello everyone,

I’m designing a mech-foot hybrid list for an upcoming local 5-game league (1850 points). The missions will emphasize mobility (e.g. you often begin accruing points for objectives on turn 2). Here’s the list I’m thinking of bringing.

TALLARN 23RD INFANTRY REGIMENT

HQ (220)
-Yarrick
-3 priests
Notes: Yarrick, Sister Badra, Brother Ziyab, and Brother Xavier buff the conscripts and platoon blobs.

TROOPS (1050)
-Blue Platoon with 35 troopers (PCS, 3 PIS), 4 lascannons, 4 plasma guns
-4 chimeras, each with heavy bolter and multi-laser
-Conscript Platoon Primus with 30 troopers=90
-Red Platoon with 35 troopers (PCS, 3 PIS), 4 autocannons, 3 meltaguns, 30 krak grenades
-Conscript Platoon Secundus with 30 troopers=90
Notes: The mechanized infantry platoon runs around plasma-ing things and screening 3 fearless blobs of 30 as they run up the field.

FAST ATTACK (300)
-Hellhound, dozer blades
-Vendetta
Notes: The Hellhound races around burning things and holding objectives during the early game. The Vendetta does what 'dettas do.

HEAVY SUPPORT (290)
-Wyvern
-Wyvern
-Exterminator, lascannon, sponson multi-meltas=160
Notes: Wyverns can make infantry disappear and the Exterminator is a durable jack-of-all-trades tank.

-Total=1850 pts.
-134 infantry, 8 tanks, 1 flyer=143 models
-8 lascannons, 2 multi-meltas, 4 autocannons, exterminator cannon, 4 multi-lasers, inferno cannon, 6 heavy bolters, heavy flamer, 4 storm-shard mortars=31 big guns


Given the importance of mobility in many of our missions, I’d usually try to control the board by getting some conscripts, chimeras, and hellhounds into the mid-field by turn 2. I managed to (barely) beat an Eldar player with this list in a relic game recently by just flooding the mid-field with bodies backed up by priests and Yarrick. After all, the Tallarn 23rd's motto is "We are many. They are few."

Any feedback would be most appreciated!


-Tallarn Commander,

[yvain]

This look okay. I think the Exterminator should drop those extra weapons those as they don't really match the AC profile well. Jack of all trades usually means you are just wasting the other weapons.. Or switch it to a Vanquisher with lascannon. Having long range anti tank with is something your list lacks as those Chimera squads are focusing on moving and can't get the forward unto the emperor order.

[tallarncommander]

Good point. I'll downgrade a Blue Platoon plasma to a meltagun to pay for changing the Exterminator to a Vanquisher.

Here's a pic of my Vanquisher "Iron Duke" right before a Helldrake ripped it apart by pouncing on it:


Thanks!

[yvain]

Neat!

You are a brave dude for painting yellow. Yellow is a nightmare. It looks like you got talent too; that weathering and highlighting looks great.

[tallarncommander]

Hello everyone,

The 5-game league Northern Virginia (NOVA) Prep League just ended so I thought I’d fill ya in on how this list did.

I lost all five games but I had a blast! All 5 opponents were really fun to play against. Here are my thoughts on the list’s performance (I used the list above but swapped out the exterminator for a vanquisher).

1.) Yorick—this guy was hard to kill (he only died in 2 of 5 games) and he really buffed the blobs nicely
2.) Priests—the priests were also a great buffing unit—they consistently made my conscripts much better. However, I think I'll add a commie to each blob so they can get of FSFSRF and so the unit can decline challenges and still stay fearless or stubborn
3.) Wyverns—these guys are awesome! They are pretty much the only units that consistently did damage to the enemy.
4.) Pair of Conscript Blobs—very good units that either acted as cannon fodder, tarpit, or midfield objective grabber. (A)
5.) Mechanized Bazooka-Plasma Platoon—This unit was lackluster in games 1-3. Ironically for a mechnanized unit I found that their performance significantly improved if I didn’t actually move them so they were pretty good in games 4 and 5. [C rating]
6.) Autocannon-Meltagun Platoon on Foot—this unit didn’t do too much for me. I put it at the front of my line and it just got blown away quite quickly by drop pod SM, necron, Tau, and Eldar shooting. I think I'll take an aegis (or a third platoon) to increase this platoon's survivability. Game 1: held up wraiths, Game 2 held up SM pod squads, Game 3 got blown away by Tau, Game 4 ran away from Deldar, Game 5 got blown away by pod SM. [D rating]
7.) Vendetta—This unit was very lackluster. In 4 league games all it did was take a hull point off a sky ray, grab 1 objective, and strip a hull point off a drop pod. In the last game it did better, killing a stormtalon and 3 or 4 marines. I think I’ll return to my old approach of just ignoring enemy flyers. [F rating]
8.) Vanquisher—A BS3 Vanquisher is pretty worthless—In 5 games, he stripped about 3 hull points off of vehicles and killed 2 or 3 marines and did a wound on a tomb spyder thing. [F rating] I forgot how much Vanqs need to be buffed by psykers, Pask, or what not. I think that if I'm just bringing one Russ I'd be better off with a multiple-shot Russ variant like an exterminator or executioner.
9.) Pair of 5-trooper melta Stormtrooper Squads—These guys were horrible. They stayed in reserve too long, or they scattered off target, or they missed. They did manage to kill a squad of scouts in game 5 though. [F rating] I usually use 10-trooper stormie squads with plasmas—they are more durable and more versatile. I’ll go back to them.

Here are some pics from my games:

Drop Pods hit my lines


I Learn that Wraithguard in a Webway Portal are Nasty


Tau vs IG



Tallarn Commander