Post by forteh on Jul 25, 2012 14:50:54 GMT
Hi,
New member in the UK, been lurking for a while but finally signed up
Started playing adeptus titanicus way back when and have been playing 40k since before 2nd edition but had a break from '97 till last year when I picked it all up, as it is I've skipped a few editions and rules have all changed!
I'm a nid and csm player (with orks and SW in 2nd ed although I don't play them now) and have mainly played with the nids in 5th as I didn't really get on with the csm codex. Needless to say I'm really looking forward to the new chaos codices!
With the release of 6th I though I would try a concerted effort with the chaos and try to get to learn how to use them. I'm not a competitive player so all games are friendlies
I've challenged my friends GK army with my chaos for a laugh and wanted some pointers on my list and gameplan.
I've faced him a couple of times before with the bugs and come away with a win and a defeat. He has run draigowing in two stormravens backed up with psiflemans and a couple of vendreads. He also has a bunch of bog standard knights, a dreadknight, a full set of assassins and an inquisitorial chimera.
His game plan has consisted of hit hard and fast with draigo/10 palladins/apothacary/librarian in the stormravens and let the dreadnaughts pick and choose targets. Basically ignoring objectives and going for total annihilation.
I've based my list on a core of tough troops with a good amount of ap2 shooting (plasma/melta) supported by a couple of mobile units to play havoc.
List so far is as: -
HQ
Typhus/wind of chaos - 225
Daemon Prince/Mark of Nurgle/Wings/Pyromancer - 160
Chaos Socerer/Mark of Tzeentch/Disc of Tzeentch/Bolt of Change/Telepath - 195
Elites
6 Chaos Terminators/Nurgle Icon/3xPowerfist/2xCombi weapon/Reaper Autocannon - 285
8 Chosen/Nurgle Icon/3xMeltagun/2xPlasmagun - 254
Chaos Dreadnought/Plasma Cannon - 105
Troops
10 Chaos Space Marines/Nurgle Icon/2xPlasmagun - 230
Rhino for above with combiweapon - 45
5 Plague Marines/Meltagun/Plasmagun - 140
5 Plague Marines/Meltagun/Plasmagun - 140
5 Plague Marines/Meltagun/Plasmagun - 140
5 Plague Marines/Meltagun/Plasmagun - 140
5 Plague Marines/Meltagun/Plasmagun - 140
Fast Attack
3 Chaos Bikers/Nurgle Icon/2xMeltagun - 169
Heavy Support
2 Obliterator - 150
2 Obliterator - 150
Defiler - 150
Chaos Predator/TL Lascannon/Lascannon Sponsons/Extra Armour - 180
Total - 2998
My plan is roughly as follows: -
Use the Daemon prince and sorcerer, defiler and bikes as fast strike units to take out stuff like the psifleman dreads or any armour. Deepstrike Typhus with the terminators to hopefully punch in behind the palladins when they arrive.
Use the marines in the rhino to capture objectives and or strike out at lesser armoured units.
Use the Plague marines, obliterators and predator to sit back (preferably in cover) and let the fight come to me when hopefully overwatch will help soften the blow.
The dreadnought is for a good laugh, I like the randomness of it, hopefully with some careful deployment I can mitigate damage from it going completely insane!
I am expecting to lose but hopefully I might cause some damage in the mean time. Hard points to get around will be the stormravens if they're zooming and if draigo gets into combat with the plaguemarines as they will really struggle to get through terminator armour.
I found that draigowing got minced by a single swarmlord with 2 guards so I know they can struggle to wound high toughness in assault, how well this fairs remains to be seen
If you can give any thoughts, criticisms or ideas for the list and plan then it would be much appreciated.
Apologies for the huge first post!
New member in the UK, been lurking for a while but finally signed up
Started playing adeptus titanicus way back when and have been playing 40k since before 2nd edition but had a break from '97 till last year when I picked it all up, as it is I've skipped a few editions and rules have all changed!
I'm a nid and csm player (with orks and SW in 2nd ed although I don't play them now) and have mainly played with the nids in 5th as I didn't really get on with the csm codex. Needless to say I'm really looking forward to the new chaos codices!
With the release of 6th I though I would try a concerted effort with the chaos and try to get to learn how to use them. I'm not a competitive player so all games are friendlies
I've challenged my friends GK army with my chaos for a laugh and wanted some pointers on my list and gameplan.
I've faced him a couple of times before with the bugs and come away with a win and a defeat. He has run draigowing in two stormravens backed up with psiflemans and a couple of vendreads. He also has a bunch of bog standard knights, a dreadknight, a full set of assassins and an inquisitorial chimera.
His game plan has consisted of hit hard and fast with draigo/10 palladins/apothacary/librarian in the stormravens and let the dreadnaughts pick and choose targets. Basically ignoring objectives and going for total annihilation.
I've based my list on a core of tough troops with a good amount of ap2 shooting (plasma/melta) supported by a couple of mobile units to play havoc.
List so far is as: -
HQ
Typhus/wind of chaos - 225
Daemon Prince/Mark of Nurgle/Wings/Pyromancer - 160
Chaos Socerer/Mark of Tzeentch/Disc of Tzeentch/Bolt of Change/Telepath - 195
Elites
6 Chaos Terminators/Nurgle Icon/3xPowerfist/2xCombi weapon/Reaper Autocannon - 285
8 Chosen/Nurgle Icon/3xMeltagun/2xPlasmagun - 254
Chaos Dreadnought/Plasma Cannon - 105
Troops
10 Chaos Space Marines/Nurgle Icon/2xPlasmagun - 230
Rhino for above with combiweapon - 45
5 Plague Marines/Meltagun/Plasmagun - 140
5 Plague Marines/Meltagun/Plasmagun - 140
5 Plague Marines/Meltagun/Plasmagun - 140
5 Plague Marines/Meltagun/Plasmagun - 140
5 Plague Marines/Meltagun/Plasmagun - 140
Fast Attack
3 Chaos Bikers/Nurgle Icon/2xMeltagun - 169
Heavy Support
2 Obliterator - 150
2 Obliterator - 150
Defiler - 150
Chaos Predator/TL Lascannon/Lascannon Sponsons/Extra Armour - 180
Total - 2998
My plan is roughly as follows: -
Use the Daemon prince and sorcerer, defiler and bikes as fast strike units to take out stuff like the psifleman dreads or any armour. Deepstrike Typhus with the terminators to hopefully punch in behind the palladins when they arrive.
Use the marines in the rhino to capture objectives and or strike out at lesser armoured units.
Use the Plague marines, obliterators and predator to sit back (preferably in cover) and let the fight come to me when hopefully overwatch will help soften the blow.
The dreadnought is for a good laugh, I like the randomness of it, hopefully with some careful deployment I can mitigate damage from it going completely insane!
I am expecting to lose but hopefully I might cause some damage in the mean time. Hard points to get around will be the stormravens if they're zooming and if draigo gets into combat with the plaguemarines as they will really struggle to get through terminator armour.
I found that draigowing got minced by a single swarmlord with 2 guards so I know they can struggle to wound high toughness in assault, how well this fairs remains to be seen
If you can give any thoughts, criticisms or ideas for the list and plan then it would be much appreciated.
Apologies for the huge first post!