[Epic] Favorite Detachments

From: Miller, Chris <CMiller_at_...>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 13:36:35 -0600

        Ok, in effort to have more than one thread going at a time on
the list, I have two items:

1) Has anyone tried just porting a unit over directly from SM/TL to
E40K? I know the army list changes make some of this impossible, but
there should be some things that are possible - Ork units, maybe some IG
units, The LR company - I ask because many of us have these predefined
units ready made for the old version, yet in the new one I tend to use
such different setups that it's hard to use the old groups. The LR co.
is easy, but how bout an ork horde based on the old 4 nobz + 15 boyz
setup, with some tanks or squiggoths or something added in...

2) If you're like many of us and have certain ready-made units which you
use repeatedly, what's your favorite and why? Go ahead and list 'em out
- if you have something good, we might want to copy them...

I haven't finished this one yet, but my hot new unit is a mechanized
marine assault force of:
 3 preds
 3 razorbacks
 3 more razorbacks
 2 attack bikes
 2 whirlwinds

The razors carry 4 assault marine stands, the captain, and the
librarian.

I have no LR's and no Vindies as I want to keep the speed up.
Right now, everything has 30cm speed, at least one fp, and decent range
on that firepower. I should be able to generate 18fp minimum, less BM's
and casualties.

I'm debating on whether to add some rhinos in to carry some tac marines,
devastators, termies, or to put more assault marines in the razors and
put cap and the psyker in their own rhinos, as there's just not too many
assault troops.

I also have the option to add one landspeeder, mainly because I have one
leftover from a package and 2 more fp wouldn't hurt.

The mission concept behind these guys in addition to the above is that I
already have a "move onto a good spot, park, and shoot", force already
which uses LR's, devastators, and whirlwinds, so I want a high-fp mobile
force which can do some decent assaults and keep on moving, and too much
reliance on support weapons and shooty infantry will dilute that.

Oh, and these will probably be painted as Space Wolves because I
1) find them easy to paint and detail, especially on tanks (Testors
"Flat Gull Grey" is just a beautiful color, and comes in easy to apply
spraycans which match the almost as easy to apply brush paint version
very well)
2) am sick of painting Ultras, which were about 6000 points of my SM/TL
marine force
3) I can use that cheesy special space wolves rule if someone wants to
play with optional rules, making my assault troops even meaner.
4) I still have tons of those cool little stick-on banners from SM1 and
the Space Wolves ones still look good. ( I may paint up some "Sons of
Horus" chaos marines just to use theirs - black and white with the red
horus eye in the middle - slick)

Chris Miller
Received on Wed Feb 25 1998 - 19:36:35 UTC