Re: [Epic] Chaos Marine Air Defense & Artillery (E40K)

From: <tzeentch666_at_...>
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 00:24:48 -0700

>Don Perrin wrote:
>>
>> I'm thinking of putting together a Chaos Marine only army. My fear is
that
>> it has a hopeless flaw in having no flak or fighters or artillery. I do
>> notice that Chaos Marine detachments can have Chaos Artillery. Does this
>> make the detachment, and hence the army, non-Marine?
>
>My own reading of the situation is that any Chaos Detachment that can
>contain Chaos Marines is, ipso facto, a Chaos Marine Detachment, and
>anything within one is a Chaos Marine unit. This is the same logic that
>allows Vindicators etc to be classified as Space Marines.
>

That sounds reasonable from my readings of the Epic40K lists...

<snip>
>If you're choosing it for Power rather than Fluff Factor, then go for
>detachments of mainly Land Raiders. This will more than compensate for
>lack of fliers! If for fluff, then perhaps you should use the Imperial
>Army lists, substituting the appropriate figures, and possibly using the
>Chaos Cards rather than the Imperial Tarot. But even that is iffy: SM1
>specifically mentions that the Traitor Legions used the Imperial Tarot
>during the Horus Heresy.
>
>

Actually it mentions it once :) Want to hear it? Here it is:

"Commander Kilger turned away from the holo. It was a classic defensive
position, and the Ultramarines had exploited it to the full. There was no
possible approach to the complex without going through half a dozen points
of concentrated fire, and no way to attack the defenders piecemeal. Half his
Marines would be wiped out in a frontal assault.

Kilger paced silently for a moment, and then abruptly pulled his Imperial
tarot from its equipment pouch,

"I wonder...." He pressed the shuffle icon. "Horus, guide your servant..."
Three images appeared on the screen: the Palace; the Missile; the Nova.

"As I thought." Kilger snapped the commlink open. "This is Kilger. request
supporting fire." He punched in the co-ordinates. "Second company. Prepare
to advance after the barrage. Give them no chance to regroup.

That, he thought, should open up a crack in their perfect defense.


\\Remember that in the old days the Traitors did not become actual Chaos
Marines until after their final defeat and after they had retreated into the
Eye.
Received on Sun Aug 30 1998 - 07:24:48 UTC