> Strategies - I still haven't developed a real feel for
>the game yet, so I'll just stay quiet here.
>
> Army comp - so far I've only tried using well-rounded armies
>with a little bit of everything, and it's hasn't been that great.
>
> The daemon detachments have worked out really well - great
>assault troops and very durable thanks to the save. I've only used
>flamers & flesh hounds with lords of change & bloodthirsters so far;
>lesser daemons that don't have jump packs or calvary are too slow to
>function properly IMHO. The Lord of Change/Bloodthirsters are a
>waste, from what I've seen - they are expensive and die too easily
>to AT shots. Masses of flamers/flesh hounds/fiends is cheaper and
>better (flamers are better than the other 2, but unfortunately I
>only have 5 because they were overpriced points-wise in 2nd
edition).
>
> Recently someone emailed me and suggested taking a detachment
>of 5 Bloodthirsters. I haven't tried this yet, but it seems kinda
>shaky to me (especially if your opponent is expecting it - bring out
>the LRs!). While it is cheap, can move 75cm a turn (if you can get
>them into CC), and has a combined assault of 50 (!!!), each loss
>significantly reduces its effectiveness and BMs can quickly cripple
>it. Then again, it might be useful against non-AT armies.
>
> I have to (mostly) agree with Greg in regard to the cultists
-
>they certainly look useless, and my experience with them hasn't been
>too wonderful. OTOH, the only flak unit in the chaos army is in
>the cultist list, so you might want to take some just for that
>(depending on how useful you think flak is). Also, beastmen are
>dirt cheap - you could take 20 beastmen & stick them in chimeras,
>and still be under 300 points (whether they would be effective or
>not is another question).
>
> It's currently my opinion that unshielded titans suck, so
>I would probably stay away from the chaos-specific WEs, barring the
>Banelord.
>
> Noise Marines are obvious neccessary if you wish to shoot,
>since they're the only heavy weapons troops that chaos gets.
Bezerkers,
>OTOH, are severely hampered by their lack of jump packs, and are
just
>outclassed by daemons as far as assault troops go. Recently I've
>been thinking that Bezerkers might be useful if you kept them on the
>edges of a daemon detachment, protecting it from firefights, but
then
>you could use normal marines for that anyway.
>
> I'm still not sure if their chaos flyers are worth it. The
>Doomwings are ridiculously fragile, and are not that cheap. If you
>do take them, take enough to shoot down anything you're intercepting
>before it gets to fire. Avoid dogfights with Nightwings. Firelords
>look good, but you need to take Doomwings in order to protect them.
>
>> I'm interested in all that you can say about Chaos and don't tell
me
>> that you don't know anything, the "Eye of Terror" page is the
proof
>> that you must be a heretic... heu, I mean a specialist! :)
>
> My Eye of Terror page is proof I like Chaos, and know how
>to type... I'm not sure you should assume much more than that from
>it...
>
>Scott
>shupes_at_...
Don't be modest, your help is very... well helpful...
All this will help me to field my first Epic 40k Chaos army.
Merci pour ton aide.
Francois Bruntz
Apprenti MIAGE (Universite Paris XII - IBM France)
Please visit my Epic page :
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dungeon/2370/
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Received on Thu Jun 26 1997 - 15:24:41 UTC