Dear readers! I am slightly undecided on which configuration of howling griffons to take! Having pinned my colours to the mast in terms of using an old model or two, I will of course be taking space marines. Lucky for me, the howling griffons are a succesor chapter of the ultramarines, and in this case for me it has more than one level of significance. As already mentioned, the bad boys in blue represent the first models I ever painted.
As you'll see, there are a couple of different configurations of army in these pictures. Basically, I probably can only afford 1 drop pod, so I'm torn between sternguard and another squad of bikes, or simply grav cannon centurions. The grav centurions and the bikes were both massive players for me at the last 2 Blog wars and I'm thinking that actually they will have proportionally more effect at 750.
There is a way that I can squeeze both in, but it does leave me with not a lot of room for much else. I have to start sacrificing my speed and that is something that this force is reliant on. Lots of bikes, with a librarian on a bike making them all super scoring is sorely tempting, considering the objective nature of the missions.
Another option would be to get rid of the scouts and thunderfire cannon to fit them both in, but again I think that they bring more to the table than a squad of sternguard. If I wanted to go really left field I could run the ultramarines on foot as legion of the damned. That might be quite characterful as well, something about thier unwillingness to die coupled with a 3++ save is quite appealing.
Anyway, these were all the thoughts rolling round in my head whilst I listened to Man U secure a mighty 5th place last night. I've done some number crunching and most of these different building blocks fit together quite well, it's just the centurions. So over to you! Which unit that I've listed would you least like to see? How speedy do you think my force needs to be? Would you take legion of the damned? I look forwards to hearing your thoughts.
Of the choice between Sternguard and Cents I'd probably least like to see the Cents. THey may not be quite as flexible as sternguard, but they are far more difficult to get rid of.
ReplyDeleteAlso there's almost never any justification in my mind for taking out a thunderfire cannon from your list!
Yes exactly what I was thinking! It does leave me very static in an objective based game thou. Suppose I could just go for blood points!
DeleteGo for Blood Points and ignore objectives all together? :P
DeleteGrav centurions in a 750 pts list? Is there a "no friends" award available at double trouble? ;)
ReplyDeleteI can only hope :)
DeleteI can;t help with your decision but it has reminded me of your request to run 'first models' I may well have to look into that now the Dark Talon is unlikely. I mean I have better painted current models but I may be able to find a way to make the older ones [although I'd been painting a good while when they were done but they're still 20+ years old] worth taking...
ReplyDeletethat's my main problem at the moment. I really want to take the ultramarines on foot, but I cant figure out how to include them!
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