Hey Folks! Dragkon here.
I recently had a game against my bro Kraggi and he asked me to post the army the list that I used against him. He helped me to make this army list. So here it is.
HQ
Vulkan 190
Elites
Dreadnaught 140 (drop pod)
Ironclad 170 (drop pod)
Troops
Tactical Squad 210 (drop pod, multi-melta, melta gun)
Tactical Squad 205 (drop pod, multi-melta, flamer)
Fast Attack
Storm Talon 150 (lascannon)
Allies
HQ
Librarian 145 (Terminator Armour and Storm Shield)
Elites
Assault Terminators 225 (storm shield)
Troops
Assault Marines (5 men) 115 (flamer, hand flamer, drop pod)
Heavy
Storm Raven 200
I recently had a game against my bro Kraggi and he asked me to post the army the list that I used against him. He helped me to make this army list. So here it is.
HQ
Vulkan 190
Elites
Dreadnaught 140 (drop pod)
Ironclad 170 (drop pod)
Troops
Tactical Squad 210 (drop pod, multi-melta, melta gun)
Tactical Squad 205 (drop pod, multi-melta, flamer)
Fast Attack
Storm Talon 150 (lascannon)
Allies
HQ
Librarian 145 (Terminator Armour and Storm Shield)
Elites
Assault Terminators 225 (storm shield)
Troops
Assault Marines (5 men) 115 (flamer, hand flamer, drop pod)
Heavy
Storm Raven 200
Comments
Are those multi-meltas the best option in the new rules? I feel that the missile launcher may be a better option for one of them, to gain move and fire and snapshot reactions. Just a thought.
As for Multi-Melta vs Missile Launchers, with Vulkan the Multi-Melta is twice as effective at Snap shots as the Multi-Melta.
Being mounted in a drop pod means that they shouldnt realistically have a problem with being in range of something, and if the Multi-Melta is in range and it isnt a tank then the rest of the unit is much more useful as well.
I like this list as it uses some decent parts from two Codices without the standard cheese you may see (i.e I am taking X Codex with Y Codex to counter my problems).
- Charles
And I could very much end up copying much of it! The Salamanders core of it is exactly the core of my Sallies army, and I have a small side project which involved a BA Terminator-focused army centred on a Librarian and Stormraven.
The only negative I feel is perhaps the 5 man assault unit in a pod - I know you need a BA troops choice and for effectiveness, a 5th pod, but I think they're just gonna get minced, no?
With the 5 man assault squad I can see where you are coming from with it but it doesn't have to start in the drop pod. So I could use it to hold one object while the rest of the army pounds away at the opponent.
@Car - I think that the 5 man assault squad can quite easily get minced, but it is running two flamers and with the 6" deploy from Drop Pods now a days that means you should be able to arrive and hurt something, they are as much a distraction unit or a something small to hold an objective.