Winter Warm Up 1850pt 40k Tournament

[Nick1988]

Ahh ok, that makes sense lol

[Nick1988]

After a lengthy discussion with Rob and a complete pasting by his angry dogs I've come up with this! Having Calgar as my warlord he has a VERY good change of making his unit scoring so I'd either make a huge unit with all 3 characters and the 4 centurions in a game that I will win combat or sit hm at the back with the lascannon unit holding an objective at the back and hoping the stormraven can drop marines in the middle of the board turn 5 to score/contest. Any thoughts guys? I'm running out of time to buy/paint models now so I need to make a decision lol


Chief Librarian Tigurius
= 165
Marneus Calgar
= 275
Captain Lysander
= 230

10 Tactical Marines [140]
+ meltagun [10]
= 150
5 Tactical Marines [70]
+ meltagun [10]
= 80
5 Tactical Marines [70]
+ meltagun [10]
= 80

4 Devastator Centurions [240]
+ Centurion Sergeant [10]
+ omniscope [10]
+ twin-linked lascannon [20]
+ 3× grav-cannon and grav-amp [60]
+ 4× missile launcher [40]
= 380
3 Devastator Centurions [180]
+ Centurion Sergeant [10]
+ omniscope [10]
+ 3× twin-linked lascannon [60]
+ 3× missile launcher [30]
= 290
Stormraven Gunship
= 200

1,850 points

[Embolden]

Had my thinking cap on mate and have come up with an alternative list:

How about:

Calgar - 275
Tig - 165
10 Marines - 140
5 Marines - 70
5 Dev Centurions - 3 Grav Guns, 2 Lascannons, 5 Missiles, Omni Scope - 470
3 Dev Centurions - 3 Lascannons, 3 Missiles, Omni Scope - 290
Storm Raven - 200

Tau Commander - Iri Armour (2+ Save +1 T (T5)), Vect Thrust (hit and run), Stim Inject (FnP), C&C Node (Ignore Cover), Multi Spec Suit (TL weapons), Onagar Gauntlet (1 str10 combat attack) - 170
10 Kroot - 70 (Can infiltrate to block the White Scar Grav Gun Bikers scouting too close towards the Centriouns or Outflank)

Very similar to your list, basically the Tau Commander sits in whichever Centurion squad (I suggest the 5 Centurions as he has Hit and Run, plus the same abilities as Tig, so Tig sits in the other squad).

I almost think you could drop Tig from my list, give the Commander a 4+ Inv Save for 25pts, gives you lots of pts to re-invest into the army... (Another Centurion)

[Embolden]

I'm pretty much set on my list:

Farseer - Jetbike, Shard, Runes of Witnessing and Warding (Warlord) - 180
Eldrad - 205
Baron - 105
3 Jetbikes - 51
3 Jetbikes - 51
3 Jetbikes - 51
3 Jetbikes - 51
3 Jetbikes - 51
5 DE Warriors - 45
Beastpack: 5 Beastmasters, 25 Khymera - 360
6 Swooping Hawks - Exarch - 106
6 Warp Spiders - 114
Wraithknight - 240
Wraithknight - 240
1850pts

[jaqenhgar]

Looks good Rob.

Decided on the core of what I'm taking:

Zahndrek and Obyron 345
Royal court - 2 despair teks (1with veil), 1 chronotek and a stormtek 155
Overlord - 2+ save, mss, war scythe 130
15 warriors 195
5 warriors - NightScythe 165
10 immortals - tesla 170
15 warriors 195
Doomscythe 175
5 death marks - NightScythe 195
Sub-Total 1595

Which leaves me with 255pts to play with, so one of the options below:

Option A:
Overlord, mss, warscythe, 2+ save, tesseract labyrinth 150
Royal court - 2 despair teks (1with veil), 1 chronotek 130
(Drop 2 warriors to make the points up)

Option B:
2 Annihilation Barges 180
destruction cryptek with solar pulse 55 (to protect the AB's)
20pts left over

I think I prefer option A, even though there are no barges, these are fairly easy kill points and not sure they fit in t he list. Plus I don't find them very interesting to play with. Option A gives me some defence against being assaulted by a daemon prince etc, buffs the deathmarks a bit more and crucially gives me a second veil for the second big warrior blob, so no static units.

Which option do you prefer guys, or is there a third way?! Got one more game next week vs Kevin before the winter warm up, so going to try option A and see how it works out.

[Nick1988]

I actually really like the idea!! I dont know if i could bring myself to drop tig purely for the chance of misfortune to counter screamer councils and beastpacks (withoit eldrads stupid 2+ deny the witch lol) ive got the Tau code so ill have a proper look into it!

[Embolden]

I actually really like the idea!! I dont know if i could bring myself to drop tig purely for the chance of misfortune to counter screamer councils and beastpacks (withoit eldrads stupid 2+ deny the witch lol) ive got the Tau code so ill have a proper look into it!

I'm sure you could build a better/more efficient Commander, he’s a proper tank, plus if you have the pts you can get Broadsides/Riptide :p but then it gets expensive.

Could even go for something like:

Calgar
Commander Awesome + Marker Drones
5 Dev Centurions
2x5 Marines
10 Kroot
3 Broadsides High Yield Missile + 6 Missile Drones
Storm Raven
Storm Raven

Should still have pts for more troops/Tig, I know what you mean about Missfortune, it’s pretty vital against a Scream Council which can deny on a 5+ and you’ll only have one chance, Eldrad with Fortune has a 2+ re-rollable deny the witch for 1 turn and the Farseer has a 3+ or 4+/5+ any other time… lol

[Nick1988]

How about.....

Commander [85]
+ XV8-02 Crisis 'Iridium' Battlesuit [25]
+ vectored retro-thrusters [5]
+ Command and Control Node [15]
+ Multi-spectrum Sensor Suite [20]
+ shield generator [25]
= 175

10 Kroot
= 60

Marneus Calgar
= 275
Chief Librarian Tigurius
= 165

10 Tactical Marines [140]
+ grav-gun [15]
= 155
5 Tactical Marines
= 70

5 Devastator Centurions [300]
+ Centurion Sergeant [10]
+ omniscope [10]
+ 2× twin-linked lascannon [40]
+ 3× grav-cannon and grav-amp [60]
+ 5× missile launcher [50]
= 470
3 Devastator Centurions [180]
+ 3× twin-linked lascannon [60]
+ 3× missile launcher [30]
= 280
Stormraven Gunship [200]
+ twin-linked multi-melta [0]
= 200

1,850 points

[Nick1988]

Orrrrr if I DO drop tiggy I can have

Commander [85]
+ XV8-02 Crisis 'Iridium' Battlesuit [25]
+ vectored retro-thrusters [5]
+ Command and Control Node [15]
+ Multi-spectrum Sensor Suite [20]
+ shield drone [12]
+ shield drone [12]
= 174

XV104 Riptide [180]
+ ion accelerator [5]
= 185

10 Kroot
= 60

Marneus Calgar
= 275

10 Tactical Marines [140]
+ flamer [5]
= 145
10 Tactical Marines
= 140

5 Devastator Centurions [300]
+ Centurion Sergeant [10]
+ omniscope [10]
+ 2× twin-linked lascannon [40]
+ 3× grav-cannon and grav-amp [60]
+ 5× missile launcher [50]
= 470
Stormraven Gunship [200]
+ twin-linked multi-melta [0]
= 200
Stormraven Gunship
= 200

1,849 points

I actually really like this

[Nick1988]

I've always wanted an excuse to paint a riptide :p a slight change already, dropping the flamer for interceptor on the riptide.