Hi all – it’s Blog Wars 5 this weekend and I thought I would
share my list ahead of the tournament.
As normal for Blog Wars, it’s not a competitive list,
although I hope it has a few mean units. It’s not actually the list I would
like to take; ideally there would have been a pair of Heldrakes, but i) I don’t
have time to paint a second model (with three days to go, I am still trying to
finish the first one) and ii) I never realised how expensive CSMs are! The list
in my head had a few big units of CSMs in transports, Heldrakes, lots of
long-ranged high-power shooty and a solid assault unit or two…turns out that
costs about 3K pts…
And I say hope because I haven’t actually had chance to play
this list yet. Even worse, I have only had a handful of games with CSMs; which
have been very hit and miss.
I do hope I might stand a shot at the Best Painted awards,
but looking at the competition this year – it’s going to be tight!
Anyway – the list:
HQ
Abaddon
Troops
10x CSMs (Power Fist,
Plasma Gun, Lascannon)
10x CSMs (Power Axe, CCW & BPs, Plasma Gun, VotLW)
Rhino (Havoc Launcher, Dirge Caster)
Elite
5 Terminators (Lightning Claw, 4x Power Fist, Reaper
Autocannon, Combi-Plasma, Combi-Melta)
Helbrute (Reaper Autocannon, Missile Launcher)
Fast Attack
Heldrake (Baleflamer)
Heavy
Forgefiend (2x Ectoplasma, Extoplasma)
Havocs (2 x Autocannons, 2 x Missile Launchers, 2 x Flakk
Missiles)
3 x Obliterators (Mark of Nurgle)
Fortifications
Aegis Defense Line (Comms Relay)
Total – 1848pts
With the missions being random on the day, I have tried to
stay flexible; the list contains a nice about of anti-infantry, anti-armour, anti-air
and Termi killing options, although I am admittedly light on troops (only three
scoring units including Abaddon) and might be in trouble if I get caught by a
CC oriented army. The Comms Relay will help me if I want to deep strike
Abaddon, Termis and Obliterators into my opponents backfield and also gets the
Hellturkey in ASAP.
Pics of the army will be up if I have time before Saturday –
if not they will be after the event. Wish me luck!
The list looks good IMO.
ReplyDeleteFor a non-competitve environment this is still pretty bad-ass. ;-)
Just a bit light on the scoring side, but with Abadonn scoring (and most likely sticking around with the Terminators), it will be ok I guess.
Looking forward to seeing you and your army at BW5. ;-)
Cheers,
Hendrik
Good Luck Fella, keeping up the Weeman attendance 5 outta 5.
ReplyDeletehopefully we won't be paired together, although I would back my monkeys all the way
ReplyDeletegood luck fella, both with the games and the 'best painted' awards..
ReplyDeleteCheers - still painting that last Heldrake...hopefully it will be finished in time.
ReplyDeleteGreylamb - your monkeys can go to hell. If I get paired against you my army is sacrificing itself to some chaos god first turn. Less painful than playing your Lascannon-wielding apes.